Blynk

2014年7月18日

在LinkedIn上分享我們國家的加拿大企業家和投資者一直發誓要改善,並找到更多的方法來得到早期的錢的企業家。我們總是試圖基金和孵化創新更多的公司的最終目標,最終更強大的經濟。每隔一段時間,我們看到一個故事,似乎肯定的資源。今天三個未來36企業家創造了Blynk程序已經發布了他們的iOS應用程序,讓用戶通過一個右揮動自己的個人時尚助理,向左的方法。過濾器中,偏好,20刷後的應用程序將牧師four-item機構用戶,用戶可以購買。今天的新聞是團隊的精彩的故事從上周的國際創業節,其中Blynk贏得了夢寐以求的舞台投球比賽100000美元。蘇茜潘甚至沒有計劃去看節日,更不用說贏得她的團隊大量的錢。她看到一場比賽在Twitter上尋求贈送一張兩個啟動的火車,在圭爾夫的ThreeFortyNine共同辦公空間,以及一張節日。她,把她帶到了蒙特利爾的老港口地區的大事件。事件的鍋中加入了一行看起來大,隻是因為人聚集。 That was the line to pitch the judges who would be compiling a short-list of pitchers to go on stage later that night for the big competition. Pan evidently did well enough and received a call a few hours later telling her she’d been short-listed. After that the rest is history, and $100,000 is in the hands of a trio of university students who all met at the Next 36 accelerator in Toronto. As for the winning pitch, Pan attributed it to the simplicity of the app and her ability to show the live product to the judges. The fact that 4,500 users had joined in one month to swipe over 1.2 million photos of clothing also went over well. “It was very simple to understand, it can be pitched in one sentence and the judges got it and saw the potential in it,” Pan told BetaKit. Blynk was cofounded by CEO Jaclyn Ling, 23, a McGill University student, and CTO Shums Kassam, 21, from University of Toronto. Pan joined on shortly after it that pair joined forces in April. Ling comes from a fashion background, having run a successful fashion YouTube channel with about 10,000 followers. The story goes that Ling took Kassam out for a day of shopping, which resulted in a lot of compliments about his newfound sense of fashion. Why couldn’t they provide a personal fashion assistant, like Ling, for everyone? Not only that, but they wanted to bring the idea to mobile. A couple months ago at the Next 36′s Venture Preview Night, where startups from the program pitch to a crowd of investors and media, Blynk ended up gaining the most “investment money” in the form of fake currency that each audience member gets to disperse. It must have been a good sign. Now the trio have released their iOS app after having relied mostly on an Android app. Blynk earns a commission off of each purchase, as users can buy any of the items that the app curates for them when the app redirects them to the retailers online store. Pan said they have a number of ideas for increased monetization, including incorporating advertisements without disrupting the user’s experience. They’re also in talks with a major clothing retailer in Canada about possibly even bridging the online and offline shopping experience. They’d do it by installing iPads in the stores where shoppers can actually swipe left and right on the Blynk app, with products that are available a rack away. They’ve got the ideas, the newly found money and now the app on both major platforms. It looks like this young startup is up to something.