The big event of the day at the Innovator Summit was the Innovator Showdown Semifinal. Representatives from twelve innovative businesses did 2-minute presentations, with questions asked by the judges for another 2 minutes or so. Fifty small companies applied, these 12 making the cut. Those finalists were:
- Famicity – they have 150,000 users in France alone.
- GenSoup – from Austria
- JRNL.com – the site allows collaboration in Journaling
Kindex – Indexing is their focus. - TapGenes – now accessible from Ancestry, FamilySearch and Facebook. This site allows secure sharing of medical histories within families and their health care providers.
- The History Project – Compiling histories that include multimedia & artifacts.
- Ancestorcloud – Allows folks to offer $ for documents and research anywhere worldwide. A method of bidding on genealogy-related work.
- Legacy Scribe – They scan, index and save journals to the cloud.
- Scribbit – Expansive journaling – coming in 2016
- Studio by Legacy Republic – a potable smartphone-based photo album scanner.
- Family History Guide – Links to all kinds of genealogy help.
- Twile – out of Lancaster, England
This evening, RootsTech threw a Media Dinner for bloggers, and others. At the dinner, it was announced who won the semifinals – narrowing the contestants to six.
Check out the following sites.
Those who will enter the next round tomorrow were:
Click on the links to see some of the latest in new genealogy tech products. Keep in mind that most of these sites are still in alpha or beta, so we can expect much more from them over the next few months.
