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Gray Robinson and the Sustainable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Alliance at USFSP present Gazelle Lab Demo Day, 9am, Thursday, November 17, 2011 at the Mahaffey Theater as part of St. Petersburg Entrepreneurship Month and Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Gazelle Lab is Tampa Bay’s TechStars Network member, seed stage investment fund.  And Gazelle Lab is currently mentoring six of Florida’s hottest startup companies.

Remember your first mentor?  Remember just knowing that what they did for you changed your life?  Well, it turns out that globally, the TechStars Network has validated that concentrated mentoring works.  Tremendously well.  So we borrowed the model for Tampa Bay.

And these six companies will be pitching for Series A financing at Gazelle Lab Demo Day, 9am, Thursday, November 17^th, at the newly renovated Mahaffey Theater on the beautiful downtown St. Petersburg waterfront.

So who are these six companies?

1. AutoIQ – Ever get that grumbly feeling in your stomach when the “Check Engine” light comes on?  AutoIQ will tell you what’s what.  It’s like FitBit for your car and auto expenses.
2. Dropost.it – What’s the best way to show your significant other that you care?  Be there.  Second best?  Be there virtually by dropping them a gift where they are at.  Imagine your spouse walking into a Starbucks, when they check their phone to find that you have left a Dropost.it a gift of free coffee.  Nice!
3. Kngroo – What activities are there to do around St. Petersburg (American Style’s 2011 #1 Mid-Sized City for Art) during my Demo Day visit?  Build an adventure using Kngroo’s mobile app.  To start you off, we’ll give you the St. Petersburg Chamber’s Kngroo when you arrive.
4. Leads Direct – Tampa Bay is known for real estate.  We have a lot of it.  Ever wondered how all the property owners and managers meet?  The Leads Direct team has studied this for years, and has chased the inefficiencies out of the market.
5. Red Hawk Interactive – All we are legally allowed to say is that Demo Day will mark the end of the DVD.
6. Teburu – Why is online food ordering such a hassle?  Why do all online restaurant ordering systems look like they were developed in the late nineties?  Teburu is about to change that, from the restaurant capital of the world.

Join us for free by registering for free at http://gazellelab.eventbrite.com/.

For any potential companies interested in joining the next cadre in Gazelle Lab, the application is now open at http://gazellelab.com/application.