reQall Selected Winner of the 2014 TiE50 Award
San Jose, California (PRWEB) May 21, 2014 -- reQall is pleased to announce the company’s selection as a TiE50 Winner of the 2014 TiE50 Award.
“We are delighted and humbled to receive the TiE50 Award. To celebrate being a three-time winner of the Award, we have released reqallable for Qualcomm’s Toq smartwatch today at TiEcon 2014. reqallable automatically determines and prioritizes messages from all of your most important contacts based on your calendar, communications, activity and location. When you’ve scheduled a meeting, reqallable will alert you to messages from participants, temporarily elevating those contacts to VIP status while holding back other less-critical messages until the meeting is over. When a message arrives, reqallable parses emails and texts to present only the most crucial details all available to you at a glance on the Toq smartwatch.”
“In the six short years since inception, the TiE50 program has become a global brand that attracts thousands of companies worldwide for this recognition,” said Venktesh Shukla, president of TiE, Silicon Valley. “It is unique in terms of rigor of selection and the broad scope of companies that it reviews for this award and is one of TiE Silicon Valley’s most successful programs. It is also worth mentioning that this is the only awards recognition in technology to be held by a large global non-profit organization.”
At TiEcon 2014, 20 of the top startups from each of the five segments have been chosen to pitch their ideas, and winners were announced this evening.
“This year the TiE50 Awards Program screened more than 2800 companies from 27 countries. The finalist pool was represented by early through late stage companies. A star attraction of the conference is TiE50 Finalist presentations. Audiences are treated to great ideas and amazing technologies,” said Ram K. Reddy, the program chair.
The TiE50 track record since its inception in May 2009 shows that 94% of the winners and finalists have been funded, attracting Billions in investments. Many of these companies have been acquired, merged or gone public.
About TiEcon:
TiEcon is the world’s largest conference for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs with loyal participation from top technology companies, leading venture capital firms, and global service providers. TiEcon 2012 attracted 3,000+ attendees from across the world – including CEOs of established companies to first-time entrepreneurs creating new companies, to leading investment professionals and corporate executives. TiEcon was listed by Worth Magazine in their September 2011 issue to be among the 10 Best Conferences for Ideas and Entrepreneurship along with TED and the World Economic Forum. For more information on TiEcon, visit http://www.tiecon.org/.
About TiE:
TiE is a global not-for-profit organization fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, education, and networking. We consider entrepreneurship to be the single most powerful instrument to advance global prosperity. Our greatest strength is our network of over 60 chapters in 17 countries with a worldwide membership exceeding 14,000 that includes successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporate executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs. For more information on TiE, visit http://www.tie.org.
About reQall:
Recognized as one of the top 25 ideas from MIT Media Lab over the past 25 years, reQall is the award-winning developer of context-aware, proactive and intelligent assistant applications for wearable and mobile devices. reQall is a venture-backed company based in NASA’s Silicon Valley research park. For further details on reQall, please see http://www.reqall.com and http://www.reqallable.com.
Raghu Gopal, Global Industry Analysts Inc, +1 408-528-9966, [email protected]
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