Grad News Roundup: May 1st, 2012

Below is a roundup of Founder Institute Graduate news over the past week: 

• Berlin FI Grad @Itembase Wins the 10th Founder Showcase (Itembase): Itembase, a personal inventory service that helps consumers track, manage, and sell the products they own, took home the grand prize at the 10th Founder Showcase.The company and its Founder Stefan Jørgensen are graduates of the Berlin Founder Institute. 
• San Diego FI Grad @Fashion_Change featured on Pando Daily (Pando Daily): Fashioning Change, a service which creates a shopping experience that gives you fashionable eco-friendly and ethical alternatives to popular name brands that lack transparency in their supply chains and have yet to adopt authentic practices that protect the Earth and human rights, was featured on Pando Daily. The company, and its Founder Adriana Herrera, are Graduates of the San Diego Founder Institute. 
• YumvY Aims to Make Recipes Easy for Wannabe Chefs (GigaOm): YumvY, a web-based application that parses through recipes and provides GPS-like instructions for the user, was featured on GigaOm. Read the full article here. The company, and its Founder Sari Louis, are Graduates of the Silicon Valley Founder Institute.  
• FI Grads @leaves2us & @virtua_la Featured on GeekWire (GeekWire): Leaves and Virtuala were named in the top 6 startup ideas from NWEN's First Look Forum. The companies are Graduaties of the Seattle Founder Institute.