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Roadies is the blockchain-powered web platform where you can invest in the next big artist. Roadies enables visual artists to offer tokenized shares in physical art, allowing their supporters to buy and trade shares in their favorite art. Our mission is to help artists make a sustainable career out of their creations and let their communities become shareholders in that.

Revitalize Energy is a consumer energy company that helps fight tired eyes and provides a moisturizing effect with the energy needed. Revitalize provides energy instantly on contact to keep moving and improving. With just 1-2 drops in each eye, they feel refreshed and ready to go.

AlgenAir develops a natural air purifier designed to reduce carbon dioxide using algae.

Spoken is a text-to-speech smartphone application that helps people that are having difficulty communicating. The company is based in Marietta, Ohio.

Miror is an online platform that allows users to explore and connect to people.

Equa Health is a personalized meditation training technology. We are currently delivering our hybrid training program to select B2B clients seeking to build a happier and more engaged workforce.

Mamalux makes game-changing, leakproof apparel for maternity & breastfeeding

AdSkate’s machine learning and artificial intelligence technology provide multiple data points to make the ad buying and selling process effective and transparent

Electrification of transportation, greater energy efficiency and grid modernization require advances in power electronics and power conversion systems. Magnetics have presented a critical limitation in advancing these technologies. With the ability to custom engineer the features of magnetic cores, CorePower Magnetics’ components represent a step change in efficiency and power density. ​ CorePower Magnetics’ patented combination of advanced manufacturing processes and novel materials results in up to 10x reductions in weight, 5x reductions in volume, and 50% reductions in losses with no rare earth metals required. Combined with our lower operating temperatures, these benefits lead to higher current capabilities, increased electric vehicle ranges, and longer component lifetimes.

Trek Gum makes plastic-free chewing gum with functional ingredients to create gum lines with all-natural functional ingredients inside. They provide for restoring, progressing, and protecting the environment. They provides one-use plastic products.

C.C. Busy assists child care providers use voice assistants to log each child’s daily activities, making that log available to parents and regulators. Paperwork doesn’t take care of children, people do! Child care providers spend too much time on required paperwork, distracting them from the care of children. C.C. Busy saves child care providers time, allows providers to focus on children, keeps providers in compliance and facilitates communication with parents.

Sparket is an electronic startup that fastly sells electronics.

Watt-Learn is an artificial intelligence company that offers a revolutionary battery control software platform which autonomously optimizes battery operations for user-specified criteria. Our software platform can maximize energy storage projects’ return on investment by optimizing revenue generation per unit battery degradation.

BlastPoint provides big data solutions that help companies optimize revenue growth. They help companies discover, target, and engage humans in their data. They serve the energy, financial, and automotive sectors, as well as nonprofit community organizations.

LaneSpotter finds safe bike routes for cyclists and provides real-time information about the roads they ride. Unlike current apps, LaneSpotter leverages its community to create living maps that highlight real-life road conditions. By sharing their knowledge of local streets and businesses, LaneSpotter’s cycling community generates information that cannot be captured with a static map, like road safety ratings, bike infrastructure, alerts for road conditions like potholes, and recommended rides and routes.

ARIN Technologies is a startup developing high accuracy indoor positioning systems to improve productivity and safety in indoor work environments. It system enables them to accurately determine the location of a tag inside buildings. Its product comprises two parts, hardware and software. The hardware system is called SpotRightTM while the SaaS based software system is called SpotLightTM. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Module is a provider of housing projects to create modular residential houses. Its housing projects include designing and building housing in a modular way that brings intelligent architectural design to a mass market and offers an affordable and flexible entry point for homeownership.

Hibersense Comfort Control for Every Room empowers homeowners with a smart HVAC control solution. The patent-pending, easy retrofit system uses wireless sensors, machine learning & battery-operated, wireless vents to heat or cool every space ensuring maximum room-by-room comfort and HVAC energy savings of up to 40%. Further, Hibersense services for multi-family operators increase tenant comfort, satisfaction, and renewal rates while providing detailed building thermal dynamics and usage rates providing increased opportunities for profitability and shareholder value.

Lift Link is a fitness tracking and coaching designed to create a more engaging experience at the gym. Lift Link believes that by creating a better member experience, they can help keep members driving towards their goals. This increased engagement is designed to improve member retention and allow gyms to have the insights they need to better serve their members. The Lift Link platform includes sensors to track weight training, cardio, class attendance and locker room scales. In addition to helping members track their data, the sensor platform can be used to better understand gym flow and occupancy patterns. Additionally, Its dashboard makes it simple for gyms to visualize all the insights that can be gained from the platform. This helps them identify patterns, leading to opportunities to improve retention and generate secondary revenue streams. The platform also allows members to compete in challenges and leader boards designed to create community around the fitness center. They can also request additional services that are offered by the facility, such as personal training.

Ikos is delivering a flexible on-demand leasing service for investors and analyzing internal data to guide future client investments. It simplifies the rental experience for landlords and renters with their adaptive process that transparently connects people with homes they want and desire while helping landlords and renters make informed decisions. Ikos was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Qlicket is an AI SaaS platform that specializes in talent retention. It helps enterprises reduce employee turnover through continuous employee insights. Qlicket’s kiosk feedback system bridges the communication gap between high turnover workers and company executives. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app empowers 100s of thousands of all US gig drivers to run their businesses with unique demand insights, earnings, and activity tracking, performance reporting, and a marketplace of gig worker benefits.

Strix is a marketplace that connects streamers with game developers for interactive marketing campaigns. Since October 2015, Strix has raised ~$50,000 in seed funding and is currently a PROBE at the Carnegie Mellon Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and a portfolio company for the AlphaLab summer 2016 cycle.

Flexable is bringing trust, safety, and accessibility to the childcare market by connecting millions of parents with fully vetted Flexable Certified Caregivers™, exactly when and where they are needed. Since August 2017, Flexable has been growing 70% month over month, exceeding $200K in revenue, and is seeking $1M seed investment to expand to three new cities and grow revenue 10x by 2022. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

uTranslated, at its essence, is a marketplace for those who buy and provide translation services. Customers can search for a translator(s) with the right background using the built-in search engine. With the translator selected, customers then make a payment upfront, which will be held in escrow, until the work is complete. The platform also displays customer-reviews and anonymous peer-reviews of each translator to provide customers with more information and to motivate translators do excellent work. This process cuts out translation agencies, saving considerably for customers while granting translators more income. It also creates more transparency and greater control over the customer’s choice of translator. For translators, the platform keeps them safe from fraud, ensuring that what’s due is paid. In short, translators that make more and are reviewed by customers and other translators have more incentive to provide the customer with top-notch service. It’s only getting easier to do business internationally. Your marketing and business communications need the subtle, cultural nuances to make your product stand out in the global space. Our team, which has all lived and worked in the US and China, knows first hand the problems and requirements for proper translation. Let us help you enter the Chinese market as you should with quality work and foreign search engine optimization.

SQWAD Sports connects fans with sponsors digitally and bring sports sponsorship assets. Its platform provides sports teams and brands with engaging activations that drive fan participation and ROI.

Skick’D is a data analytics company with two primary objectives, help manage the liability associated with reward programs and to get consumers to engage your brand in a meaningful way.

Twined is a service provider in the digital advertising sector, offering both self-service and openRTB capabilities to its clients. Their proprietary platform allows clients to have access to a vast marketplace and an array of optimization features.

Endorsevent is a reliable platform that helps event organizers and brands post, explore and secure experiential marketing opportunities.

VIT is a health and safety company that is using smart technology to create products that help you better understand your body. By focusing on the patterns and behaviors that cause problematic behavior, their products can help identify the root cause of health problems before complications occur.

Wise Telemetry is a Provider of gas sensor systems intended to help gas distributors to monitor real-time supply and usage data. The company's system automatically determines and continuously communicates a gas cylinder's size, fill level, and usage rate without any user input or special programming, which in return improves delivery route planning, usage tracking, and future demand prediction, enabling clients to optimize deliveries and save on money and time.

At Carbon Freight they build more durable air cargo products that last longer with lower tare so that you can carry more cargo while producing fewer emissions. They believe that sustainable business practices and profitability not only can go hand in hand, but must.

Suitable’s web/mobile application enables universities to gamify their extra curricular activities to help students develop important soft skills and relationships. As students complete these activities they are awarded digital badges and credentials they can use to secure internships and entry-level jobs.

TravelWits, LLC is a Pittsburgh-based company whose goal is to help travelers find cheaper and more convenient ways to travel, both for business and leisure. TravelWits uses AI to find door to door itineraries optimized for meeting times and locations while saving companies money with an employee incentives and providing a lightweight way to manage travel policies. Our team consists of 3 co-founders. Maxim Likhachev (Professor at CMU) is a world-leading expert in real-time cost optimization and AI. This expertise is the key to developing the company’s unique technology. Arman Bimatov (BS in CS) and Alla Safonova (PhD in CS from CMU) have 30+ years of experience in web development. We are being advised by a reg. president of one of the largest TMCs on the market (20+ years of exp. in the travel industry).

Employee-led engagement platform. Emplified empowers employees to proactively amplify their skills, accomplishments and needs within their workplace while providing managers with better visibility into the capabilities, progress and needs of their teams.

Rorus is dedicated to improving access to safe drinking water by revolutionizing point-of-use water treatment.

Pixet is a camera that captures your favorite candid moments, automatically. A camera that is your personal photographer, so while you have fun with your kids, family or while you're on a hike, it seamlessly captures the best shots for you, when you're smiling, laughing and having fun. It removes the need for you to step out of the frame, to capture the moment.

Conversant Labs has created a voice-based interface designed specifically for the blind. Unlike traditional screen readers which work by converting a visually-based user experience into an audio stream, their software is designed from the ground up to be consumed in audio.

Nebulus is a real-time social discovery and arranging tool for musical collaboration. The company creates web-based tools that make music production and distribution simple and accessible. Nebulus was founded by Robert Kotcher, Kyle Henson, Hayden Cardiff, Andrew Russell, Nick Coronado, and Hillary Mellin in May 2014 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pasadena.

DataSquid helps everyday people and businesses make better decisions using their data. We use cutting edge data visualization research and physics simulations to let users actually touch their data on their mobile devices, generating deep insights and fluid presentations. Our platform is powerful, easy to learn, and fits right in the palm of your hand.

Covey is a social collaboration application for parents. It enables them to share experiences, ask parenting questions, and make connections with others nearby.

SitWith is a social discovery app that connects four people over a casual meal. It creates great conversation and connects communities while removing the pressure of meeting new people.

ResearchWe is connecting the general public to research studies. Countless studies are delayed because researchers can't recruit enough subjects, limiting the pace of discovery. ResearchWe is committed to solving this issue by making both finding and participating in research easier than ever before.

We discover brilliant artists and bring their work to places that need it most. From resorts to corporate campuses to homes, we fill the world with real art. Experience new artwork periodically by renting and rotating, or simply purchase outright.

NoWait is a mobile platform that links consumers to casual dining restaurants across the United States. It streamlines the dining experience by allowing users to join waitlists and manage reservations through a convenient app.

Tailored Fit is an online shopping service that provides users with recommendations for clothing they’ll like based on their past behavior. As users like/dislike pieces of clothing Tailored Fit creates a detailed profile of their style, and makes suggestions based on that profile from online retailers. This profile will also enable a shopping app based on discovering clothing from stores nearby.

Simple, mobile scheduling platform for tattoo artists, shops, and the clients they ink. Inktd strengthens relationships between artists and clients by proactively and socially managing the scheduled appointment. Inktd organizes appointments for tattoo artists, minimizing no-shows with rescheduling and text message reminders for clients. Our simple, easy to use, subscription-based appointment book helps tattoo artists more easily communicate with clients for individual appointments and for future bookings.

CDL Warrior is connecting truck drivers and small fleets to the supply chain. They are doing this using the smartphones that truck drivers already own and building tools that help drivers, fleets and shippers improve productivity and communication.

Jetpack helps small- to medium-sized accounting firms manage workflow, repetitive processes, and build a paperless office.

Crowdasaurus provides a unique opportunity for businesses, nonprofits, and individuals to connect and profit together. By creating a project and submitting it to Crowdasaurus, individuals get connected to hosts (businesses or nonprofits) who have the power to get their project funded completely and quickly. Hosts (businesses) engage their customer base, increase SEO, and drive web traffic by encouraging people to fund projects.

MegaBits is a location-based monster training MMO built to satisfy the demand for the retro-style monster training genre made famous by Digimon, Tamagotchi, and Pokémon. By satisfying this demand, we can take advantage of a proven market niche. By then creating an ecosystem of games and products knitting together in-game content with facets of the real world, our grand vision is to blur the line between them, increase interaction between players, and define the future of entertainment and play.

BudgetSimple is an automated financial planner and a free online budget solution that helps people save money and manage their finances. It helps its users find out where their money is going and ways to cut down unnecessary expenses. BudgetSimple’s goal is to reduce its users’ debts and increase savings, enabling them to feel confident about their finances. It was launched in 2006 and is operated from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Collected delivers related content from other docs in your Google Drive, Gmail, Dropbox and more, as you type, whether you are composing an email, document or presentation. Collected finds related snippets of text from docs in your Google Drive, Gmail, Dropbox and more, as you type. Snippets are unobtrusively displayed in the sidebar. You can insert them into your current document or view the original document.

Wing Ma’am is a mobile application that uses location-based technology to safely connect its users with other LGBT women in their area. Through the application, its users have the ability to chat, message, and connect with the othes. Wing Ma’am also allows its users to create their own events to find like-minded people. It was launched in 2012 by Ariella Furman. The application is operated from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Spacefinity is an online marketplace to share unused storage space and rent it out to others. We are disrupting the $22B self storage industry by connecting college students, hobbyists and people with temporary storage needs to infinite self storage space. As the Airbnb for self storage, Spacefinity will join the sharing economy to build a community based on trust.

Today there are 7.6 million high school athletes in the United States, but less than 7% of them will have the opportunity to play their sport in college – making the college recruiting process more and more competitive every single day. ProfilePasser is the first mobile platform that connects high school athletes with college recruiters by increasing relevant and valuable interactions at showcase tournaments and events.

Physical therapy is changing, and clinics can't rely solely on physician referrals anymore. That's why successful clinics build strong patient relationships, benefiting from more return visits and word-of-mouth referrals. Hability, the Patient Relationship Management (PRM) platform for PTs, makes it easy for you to be the provider of choice.

AthleteTrax is the premier one-stop shop for any sports facility, league, team, camp or tournament. Taking care of everything from custom websites and mobile apps to facility and league scheduling and point of sale transactions, AthleteTrax provides a simple mechanism to keep your organization running smoothly. You can even engage your members with their communication, scoring, statistics, and standings tools. AthleteTrax allows managers to focus on organization growth while they automate your behind the scenes work.

Woo with Style specializes in fashion related software for “style challenged” men, or roughly 99% of the male population. Our easy-to-use web and mobile tools help men learn what to wear, how to wear it, and where to buy it. Founder & CEO, Angela Lynn, is a CMU materials engineer turned fashion guru. She has developed a unique system to teach men the keys to great personal style.

NetBeez is a SaaS company that has developed a real-time, distributed, performance monitoring solution that detects network and application problems before users do. The platform monitors LAN, WAN, and WiFi networks from the user perspective, measuring and reporting KPI of service quality. NetBeez enables enterprise organizations to cut costs and reduce downtime by allowing IT to quickly detect, troubleshoot, and repair network issues. The company helps enterprise organizations to cut costs and reduce downtime and time spent troubleshooting by allowing teams to quickly identify and fix network issues. NetBeez' agents simulate users' interaction with intranet/internet services delivering a view of the network previously unavailable. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Meaningfy® is a digital watchdog for busy professionals. They monitor markets and provide updates about pertinent trends, insights, and news.

HitchedPic helps a bride and groom capture every aspect of their wedding. Friends and family of the bride get a custom iPhone app that allows them to take and personalize photos while the bride and groom get access to an easy to use photo management tool. It is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Digital Dream Labs provides hands-on educational technology for children ages 4 to 9. Its products satisfy the need for engaging, language- and system-agnostic designs that allow pre-readers to interface with both on-screen environments and other devices such as educational robots, smart speakers and other smart devices, and drones. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

SolePower creates a connected work boot that helps industrial workers become safer and more efficient. Industrial worksites are dangerous and dynamic; the costs of small inefficiencies add up quickly, and big mistakes can result in serious incidents or loss of life. SmartBoots aim to lower incident rates, increase work site visibility, and establish metrics from which workflow and safety improvements can be made. At the core of the system is an Army-tested, patented kinetic charger which uses walking motion to sustainably charge sensors embedded inside the boot. (Pilot unit includes GPS, Ultra Wideband, RFID, IMU, Sub-GHz RF, thermocouple, Wifi, altimeter). SolePower's mission is to take the functionality of a variety of standalone wearables and combine them into a single, compact, self-charged platform. The team is partnered with SR Max (a leading safety footwear provider) and the US Army.

PoweredAnalytics is democratizing predictive analytics with a cloud-based platform that enables companies to make predictions from big data. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Engineered Style is an AlphaLab portfolio company that specializes in fashion related software for roughly 99% of the male population. The company’s easy-to-use web and mobile tools help men learn what to wear, how to wear it, and where to buy it. Engineered Style is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Our research-inspired software is the most fun and effective way to learn to play the guitar. The software on our website listens to you as you play and guides you through learning to play your favorite songs. A curriculum of interactive lessons developed with the help of faculty at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Music will take you on a tour through guitar history, including standards in Jazz, Blues, and Rock, so you gain insight and understanding as you progress. We’re currently in private beta, which means you can sign up at tunessence.com to try it out for free!

CollegeZen is a social platform designed to make the college admissions process more intuitive, more fun, and less expensive for families, high schools, and colleges.

Aurochs Brewing set out to honor the spirit of the Aurochs, a legendary beast that roamed the wild countryside thousands of years ago. We brew with ancient, untamed grains to impart complex flavors shaped by generations of growth in the wilderness. We develop our own unique, original recipes that hark back to a time when man and beast refused to give up a life of freedom. Our commitment to quality ensures that every beer is naturally gluten-free and brewed from only the purest ingredients. We give our consumers the right to choose something wild and untamed because, much like the Aurochs, our beers are Never Domesticated. Always Free.

FutureDerm is a global online destination for intelligent, fun Beauty Geeks. We explain the science behind beauty products and ingredients.

Treatspace is a platform where they can post accurate, up-to-date, and verifiable facts about their practices. For patients, Treatspace is a site where they can find and follow trustworthy information about their doctors. It enables high-performance referral management, powers online patient engagement, and facilitates clinical collaboration. Treatspace changes the way primary care, specialty care, and hospital-based systems collaborate in closed-loop referral management and care coordination. The platform was founded in 2012 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

AutoRef’s mission is to bridge the gap between car dealerships and customers. We believe the entire process of shopping for a car should be easy, fast and enjoyable. We built this service because we think there is a better way. AutoRef allows consumers to negotiate online for new and used vehicles. The service is completely free, and we work with over 5,000 dealerships nationwide.

Bracketz helps marketers engage their online audiences with interactive, tournament-style marketing promotions—driving user engagement, data collection, and revenue generation. WonDay Inc.’s first product, Bracketz, builds tournament-style promotions that engage online audiences with branded content to help marketers drive user engagement, product discovery, and sales. Bracketz makes it easy for marketers to create beautiful, “sticky” promotions that consumers love and that generate repeat user engagement. Their promotions have shown to engage people for an average of 3 minutes per visit and over 50% of voters return to a contest to vote more than once. In addition, they are growing a database filled valuable consumer preference data.

ActivAided Orthotics has created a line of Postural Training Apparel to eliminate back pain by training rehabilitative habits and behaviors to address and correct the root cause of spine disorders and back pain. The company grew out of a collaboration between a physician, biomedical engineers, and athletes wishing to keep people active and pain free.

Accel Diagnostics is developing a lab-on-chip protein diagnostic platform that enables inexpensive, disposable, credit-card sized devices to be used for the rapid diagnosis of infectious and chronic diseases at the point-of-care. pScreen™’s ability to deliver an accurate diagnosis within 30 minutes results in a higher quality of care at a significantly lower cost. Accel’s solution marks a paradigm shift in the management of congestive heart failure (CHF). For the first time, it allows CHF patients to frequently monitor their level of heart distress outside the clinical setting and in the comfort of their home. Accel’s solution enables patients and their physicians to respond before physical symptoms occur, preventing otherwise frequent life threatening events and costly reoccurring hospitalizations.

HeadRight Games LLC is an independent developer of cross-platform casual games for PC, Mac, Web, iOS, and Android. Founded in 2011 by industry-veteran Matt Rodgers, HeadRight Games is headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, an emerging tech city. We were part of the Spring 2012 class of AlphaLab, a startup accelerator program based on the Pittsburgh’s South Side. Sponsored by Innovation Works, AlphaLab is one of the nation’s top startup accelerators and invites 6 companies twice a year to take part in a 20 week intensive bootcamp program. Below is the “Demo Day Investor Pitch”, given by CEO Matt Rodgers. - See more at: http://headrightgames.com/welcome-to-headright-games/about/#sthash.vWZkKbj8.dpuf

The Zebra operates as an online insurance comparison marketplace. It provides rates and educational resources to inform consumers and help them find the coverage, service level, and pricing to suit their unique needs, while simultaneously helping insurance companies connect with the consumers they best serve in today’s digital world. It aims to simplify the process of finding and purchasing insurance by offering transparent and easy-to-understand options for car, home, and other types of insurance. The Zebra's platform allows users to input their information and receive personalized quotes, helping them find the best coverage and rates available.

Roommatefit creates compatible roommate pairings for individuals looking for roommates in a large city, like an eHarmony for roommates. Roommatefit creates compatible roommate pairings for individuals looking for roommates in a large city, like an eHarmony for roommates. Their personality-based matching algorithm has been responsible for over 7000 pairings at several universities across the country.

Krowder is a community-powered delivery platform that helps facilitate the delivery of local items. Krowder seeks to revolutionize local commerce with our “crowd-sourced” delivery system, where delivery is provided “by the users, for the users.” By harnessing the slack time of every guy with a truck or van, we create an ultra-low cost local shipping alternative that is a quantum leap in convenience. Krowder’s couriers deliver directly to your curb, for the same or lower price than any other commercial option. More importantly, our system is disruptively easy to use. This platform builds upon research in constraint-based search and optimization performed at the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory of the Robotics Institute at CMU.

VitalClip is creating an iPhone accessory that measures vital signs and adds context to deliver an instant and meaningful view of your well-being. Health enthusiasts lack a convenient, reliable, and affordable way to accurately measure and manage their well being. VitalClip is addressing this need with its iPhone accessory that captures key physiological measurements, and combines these with location-based and activity-specific contextual information to provide users with actionable insights and a convenient way to better manage their health.

8020select.com is a private online design community providing small businesses with affordable graphic design services. They are disrupting the $7 billion graphic design industry by making quality graphic design services accessible to everyone. Small businesses that are looking for graphic design services on a budget have limited options. They can painstakingly search for freelancers (that vary greatly in price and skill level) or they can use existing crowdsourcing platforms that provide low-quality work, zero guidance, and ultimately harm the design community. 8020select.com is a graphic design platform specifically tailored to small businesses. They have built proprietary tools to make the time-tested design processes scalable for the web. On top of this, they are growing an engaging invite-only community of designers to provide their clients with high-quality work enabling the design process to be accomplished at a fraction of the cost, and in a fraction of the time, of a traditional agency.

MakerCraft’s mobile app allows people to easily design and purchase customized jewelry. Women often know exactly what they want, but are unable to find it despite trying big-box retailers and looking online. They waste valuable time searching for and buying something that’s a compromise between what they want and what is available. In an increasingly mobile connected world, this wasted time and compromise is not acceptable. MakerCraft is solving the problems in this market with a mobile app that lets users design the jewelry that is perfect for them. Customers can then place an order, either as a pre-assembled piece or as a DIY kit (for the more craft-minded buyers). With 72.5 million smart phone users in the US, MakerCraft has the opportunity to change the way people buy personalized, custom goods.

PHQRL is a provider of electronic wellness management systems to help retail supermarkets, pharmacies, and private practices deliver Medical Nutrition Therapy, Diabetes Self-Management Education, and general health and wellness counseling. Our Connect & CoachTM product combines an electronic record system used by dietitians and pharmacists, and mobile applications used by their customers. PHRQL is dedicated to enabling new delivery models that improve cost, quality and convenience of preventive health care.

In 2010, we began to survey the multi-tenant marketplace, and found a strong correlation between resident satisfaction rates and property management services. After conducting two years of research with a variety of property managers, we concluded that true resident satisfaction can only be achieved by correcting key property management challenges and poor communication practices. Furthermore, we discovered that there were limited tools available to achieve this. Our solutions target and solve the #1 cause of avoidable resident turn over — poor maintenance — through a suite of tools that create a virtuous cycle of improved management services, driven by positive community feedback, which in turn generates even better services.

We create and provide iPad-based wine, spirits and beer menus for restaurants, retail stores and events. Our menu, dubbed Grail, has helped our customers increase their alcohol revenues by 10-20%! Our simple mission: to help others enjoy wine, beer and spirits as much as we do. We do this through a unique combination of technology, multivariate analysis, and business consulting. And, of course, extensive product sampling. Consumers and businesses should be engaged in a cooperative attempt to improve products, services, and profits instead of positioning themselves as adversaries. Consumers want to purchase products, and businesses want to profit by satisfying customers. Facilitating this positive relationship is a recipe for long term success and profitability. We will be the premier provider of user-desired content in the food and beverage space for both consumers and businesses, using sophisticated data mining techniques, social media, and cutting edge hardware technologies.

We're Wildfire for events. GetPromotd makes it easy to create, automate, and analyze marketing campaigns that increase attendance to your play, conference, or course.

We’re parents, artists, musicians and engineers. We’re passionate about making fun educational apps for children of all ages. We see touch computing devices as a great way to teach kids. Tablets let you tell a story like a good children’s television show but also allow kids to interact with stories in ways they can’t with a regular TV. Like the early pioneers of educational television, we’re committed to producing fun and educational content on a new, emerging medium.

Tutor Technologies is a diverse team of research scientists, computer science educators, software developers and statisticians. We design and build web-based intelligent tutoring systems and provide data analytics for education.

Wawadoo is an online recommendation engine that provides individuals with deals and specials on events and activities such as festivals, theater shows, bars, concerts, clubs, and nightlife. It aggregates and filters all event listings from online information sources. Wawadoo was founded in 2011.

Delirium offers software development services.

Careerimp is a technology firm that develops webware for job seekers. We are makers of Resunate - the world's first intelligent resume builder (resunate.com). Save your resume from the shredder with Resunate's Semantic Intelligence and Templates That Matter. For information about becoming a partner organization, go to http://resunate.com/partners

Devotee allows businesses to grow their social media presence by offering customers rewards for sharing their positive experiences/recommendations directly with friends about businesses across the biggest social network feeds (think Foursquare tips everywhere). Devotee turns loyal customers into a marketing team. Once customers have built up enough Devotee Dollars, the currency inside the application, the customer cashes the Devotee Dollars in for free menu/reward items.

NoWait is a mobile platform that links consumers to casual dining restaurants across the United States. It streamlines the dining experience by allowing users to join waitlists and manage reservations through a convenient app.

PhotoSynesi is a premium online service delivering professional reviews and feedback to amateur photographers. Through individual and insightful critiques from expert photographers, it helps amateurs take better pictures and achieve their creative and technical goals while offering the pros a new revenue stream.

Levlr provides a powerful, scalable platform for companies wanting to integrate game mechanics (points, badges, etc...) into their application to increase participation, engagement and fun. Levlr works with companies to determine the appropriate game mechanics for their application, and provides an API to allow seamless integration. The company has also produced a series of example applications to prove the power of the platform. This includes Levlr.com, a personal life tracking site which turns your life into a video game. And Beerby, a mobile application that allows you to not just check-in to where you are with FourSquare, but tell what beer you are drinking there as well.

Karen Anderson presenting at AlphaLab Demo Day 80 Degrees West 80 Degrees West is an online design space which provides a new and better way for do-it-yourself consumers to collect design inspiration, organize their decorating projects and collaborate with professional interior designers.

Offermint is an online platform that offers daily deals for its users off local restaurants, spas, sporting and cultural events, classes, gyms, and more. It sends out an email listing some of the offers available in its users’ city through its partners. Offermint is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

PhotoSynesi is a premium online service delivering professional reviews and feedback to amateur photographers. Through individual and insightful critiques from expert photographers, it helps amateurs take better pictures and achieve their creative and technical goals while offering the pros a new revenue stream.