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Location: Ikan Technologies, Inc. 2001 West Main Street, Suit 255, Stamford, Connecticut 06902, United States United States
Founded in: 2004
Stage: Beta (public testing)
Number of employees: 16-30
Profitable year: 2009
Short URL: vator.co/revolutionize-your-grocery-shopping
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Ikan Technologies, Inc.

Revolutionize Your Grocery Shopping
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Connecticut, United States United States United States
http://www.ikan.net
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Ikan Technologies, Inc. is proud to announce the Ikan; the smart appliance and integrated system that automates and simplifies the way you shop for groceries.

The Ikan is a wireless appliance which resides in your kitchen and automatically builds your shopping list from items you scan and messages recorded into your Ikan. Scanned and recorded items are automatically sent to your Ikan web account or directly to your account on your online grocery retailer's shopping cart.

Shop for groceries in less than 10 minutes per week and have more time for yourself and your loved ones.

For more information please visit www.ikan.net

Team
Fred Wagner, Founder, Executive Committee Member, CEO
- 17 years of retail experience
- Co-founder and former CEO of Track&Field, a leading upscale sports apparel retailer with 32 stores 

 
Fábio Zsigmond, Founder, Executive Committee Member, CFO
- 20 years of retail and software development experience
- Co-founder of Esys Sistemas, a retailer and foodservice software developer

 William Adam, Chief Technology Officer
- 25 years consumer retail technology design and management
- CTO of the Grocery Shopping Network
- Vice President, Interactive Group of News America Marketing – retail loyalty marketing and Smartsource

Sony Douer,  Executive Committee Member
- 17 years of management and leadership experience
- Former CEO of Doutex Company, a leading Lycra fabric producer in Brazil
- Financial Analyst with HSBC Bank USA in New York

Geraldo Yoshizawa, Founder, Executive Committee Member
- 20 years of software development experience
- Co-founder of and Chief Software Development Officer at Esys Sistemas
- Former CEO of Yoshizawa e Cia, Ltda., an apparel retail business

Monique Skruzny, Consultant
- Over 17 years of start-up, financing and consumer services experience
- News Corp, AOL: finance and business development executive – launched 2 Internet & satellite TV services 
Business model

Ikan intends to generate revenue from the following areas:

- sale of Ikan units

- marketing & service fees


Competitive advantage

Ikan services and products are protected by one or more of the following U.S. patents and other patents pending:

 

U.S. Patent Nos. 6663004, 7080777, 7086592, 7165721