The Feb 16 Pitch & Demo day got a great success after Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startups updated Startup of Month Pitching Rules, involving the judges to select presenters. This event had 700+ people registered, and welcomed the most attendees ever.

ReferralMD, founded by Jonathan Govette, won the Startup of Feb, followed by other two runners: Parkitmarkit & Yonyx.

SVEntrepreneurs’s goal is to help winner to receive investment in three to six month time frame. His company and personal profile are included bellow. If you are an investor, check this shining earlier stage startup out.

Then let me introduce the Startup of Month Feb: referralMD, and two runners: Parkitmarkit & Yonyx.

About：ReferralMD 

ReferralMD is automated referral management and analytics platform that helps providers build a reliable and sustainable institutionalized specialty network.  We offer care providers an affordable way to exchange, manage, and track (referrals, authorizations, and progress updates) while providing powerful analytics to track trends, leakage, and participation.

Founder’s profile: Jonathan Govette

With more than 15 years of experience, Jonathan Govette is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of referralMD, a platform for primary care and specialist providers to manage their referral sources online vs. the current paper-based system. 100,000’s of thousands of people die each year due to administrative errors and upwards of 60 percent of patients do not receive the care they need due to lost or misplaced paper referrals costing providers billions to manage each year.

Govette is responsible for leading all aspects of referralMD, including developing key relationships with healthcare organizations, online positioning, branding, product design, and team development. Prior to referralMD, Jonathan has sold innovative products and professional services in the enterprise online and print marketing / web development / software space. Jonathan holds a B.S. in Entrepreneurial Finance from California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo.

Job Opening：

referralMD is seeking interested parties to help with the roll out of our launch, if interested, please email：Jonathan@getreferralmd.com

UX Designer:

.First and foremost, you should have an excellent eye for design. You should know great web UI when you see it, and be able to explain why it’s great (even if you didn’t create it!).
.You’ll need to be a Photoshop ninja. You should also be fluent in Illustrator, OmniGraffle, or Balsamiq, etc…
.You should have at least a working knowledge of XHTML/CSS. If you can cut up your own comps, so much the better.
.Of course, we’re looking for self-starters – candidates who can jump in quickly without a lot of direction, and learn by asking the right questions.
.Finally, you should have a solid portfolio of web application design. We want to see that you’ve built great web interfaces before, not just great websites.

Developer:

.Looking for someone that enjoys taking on a global challenge, by changing the world for every healthcare provider through your code expertise
.Knowledge of jQuery, Knockout, JavaScript, ASP.NET MVC, Domain driven Design, Raven DB (nosql) and Razor experience.
.Designing, developing, testing and maintaining web applications using databases and web series
.Collaborating with software development team
.Wants to fix healthcare communication.

Creative writers (Healthcare specific):

.Looking full-time content writers for our resource article site. Content includes how-to guides that benefit hospital staff, doctors and medical executives
.See full details here –  http://www.getreferralmd.com/guest-post

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/referralmd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Referralmd
The judges also selected two runners.

About: Parkitmarkit LLC

Parkit Markit, LLC is a company in the mobile financial space.  Its signature product, Smorecard, allows users to optimize their credit card use.   Smorecard maintains a current database of credit card information and delivers recommendations to the user based on location and other data points via mobile apps.  For instance, a user may have a credit card that offers 2% on gas, another that offers bonus frequent flier miles on groceries, and another that has several rewards that rotate periodically.  Without requiring personal credit card information, Smorecard provides the user a recommendation on what card is the best to use at the moment of purchase. Smorecard saves its users money each time they use the app.  Parkit Markit consists of co-founders, Senthil Palaniappan and Raj Kuppuswami, and a dedicated, skilled team of software developers.

Here is the fox news clip about the app: Smorecard

Founder’s Profile:

Senthil Palaniappan 

–  He is a Founder, President & CEO of Sennovate Inc, a US based firm since 2007.
–  Co-founder of Parkitmarkit LLC and released modern  mobile application Smorecard helps to solve ‘Which creditcard should I use to maximize my reward returns’
–  Delivers EAaaS (Enterprise Application as a Service), helping customers to consume their packaged or custom enterprise applications from public cloud as a Service. Experienced with hybrid cloud
–  Has over 18 years of experience in Database and Infrastructure solutions and consulted with numerous Fortune 500 companies.
–  Has served as Solutions Architect and implemented several mission-critical database systems using Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP, EMC and other leading technologies.
–  Holds M.B.A. From DeVry University, USA.

Raj Kuppuswami, is Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer.  He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and M.D. degree from Stanford University.

“Parkit Markit, LLC thanks SV Entrepreneurs for the opportunity to participate in this event. We are proud to have been selected as a runner-up. We will incorporate all of the invaluable feedback that we have received as we take our company to the next level.”

Job Opening

Parkit Markit, LLC is looking for advisers and investment to further implement its business plan.

Sales Executive/Intern: Looking for a dynamic intern who is not afraid of making calls to the various corporates and setting up meetings with the higher level executives and following up/ coordinating with the sales process. Requirements are as follows.

·Should possess a degree
·Exposure/Knowledge to in Information Technology
·Some prior experience in making sales calls
·Detail oriented, energetic and enthusiastic
·Person should be local to SFO bay area.

Download the app:
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smorecard/id567501508?mt=8Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sennovate.smorecardLike us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smorecard/467096453334542Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SmorecardApp/

 Another Runner: Yonyx

“Interactive Self Service for Enterprises – an alternative to Call Centers.”

Yonyx takes a whole new approach to web-based Customer self-service.  Yonyx provides a platform for Subject Matter Experts in Organizations to express their knowledge in the form of multimedia flowcharts. Each flowchart starts from a common Symptom Customers may experience (e.g. Performance Issues etc.) and interactively guides customers to one of the many underlying problems that may cause the Symptom and suggests corresponding solution.

Based on a proprietary implementation of multi-relational directed graph, Yonyx platform enables Organizations to convert unstructured interactions between their Customers and Call Centre Agents into structured self-service traversals by Customers. This helps substantially cut costs of providing service for the Organizations while improving the quality of service received by Customers. Due to its automated nature, the solutions provides a scalable, 24×7 solution for customer self-service.

Founder’s Profile: Sanjay Bajaj

Sanjay is the CEO and co-founder of Yonyx. An entrepreneur at heart, he is a Silicon Valley veteran with nearly 25 years of experience in various technology firms including NeXT, Synopsys, Rolm, and multiple start ups including Vianeta, interHDL & Silicon Architects which led to successful exits.

A problem solver & team builder, with a unique gift of “common sense”, Sanjay focuses on product, sales, investment & team building. Sanjay holds an MSEE degree from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), & a B.Tech degree in Electronics & Electrical Communications Engineering (ECE) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.

“We are all influenced by various people we meet & events in our life, to do what we end up doing! Entrepreneurship is no exception. I had the privilege of working for Steve Jobs’ NeXT Inc. – a while ago. Since then, I have been working with Start-ups all my career until co-founding one myself (http://www.yonyx.com). I think, whatever entrepreneurship I developed must be inspired by his spirit. I really appreciate the efforts of Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs team in fostering and nurturing this spirit in its inimitable way. Thanks!”

Job Opening：

“We’re looking to expand our team with people willing to work with entrepreneurial zeal & help us expand our marketing, PR & business development efforts.”

web: http://www.yonyx.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YonyxMedia