PocketSmith

PocketSmith is a personal finance application that makes financial forecasting and budgeting quick and simple. Users can easily discover and define their financial future due to the forward-looking focus encouraged by the application's unique calendar paradigm. A 12-month forecast can be generated quickly and represented in a way users can relate to. This is then compared to the users' actual transactions to determine how well they're tracking.

The founders of PocketSmith are Jason Leong, James Wigglesworth and Francois Bondiguel, and the company is self-funded. Having come from managing a listed web development firm, PocketSmith is a new challenge for them from both a business and cultural perspective. The three have founded the business on basic principles of grassroots web entrepreneurship, and as such, believe in running lean, being agile, and investing in their user base and community.

PocketSmith is in private beta, and is currently four months old from when the first line of code was written. In that time it has seen one major iteration; been reviewed by major US tech players; grown its user base to 400 from across the globe; and continues to win favour with a wide demographic of people who need a solution for managing their personal finances.

Though still in development, PocketSmith has now begun seeking commercial opportunities, and is in discussion with retail banks both domestic and abroad.

Celsias

Celsias was created in March 2006 as a personal Carbon Trading platform. It became a 'traditional' blog in July 2007, and in 2008 developed tools to help people combat climate change, and bring the green community, companies and organisations closer together. Celsias.com helps individuals, companies and organisations do practical things to combat climate change.

In additional to its thousands of individual members, more than 175 companies and organisations are registered with Celsias including Disney, Sun Microsystems, WWF, Columbia University, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Post and Ausra Solar Technologies.

Companies and organisations that Celsias feel genuinely want to help the environment can showcase their environmental programmes, get interviewed by the Celsias editor, issue press releases, post jobs and advertise both on Celsias, and through Celsias' partners.

To further develop this service, Celsias is currently working with the publishers of Idealog magazine to create EcoInnovator - an online, international resource to facilitate the 'business of sustainability'. Revenue will be created using a 'niche content/services' subscription model, cross-channel advertising and permission-based marketing/advertising.

Celsias is 'read every day' by The Wall Street Journal; has been voted a 'top 5 eco-website' by the Times newspaper; and is quoted by The Washington Post. It has also been featured internationally-recognised internet start-up sites. Celsias currently has five staff, with a team of 120 writers based around the world.