Above: Expect Labs CEO Tim Tuttle with VentureBeat founder and CEO Matt Marshall
The audience votes have been tallied, the judges have convened, and now we’ve got this year’s winners for our MobileBeat Innovation Showdown.
Expect Labs, a company that has developed innovative voice-powered prediction technology, is the winning early-stage company, while marketing automation company Appboy is the late-stage winner. Both companies will receive introductions to investors and potential customers, additional coverage on VentureBeat, and additional prizes.
Earlier today, Expect Labs announced an updated API that lets developers bring voice-powered context searching to any connected device. Appboy announced that its technology can now test six types of mobile ads at once.
"AI scientists have been promising this Star Trek future where we can ask our devices and see what we need," said Expect Labs founder and CEO TIm Tuttle in an interview with VentureBeat. "For the first time, we have the technology to make that possible."
Thanks to Sequoia Capital for sponsoring our Innovation Showdown.
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Appboy is the leading platform for mobile relationship management. The company enables the world's most successful apps to manage the lifecycle of their users through a suite of marketing automation products and a team of mobile expe... read more »
Expect Labs (http://www.expectlabs.com) has been widely recognized as a leader in the fast-emerging field of anticipatory computing. MIT Technology Review named them as one of the world's "50 Smartest Companies" of 2014, and they... read more »
