Ms. Johnson (Photo: twitter/jennifernyc)

In March, TechStars NYC announced that it had selected 14 startups from an applicant pool of more than 1,600 for the chance at 13-weeks of mentorship and $100,000. But only 13 companies will be presenting at tomorrow's Demo Day at Webster Hall. Betabeat has learned that StockTouch, which described itself as "revolutionizing finance with mobile data visualization," did not participate in the program.

Managing director David Tisch would only say that the decision was mutual. We have reached out to StockTouch for comment and will update the post when we hear back. StockTouch CEO Jennifer Johnson was one of five female CEOs (and six female cofounders) accepted into the spring 2012 class.

StockTouch's website says the app was created by Visible Market, "a company dedicated to inventing the world’s best financial information products for mobile devices." In January, Visible Market filed a Form D indicating that the company had raised a $500,000 equity round from six investors.

In an article in April, Mashable described StockTouch as a "vibrant" and "easy-to-read" heat map that covered stocks displaying the top 100 U.S. and top 100 global companies in nine industry sectors. The heat map shows stocks that are gaining value in green and stocks losing value in green, giving users the chance to zoom in to an individual stock for a performance graph.

ITunes included StockTouch as a "new and noteworthy" app the week of March, 15, 2012, shortly after the TechStars decisions were announced. A screenshot from that time on the StockTouch press page shows that the app had five stars from 241 ratings. The current version of the app in iTunes, which was last updated in April, has a rating of two-and-a-half stars.

Last year, TechStars NYC funded 23 companies, 21 of which went on to raise $50 million after they graduated. According to Mr. Tisch, you can expect even bigger things from this class. The common element among all 14 newbies? "They all take big swings," he said. "I think the ideas are all going for something big.  I don't think there are  lot of safe bets or small bets."

That ambitious streak applies to the founder themselves. "They're all obsessed founders," said Mr. Tisch. "I think if you looked at all of them, they've spent a lot of time working in that industry or were really obsessed with it." Although there's a 21-year-old and a 22-year-old in the program, "I think it goes more to people who have deep experience in their space, whether older or younger," he noted.

Now that the TechStars brand is well-established in New York City, did the caliber of candidates go up? "Yeah, I feel like all these things feel real," said Mr. Tisch. "It feels like it's a super different, exciting group." This class was chosen from 1,500 applicants. Six of the companies have a female founder (and of those five hold the CEO title--including Markover CEO Kelsey Falter, who won Betabeat's web series The Pitch). Nine of the companies have already been operating out of New York City, two are international (from Amsterdam and Vancouver), and five are relocating to New York. "Founders range from an angel investor in Twitter to a senior at Notre Dame, an Oscar nominee, a four time founder and a 3-time applicant of the program," added Mr. Tisch.

Without further ado, say hi to the new kids on the block:

• 10Sheet:  automated bookkeeping as a service
• Markover: collaborative feedback system for creatives
• Bondsy: the social network of things
• Moveline: decision engine for moving
• Classtivity: discovery engine for recreational classes
• Pickie: social commerce
• Condition One: immersive video technology for tablets
• Rewind.me: creating present value from your past actions
• Droptype: simple content publishing
• SmallKnot: local social lending
• Karma: simplified mobile provider for travelers
• StockTouch: revolutionizing finance with mobile data visualization
• Lua Technologies: project management and communication platform
• Wander: keep wondering

Class isn't officially in session until March 14th. But we trust we'll be hearing plenty from them before Demo Day in mid-June--going back to the beginning at Webster Hall. In the meantime, there's Tips @ Betabeat.