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GoWare, Inc.

Product Name

DoMo

Market Segment

Consumer

Funding

Privately funded. Currently seeking a seed round from angel investors, while simultaneously entertaining Series A term sheets.

Competitors

SoonR, Avvenu, Sharpcast, Google Mobile, bluepulse, Widsets, Action Info, HandMark Pocket Express, AvantGo, Orb

Product Description

DoMo is a software service platform that allows users to create and manage a “mobile portal” of PC and Web content, generated through a user-selected template and accessible via any mobile browser. The DoMo Client is a PC application that gathers, renders and updates a user’s content, synchronizes it with a server for offline access and allows a user to share it with colleagues and friends via any mobile browser. Developer-created plug-ins provide access to specialized content such as PC applications.

Market Opportunity

According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project survey, approximately 14% of cell phone users (across age groups) currently access the Internet on their phones, and 16% indicated they would like to. The potential of this market is underlined by worldwide handset sales: 224 million were sold in Q1 2006, according to Gartner.

Demo Says

One of the concepts we’re seeing in a lot of companies lately is that of technological egalitarianism, meaning that today’s abundance of powerful products and devices would be even more compelling if “everyday” folks had access to them. GoWare’s DoMo mobile portal provides an easy, intuitive way for anyone to have mobile access to content, without needing a pricey Blackberry or licensed enterprise software. It couldn’t be easier to use, with template customization and plenty of plug-ins and modules to make your mobile content page your very own. Access local PC files, Outlook emails, browser pages, even Web services like your MySpace page—all from one screen on your phone’s Web browser. It’s the latest iteration of a trend we like to see: making technology work for everyone, not just the geeks.