<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:480px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/52028e1d69bedd500b000002-1200-924/dreamit-1.jpg?maxX=480" border="0" alt="Dreamit" width="480" />Megan Dickey/Business InsiderinstruMagic presents at <keyword id="1743397" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="DreamIt-Ventures">DreamIt Ventures</keyword> NYC Demo Day 2013</div></div>This morning at DreamIt Ventures demo day, 15 new <keyword id="6362513" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Startups">startups</keyword> presented to a packed room full of investors, industry insiders, and press.
DreamIt Ventures is one of the more prestigious accelerators in New York. Over the years, it has produced successful companies like SCVNGR/LevelUp, Notehall, SeatGeek, Adaptly, and Mindsnacks.
Here are some of our favorite companies from the day:
Miner creates virtual stores on your phone depending on your location using geofencing technology. Miner delivers mobile content to people when they arrive. At the event today, we entered a contest to win a Nike FuelBand, just to test the service. At the end, they announced the winner. Miner also has a cool treasure hunt feature where you can find hidden gems all over your city.
GamePress makes it dead-simple to create iPad games on the iPad without any programming knowledge. Users can sell their games to their friends and to the GamePress community through its marketplace. They can also create and sell special visual and sound effects. 
Stylr may literally change the face of offline shopping. Three Stanford graduates created Stylr to help people find clothing products in stores around you. You can filter it down by color and size. Over time, the system learns about your preferences and can provide you personalized suggestions. Already, Stylr is pulling in inventory from more than 60 major retailers and more than 5,000 brands. 
Let's say you want to buy a dress today. Pop open the app, search for some dresses, pick one you like, and then you'll see if the store has it in stock. If they do, you can put in on hold within the app itself and then pop on over to the store to pick it up. 
Touchbase is determined to change how people interact with physical objects. It's essentially a better solution for NFC-like communication, but has developed a technology that uses conductive ink technology. For example, New York's MTA could create a tag so that when you place a tagged card against your smartphone, you can pay for and reload your pass. 
instruMagic makes it super easy to learn how to play guitar on your iPad. In the future, instruMagic will add additional instruments, like the piano and drums, so that you can even have jam sessions with your friends.

Here Are Our Five Favorite Startups That Debuted In NYC Today

<table class="image-container float_right" width="200"><tr><td><div class="image"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/4f1f015369bedda931000054-400-300/dreamit-dance.jpg" border="0" alt="DreamIt demo day" /></div><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/courtbean/6033701848/">CourtBean via Flickr</a></td></tr></table><a href="https://www.dreamitventures.com/">DreamIt Ventures</a>, a multi-city startup <keyword id="71310" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="accelerator">accelerator</keyword> program like TechStars and Y Combinator, has selected 16 <keyword id="6362513" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Startups">startups</keyword> for its summer session in New York.
The three-month program gives each startup a stipend of up to $25,000 and mentorship. There's a Demo Day at the end attended by press and investors. Some of the better known startups to come out of DreamIt are SCVNGR, Adaptly, Winston and SeatGeek.
Here's who will be working out of the 8th Avenue accelerator this summer:
<ul type="disc">
<li><a href="http://www.callidaenergy.com/" target="_blank">Callida Energy</a>: Smart building SaaS solution for commercial facilities.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.creatorup.com/" target="_blank">CreatorUp</a>: The Online Web Series School: Learn from top web video experts how to create and market your own videos on the web.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gamepressapp.com/" target="_blank">GamePress</a>: GamePress lets you create, share, and play mobile games on your iPad. With GamePress you don't need to know any programming, or have graphics design skills.</li>
<li>Glassboard: Glassboard is the collaboration network for research and development.</li>
<li><a href="http://heykiki.com/" target="_blank">HeyKiki</a>: Aggregation platform for the education space (Kayak for class/activity searches).</li>
<li><a href="http://instru-magic.com/" target="_blank">Instrumagic</a>: Creates super friendly magical musical instruments on mobile devices</li>
<li><a href="http://mylicensebuddy.com/" target="_blank">License Buddy</a>: Platform to help licensed professionals to meet continuing education requirements. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.mimoona.com/" target="_blank">Mimoona</a>: Mimoona enables any website to integrate a fully featured crowdfunding platform into their site in less than 30 minutes</li>
<li><a href="http://minerapp.com/" target="_blank">Miner</a>: The easy way to deliver highly-contextual mobile content to people that are physically present at any location.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.perkle.co/" target="_blank">Perkle</a>: an online community that connects consumers, businesses and charities, and rewards them all with great perks for helping each other. </li>
<li><a href="http://maidsradar.com/" target="_blank">Serviceful</a>: Maids Radar makes it easy to find which House Cleaning Companies are available to clean your house today, without the call or search.</li>
<li><a href="http://stylrapp.com/" target="_blank">Stylr Inc.</a>: Window shop your favorite clothing stores right from your iPhone. With Stylr you know what is in stock before you go to the store.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.touchbase-technologies.com/" target="_blank">TouchBase</a>: Business cards you can tap on any smartphone to download their content immediately and accurately - no camera, no NFC, and no QR codes required.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.trippinin.com/" target="_blank">Trippin' In</a>: an unique "Engagement meter" for places and sites, measuring the real social pulse of local businesses.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wedid.it/" target="_blank">WeDidIt</a>: a web platform and mobile app for nonprofit fundraising.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.wirelawyer.com/" target="_blank">wireLawyer</a>: LinkedIn for lawyers; creating the largest virtual law practice in the world and improving social advocacy.</li>
</ul>

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<img class="float_right" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4c3b1f687f8b9ad724420200-400-300/400x300_butler.jpg" border="0" alt="butler" />Winston, the personal voice assistant that helps jumpstart your morning, recently <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/winston-for-iphone/id541471212?mt=8">launched its second build in Apple's App Store</a>, and its first publicly available version.
It has been compared to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/highlights-from-dreamit-demo-day-2012-8">Apple's Siri.</a> But unlike <keyword id="23114" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Siri">Siri</keyword>, you can't ask Winston search-related questions.
Instead, Winston is a voice-enhanced social news reader. It scans tweets, Facebook updates and news sites for relevant content. It reads headlines out loud via "Briefs."
Winston can decipher disjointed tweets. It can tell if your friends broke up with someone, or someone passed away by reading Facebook status messages. The app is programmed to identify feelings while scanning for the latest, relevant news.
"We're working on the intersection between news stories you've been reading lately and finding what friends are sharing," Winston co-founder Aaron Ting tells Business Insider.
Where Siri lacks in personality (<keyword id="6354427" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Apple">Apple</keyword> is actually hiring editors to improve Siri's script), the Winston founders have spent a lot of time making their app polite. They gave Winston a British man's voice, like the butler many people dream of having.
"Siri makes you feel dumb for asking wrong thing," Winston co-founder Aaron Ting tells us. "Our app asks you what you want and it's clear. It's respectful."
There are a handful of startups working in this space, like Grokr, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/grokr-ios-google-now-equivalent-2012-12">which aims to give you information before you need it</a>, and Sivi, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/sivi-google-nicholas-seet-2012-11">which acts as a personal concierge</a>. Winston is similar to the product Qwiki set out to build when it won TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010.
But none have successfully made customized talk-radio stations in real-tme, which is essentially what Winston's founders are building. The best use case for a mobile personal assistant like Winston is in the car when your hands are occupied and your eyes are glued to the road. Ting says his team is in talks with car companies about partnerships; they were drawn to each other at CES, where a number of manufacturers encouraged developers to hack their vehicles.
Another use case for Winston is as an alarm clock, to help people quickly catch up on news that breaks overnight. The founders say they're eager to build that feature, but it's not a part of the public launch. 
Winston was first unveiled last August at <keyword id="1743397" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="DreamIt-Ventures">DreamIt Ventures</keyword> demo day in New York. At that point, the company was in the process of closing a $500,000 seed round. Now the team is working on a second round of financing that could be closer to $1 million.
Winston's founding team, Ting, Luke Evans, Steve Kaschinske, and Terence Cudney, are all based in Boulder, Colorado. 
Here's a demo of how Winston works:
<iframe width="590" height="443" frameborder="0" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hPH2PK5WZys"></iframe>

Winston Is A Siri Rival That's More Polite, British And Personalized

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