Tech Futures Group Clients Win TiE50 2015

SAN FRANCISCO - June 9, 2015 - PRLog -- BERKELEY, CA. (June 02, 2015) Tech

Futures Group (TFG), the complete advisory wing for select tech companies has worked with only two The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) companies since 2014, Apakau and POC Medical. Both companies won the prestigious 2015 TiE50 Award, competing against 2700 startups from 27 countries.

TFG advisor, Hon Wong assisted both companies in product positioning, market strategy and preparation for fund raising. Mr. Wong is a charter member at TiE.

“Working with Tech Futures Group and Hon Wong, has been an essential part of our growth and success. TFG has been proven to be a great resource for any tech company and their group of advisors have amazing experience” Fadel Darwish, Business Development for Apakau. Apakau provides a service that helps enterprise around the world by achieving maximum performance and availability of their web and mobile applications. Apakau’s goal is to ensure ultra low latency of dynamic application data and APIs by eliminating delays that are often experienced on enterprise applications, desktops, and mobile devices around the world.

POC Medical Systems (“POC”) is bringing accessible, next generation diagnostics to the market. The company’s flagship device, the Pandora CDx Pointof Care System (“Pandora”), resolves the two systemic issues in modern diagnostics: geographic inaccessibility and cost prohibition. As people are becoming increasingly reluctant to spending enormous amounts of time commuting between test labs and doctor’s clinic, POC’s focus is on reducing the diagnosis time by utilizing information sharing tools that provide timely health information and analysis.

TiE50 is TiE Silicon Valley’s premier annual awards program keenly contested by thousands of technology startups worldwide. TiE is a global, notforprofit network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship. With 61 chapters located in most major North American, Asian and European countries, TiE provides a platform for mentoring, networking and education for technology entrepreneurs worldwide. Tech Futures Group provides free advisory services to tech startups and small tech companies. TFG is the complete and free advisory wing for our clients. Advisors provide assistance in the following areas: General and strategic business advice, Patents and intellectual property, Business model development in Excel, VC/angel pitch preparation, Biomedical manufacturing, and Government grants including SBIR and STTR. TFG is a program of the Northern California Small Business Development Center (NorCal SBDC) Network which is funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), State of California, private entities, and universities. It serves technology clients from across the 14 counties of the NorCal SBDC Region all for free.

Learn more about Tech Futures Group and its advisors or to apply for services, visit www.techfuturesgroup.org . To learn more about the SBDC network, visit www.norcalsbdc.org