The Gigabit Challenge Announces Screampoint as First Platform Partner
The Gigabit Challenge welcomes Screampoint as its first Platform Partner and invites other major technology platform providers to join the business plan competition for applications on the Google Fiber network.
- San Francisco, CA (1888PressRelease) October 19, 2011 - The Gigabit Challenge (www.gigabitchallenge.com), a global business plan competition looking for entrepreneurial ideas to disrupt on the Google Fiber network, has welcomed Screampoint (www.screampoint.com) as its first Platform Partner. Screampoint is a global leader in providing 5D SMART™ technology solutions that allow government officials, master developers and corporate leaders to access multi-departmental real-time city and building data through the unique interface of a 3D visual model of a city. As an important new tool in the real estate technology and Smart City sector, Screampoint's 5D SMART™ technologies will change the way the built environment and the smart cities of the future will be designed, built, monitored and managed.
As part of the Platform Partner package, Screampoint will allow third-party developers that are finalists in The Gigabit Challenge to utilize the Screampoint 5D SMART™ platform to build applications for free for a period of one year starting in Q1 2012. This is the same quarter in which Google will begin to deploy the first-in-the-nation one-gigabit Google Fiber network in Kansas City.
"We are very excited to have Screampoint on board as the founding Platform Partner," said Tyler Prochnow, co-founder of Think Big Partners (www.thinkbigpartners.com) and host of The Gigabit Challenge. "The company's next-generation 5D SMART™ technology will spawn a whole new genre of applications, including those that will power smart cities, that are ideally suited to run on the Google Fiber network."
Screampoint is active in countries around the globe and assembles technology companies, building systems management companies, and AEC firms to bring 5D SMART solutions to cities and building owners.
"We are pleased to collaborate with Think Big Partners, The Gigabit Challenge team, the Google Fiber community and the leadership of Kansas City on this exciting opportunity to create the nation's first 5D SMART™ City platform on the Google Fiber network", said Michael Jansen, CEO of Screampoint. "Led by the original developer of Keyhole and Google Earth, our team in Silicon Valley looks forward to working with third-party application developers participating in The Gigabit Challenge. We will work together to design unique applications powered by our 5D SMART™ City platform and create the smart cities of the future."
The Gigabit Challenge invites other major platform providers such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle and Salesforce to join startup Screampoint in working with The Gigabit Challenge as a Platform Partners. The Challenge is calling on these innovators to let their developer communities know about this opportunity and encourage them to compete for the $100,000 Grand Prize.
The first round of The Gigabit Challenge opened on October 3, 2011 and will close at midnight on October 31, 2011. Finalists will be announced in November and a final pitch with an awards ceremony will be held in Kansas City on January 18, 2012. View the complete schedule. For questions concerning applications, partnerships, or judging opportunities, please visit www.gigabitchallenge.com or call (816) 842-5244.
About Screampoint
Screampoint, a Sequoia Capital funded company, is the only software provider with a production-ready, multi-dimensional cloud solution that aggregates, coordinates and presents complex, multi-departmental real-time city and building data through the unique interface of a rich 3D visual model, bringing the world's data to life and making it actionable in a simple, natural, and intuitive way for all stakeholders in the built environment. Designed by the developer of Keyhole/Google Earth, Screampoint's 5D SMART™ City creates new efficiencies, saves money, gives birth to new revenue streams, and increases environmental and financial sustainability. For more information, please visit www.screampoint.com.
About The Gigabit Challenge
The Gigabit Challenge is a global business plan competition to find disruptive ideas that will turn the tech industry upside-down and change the world. The Challenge is focused on unique applications that are enabled by Google's first-in-the-nation one-gigabit Fiber network. Individuals, teams or businesses with an idea, a complete business plan, or an early-stage operating business are invited to enter for the chance to work on the Google Fiber network and a prize valued at $100,000. For more information, please visit www.gigabitchallenge.com.
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