Dr. Vivien Karl is an intimate care company. Dr. Vivien Karl provides science based products for effective and safe intimate care. Their products include cream for moisturizing and caring for the intimate area.
Developer of charging software intended for commercial electric vehicle (EV) fleets. The company offers tools to maximize uptime for heavy-duty electric vehicles and focus on moving and storing goods between different organizations, enabling industries to provide coordination, sourcing, processing, and delivery of goods to end customers.
SKYSEED is an organization comprised of forest experts, engineers, programmers, and drone developers. The company's goal is to work with forest owners to establish healthy, climate-stable, near-natural (commercial) forests in a timely, cost-effective, and sensible manner.
Developer of biodegradable plastic components designed to provide composite materials that can be used in medicine, hygiene, and the food industry. The company's components use renewable, fully degradable, and recyclable raw materials to develop high-quality bioplastic compounds that help reduce carbon dioxide emission, enabling clients to get an alternative to conventional plastics and choose an environmentally friendly lifestyle.
Fermentation has been called the ‘game-changer for alt. proteins. But food companies lack low-cost fermentation infrastructure and experience to produce mycelial proteins. Kynda is the first company to provide food producers with low-cost plug & play bioreactors, starter cultures and operational support, entering a huge €2.3 trillion cross-industry serviceable fermentation market.
Operator of a personal development platform intended to provide space for personal development and purpose. The company's platform has structured interactive learning experiences, and scientifically validated methods, enabling the users to match with other members into small groups based on their individual needs and a tangible toolbox helping them to live by it daily.
Heatle has developed an innovative induction-based immersion heater that efficiently heats liquids directly within their containers. This device is designed to address the energy waste commonly associated with traditional kettles and similar appliances. By providing an energy-saving solution, Heatle enables users to heat water, baby milk, mulled wine, and other liquids to their preferred temperatures in a straightforward and eco-friendly manner. The company focuses on promoting a clean, healthy, and sustainable lifestyle, making it easier for individuals to manage their heating needs without compromising environmental values.
SMBX, Inc. operates an online funding portal, which offers a small business marketplace network for buying and selling small business financial securities and bonds. The company’s portal enable users to discover and invest in businesses and enables small businesses to offer bonds directly to the public without banks and standard regulatory fees. It also operates a mobile application to provide its services. SMBX, Inc. was formerly known as Peerhood, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Pluton extracts natural resources from the earth. But the resource we seek is not oil or gas, gold or silver, or even copper or nickel. Their targeted discovery platform "mines" microbes from the soil - the bacteria, fungi and viruses that live in and all around us. They call their platform Micromining.
wisefood GmbH produces edible drinking straw based on cereals and apple fibres. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Garching bei München, Germany.
Clinify Health works with independent physician practices who care for populations in underserved communities to achieve financial stability by optimizing decision-making at the point-of-care which results in these practices being able to enter in to, and succeed in, alternative payment arrangements.
Avalo is a biotechnology company focused on enhancing crop resilience through innovative gene discovery and control techniques. By employing interpretable machine learning, Avalo accelerates the identification of genes in plants, thereby facilitating the development of improved agricultural crops. The company's artificial intelligence-based platform is designed to uncover the biological origins of traits essential for future agriculture, such as drought tolerance, water-use efficiency, and nutrient density. This advancement in gene discovery not only aids researchers in validating and predicting crop quality but also addresses the challenges posed by a changing climate, contributing to a healthier and more sustainable agricultural landscape.
OCELL GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Gilching, Germany, specializes in developing compact aerial camera modules that facilitate the generation of remote sensing data for various applications, particularly in machine learning. The company focuses on providing aerial imagery solutions for sectors such as building, infrastructure, and forestry. Its technology enables detailed analyses, including building height assessments, roof quality classification, feature detection, and 3D modeling of vegetation. Additionally, OCELL enhances forest management by offering actionable insights derived from remote sensing and terrestrial measurements, which improve planning efficiency and transparency. The company's innovations also contribute to generating high-quality carbon credits, supporting sustainable forest management practices and enhancing the potential of forests as efficient carbon dioxide reservoirs.
OCELL GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Gilching, Germany, specializes in developing compact aerial camera modules that facilitate the generation of remote sensing data for various applications, particularly in machine learning. The company focuses on providing aerial imagery solutions for sectors such as building, infrastructure, and forestry. Its technology enables detailed analyses, including building height assessments, roof quality classification, feature detection, and 3D modeling of vegetation. Additionally, OCELL enhances forest management by offering actionable insights derived from remote sensing and terrestrial measurements, which improve planning efficiency and transparency. The company's innovations also contribute to generating high-quality carbon credits, supporting sustainable forest management practices and enhancing the potential of forests as efficient carbon dioxide reservoirs.
Developer of an integrated textile recycling system intended to recycle discarded textiles. The company's technology leverages AI and a green chemical recycling process to repurpose used textiles into a new thread, enabling customers and clients to incorporate and benefit from cost-effective and sustainable textile alternatives.
vCoach is a developer of a digital communication training system that aims to enhance organizational performance by addressing the challenges of effective communication. The company's app-based platform serves as a personal trainer, providing users with video analysis, feedback, and practice-related e-learning. It also includes personality and team assessments, enabling individuals to improve their communication skills significantly in just a few days with minimal daily training. Users have reported an average skill improvement of over 20% within three weeks, demonstrating the system's effectiveness and convenience for personal development. vCoach's solution is designed to be accessible anytime and anywhere, making it a sustainable and scalable option for enhancing communication abilities.
HILOS is a manufacturer focused on reinventing fashion retail through on-demand custom manufacturing of recyclable footwear and apparel. The company aims to create a local, zero-waste supply chain by integrating 3D printing with hand craftsmanship. HILOS uses sustainable materials that are reusable and resource-efficient, particularly in water conservation, to address issues of overproduction and waste in the fashion industry. By engineering footwear designed for recycling at the end of its life cycle, HILOS provides customers with original, eco-friendly, and comfortable products while restoring supply chains and promoting local fulfillment capabilities.
Mission Barns, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California, specializes in producing cell-cultured meat from animal cells. The company cultivates animal cells in a nutrient-rich environment, allowing for the sustainable growth of meat while minimizing the negative impacts associated with traditional animal farming. By leveraging advancements in biotechnology and food science, Mission Barns aims to provide juicy and savory meat products in a more efficient and environmentally friendly manner. The company's approach is designed to contribute to a more sensible food system, addressing the growing demand for sustainable food solutions.
Discover local, home-based talent in your town and beyond on the West Tenth app. West Tenth is an all-in-one marketplace, connecting consumers with custom services and goods in their own community. Scroll through the storefronts in our digital Main Street to find incredible independent talent, organized by distance from you. West Tenth connects you with local makers and doers who love to collaborate with you to provide just what you need. When you’re transacting with small, home-based businesses, anything is possible! Need a custom-decorated birthday cake? A personal trainer who will come to your house? Design or marketing work for your business? West Tenth is the place to find all that and so much more.
Twostay is a startup that operates a platform for co-working spaces, catering to professionals seeking flexible environments for work and meetings. The platform provides access to a variety of locations such as hotel lobbies, restaurants, beach bars, and art galleries, allowing users to find suitable spaces for their business activities. Additionally, Twostay offers location owners a way to capitalize on their underutilized spaces, creating a mutually beneficial arrangement. This innovative approach facilitates informal meetings and enhances productivity for professionals in diverse settings.
Dimension Inx Corp. is a Chicago-based company specializing in the design and development of advanced biomaterials and 3D-printed implants for medical applications. Established in 2016, the company focuses on creating innovative solutions that address human disease and tissue regeneration. Its product offerings include Hyperelastic Bone, a 3D printable material intended for bone regeneration, and Fluffy-X, a solution designed for soft tissue regeneration. Dimension Inx also provides 3D printable elastomers and bioactive ceramics, as well as commercial medical devices. By leveraging additive manufacturing and bio-fabrication processes, the company aims to enhance the versatility, manufacturability, and affordability of regenerative medical products, ultimately enabling clinicians to improve patient outcomes and reduce dependence on organ transplantation.
Lassogen, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Diego, California, founded in 2019. It focuses on developing lasso peptides as a novel therapeutic modality for the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases. The company aims to unlock the potential of lasso peptides to address challenging health issues, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, pain, inflammation, and conditions related to G protein-coupled receptors and ion channels. Lassogen utilizes a synthetic biology platform to create innovative therapeutics that target difficult receptors, paving the way for new medicine development.
SMBX, Inc. operates an online funding portal, which offers a small business marketplace network for buying and selling small business financial securities and bonds. The company’s portal enable users to discover and invest in businesses and enables small businesses to offer bonds directly to the public without banks and standard regulatory fees. It also operates a mobile application to provide its services. SMBX, Inc. was formerly known as Peerhood, LLC. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Everdrop GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Munich, Germany, specializes in the manufacture of plastic-free cleaning products aimed at promoting sustainability in household cleaning. The company's offerings include vegan natural cosmetic products, packaged cleanser tablets that can be mixed at home, reusable spray bottles, and laundry detergent powder. By providing these eco-friendly alternatives, Everdrop enables consumers to maintain their households in a straightforward and environmentally conscious manner.
Provider of healthcare planning services intended to offer care, quality of life, and protection from conflict and stress for family members and caregivers. The company offers interactive online tools to offer discussions with a facilitator from home, through video conferencing, and assist to create a plan that guides important, complex decisions.
54gene develops a pan-African biobank to identify new drug targets, and develop diagnostics and treatments for diseases. The company targets multiple disease states, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neuro-degenerative disease. It also provides genetic testing and molecular diagnostics services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional offices in Lagos, Nigeria.
Chi Botanic is a plant cell company that provides synthetic biology pipeline to leverage the power of the plant cell. Chi Botanic's technology called plant cell agriculture, creates end products, in bioreactors, without any of the waste such as aloe, natural rubber, and citrus oils, to turn plants into plant cells to make products, allowing users to change the way plant cells are grown. Chi Botanic was founded in 2017.
Debut Biotechnology, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Diego, California, established in 2019. It specializes in biomanufacturing solutions for high-value molecules, focusing on the development of specialty enzyme solutions and continuous manufacturing processes. The company offers a range of services, including biomanufacturing cartridges, fermentation, and the immobilization of cells and enzymes. Debut Biotechnology is dedicated to creating novel immobilization techniques for enzymes, achieving high success rates and providing immobilized enzymes for continuous manufacturing systems. Its innovative approach enables the production and modification of small and large molecules, catering primarily to the pharmaceutical and specialty chemical industries. By harnessing natural enzyme technologies, Debut aims to deliver sustainable and cost-effective ingredient solutions to its clients.
Pow.bio provides intelligent fermentation services for industrial and synthetic biology, helping turn great ideas into profitable products. We combine continuous fermentation with advanced control methodology to quickly optimize your fermentation process and deliver high yields at low costs. Our scale runs from 1-100 liter capacity for bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi.
Unnatural Products Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Santa Cruz, California, specializing in drug discovery through the innovative use of macrocyclic peptides. Founded in 2016, the company employs artificial intelligence and computational biology techniques to engineer these peptides, allowing them to target previously undruggable protein interactions. By leveraging machine learning for parallel chemical synthesis, Unnatural Products aims to optimize macrocyclic compounds efficiently, thereby accelerating the drug discovery process. This technology addresses a significant gap in therapeutic strategies, offering potential treatments for a wide range of diseases linked to difficult-to-target drug candidates.
Meati, also known as Emergy Foods, is a consumer goods company based in Boulder, Colorado, founded in 2016. The company specializes in producing whole muscle, nutritious plant-based meats designed to promote healthier lifestyles and environmental sustainability. By utilizing proprietary, clean technologies, Meati offers nutrient-dense meat alternatives that aim to appeal to a wide audience, ensuring that consumers can enjoy meals that are both good for their health and the planet.
54gene develops a pan-African biobank to identify new drug targets, and develop diagnostics and treatments for diseases. The company targets multiple disease states, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neuro-degenerative disease. It also provides genetic testing and molecular diagnostics services. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional offices in Lagos, Nigeria.
Ride Report is a shared mobility management platform designed to support cities in launching, managing, and evaluating shared transportation programs, including scooters, bikes, and cars. The platform offers tools for processing, anonymizing, and aggregating mobility data, allowing cities to view vehicle locations in real-time. It provides automated alerts for compliance issues, such as when an operator exceeds their limit or when a vehicle is improperly parked. By equipping municipalities with these capabilities, Ride Report enhances the ability to manage policies, analyze travel patterns, and track operator fees, ultimately fostering more equitable, efficient, and sustainable urban transportation solutions. The platform continuously evolves, incorporating new features to adapt to technological advancements in the shared mobility sector.
MyVillage is an early childhood development start-up focused on creating a childcare system that benefits parents, care providers, and children. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, the company aims to establish a high-quality, nationally standardized network of family home childcare. MyVillage provides early childhood education services for children ages 0-5, emphasizing outstanding education in nurturing home environments. The company offers essential tools and support for early education providers, including accounting, marketing, and scheduling resources, to facilitate the launch and operation of childcare programs. By bringing families and educators together, MyVillage seeks to reinvent home-based care and ensure that children receive the best possible start in their formative years.
Ketos, Inc., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, specializes in providing hardware and software analytics solutions for water systems. The company offers industrial-grade hardware and an IoT communication framework paired with a software platform to tackle global water management challenges. Ketos monitors essential water health parameters, including pH, dissolved solids, hardness, turbidity, and salinity, through real-time data analytics. Its technology enables clients in agricultural, industrial, and municipal sectors to measure, manage, and forecast water quality and efficiency. By combining connectivity, automated reporting, and predictive analytics, Ketos delivers actionable insights that help organizations identify and resolve critical water efficiency and quality issues, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
Mission Barns, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Berkeley, California, specializes in producing cell-cultured meat from animal cells. The company cultivates animal cells in a nutrient-rich environment, allowing for the sustainable growth of meat while minimizing the negative impacts associated with traditional animal farming. By leveraging advancements in biotechnology and food science, Mission Barns aims to provide juicy and savory meat products in a more efficient and environmentally friendly manner. The company's approach is designed to contribute to a more sensible food system, addressing the growing demand for sustainable food solutions.
K4Connect, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing software solutions for older adults and individuals with disabilities. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company offers K4Community, a platform designed for senior living communities that enhances communication among residents, families, and operators while facilitating community engagement and home management. Additionally, K4Connect provides K4Life, a wellness solution aimed at promoting independent living. The company's innovative approach integrates smart home and wellness technologies into a cohesive system, enabling senior living operators and healthcare providers to enhance service delivery and improve the quality of care. K4Connect has established strategic partnerships to further its mission of empowering older adults and fostering meaningful connections within communities.
Apostrophe, Inc. is a fintech company that specializes in providing a healthcare savings platform for self-insured employers. Founded in 2016 and based in Denver, Colorado, Apostrophe negotiates the lowest possible rates for healthcare services and pays providers directly, allowing it to pass savings onto its customers. The company offers an intelligent health benefits platform that is designed to be easily adopted by self-insured employers of any size. Apostrophe serves various regions, including rural Colorado, and aims to deliver cost-effective health benefits while providing support to its members. Formerly known as Airstream Health, Apostrophe has curated best practices into a plug-and-play health plan that enhances accessibility and efficiency for its clients.
Localwise is an online job board based in Oakland, California, that connects students and community members with employment opportunities at local businesses. Launched in 2014, the platform features a variety of job listings, including full-time, part-time, and internships, across multiple categories such as art and design, education, food and drink, health and fitness, retail, and technology, primarily in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco. Localwise emphasizes community engagement by allowing job seekers to receive recommendations from previous employers and co-workers, while also enabling businesses to manage their hiring processes through an intuitive application dashboard. This approach aims to facilitate meaningful connections between local job seekers and employers.
SunFunder is a solar energy finance business with a mission to provide financing for solar assets in emerging economies, including inventory, working capital, construction, and structured finance loans. SunFunder is a well-positioned financial intermediary that has been operating since 2012.
We offer borrowers a deep solar market expertise, an efficient due diligence process and strong customer partnerships, while simultaneously providing investors with diversified, high-impact, fixed income debt offerings of emerging market solar investments.
BookNook is combining technology and educational expertise to open the doors of literacy for students. They are a social enterprise with dual bottom line and a particular focus on supporting children in traditionally disenfranchised communities. Their founding team comes almost entirely from schools, nonprofits, social-good technology, and government. They believe that the best programs are designed by educators who have their roots in the classroom. Both their instructional strategy and their curriculum come from experienced educators who have seen first hand what works best for students. Their approach is grounded in multiple rigorous studies and they have assembled a team of nationally recognized experts who are both practitioners and researchers. They believe in scaling what works for students that technology is a great way to put proven instructional best practices in the hands of more and more people.
MyVillage is an early childhood development start-up focused on creating a childcare system that benefits parents, care providers, and children. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, the company aims to establish a high-quality, nationally standardized network of family home childcare. MyVillage provides early childhood education services for children ages 0-5, emphasizing outstanding education in nurturing home environments. The company offers essential tools and support for early education providers, including accounting, marketing, and scheduling resources, to facilitate the launch and operation of childcare programs. By bringing families and educators together, MyVillage seeks to reinvent home-based care and ensure that children receive the best possible start in their formative years.
MyVillage is an early childhood development start-up focused on creating a childcare system that benefits parents, care providers, and children. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bozeman, Montana, the company aims to establish a high-quality, nationally standardized network of family home childcare. MyVillage provides early childhood education services for children ages 0-5, emphasizing outstanding education in nurturing home environments. The company offers essential tools and support for early education providers, including accounting, marketing, and scheduling resources, to facilitate the launch and operation of childcare programs. By bringing families and educators together, MyVillage seeks to reinvent home-based care and ensure that children receive the best possible start in their formative years.
Agathos, Inc. is a healthcare technology company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2015. The company has developed an on-demand platform aimed at enhancing the delivery of care by providing physicians with real-time, individualized feedback and actionable insights. This platform focuses on optimizing hospital resources and reducing patient length of stay by engaging physicians with key clinical metrics. Utilizing a "weighted attribution" methodology, Agathos facilitates shared case ownership and collaborative patient care. The platform also leverages mobile analytics to identify practice patterns and inform physicians through clinically credible benchmarks, ultimately aiming to drive better healthcare outcomes and reduce unnecessary variations in care.
Iris Plans, Inc. is a technology-driven company that offers advance care planning (ACP) services to individuals facing serious medical conditions. By utilizing a telehealth platform, Iris Plans alleviates the challenges that these conditions impose on patients, families, and the healthcare system. The company provides access to healthcare professionals who work with patients and their families to develop tailored plans that guide significant healthcare decisions. Their services include the completion of living will documents, creation of personal health goals, and educational discussions via live video conferencing. Additionally, Iris Plans ensures the electronic dissemination and storage of these documents, including medical power of attorney and directives to physicians, specific to the state of residence. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Iris Plans serves customers across the United States, aiming to enhance the quality of care and reduce stress for patients and their loved ones.
Ketos, Inc., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, specializes in providing hardware and software analytics solutions for water systems. The company offers industrial-grade hardware and an IoT communication framework paired with a software platform to tackle global water management challenges. Ketos monitors essential water health parameters, including pH, dissolved solids, hardness, turbidity, and salinity, through real-time data analytics. Its technology enables clients in agricultural, industrial, and municipal sectors to measure, manage, and forecast water quality and efficiency. By combining connectivity, automated reporting, and predictive analytics, Ketos delivers actionable insights that help organizations identify and resolve critical water efficiency and quality issues, ensuring compliance with safety standards.
Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, and the impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co
Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, and the impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co
The Town Kitchen is a meal delivery service based in Oakland, California, that specializes in corporate lunches. Founded in 2015, the company collaborates with local chefs and food artisans to create chef-crafted meals. Its unique approach not only provides delicious, homemade food but also focuses on social impact by employing low-income youth aged 16-24. These young individuals are involved in every step of the process, from planning and preparing to boxing and delivering the lunches. Through this model, The Town Kitchen fosters community growth while addressing food access and employment challenges in the region.
Apostrophe, Inc. is a fintech company that specializes in providing a healthcare savings platform for self-insured employers. Founded in 2016 and based in Denver, Colorado, Apostrophe negotiates the lowest possible rates for healthcare services and pays providers directly, allowing it to pass savings onto its customers. The company offers an intelligent health benefits platform that is designed to be easily adopted by self-insured employers of any size. Apostrophe serves various regions, including rural Colorado, and aims to deliver cost-effective health benefits while providing support to its members. Formerly known as Airstream Health, Apostrophe has curated best practices into a plug-and-play health plan that enhances accessibility and efficiency for its clients.
BookNook is combining technology and educational expertise to open the doors of literacy for students. They are a social enterprise with dual bottom line and a particular focus on supporting children in traditionally disenfranchised communities. Their founding team comes almost entirely from schools, nonprofits, social-good technology, and government. They believe that the best programs are designed by educators who have their roots in the classroom. Both their instructional strategy and their curriculum come from experienced educators who have seen first hand what works best for students. Their approach is grounded in multiple rigorous studies and they have assembled a team of nationally recognized experts who are both practitioners and researchers. They believe in scaling what works for students that technology is a great way to put proven instructional best practices in the hands of more and more people.
Fluid Financial, Inc. designs and develops cash flow management software for independent contractors and agencies. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Werk is the first and only people analytics software that helps companies improve their flexibility performance through data. Through a proprietary assessment methodology and analytics dashboard, Werk delivers the insights companies need to understand current flexibility baseline and gaps, the highest ROI flex investments to close those gaps, and the impact of flexibility on their most important business metrics. Learn more at Werk.co
Sail Internet, Inc. is a telecommunications company that offers fiber and fixed wireless internet services to businesses, single-family homes, and multi-unit complexes primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chula Vista. Established in 2015, the company aims to enhance the internet access experience for its customers, both at home and in the workplace. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Sail Internet is committed to providing reliable and efficient internet solutions to meet the demands of its diverse clientele.
Iris Plans, Inc. is a technology-driven company that offers advance care planning (ACP) services to individuals facing serious medical conditions. By utilizing a telehealth platform, Iris Plans alleviates the challenges that these conditions impose on patients, families, and the healthcare system. The company provides access to healthcare professionals who work with patients and their families to develop tailored plans that guide significant healthcare decisions. Their services include the completion of living will documents, creation of personal health goals, and educational discussions via live video conferencing. Additionally, Iris Plans ensures the electronic dissemination and storage of these documents, including medical power of attorney and directives to physicians, specific to the state of residence. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, Iris Plans serves customers across the United States, aiming to enhance the quality of care and reduce stress for patients and their loved ones.
K4Connect, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing software solutions for older adults and individuals with disabilities. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company offers K4Community, a platform designed for senior living communities that enhances communication among residents, families, and operators while facilitating community engagement and home management. Additionally, K4Connect provides K4Life, a wellness solution aimed at promoting independent living. The company's innovative approach integrates smart home and wellness technologies into a cohesive system, enabling senior living operators and healthcare providers to enhance service delivery and improve the quality of care. K4Connect has established strategic partnerships to further its mission of empowering older adults and fostering meaningful connections within communities.
NextRequest makes public records requests friendlier for the public and easier for governments. The agencies of all types and sizes use NextRequest to accept, coordinate, and fulfill record requests all in one place. The company's public records software works cross-departmentally to streamline requests so that no request goes unanswered. NextRequest protects the flow of agency’s sensitive information with best-in-class security, compliance, and data protection for its customers including mapping to CJIS & HIPAA Security Rule controls and a SOC 2 security audit. NextRequest was established in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Localwise is an online job board based in Oakland, California, that connects students and community members with employment opportunities at local businesses. Launched in 2014, the platform features a variety of job listings, including full-time, part-time, and internships, across multiple categories such as art and design, education, food and drink, health and fitness, retail, and technology, primarily in Oakland, Berkeley, and San Francisco. Localwise emphasizes community engagement by allowing job seekers to receive recommendations from previous employers and co-workers, while also enabling businesses to manage their hiring processes through an intuitive application dashboard. This approach aims to facilitate meaningful connections between local job seekers and employers.
SunFunder is a solar energy finance business with a mission to provide financing for solar assets in emerging economies, including inventory, working capital, construction, and structured finance loans. SunFunder is a well-positioned financial intermediary that has been operating since 2012.
We offer borrowers a deep solar market expertise, an efficient due diligence process and strong customer partnerships, while simultaneously providing investors with diversified, high-impact, fixed income debt offerings of emerging market solar investments.
UtilityAPI, Inc. is a software company based in Oakland, California, that specializes in automating the collection of utility bill and usage data from utility web portals. Founded in 2014, the company aims to facilitate standardized data transactions within the evolving energy economy. Its tools support various applications, including quote generation, feasibility analyses, and asset management, as well as measurement and verification processes. UtilityAPI's solutions enable innovators and property managers to securely share electric utility data, helping hundreds of companies evaluate and validate energy usage and savings effectively.
K4Connect, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing software solutions for older adults and individuals with disabilities. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, the company offers K4Community, a platform designed for senior living communities that enhances communication among residents, families, and operators while facilitating community engagement and home management. Additionally, K4Connect provides K4Life, a wellness solution aimed at promoting independent living. The company's innovative approach integrates smart home and wellness technologies into a cohesive system, enabling senior living operators and healthcare providers to enhance service delivery and improve the quality of care. K4Connect has established strategic partnerships to further its mission of empowering older adults and fostering meaningful connections within communities.
BrightCurrent, Inc. helps people to shift to solar energy with an education approach that focuses on in-store kiosks, canvassing, event management, and home solar parties channels. It provides clients with a free no-obligation solar quote; and enables them to choose solar providers so that solar systems installed on the clients’ roof for free, wherein clients pay a monthly bill for the power that they use. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. As of September 7, 2017, BrightCurrent, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Horizon Solar Power, Inc.
SunFunder is a solar energy finance business with a mission to provide financing for solar assets in emerging economies, including inventory, working capital, construction, and structured finance loans. SunFunder is a well-positioned financial intermediary that has been operating since 2012.
We offer borrowers a deep solar market expertise, an efficient due diligence process and strong customer partnerships, while simultaneously providing investors with diversified, high-impact, fixed income debt offerings of emerging market solar investments.
As of February 19, 2015, UClass, Inc. was acquired by Renaissance Learning Inc. UClass, Inc. provides a Web-based content repository that enables district, school, and organization personnel to store, tag, organize, share, search, view, and download files. Its curricular management and analytics solution offers students and teachers with access to worldwide education network. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
Eko harnesses the power of smartphones and cloud data for monitoring patients with cardiovascular diseases. It has built a platform of non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring devices, clinical software, and point-of-care decision support algorithms to improve the delivery of cardiovascular care. In 2015, Eko launched the Eko Core Digital Stethoscope, the first FDA-cleared digital stethoscope on the market to wirelessly stream heart and lung sound to HIPAA-compliant software. For the first time in history, patient sounds can be integrated with electronic health records (EHRs) for more seamless referrals, documentation, and monitoring. Eko was established in 2013 and is based in Berkeley, California.
Share Practice is a company that supports doctors in identifying and understanding effective clinical treatments by leveraging the experiences of their peers. It has developed a collaborative clinical reference mobile application that consolidates information from various medical databases, featuring thousands of diagnoses. This platform enables healthcare professionals to provide feedback, review conventional therapies, and explore new and integrative medicine options, enhancing their decision-making capabilities in patient care.
SunFunder is a solar energy finance business with a mission to provide financing for solar assets in emerging economies, including inventory, working capital, construction, and structured finance loans. SunFunder is a well-positioned financial intermediary that has been operating since 2012.
We offer borrowers a deep solar market expertise, an efficient due diligence process and strong customer partnerships, while simultaneously providing investors with diversified, high-impact, fixed income debt offerings of emerging market solar investments.
Share Practice is a company that supports doctors in identifying and understanding effective clinical treatments by leveraging the experiences of their peers. It has developed a collaborative clinical reference mobile application that consolidates information from various medical databases, featuring thousands of diagnoses. This platform enables healthcare professionals to provide feedback, review conventional therapies, and explore new and integrative medicine options, enhancing their decision-making capabilities in patient care.
LeadGenius, Inc. is a lead generation and outreach company that serves businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2011 and based in Berkeley, California, LeadGenius offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes customer research to generate targeted lead lists, data enrichment to ensure the accuracy and relevance of lead information, and lead qualification to identify viable prospects. Additionally, the company provides outbound email prospecting to facilitate sales outreach. With its end-to-end sales solution, LeadGenius assists sales teams in efficiently growing and scaling their operations throughout the sales process, ultimately enhancing their ability to convert leads into customers.
Africa's Talking Ltd. is an information technology company based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2010 by Eston Kimani and Samuel Gikandi. The firm specializes in providing communication solutions that enhance connectivity across Africa, focusing on mobile messaging services. It offers a range of services including bulk SMS, short codes, premium SMS, USSD, MMS, and customized mobile messaging solutions tailored for individuals, businesses, and developers. The company provides tools such as a mini-API for data access and SMSVoices.com, a platform for sharing information via SMS and online posts. By integrating reliable two-way SMS, voice, and USSD functionality, Africa's Talking enables users to streamline their mobile communication processes, thus supporting a burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystem across the continent.
Givkwik, Inc. is a New York-based company that provides web-based tools and services designed to connect businesses, charitable causes, and communities. Founded in 2012, Givkwik's platform facilitates corporate philanthropy by enabling companies to engage customers and employees through various programs, including pulse polls, matching grants, and community giving circles. The platform allows individuals to support multiple causes with a single tax-deductible donation and receipt, enhancing convenience by eliminating the need for repeated credit card entries. Additionally, Givkwik assists nonprofits in sharing their stories through campaigns sponsored by corporate clients, while offering solutions for organizations to discover and support meaningful causes. By providing donation processing, grant distribution, and social impact metrics, Givkwik seeks to simplify philanthropic efforts and amplify their impact.
StreetOwl is a seed funded startup and creator of the first comparison shopping platform for Usage-Based Insurance (UBI). By utilizing smartphone technology StreetOwl empowers consumers to easily and freely find the maximum discounts available that are based on their driving habits. UBI is sweeping through the auto insurance industry as THE methodology to determine customers premiums, led by big insurers like Progressive, StateFarm, and Allstate. The UBI programs are offering customers significant savings with some companies presenting as much as a 50% discount. Consumers have more and more UBI programs from which to choose, but no way to comparison shop and find the insurer that will provide the biggest discount based on the way they drive.
CheckInOn.Me is an automated personal safety system that checks on you as often as you want, whenever you want, using safe/emergency code words. If they think there is trouble,they contact the user's confirmed friends/family. Their MVP launched in late 2011 and used text messaging and a web UI. People loved the idea but didn't like the web UI. They requested smartphone apps. Target audiences are activities, lifestyles, and jobs that connect people with strangers and/or new places. Realtors, insurance adjusters, social workers, massage therapists, temps, consultants, sole practitioners, anyone living alone, in-person Craigslist transactions, travel. Their API is in alpha. Android smartphone app in public alpha September 2012.
Project Repat Inc. specializes in upcycling used T-shirts and garments into quilts and blankets. The company allows customers to send their own T-shirts, which are then transformed into custom quilts, as well as blankets made from baby and toddler clothes. Additional offerings include double-sided T-shirt quilts in various colors and a gift box option featuring a prepaid mailer for easy shipping. By focusing on creating fair wage jobs in the United States, Project Repat not only provides functional and fashionable textile products but also emphasizes the importance of sustainable practices in the textile industry. Founded in 2011, the company is based in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Morganton, North Carolina.
LeadGenius, Inc. is a lead generation and outreach company that serves businesses, development organizations, nonprofits, and researchers both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 2011 and based in Berkeley, California, LeadGenius offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes customer research to generate targeted lead lists, data enrichment to ensure the accuracy and relevance of lead information, and lead qualification to identify viable prospects. Additionally, the company provides outbound email prospecting to facilitate sales outreach. With its end-to-end sales solution, LeadGenius assists sales teams in efficiently growing and scaling their operations throughout the sales process, ultimately enhancing their ability to convert leads into customers.