DreamIt’s 8tySix is now “Sqoot”

It looks like Sqoot’s Mo Yehia and Avand Amiri have taken the startup ethos “be flexible” very seriously.

After entering the incubator as the Dish86, the company rebranded (as reported by Technically Philly in our DreamIt Demo Day Preview series) as 8tysix. Now, however, the company is settling on Sqoot (pronounced “SKOOT”).

“It implies motion and getting things done,” says Yehia. “It’s memorable short and cute.”

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DreamIt Ventures Demo Day preview (part two)

Edited: Corrected Campus Sponsorship details.

In part two of our DreamIt Demo Day preview series, we preview two companies that continue a noticeable trend in this year’s DreamIt class: the reliance on social networks for user acquisition.

With the exception of Adapt.ly and Giveloop, all of the companies previewed yesterday lean heavily on Facebook to create a frictionless login service and to help promote user actions to friends and these two companies are no different.

After the jump, read our previews of 8tysix and Campus Sponsorship to get you ready for August 11th and see which company told us that its site has “double rainbow possibility.”

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