TEP is glad to see that our partners, speakers, and hosts are catching the local and international media’s attention in recent months.
Earlier this week, Dataminr was featured in the Wall Street Journal about how the service is providing “infinitely valuable tweets” based on a clever set of algorithms that can tell whether a tweet is reliable, accurate, and important, and send the information to the people who value it the most. The Wall Street Journal gave a recent example of how the company has helped subscribers in the financial industry;
“A passerby notices a fire at a refinery in Louisiana and tweets a picture. Eleven minutes before the news hits the wires, a tech startup called Dataminr fires off an alert to subscribers in the finance industry, who trade ahead of the news.”
Another one of our partners, Bandwagon, was featured on Crain’s New York this week. The Hudson Square-based company delivers an app that allows people going the same way to share a cab. Bandwagon is now partnering with the e-hail app Hailo to allow users to legally hail yellow taxis, an aspect that has become increasingly important amidst the public dispute between other car sharing services such as Lyft and Uber. The partnership between Bandwagon and Hailo can potentially save riders up to 65% per ride by sharing the cost of fare, and also give drivers increased revenue by having more riders on a longer fare.
WeWork made the New York Times when the company, which offers co-working space to startups, leased a 90,000 square feet at one of five beige warehouses near the Brooklyn Bridge. The complex has been re-branded and redeveloped Dumbo Heights, a 1.2 million-square foot office complex. WeWork will be joining Etsy at the complex.
Several of TEP panelists have also caught the media’s eye.
Jupiter Motorcycle Rental Garage were recently featured in Crain’s for nearly doubling their membership in less than two months after launching a sort of two-wheeled version of Zipcar. Interviewed for a news segment on CBS was Sean Coughlin, co-founder and CEO of Faithstreet, a site that helps churches digitally connect with worshipers. The young entrepreneur was frustrated with the challenges of finding a congregation on his own after moving to NYC, and quit his corporate job to start FaithStreet.com, a directory for religious institutions across the country.
We look forward to hearing more of our partners success stories during the TEP Conference starting next week.