Summary of finalists:

1. HappeningMap
Team: Ehsan Afkhami, Ashkan Afkhami
HappeningMap.com (HM) is at the forefront of location based social media. It will allow users to inform each other of “what is going on in their surroundings”. This community enabling tool will be based off of Google’s universally recognized mapping technology, Google Maps. This technology in conjunction with user contributed content on happenings in their community will allow HM to deliver live, up to the minute information about community events and activities, sales, entertainment options, or simply a good restaurant to have a meal.

2. Route Optimization System
Team: Ashish Agarwal, Matt Wool, Lonn Drucker
Route Optimization System will deliver a hardware and software technology innovation that significantly reduces the time wasted while stuck in traffic thereby increasing vehicle utility, driver productivity and business efficiency. Our vision is to cut-down the delay in real-time traffic updates and deliver intelligence to customers that lack the scale, know-how, or resources to enable smart transportation independently. An important part of the company vision is to concurrently help customers reduce their impact on the environment. As eliminating waste and lowering unintelligent use of transportation resources will reduce carbon emissions, our company gives its customers the tool to reach this goal.

3. VCon
Team: Ajay Bangla, Stephen Chao, Prakash Ishwar, Janusz Konrad
In the last decade, the security industry has seen huge improvements in its ability to amass surveillance information. But despite huge increases in security spending, there has been little to no reduction of fraud, theft, crime, and terror. Part of the reason is that even as surveillance systems have become more advanced, we human beings haven't gotten any faster at watching or reviewing all that video, understanding its contents, and finding critical information. This “Security Gap” between what we collect and what we can analyze is at the root of the most pressing problems in surveillance today. VCon Technologies will provide state-of-the-algorithms to help close this gap between information gathered and that analyzed.

4. MediSense
Team: Humberto Garza, Jason Cartwrigth, Derek Cao, Linda Yin

MediSense is a company that focuses on the integration of existing technologies into innovative products that serve the common good.The company's most recent development, the EZ-Track, targets the blood pressure monitor market, estimated at 56 million.EZ-Track incorporates Bluetooth technology that makes the device more user-friendly, less cumbersome and ideal for the home blood pressure monitor use at an extremely competitive cost.These qualities make the EZ-Track one of the most advanced blood pressure monitors currently in existence.