The Mobile Disruptor

Founder: Amos Winbush III, 27

Company: CyberSynchs

Founded: November 10, 2008

Site: cybersynchs.com

What CyberSynchs does: Cybersynchs is a universal platform that can store, synchronize, and transfer electronic data to and from all of your media devices, no matter where that data is generated (phones, cameras, PCs, tablets, and more). This technology allows content to go between operating systems, manufacturers, and cellular networks. 

How he’s changing the game: The idea for CyberSynchs came about after Winbush’s iPhone crashed in June 2008 and he spent hours upon hours trying to recover all of his lost data. At the time, he was a recording musician who didn’t even know what software engineers did. Today, his technology startup has effectively disrupted the way the mobile content marketplace operates. “Google wants to keep their users within their Android platform,” said Winbush. “Now, CyberSynchs allows that Android user to switch all their content to a Blackberry or from a Blackberry to an iPhone. You can transfer data from AT&T cellular network to Verizon cellular network.” 

Since launching, CyberSynchs has signed up 188,000 customers in the United States and is in beta testing with partners with 500,000 users. They executed a partnership with the fifth-largest telecommunications company in the world, Bharti Airtel, to sync and back up content for more than 50 million customers in 15 countries across the continent of Africa. CyberSynchs also entered a partnership with Widefense that will cover Central America and South America and bring 1.9 million customers on board over a seven-year period. “It’s a $280 million contract,” said Winbush. “So we’ve gone from starting a company with $250, which is how much I started the company with, to executing a partnership worth over $200 million grossing over seven years.” 

Not bad for someone with no tech background. 

What’s next: In the next few months, CyberSynchs will be releasing new mobile products. “We’ve developed specific and really smart algorithms to target bullying, sexting, violence, and drug communications on children’s mobile devices,” said Winbush. “Parents will be able to download CyberSynchs on their kids’ phones, enable parental controls, and the algorithms will scan the entire device to pull out any words, phrases, or chains of words that could be considered bullying, sexting, or whatever it may be. And we will send an update to the parent once a day or once a week in an email report.” 

CyberSynchs is also launching a product that will allow users to stream movies from their home DVR and music from their computers directly into your car computer systems. The third project involves a partnership with a large insurance company to offer data insurance. “If you have one megabyte or five megabytes of content, we will insure that data so just in case the partner servers go down, you will get a monetary value for the content that you’ve actually backed up,” said Winbush.