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Vator's version of Siskel & Ebert meets American Idol. Each week, host Bambi Francisco, VB regular, Ezra Roizen, and a guest host, rate entrepreneur pitches.

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David Hornik and Rebecca Lynn check out Geeklist

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, April 4, 2012 | Comments

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Reuben Katz presents his achievement-based network for developers

Vator Box is the show where we put founders of early-stage start-ups in front of leading venture capitalists to see whether the entrepreneurs can land a meeting with them. In this episode, we take a look at Geeklist. San Francisco-based Geeklist is a way for developers to brag about their achievements and build their street cred, and at the same ...

August Capital, Morgenthaler check out Favo.rs

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, March 30, 2012 | Comments

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Rebeccan Lynn and David Hornik are guests host on Vator Box

On this week's Vator Box with Bambi Francisco, David Hornik of August Capital and Rebecca Lynn of Morgenthaler are the guest hosts. Adam Rodnitzky, CEO and founder of Favo.rs, a place to be able to track favors and one day cash in on them, was the entrepreneur in the spotlight. Favo.rs, founded in 2011, has already raised a seed round from SoftTech ...

IDG Ventures on Vator Box checks out VigLink

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 14, 2011 | Comments

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A look at an ad solutions to help publishers monetize outbound links

Many publishers often make recommendations about books or products, and link off to sites like Amazon so their readers can buy the books or products. Amazon pays the publisher for these links if that reader ends up buying a product. Did you know that there are 15,000 such affiliate programs that will pay for your reader base either if they ...

IDG Ventures checks out Glancee during Vator Box

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 3, 2011 | Comments

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Mobile way to discover who's around you with similar interests

Glancee is a way to discover people as Foursquare is for places. That's the analogy given by Andrea Vaccari, co-founder of CEO of the mobile discovery startup, during Vator Box. Vaccari and co-founder Alberto Tretti presented their startup before guest host Alex Rosen, partner at IDG Ventures, during our recent Vator Box series, with hosts Ezra Roizena and Bambi Francisco. Glancee ...

Google Ventures on Vator Box checks out MondoWindow

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, August 8, 2011 | Comments

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A look at the opportunity to enhance in-flight entertainment as WiFi becomes ubiquitous on planes

If you're like our family, you're well equipped with "stuff" to keep everone entertained on the plane. Our youngest plays with our iPad and the two older ones play with their iPod Touch gadgets. My husband, meanwhile, plays trivia with other passengers on the airline's internal in-flight entertainment service. Invariably, we all check out the in-flight map to check the ...

Google Ventures on Vator Box checks out Wipit

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, July 18, 2011 | Comments

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A look at mobile payments for the cash-preferred and prepaid consumer

(Correction: To reflect founder bios) There's about 42 million people who are underbanked (those without access to credit cards) or unbanked (those without bank accounts) in the US alone. How do you give those consumers cash-payment options that are similar to the convenience of a credit card? It's a problem many want to solve, including Wipit, a promising new mobile ...

Confidantly on Vator Box

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, June 6, 2011 | Comments

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Ron Bloom, Ezra Roizen and Bambi Francisco take a look at the business-networking app

Vator Box is our fast-paced show where entrepreneurs present their promising ideas or early-stage businesses in front of prominent angels or investors in Silicon Valley. In this episode, Ron Bloom, founder of Mevio, a video entertainment network, funded by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia and Crosslink Capital, is our guest host, joining Ezra Roizen and me. We take a look at Confidantly, ...

GAIN Fitness on Vator Box

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, May 16, 2011 | Comments

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Naval Ravikant, Ezra Roizen and Bambi Francisco take a look at the personalized trainer app

Vator Box is our fast-paced show where entrepreneurs present their promising ideas or early-stage businesses in front of prominent angels or investors in Silicon Valley. In this episode, Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList is our guest host, joining Ezra Roizen and me. We take a look at GAIN Fitness, which personalizes training programs for individuals. Nicholas Gammel, founder and CEO, ...

Naval Ravikant looks at TekTrak

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, February 9, 2011 | Comments

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Arik Waldman presents his security startup that helps people find their lost iPhones

On this week's Vator Box, our guest host is Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, a site that aggregates angels and connects them to fundraising-seeking startups, and co-author of VentureHacks. Naval joined me and Ezra Roizen, Vator Box co-host and digital media investment banker. The startup in the spotlight is TekTrak, a service that helps people track their lost iPhones. In ...

500 Startups and AngelPad look at Everloop

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, January 26, 2011 | Comments

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Hilary DeCesare presents her social network for children aged 8-13

As Vator Box watchers know, this show has always starred high-profile investors and CEOs who act as guest hosts/judges to analyze and give feedback to up-and-coming startups, who have uploaded video pitch to Vator. As you can imagine, with only a video pitch to go off of, offering up feedback can be a bit like remarking on a race course, ...

Video: Grovo on Splash Box

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 27, 2010 | Comments

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Owen Davis, David Tisch, Drew Lipsher and Adam Ludwin analyze the Splash NY winner onstage

Want to learn how to use popular sites on the Internet? Use Grovo, the winner of the first-ever Vator Splash NY event. In this segment of Splash Box (our version of American Idol for startups), CEO and co-founder of Grovo Jeff Fernandez returned to the stage to deliver his sharp pitch in a shortened 90-second format. Around the world, 240 million people ...

500 Startups and AngelPad look at Tripping

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, December 22, 2010 | Comments

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Jen O'Neal and Nate Weisiger do a live Vator Box in front of Dave McClure and Thomas Korte

As Vator Box watchers know, this show has always starred high-profile investors and CEOs who act as guest hosts/judges to analyze and give feedback to up-and-coming startups, who have uploaded video pitch to Vator. As you can imagine, with only a video pitch to go off of, offering up feedback can be a bit like remarking on a race course, ...

Javelin Venture Partners looks at HipChat

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 8, 2010 | Comments (4)

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Would Jed Katz be interested in investing in this cool instant messaging startup?

We wrote about HipChat back in August, when the startup took in $100,000 from Sandy Jen and Elaine Wherry, both co-founders of instant messaging company, Meebo, and TechFellow Awards recipients, as well as the Founders Fund. Pete Curley, co-founder of HipChat, has a great video pitch on his company profile on Vator, so we put him into a Vator Box ...

Vator Box takes a look at Swipely

by Bambi Francisco Roizen, November 7, 2010 | Comments

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Javelin Venture Partners VC Jed Katz is our guest host analyzing this e-commerce startup

Swipely is one of the up-and-coming e-commerce companies that's trying to focus on the "social customer." What is a social customer? They're the vocal and transparent ones using all sorts of social media to publicize their opinions and actions. In the case of Swipely, social customers are sharing their purchases with every credit card swipe. Hence the name. In this ...

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