Finalists selected to pitch products at GiGse's annual start-up competition

Start-Up LaunchPad is part of the 14th Global iGaming Summit & Expo (GiGse), taking place in the Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero Center in San Francisco, CA. GiGse is North America’s largest and most established event, fully focused on regulated iGaming. With iGaming now live in three states, this year’s GiGse will be pivotal in analyzing the future of legal online gambling in the country in the context of the results of the recent launches, in particular those in New Jersey.

The slow opening of the US market to iGaming, coupled with the rise in social casino gaming, have given a boost to the emergence of new business models, new products and new companies that GiGse, and the co-located Social Casino Summit, have been embracing for the past three years with its Start-Up LaunchPad and the Start-Up Zone on the Expofloor.

This year’s start-ups include NEFRF Corp., which uses user profiling and positioning to serve up relevant content to casino visitors; InAppFuel, which allows mobile developers to create minigames in no time; TouchSpin Gaming, with its innovative take on social multiplayer slot games; Neo Poker App, which uses Aritificial Intelligence to show how to play poker at a high level and Sportplayz, a bitcoin-powered sportsbook.

The start-ups will be quizzed by a panel of investors that includes Craig Abraham, Chief Financial Officer of Caesars Interactive Entertainment, as well as Gavin Teo, an investor at Comcast Ventures and Sunny Dhillon, Senior Associate at Signia Venture Partners; however, the final say in selecting the winner will be given to the event’s audience.

"I look forward to seeing the innovative solutions that the 2014 GiGse start-ups will showcase. The intersection of real-money and social gaming is an area that has seen lots of interesting developments in the last two years, so it is no surprise that new ideas and new business models keep springing up", said Teo, one of the LaunchPad judges.

More details on LaunchPad and GiGse are available at www.gigse.com.