It was a launch week not to be forgotten for DoYouRemember.com, a nostalgia company that recently moved from New York to accelerate at Venture Hive. The company not only went live with its new site and five apps, but it also won the startup presentation competition at Refresh Miami’s Demo Night at the South Florida Technology Summit and took home the $1,000 prize provided by New Frontier Nomads. Do You Remember is already a team of 20, headquartered at Venture Hive.
Do You Remember is the first social website and series of mobile apps created to bring together people passionate about nostalgia and it does this by connecting them through memories, said its founder Michael Gitter (pictured here). The site offers news, places to post memories and a highly interactive chat room, and it launched with an impressive 20,000 initial beta testers, a Twitter following of 115,000+, and 33,500+ “likes” on Facebook. Gitter literally wrote the book on nostalgia, several of them in fact — The Do You Remember? series in the 1990s.
Other South Florida startups pitching at Refresh Miami's Demo Night included PostKard, Mock, LayoutIt, EyeTalker, Pop.cp, Clutch Tutoring, Fitting Room Social and Kairos. Kairos, which offers facial recognition software solutions for the workplace, won the People'[s choice vote. About 400 people attended the Refresh Miami event, which was held in conjunction with the South Florida Technology Summit.