September Pitch Night: Adproval, PeeqMe and Digital Relevance

Following an exciting and insightful fashion technology event (http://vergestartups.com/best-of-indydresscode/) with Pattern Indy (http://www.patternindy.com/) in August, September is marketing technology month. Connections and M-TECH highlight Indy's growing authority (http://vergestartups.com/marketing-technology-leader/) when it comes to measured marketing and marketing technology, and we're playing on the marketing technology theme with September's Verge Indy Pitch Night.

AdProval (http://adproval.com/) is shaking up the way bloggers monetize sites with an application that connects publishers directly to advertisers. If you saw Matt Anderson pitch AdProval at The Innovation Showcase (http://theinnovationshowcase.com/) or M-TECH, you know how contagious his passion can be--and with the recent triple digit customer growth they've experienced, AdProval is taking to the Verge stage in the middle of a giant growth spurt.

PeeqMe (http://www.peeqme.me/)'s Quake Pletcher says people are greater than their resume, and has created a private social network that focuses on not just the work you do, but how you do it, to help individuals understand and market themselves more effectively. Personality profiles, accomplishments, feedback, mentorship and more are at play in the PeeqMe pilots currently in the field. Come hear about what's next for this startup on the rise.

And for our fireside chat, Jeremy Dearringer (http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremydearringer) and Kevin Bailey (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/kevin-bailey/9/701/408), who co-founded the internet marketing company Slingshot SEO and took it to the top tier of the INC. 500 list twice, will take the Verge stage. They’ll tell stories from all along their journey: the early days, beyond rapid growth, and through to the revitalized Digital Relevance (http://relevance.com/) that we know today.

We'll have our customary pizza and beer, and a live DJ too. Come celebrate marketing technology and connect with other founders, hackers, designers and investors like yourself.