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WNYVA Forum - January 11, 2017

Wed Jan 11th, 2017 - 7:30 to 9 am
At The Buffalo Club - 388 Delaware Ave., Buffalo
Networking for entrepreneurs, investors and business professionals. Featuring presentations by MemoryFox and Walkabout Collaborative.

 

 Company Presentation Forum

 

 

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

 

 

Buffalo Club

388 Delaware Avenue

Buffalo, NY

(Business Attire Required)

7:30 - 8:00 AM

8:00 - 8:15 AM

8:15 - 9:00 AM

Registration, Continental Breakfast, Informal Networking

Announcements, Attendee Self-Introductions, One Minute Presenters

Business Plan Presentations and Audience Critique

 

Presenters:

Presentations contain general information about the presenting companies and are for educational and networking purposes only. Presentations do not include information or discussion of any fundraising or offering of securities.

 

MemoryFox                                                                                                                                  Chris Miano, Co-founder

     Despite technological advances enabling cloud collaboration and file preservation, no service exists to enable people to collect, store, and share family memories with the unique vibrancy of storytelling. Everyone can think of a person that they wish they had known more about before they passed or were lost to dementia.  Imagine being able to listen to stories told by first generation immigrant ancestors about their experience of moving to America.  That opportunity may have passed but we all have people living in our families who are veterans, parents, teachers, activists, builders, and inventors who shaped our history and laid the foundation for our future.  MemoryFox is positioned to provide a novel solution to this problem, harnessing the SaaS business model and cloud technology to help people record, store and share family stories.

     Storytelling has been the means of transferring wisdom and experience since the beginning of time.  Despite this, current products such as Ancestry.com are focused on document discovery and DNA mapping, leaving out the richness of storytelling.  Social media sites such as Facebook connect people like never before but are cluttered and lack privacy.

     MemoryFox is solely committed to helping people digitally curate the story of their family in a richer way than has been possible before.  The Company is currently beta testing its working prototype with over 100 users and is seeking seed-level funding to build version 1.0.  Please visit http://Memoryfox.net for more info!

Walkabout Collaborative LLC (Walkabout OfficeTM)                                                                    Brad Richardson, CEO

     Nearly 25% of the U.S. workforce teleworks 2-3 days a week, this is expected to grow to 50% by 2020.  Most often businesses are not providing the right combination of technology resources that take the best of the old ways of working in person and the new ways of working with mobility and technology to create a tech-enabled workforce.

     Walkabout Office is a three-dimensional virtual online workplace that makes remote teams feel like they are physically together.  It makes spontaneous interactions easy and increases engagement creating faster and better decision making.  It is not another tool, it is a "place" that brings presence and stronger engagement back to virtual teams by giving remote team members instant access to everything (documents, applications and tools) and everyone (colleagues and clients) they need to be successful.  Businesses gain increased productivity and transparency.  Employees gain work flexibility and job satisfaction.

     Walkabout Office was created in 2015 by Buffalo native Antoinette Forth and her Tampa-based co-founder, Brad Richardson.  It is based upon an on-demand consultant marketplace they built in response to the regular face-to-face communication wanted by their consultants and their consulting clients.  In fact, consulting clients became the first users of the virtual office platform. Walkabout has used previous investment to build out functions and features in response to market and beta feedback and Version 1.0 of the virtual office is being beta tested among 4 diverse clients.  You can learn more at www.walkaboutco.com.

 

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