Steve Gutentag from Sitesimon.

Betabeat moseyed up to Murat Aktihanoglu, the accented managing director of Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, after the program's demo day this morning in a basement auditorium at NYU's Stern School of Business. He had the overwhelmed, flushed face of a proud parent. "Oh, it was amazing," he said, eyes widening. ERA put its ten startups through 1,500 meetings, he had calculated, and all the companies have users and 80 percent have revenue. One of them had just signed up 35 cities and two Dubai landmarks: the biggest mall in the world, which serves 47 million visitors, and the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world. 

"That was incredible!" said Brian Cohen, vice chairman of the New York Angels, ambushing Mr. Aktihanoglu at the podium. "Grand slam!" He pinched the director's cheek. "Murat is magical. He really is."

Mr. Cohen was impressed by the startups. "I go to all the demos," he said. "I was just at DEMO--I went to TechCrunch," he said. "This was quality."

The room was about three-quarters full--perhaps 300 attendees or so--including representatives from Union Square Ventures, TechStars, Founder Collective, Greycroft, Bessemer Ventures, and Bloomberg Ventures. Judging by the lines at the startups' tables, Public Stuff (who signed up the mall), Sitesimon and BuzzTable were the favorites.

Below are the startups and their raises:

Bespoke Post: Curated mail subscription service for products men want. Seeking $500,000.

Centzy: Comparison shopping engine for local services. Raised less than $100,000 of $500,000.

WebThriftStore: Provides a private label eBay solution for charities that enables anyone to turn their unused "stuff" into tax-deductible donations. Raised $625,000 out of $1.5 million.

BuzzTable: Establishes a direct line of communication between restaurants and customers. Raising $750,000.

Pricing Engine: A business intelligence service for digital marketers. Just started raising a $750,000 round.

LetGive: Provides a platform that connects application developers, charities and socially-conscious consumers. Seeking $750,000.

Parking Panda: A mobile real-time parking discovery tool. Has $50,000 committed for a $750,000 round.

PublicStuff: Enables cities to easily receive and manage service requests from citizens. Raised $100,000 out of $750,000 so far.

NumberFire: Analytics platform that uses quantitative modeling to analyze sports. Raised $400,000 out of $750,000.

Sitesimon: Analyzes browsing behavior and recommends web content with minimal user input. Raised $500,000, seeking $3 million.

Your week in New York start-ups starts here.

LOL. The New York Tech Comedy Ball, which promises a 50-50 girl-to-guy ratio and featured tiered pricing to that end, is TONIGHT. Open bar, comedy, "surprise celebrity guests," sponsor giveaways and a VIP afterparty are in store. Step and repeat! Red carpet experience! 8 p.m., Greenhouse. Hint: Password can be found via Google.

YO, INNOVATE FOR US, YO. Aviary is hosting its first API contest, a free-for-all for the "best app" created with the company's new Effects API. Grand prize is an iPad 2, runner-up gets an F-Stop Watch, and the honorable mention will score some t-shirts or some such things with Aviary's fancy logos.

LAMESTREAM MEDIA. SeatGeek co-founders Russ D'Souza and Jack Groetzinger were on Fox News this morning for Small Business Spotlight--ooh, who does your PR?--while Foursquare's Dennis Crowley learned how to read a teleprompter at MSNBC.

DRINKS WITH THE PRESIDENT. Tech@NYU's new president, Vivek Patel, is boozing with techies Thursday at 8 p.m. at Vapiano's. Maybe we can make it over after the New York Business Entrepreneur's Network panel on media and start-ups.

BRR, IT'S COLD IN HERE. What's up with the Fridge? We heard a Betabeat request for tips was reposted in the WeWorkLabs Fridge, and apparently Y Combinator and Dogpatch Labs New York and San Francisco are using the private social network as well. The app is also being used in high school classrooms and at NYU as well as by HackNY fellows. Parsons School of Design is using the app for the entire MFA incoming class of 2013.

#HIREME. Want to work for one of the most dubious and overexposed start-ups in the New York tech scene? Hashable is seeking an experienced Data Visualization Engineer to design and develop a system that will allow us to analyze user-generated data and data from other systems and databases to facilitate decision making, product development and content offerings.

WHAT ARE YOU READING? Remember Sitesimon (sites-I'm-on) from their debut at New York Tech Meetup a few months back? The app, which broadcasts what sites you're browsing in real-time, now has a Chrome add-on that lets you easily turn the service on and off and share what you're seeing. The app has also switched to a follower model, so you can make it so only your friends see what you're doing. Also, they're ready for more users now! Invites are now being encouraged.

Got news for the start-up news roundup, which posts Wednesday afternoons? Email tips@betabeat.com.

New York Tech Meetup had its first meetup of 2011 last night at its usual spot, the Skirball Center at New York University off W. 4th, and attendees seemed glad to be home after community board elections forced the December meetup to an away venue.

"Skirball!" hecklers shouted, when the audience was prompted for questions after demos or asked who would win the BCS title.

Ten companies demo'ed Web and mobile apps:

• Dump.FM, an image-based chatroom reminiscent of 4chan
• JaaVuu, a way to create openly-editable image galleries
• Munchly, an app to order movie or ballpark concessions from your seat
• Firefly, a Twitter client that aggregates geotagged check-ins from a variety of apps
• Sitesimon, a browser add-on for broadcasting what sites you're viewing
• Adstruc, an online marketplace for the antiquated world of billboard advertising
• Superfluid, a project collaboration tool and marketplace that lets you pay for skills with social capital
• VYou, a video-based question and answer site
• DOTGO, a markup language to add interactive SMS technology to your site
• Guguchu, a platform for bands to manage sales, distribution and marketing

Munchly, the "mobile concession booth," got cheers from the audience, even before founder Andrew Tider offered to buy everyone a beer. The mobile app lets you see what concessions are on offer, order and pay for them at your seat, and then either have them delivered to you and get a notification that they're ready for pickup at the counter. The company is about to announce a partnership with a major movie chain, Tider said, and it's looking for funding.

Another company that got the audience buzzing was VYou. VYou is part social network, part YouTube. VYou takes Formspring's proposition—"ask me anything"—and adds video, categories and asynchronous following. The site managed to attract director Kevin Smith, who uploaded a video of himself picking his nose.

Porn is the common use for the conversational video technology, and the "Chatroulette issue"—where the video chat site became overrun with nudity and drove away clothed users—naturally came up in the Q&A. VYou plans to moderate content, said founder Steve Spurgat, but so far the site has seen 60,000 videos uploaded "and only one boob."

DOTGO wrote an SMS polling app in less than a minute using its own markup language, which scored some goodwill from the audience for sheer hackery. Sitesimon (sites-im-on) pushed the envelope on oversharing with a demo of how it broadcasts what you're looking at online in real-time and gives points for discovering content before it goes viral.

TechStars alum Adstruc did not have the sexiest demo, but theirs was by far the most polished. Founder John Laramie showed the extensive online marketplace his company has built to replace the Excel spreadsheets that still power the outdoor advertising industry. The database of available billboard space is integrated with Google Maps so that advertisers can see a streetview of the space they're considering.

As an example, Laramie plugged a $1,500, 5'1" by 5'11" ad space in the subway at 23rd and Parkand offered to pay for printing. "Half a million people will see this ad," he said.

NYTM and Meetup.com founder Scott Heiferman took the stage (video below) to talk about the vibrancy of New York's tech scene and how much NYTM has grown.

"We came together in 2004 because New York had not made any of the great things about the Internet," he said. "Finally New York is kicking ass. Etsy is kicking it. Foursquare is kicking it. Tumblr is kicking it. Kickstarter is kicking it."

The group now has more than 15,000 members, two sponsors at every meetup and two newly-elected community board members. He then tossed an iPad off the stage—a reference to this—and proposed a toast to the new year.

"Cheers!" the audience echoed, and clinked phones.