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Oregonlive.com: March 5, 2012
Portland’s largest vending operator goes high-tech
VendScreen CEO and founder Paresh Patel describes how his new device will bring vending machines into the high-tech playing field.
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USA Today: January 31, 2012
VendScreen device allows calorie check before you buy
There are 270 calories in that six-pack of Oreos you’re eyeing in the office vending machine.
And soon, with the help of a touch-screen device from technology start-up VendScreen, you’ll be able to find that out before you buy the cookies. Its soft-drink-can-size device mounts on vending machines and displays each item sold, letting customers see nutritional information and filter product information by dietary requirements.
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Vending Times: January 25, 2012
VendScreen Raises $12M In Funding
The vending technology startup was one of eight companies to demonstrate their innovations to investors as part of the Portland Incubator Experiment, a business accelerator program led by worldwide advertising giant Wieden & Kennedy.
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Portland Business Journal: January 18, 2012
The story behind VendScreen’s $12M and other notes from PIE
The Wieden + Kennedy-hosted Portland Incubator Experiment considers itself a startup accelerator, and the story of VendScreen is an example of the accuracy of that title.
The Portland-based startup, a maker of touch-screen devices for vending machines, entered the three-month PIE program as a two-man operation with what CEO Paresh Patel called “a pretty good idea.”
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PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment) Demo Day
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Portland Business Journal: January 17, 2012
Portland startup VendScreen raises $12M
Portland startup VendScreen on Tuesday said it raised $12 million from investors as it works to revolutionize the vending machine industry.
CEO and Founder Paresh K. Patel announced the Series A round at the Bagdad Theater in Southeast Portland as one of eight companies making demonstrations to investors as part of the Portland Incubator Experiment, the business accelerator program led by advertising firm Wieden + Kennedy.
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Oregonlive.com: January 17, 2012
Portland Incubator Experiment graduates first class, including one that landed $12 million investment
It wasn’t until the final presenter of the Portland Incubator Experiment’s Demo Day that the biggest cheers erupted. Up on the big screen flashed one big number: $12 million.
VendScreen had just landed the investment for its ability to attach mobile phones to vending machines, the startup’s co-founder and chief executive Paresh Patel told the crowd. The technology allows for cashless payments and can store data and provide nutrition information.
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Press Release: December 12, 2011
Vending Industry Veterans Glenn Butler and Jim Brinton Join VendScreen
VendScreen™ acquires intellectual property of CTO Services, and its principal Glenn Butler joins VendScreen as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Jim Brinton joins as investor and member of the Board of Advisors.
PORTLAND, OR (December 12, 2011) — VendScreen, Inc., inventor of the VendScreen™ smart device for new and existing vending machines, announces the acquisition of the intellectual property of CTO Services, LLC and its principal Glenn Butler, who joins VendScreen, Inc. as co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.
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Vending Times: September 27, 2011
VendScreen Wireless Smart Device Touch-Screen Interface
PORTLAND, OR — VendScreen Inc., based here and founded by Dr. Paresh Patel, a vending operator, has introduced a touchscreen user interface for new and existing vending machines.
The user interface is also called VendScreen. It’s an Android-based smart device that displays user-specific promotions and advertising, real-time product updates, cashless payment options and refunds, and nutrition information to comply with new federal nutrition information disclosure requirements. Retrofitted to an operator’s existing machines, it can deliver real-time analytical information and DEX data uploads for third-party dynamic route scheduling and prekitting applications.
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Technabob.com: September 22, 2011
VendScreen Upgrades Vending Machines With Touchscreens
We often lament the fact that in the US we generally only get the plain vending machines with the mechanical buttons that have been around for decades. In other countries, the vending machines are much cooler, often packing in touchscreens and serving oddities like crab or bananas. A company called VendScreen is set to make us a little less jealous of foreign vending machines, assuming its new offering sells.
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Slash Gear: September 22, 2011
VendScreen gives boring plain vending machines touchscreen coolness
Clearly one of the places that Japan has surpassed the US in the tech world is in the hotly contested vending machine market. In Japan, vending machines are high tech with touchscreens and they hand out things like hot soup rather than cookies, soft drinks, and chips like we are stuck with in the US. That can all change though with the VendScreen retrofit touchscreen.
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Vending Market Watch: September 22, 2011
VendScreen Wireless Smart Device Touch-Screen Interface
VendScreen, Inc., unveils VendScreen™, an Android–based smart device, which displays user-specific promotions and advertising, real-time product updates, cashless payment options and refunds, and nutrition information in compliance with new federal nutrition information disclosure requirements.
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PR Newswire: September 21, 2011
VendScreen Unveils Wireless Smart Device with Touch-Screen Interface for New and Existing Vending Machines
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — VendScreen, Inc., today unveiled VendScreen™, an Android-based smart device, which displays user-specific promotions and advertising, real-time product updates, cashless payment options and refunds, and nutrition information in compliance with new federal nutrition information disclosure requirements.
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SpryHut.com: September 21, 2011
VendScreen Uncovers Wireless Wise Device with Touch-Screen Interface for brand new and Existing Snack Machines
Tigard, Ore., Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — VendScreen, Corporation., today revealed VendScreen(TM), an Android-based wise device, which shows user-specific promotions and advertising, real-time product updates, cashless payment options and refunds, and diet information in compliance with new federal diet information disclosure needs.
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Fast Company: September 20, 2011
Wieden + Kennedy Tech Incubator Picks Its Startup Class of 2011
Wieden bakes major brands and the Portland tech community into a fresh PIE.
When Wieden + Kennedy launched its tech incubator, the Portland Incubator Experiment in 2009, the effort proved a fruitful collaboration between the ad agency and local tech talent; it even spawned a few going tech concerns.
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Press Release: September 19, 2011
VendScreen Unveils Wireless Smart Device with Touch-Screen Interface for New and Existing Vending Machines
Vending machine smart device wirelessly delivers nutrition data and advertising to displays mounted on vending machines while collecting real-time,point-of-sale information for analytics tracking.
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