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The Mountain Xpress: Jute Networks launches product at InnoVenture conference

Submitted by: John Warner on Apr 02, 2009 at 2:25 am Tagged with: Community, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Software Source: The Mountain Xpress

Asheville-based software company Jute Networks formally launched Jute, its Web-based platform aimed at helping people network and collaborate on projects, at the March 24 InnoVenture conference in Greenville, S.C.

The launch: Jute Networks CEO John Warner announced the launch of Jute, a Web-based software tool promoting project collaboration, at the March 24 InnoVenture conference in Greenville, S.C. Photo by Jason Sandford

Jute Networks Chief Executive John Warner hailed the product as a “powerful tool to help you accomplish what you need to accomplish.” By subscribing to Jute, users can share files, organize events and create online communities of people collaborating on projects. Jute can also represent relationships visually. Call it social networking for geeks.

“What we want to do is help you build community around you,” Warner told a lunch gathering of about 400 conference attendees. In a time of profound technological, economic and demographic change, he noted, “It becomes essential to grow sustainable, trusted relationships.”

The launch capped the work of Jute Networks founders Sean McDonald and Matthew Raker, who merged their company with Warner’s Swamp Fox LLC last year. Swamp Fox, based in Greenville, is an online community of innovators and entrepreneurs. Warner described Jute as a natural fit for Swamp Fox, which also produces the InnoVenture technology conference. The annual event brings together venture capitalists and entrepreneurs looking for financial support.

See the rest of the story at The Mountain Xpress.