The 2nd StartupCamp Toronto took place at the CIX venue yesterday where the following startups made their pitches: 
1. Brainpark: Mark Dowds gave a very exciting presentation which included a professionally produced introductory video. He mentioned that Brainpark has recently raised $2.2 million and in addition to enabling people to share information about what they are doing, it also provides a recommendation engine. Lack of a demo attracted some criticism.
2. LoyaltyMatch: Brad Ball talked about his startup which enables users to exchange loyalty points and also serves as a destination portal for items which can be bought with loyalty points. He estimated that the loyalty points market is between $200-$400 billion! 
3. SocialDeck: A social game start-up for mobile phones, with the idea being to let people play casual turn-based games. Their key value proposition is that their games are cross-platform, so that they can be played across different mobile phones, or via Facebook, Bebo, etc. They launched their first game on Facebook today itself - called Blockbust (based on Blokus).
4. AskKinjo: It is a mobile audio service which provides information on nearby gas stations, etc based on a user's location. Their revenue model is to play ads before the relevant information is communicated to the user.
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Varun Mathur
Varun Mathur is the Techvibes Community Manager in Toronto, focused on covering local tech startups, news and events. He is also a Co-founder and Product Manager at Zytran, a Toronto-based web startup which developed and launched Alertle.com - a personal news aggregator (Alertle's version 1.0 got widespread global coverage, with reviews written about it...[more]
