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Jeff Simeon, a recent graduate from UCSB’s Bren School where he earned a Master’s degree in Environmental Science and Management with a focus on Eco-Entrepreneurship, shares his new venture, Birdeez, a smart phone app that generates rare bird alerts, will ultimately make identification of wild birds easy and revolutionize the birdwatching market. But that’s not all. He and his team, Patrick Toener and Thomas Kuo, also hope to improve bird conservation and help our nation deal with “Nature Deficit Disorder.”
Birdeez, a mobile smartphone application, social network and stand alone Bird Alerts system, helps birdwatchers at every step of the birdwatching experience. It helps the 48 million birdwatchers in the US locate and identify birds, and then collect their sitings to share with each other and the scientific community.
In May, the Birdeez team won first place at the New Venture Competition at UCSB. The Birdeez idea was born at UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management in their Eco-Entrepreneurship program. Jeff took the idea to the UCSB Technology Management Program’s New Venture Competition, where the idea was refined and he was able to assemble a skilled team. The Birdeez team made the finals and was judged by panel of venture capitalists, an angel investor and serial entrepreneur, who selected Birdeez as the best market driven business. Birdeez is now seeking additional funding from the community, looking for social and environmentally minded investors.
To learn more about Birdeez and get important links to register for their Bird Alerts system, click here.
This app may be the answer to my casual birding problem, telling people what I saw.
Maybe I didn’t listen close enough, but fb birdeez sells bird mobiles and getbirdeez.com only shows the word, “test”.
Hi Larry. Try http://www.getbirdeez.com. I had the same problem untill I put the www in front. Or click on the link in the copy below the audio. Thanks for listening!