CTIA Fund Fest Winner: Chyngle "In-Pocket GPS Marketing" TelCare People's Choice

CTIA WIRELESS I.T. & Entertainment 2009 in San Diego offered the First Annual CTIA "Fund Fest" 2009, a business app pitch session.

CTIA President and CEO Steve Largent was joined onstage by an expert panel of three judges - Rory Moore, CommNexus San Diego CEO; Any Seybold, Andrew Seybold, Inc. CEO and Principal Consultant; and Quinn Li, Qualcomm Ventures Managing Director. The audience voted by texting.
 
Here's what happend:

• First up was Chander Chawla, from Mjedi, a mobile web platform featuring the actual in-store shopping experience, combined with the instant friends and family recommendation possibilities of social networking. The company microtargets shoppers using UPC code entry scans to track price status, check for other bargains elsewhere, look at competition via online shopping and ultimately aide the individual on their purchasing decision. 
• Next to showcase its product was Terry Goertz and Jeff Fedor from ParkVu. Using their WITH ME and WITH MUSIC online platforms, users can transport all their computer files, music, pictures and video to their mobile device in a single click. The goal is to seamlessly import this information into your cellphone or smartphone. 
• Billing Revolution's Andy Kleitsch pitched his company allowing mobile payments and transactions to be performed on your mobile device.
  
• Chyngle's Todd Sullivan showed how Chyngle will improve an attendee's experience at large-scale venues such as shopping malls, concerts, sports arenas, etc. Chyngle enables stadiums and other venues (even shopping malls) to create customized "white-label" apps to enable consumers to purchase event tickets, order concessions delivered directly to their seats and participate in interactive polling. Chyngle's branded apps use GPS to find the customer's location and helsp discover services and people nearby. CEO Todd Sullivan calls it "in-pocket marketing."
• Last, but not least was Jonathan Javitt from TelCare, a remote sensor monitoring company that connects patients to their caregivers through medical devices utilizing "machine to machine" cellular communications. They're focused on individuals with diabetes - something that affects 28 million Americans today, and is projected to affect 60 million Americans by 2020. 

Largent came back up onstage to confer with the expert panel of judges and tabulate text-voting results

Chyngle  was voted the winner and won the first annual grand prize. Maybe there will be a Chyngle app for CTIA next year. The People's Choice Award winner was TelCare. 

All five CTIA Fund Fest finalists received a complimentary exhibit and marketing package for a 2010 CTIA event valued at more than $25,000 and a block of public relations consulting time from Media Strategies, Inc.