On Tuesday, November 5th, Tech in Motion DC held a Demos and Drinks on the second floor of Dirty Martini in the lively Dupont neighborhood of Washington, DC. The event featured five local startups and brought together both developers and non-developers from all over the DC metro area. The event kicked off at 6:00pm and was instantly a packed house! Tech in Motion provided the first 100 attendees with a complimentary drink.
While the primary focus of the night was on networking and demos, a friendly competition also took place. The attendee who mentioned #TechinMotion or @Tech_in_Motion the most via Twitter and Facebook was given a prize at the end of the night. The Tech in Motion Team was able to track these mentions with the help of Zoomph and their real time social influencer updates.
The five participating companies were Audax Health, Homesnap, Dasdak, Social Tables, and Eyebloc. Each company’s demo was well received by attendees.
Audax Health, with it’s underlying mission of fostering healthy lifestyle choices through the power of social networking, created Zensey to allow users to track their health initiative progress and lower overall health costs.
Homesnap is an online application that acts as a virtual real estate broker by providing listing information on any house that users snap a picture of.
Dasdak, is an application that provides users with the ability to order food or drink and have it delivered to where they are sitting in a venue. It is gaining traction in a variety of venues such as DC night clubs and The Washington Nationals’ stadium.
Social Tables developed software that assists in the event planning process and removes a lot of the typically accompanying stress.
After recognizing a pattern of webcam hacking stories in the recent media, EyeBloc created a product that prevents hackers from successfully spying on tech users by covering webcams present on laptops and tablets.
The format for Tech in Motion’s Demos and Drinks event differed from the typical presentation-style often perpetuated in other tech meetups. Each startup had its own table, allowing the demos to run simultaneously throughout the evening. This provided attendees with the chance to network with each other and interact with the demos and companies one-on-one.
Thank you to everyone who attended and to our sponsors, Workbridge Associates and Jobspring Partners!