OUR CURRENT PARTNERS
A complete list of our current partner companies can be found below:
Cincinnati
Detroit
Las Vegas
New Orleans
Partner Companies
Cincinnati
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AssureRx was founded in 2006 to commercialize industry-leading personalized medicine technology. It is dedicated to helping clinicians determine the right drug for individual patients suffering from medical conditions. AssureRx Health’s proprietary technology is based on pharmacogenetics – the study of the genetic factors that influence an individual’s response to drug treatments – as well as evidence-based medicine and clinical pharmacology. |
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Bioformix develops sustainable polymer platforms that polymerize with little to no energy at high speeds to outperform current products in extreme temperature resistance, environmental resistance and physical performance. They plan to commercialize the platform through a wide range of leveraged value chain relationships, from simple licenses to full joint ventures, thus supporting individually each unique opportunity as necessary. Bioformix’s core technology expertise is high-speed, high-performance chemistry that enables product and process feature breakthroughs that translate into financially significant benefits for clients and their customers. |
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BlackBook EMG is an HR technology startup that developed a suite of talent management applications that help clients increase talent retention and reduce expenses resulting from defection. That suite ranges from a revolutionary risk assessment instrument, to an app to help identify what’s important to a candidate in a job and community before they are offered a postion at a company, and is rounded out by our flagship product – 365 – a one-year onboarding solution that behaves much like an E-Harmony for employees and their communities. |
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Brand Ventures is a new model of agency ventures helping start-ups by providing domain-specific expertise in building and creating product, and in marketing and distributing to customers. This division of Rockfish plans to partner with venture capital firms and other investment groups to offer its clients venture investment capabilities and relationships. This will help accelerate the ramp of entrepreneurs and start-ups by seeding them with big brand ad spend and relationships. |
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CincyTech is a public-private partnership whose mission is to invest in high-growth startup technology companies in Southwest Ohio. They do this through management assistance, seed-capital investments and connections to partners who share their mission. |
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CrowdSpark is an easy-to-use do-it-yourself online contest builder that allows you to design, launch, and manage a professional, custom designed online contest in minutes. No experience required. No expensive web design fees. |
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Define My Style allows its customers to design and produce real products. Users create and buy their own custom handbags while interacting, exploring, and sharing their designs through the DMS online community. |
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ilesfay ensures that the right data gets to the right person at the right time using cloud technologies. Their founders have over 30 years of combined experience solving the problem of distributed expertise and data for Fortune 100 clients. In the past, huge capital investment has been required to build cumbersome point-to-point solutions in which the amount of data or distributed demand for data far outstrips the infrastructure. This has led to users wasting time working on the wrong information and thus making poor decisions, missing project deadlines, and redoing work. |
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OneMorePallet is an easy to use web application that makes shipping more efficient by finding spare pallets on trucks, and letting customers bid on them, Priceline-style. More money and less waste for trucking companies, plus low-cost shipping for customers! |
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The Brandery is a seed stage consumer marketing venture accelerator, which was ranked as one of the top 10 programs in the United States. It runs a three-month-long program in Cincinnati, Ohio that is focused on turning your great idea into a successful, brand-driven start-up. Started in 2010, they annually select 8 – 10 companies for our program, with each receiving $20,000 in seed funding, three months of mentorship, and the opportunity to pitch to angel investors and venture capitalists at the end of the program. |
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ThinkVine and its marketing optimization software enables B2C marketers to maximize their ROI across all of their marketing investments. Its breakthrough ThinkAhead Technology simulates how consumers respond to different marketing plans to provide richer historical insights and better forward-looking guidance than traditional marketing mix, as well as support for an agile, objective ongoing planning process. |
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ZipScene provides a platform for restaurants to easily bring their online marketing to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. It automatically gathers multimedia and social content together to keep sites fresh and engaging and lets restaurants easily connect with customers through online ordering, loyalty programs and more. Zipscene aims to give restaurants an end-to-end view of the customer life cycle to get important insights about their behavior to track and optimize marketing campaigns to drive more sales. |
Detroit
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Accio Energy is making distributed wind energy systems scalable, reliable, and affordable with Aerovoltaic energy systems that directly convert wind energy to electricity without any moving parts. Accio Energy Aerovoltaic energy systems offer the low cost of big wind with the modularity and flexibility of solar. It’s a new direction in wind energy. |
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Ambassador provides companies with the tools they need to empower their biggest advocates to promote their brand. Ambassador uses their technology to track and measure social media incentives and conversations, leverage the social web to influence purchasing decisions, and reward customers for referrals. |
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Are You Human? has breakthrough authentication technology that distinguishes real people from the bots with PlayThru, a quick, easy game that requires the user to drag an object into a specific location. Simple as it sounds, PlayThru does a much better job of thwarting a spam bot, plus it’s fun for the user and it has tons of marketing potential. |
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Bedrock Management is strong real estate. Operating in Detroit and Cleveland as part of the Quicken Loans family of companies, the Bedrock team has a strong legacy as a real estate manager, developer and investor. Bedrock’s talent is also available to third-parties as an advisor, joint venture partner or property manager. |
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Benzinga is an innovative news and analysis service that focuses on global markets. Provides original, accurate and timely global financial content every day and features content from industry experts and experienced analysts while also covering the news of the day. |
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Bizdom U is an entrepreneurship accelerator that trains, mentors and funds aspiring entrepreneurs to launch innovative, growth-oriented startups in Detroit and Cleveland. |
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Danotek Motion Technologies is a global leader in the development and commercialization of power generation systems utilizing high performance permanent magnets. |
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Detroit Venture Partners is a venture capital firm for seed and early-stage technology companies who are on a mission to help rebuild the Detroit area through entrepreneurial fire and building businesses. |
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Digerati analyzes existing technological processes used by businesses across diverse industries and helps them create solutions that optimize current resources and work together with new technologies. |
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Doodle Home Doodle Home is an online destination for consumers, designers and manufacturers of luxury home furnishings. Founded in 2010, Doodle Home revolutionizes the way interior design is practiced in the 21st century. At Doodle Home, we are passionate about simplifying the design process and providing the tools and resources to enhance the experiences and strengthen the connections among all members of the interior design ecosystem. |
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Quikkly provides short term offers to places you know and brands you love. The quicker you claim them, the bigger the deal. Quikklys are released at random and players are notified the moment they go live. Quikkly specializes in bringing college students the things they love. |
Las Vegas
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The Downtown Project, founded by Zappos.com CEO and author of Delivering Happiness Tony Hsieh, is a $350 million project to rebuild downtown Las Vegas. They plan to invest $100 million in real estate, $100 million in residential development, $50 million in small businesses, $50 million in education, and $50 million in tech startups through the VegasTech Fund. Hsieh and his team have committed to transforming Downtown Las Vegas into the most community-focused large city in the world by inspiring and empowering people to follow their passions to create a vibrant, connected urban core. Focus areas will include Arts, Music & Culture, Community & Coworking, Education, Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Urban Development. |
New Orleans
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Audiosocket is is a boutique music licensing agency, not a stock music library. They represent more than 1800 emerging bands, composers and record labels from around the world. We’re a next-generation content provider, and we thrive at the intersection of music and technology. |
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Better Day EHR & Documentation Solution platform was created to provide a comprehensive, easily-accessible software solution to healthcare providers that streamlines clinical documentation and deepens patient-provider relationships. Better Day is focused on providing a first-of-breed ‘smart’ electronic health record (EHR) platform to facilitate the highest quality of care in a highly-complex healthcare system. |
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The New Orleans BioInnovation Center part of a new wave of advancements in Louisiana, is at the forefront of today’s biotechnology surge. As a cornerstone of Louisiana’s commitment to nurturing biotechnology within the state, the Center is a technology business incubator that aims to stimulate bioscience entrepreneurship in the New Orleans area. |
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Carrollton Technology Partners exists for the purpose of working with clients to improve their operations. They utilize two main lines of business, custom programming and website development and systems analysis and network services to accomplish this mission. To serve a broader audience they also create their own software and solutions as commercial products. |
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Federated Sample is a market research technology firm focused on bringing efficiency and automation to sampling through the Fulcrum Platform. Fulcrum is the world’s first complete project management suite to give clients the power to seamlessly integrate multiple suppliers, increase productivity and reduce costs.
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Free Flow Power is is a clean renewable energy company focusing on hydropower, hydrokinetic and hydro pumped storage as reliable, cost-effective sources of electricity and grid stability. |
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iSeatz is the global provider of customized online travel and entertainment solutions, offering immediate access to more than 200,000 leading service and product providers. They create ancillary revenue, power differentiated loyalty programs, and enhance brand devotion for their clients by seamlessly integrating their flexible transaction and booking engine into relevant customer touch-points. Founded in 1999, iSeatz has continuously moved the industry forward through innovation and exceptional client service – making them the choice of industry leaders. International companies like Air Canada, Amtrak, CitiBank, Delta Air Lines, KLM, MasterCard and Northwest Airlines all rely on an iSeatz solution to grow revenue per customer, increase customer satisfaction and foster brand devotion. With iSeatz, clients can offer demographically relevant products and services, powering a unique and memorable customer experience. |
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Kickboard is a web-based software that enables teachers to use data to improve student performance. Kickboard’s intuitive interface gives teachers and administrators the ability to collect and analyze academic and behavioral performance efficiently and in real time so that they can make appropriate and timely interventions. |
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Liveset is a digital platform presenting live concert events for the web and mobile devices in handsome HD. By placing artists at the center of their model and reimagining the production paradigm that exists around them, they aim to create a more intimate experience for their artists and the artists’ fans, all while raising the quality bar for online music content. |
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Schedulist helps healthcare facilities minimize the crippling turnover in their nursing staff. With robust enterprise scheduling at its core, Schedulist empowers facilities to optimize their staffing while giving the staff unparalleled ability to manage their lives. Using its patent-pending technology, Schedulist ensures that hospitals achieve the highest levels of efficiency and job satisfaction. |
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Turbosquid is the largest library of 3D products for sale in the world, a clearinghouse for digital artists to make money selling their content, a place to find premium plug-ins for 3D software applications, a forum for 3D professionals to exchange ideas, and a production tool to help digital artists more rapidly find, preview and acquire essential content. |
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VoteIt plans to make it easy for businesses to better test the pulse of their customers and larger populations. Their “realtime consensus generator” will take the collaborative potential of a three-person group and give it scale, providing the ability to make decisions and receive feedback from the group in realtime — from any device. This will be implemented through a simple user interface that is cross-platform and device agnostic, and also allows users to take comments out of the comment stream to organize and categorize them inline. VoteIt creates a voting process that mimics a live, real world vote, allowing for debate, presentation of evidence, and consensus building. |
Providence
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Andera is the leader in online customer acquisition solutions for financial institutions. Its suite of products and services includes online account opening, consumer marketing, fraud prevention and an in-house software development kit. |
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BatchBook is an online address book and web based CRM software for small businesses designed to encompass all of the criteria it feels is mandatory for a small business data management tool. It eliminates the struggles many small businesses face such as limited budgets and IT staff, trouble tracking contacts, and difficulty collecting industry and business specific information by providing an easy-to-use system with excellent customer support. |
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Edesia Global is a non-profit producer of Ready-to-Use Foods that transform the lives of malnourished children, their families and communities. Edesia’s mission is to treat and prevent malnutrition for the most vulnerable children in the developing world. |
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MoFuse is the global leader in Mobile Web Content Management. It provides a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that customers use to easily build mobile web sites, microsites, landing pages and forms. The Platform optimizes mobile sites for every smart phone and feature phone around the world offering solutions such as search, mobile commerce, click-to-call leads, mobile advertisements, and forms for mobile data capture. Mofuse’s mission is to make the mobile web affordable and easy for any business to build and manage a mobile website. |
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NuLabel Technologies is an adhesive and printer hardware technology company developing innovative label platforms to help companies cut cost and reduce waste. NuLabel has developed patent pending liner-free label technology that uses an activateable adhesive to eliminate the need for the liner. |
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ShapeUp is a health care technology firm that helps companies leverage the existing social network within their populations to promote health and wellness. |
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Swipely gives you cash back on purchases plus loyalty rewards, free! It downloads transactions from your card via our banking technology partner using a secure, read-only connection trusted by more than 5,000 banks and 26 million consumers. |
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TeeSpring is an innovative way to create buzz around events, promotions, and fundraisers by offering a no-risk, no-hassle way to create & sell custom t-shirts online. It allows customers to design a shirt, choose a sales goal and tipping point, and start selling. Once the campaign hits the tipping point, they’ll organize printing/shipping and send you a check for your profits. |
