Posts Tagged ‘Disrupt’

Nearly two weeks ago, Soluto participated in Disrupt, a startup conference run by TechCrunch, the renowned technology blog. Soluto won the Battlefield which was the startup competition portion of the event. This was both a shock and a great honor. But this post is not about us, it’s about a very cool startup called UJAM, which came-in as runner-up.

UJAM was the first startup to debut its product on stage, and boy did they set a high bar. With UJAM’s app users with practically no musical talent whatsoever can create astonishing music compositions. One of its coolest features is the ability to hum or whistle a tune into a microphone and have UJAM morph the tune as if it was originally played by an electric guitar or piano. Very cool stuff. Hands down, UJAM had a stellar demo (We’ve embedded some of it below).

By the final day of Disrupt, the buzz among attendees was that the two major contenders for the top prize were UJAM and Soluto. We certainly didn’t think it was in the bag. Ultimately though, Soluto was awarded the top spot, and we are humbled now as we were on-stage when we received it. This is especially true since we befriended the UJAM guys—Peter Gorges & Axel Hensen—and were cheering for them as well.

So to the good folks of UJAM: Gentleman, it was an honor to battle it out with you at Disrupt! Know that the entire Soluto Team are huge fans of yours and will be rooting for your success :)

This post is coming to you from 550 Washington Street in New York City, because we can finally let the cat out of the bag… Soluto has been selected out of hundreds of startups to present at TechCrunch Disrupt!

Obviously, this is a great honor for Soluto, and the really great part is that we will be launching our anti-frustration software, live on-stage today on the morning of Monday, May 24th. Finally, we get to show you and the rest of the world what we’ve been working on :-)

We’re represented here by myself and my good friends, Soluto co-founders Tomer Dvir and Ishay Green. Also with us is Or Yagel, one of our super talented IT experts. We’re all wearing our Soluto T-shirts so we’re easy to spot.

Following our on-stage presentation, we’ll be available at our table at the Startup Alley so if you’re at Disrupt, come-up and say hello.

We’ll be updating throughout the event via Twitter. So if you want to get a link to the live video stream of our presentation right before we go on stage, as well as all the pics and videos we’ll be taking on-location, make sure to follow our official twitter account: @soluto.

Huge hugs to the amazing Soluto team back at the HQ—we’re going to make you all proud!

Roee Adler, Chief Product Officer – @roadler