Capital Innovators

Capital Innovators is an accelerator firm established in 2010 and located in Saint Louis, Missouri. The firm operates an accelerator program that offers $50,000 in seed funding, along with project-based mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs. Over a 12-week period, participating startups receive valuable resources, networking opportunities, and potential follow-on funding that can range from $250,000 to $1 million. The program is designed to support early-stage companies by providing the necessary guidance and connections to foster growth and development in their respective markets.

Henry Chi

Investor

Brian Dixon

COO

Frank Hopper

Managing Director

Adam Jendrisak

Associate

Judy Sindecuse

Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner

Past deals in Missouri

Wellness Wins

Seed Round in 2022
Wellness Wins provides a customer relationship management system built for mental health therapists and wellness centers that operate private group practices and employ several therapists.

Tunedly

Seed Round in 2021
Tunedly is a live collaboration music production platform designed to connect musicians with a network of hand-picked session artists. It was founded to address the challenges faced by aspiring musicians who may lack the resources or connections necessary to produce high-quality music. By facilitating collaborations among artists, Tunedly helps users uncover new opportunities for exposure and success in the music industry. The platform enables musicians to bring their creative visions to life by providing access to skilled professionals and a supportive community.

AGOGIE

Seed Round in 2020
AGOGIE, LLC designs, manufactures, and sells resistance pants for men and women. The company offers daily wear and sportswear pants. It sells its products online. The company is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Mylestones

Seed Round in 2020
Mylestones is a social application aimed at helping seniors create, store, and share their life stories. The platform utilizes a guided approach, offering a comprehensive 165-question framework that spans from childhood to adulthood, allowing seniors to reflect on significant moments in their lives. During video calls, typically facilitated by a loved one, seniors answer these questions, and the application records the conversation along with video footage of all participants. This recorded narrative is then compiled into a life story that can be shared with family and friends. Mylestones addresses the growing issue of social isolation among seniors by enabling meaningful connections and preserving cherished memories, turning routine video chats into valuable storytelling experiences.

FastDemocracy

Seed Round in 2020
FastDemocracy is revolutionizing bill tracking with a streamlined, user-friendly platform. Our unique suite of tools empowers individuals, organizations, and businesses to take control of their government relations strategy and helps them be effective advocates for policy change.

Outside360

Seed Round in 2019
Outside360 operates as a peer-to-peer marketplace that connects hosts and users through online listings for outdoor recreational opportunities. Its listings center on making private lands and outdoor experiences more accessible. The company is driven by a mission to help individuals share their wisdom or piece of paradise with outdoor enthusiasts of every kind. Outside360 was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

ROUND2

Seed Round in 2019
Finding the right sporting goods can be time consuming and complex, not to mention expensive. So we reimagined a better way. We eliminated the need to search several sites and scroll through irrelevant results to find the perfect sporting goods. ROUND2, an AI-powered sporting goods platform connects youth athletes to affordable gear by aggregating goods from the top online retailers and brands and displaying the best results based on the individual athletes needs. We launched a year ago and have helped thousands of athletes find the gear for them. Backed by a top 5% accelerator (Capital Innovators, Winter 2019), we were founded in '18 by former pro athletes who realized how difficult it was to find high-quality sports gear online for the right prices. Since launching the marketplace, thousands have joined our community and contributed to our mission of making sporting goods more affordable.

Kwema

Seed Round in 2019
Kwema, Inc. develops a device that connects women in danger with immediate help through security services. The company also develops software for building safer communities for women. It activates through fashionable bracelets or application, notify friends and family and community of application users close to location, and gets responses from private or public security services within network. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Provider Pool

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Provider Pool Co. is an online labor marketplace dedicated to the healthcare sector, founded in 2018 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri. The platform serves as a community for healthcare professionals, connecting them with healthcare organizations through a technology-driven marketplace. It streamlines the processes of hiring, recruiting, and contracting, thus enhancing the efficiency of staffing for healthcare providers. By utilizing advanced matching technology powered by artificial intelligence, Provider Pool effectively pairs hospitals with suitable nursing professionals for both short-term and long-term staffing needs. This approach not only facilitates direct access to local nursing talent but also helps healthcare organizations save time and reduce costs associated with recruitment.

HomeTraq

Seed Round in 2019
HomeTraq is an online brokerage platform that connects potential homebuyer with a local real agent as well as schedules property showings. The platform offers on-demand in-person or video showing which enables users to schedule a home showing within three to five minutes. It helps navigate financial options without confusing language as well as assists home buyers understand the entire process of buying property. In 2017, Mark Gorman, Brett Daniell co-founded the company in St Louis, Missouri.

Narya Security

Convertible Note in 2018
Narya Security is a reliable, one-click-recovery solution for Ransomware infections. It leverages proprietary machine learning algorithms to identify, extract and manage encryption keys, decrypt encrypted data, unlock paralyzed IT assets and remove Ransomware infection traces in minutes, with a single click.

Clever Real Estate

Seed Round in 2017
Clever Real Estate company that specializes in the fields of commercial real estate and online marketplace. It offers a software platform that guides its users through the process of interviewing real estate agents to find the right one for them. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Tunedly

Seed Round in 2017
Tunedly is a live collaboration music production platform designed to connect musicians with a network of hand-picked session artists. It was founded to address the challenges faced by aspiring musicians who may lack the resources or connections necessary to produce high-quality music. By facilitating collaborations among artists, Tunedly helps users uncover new opportunities for exposure and success in the music industry. The platform enables musicians to bring their creative visions to life by providing access to skilled professionals and a supportive community.

Soozie's Doozies, LLC

Seed Round in 2017
Soozie's Doozies, LLC engages in baking cookies. It offers refrigerated cookie dough pouches, cookie dough, butter cookies, butter shortbread, and baked cookie tins. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Union, Missouri.

Rozzy Learning Company

Seed Round in 2017
Rozzy Learning Company mission is to bring hands-on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) programs and resources to young learners and teachers to promote curiosity, critical thinking skills, and exploration. They focus on STEAM careers because they are the fastest growing, highest paying jobs in the world. By introducing kids to STEAM early on, you are setting them up for success in and outside of school. Unlike other STEAM companies, they have affordable programs that don‘t require expensive technology or materials. Bonus? Their programs fit into teachers’ busy schedules!

MathBRIX

Seed Round in 2017
MathBRIX is a for-profit EdTech business, with initial support from the National Science Foundation Small Business Research Program (NSF/SBIR). The venture is developing a SaaS math program for children 3-8, which emphasizes higher-order thinking skills and concept acquisition. Children are guided through visual puzzles and games designed to help them see the big ideas behind math, rather than memorize facts. Virtual toy building bricks take the place of traditional manipulatives, with studs on the surface representing numeric value. The platform adjusts to each child's level and comes with a suite of analytics that track learning outcomes. Off computer hands-on projects further extend learning. The MathBRIX mission is to create new learning technologies that will make a significant social and economic impact over time. For the US to remain a world economic leader, all children must be able to think mathematically and problem-solve. Children behind in kindergarten, often stay behind through the remaining school years. Only 40% of U.S. fourth grade students are deemed proficient on national math assessments. Early intervention is key. The visual strategies are derived from the federally-funded Comprehensive School Mathematics Program. Twenty years of research found CSMP students had greater ability to solve novel math problems. CSMP was effective with the gifted as well as the learning challenged. MathBRIX testing with over 500 students confirms high student engagement, feasibility, promise of learning. A larger test is underway in 34 districts nation-wide. In 2018, pre-school and parent education components will be developed with the Parents as Teachers National Center.

Appbase

Seed Round in 2016
Appbase.io is a hosted developer API for consuming JSON data streams with ElasticSearch. It allows developers to build reactive apps with data streams; and stream document updates, search results, and filters.

Sunstation USA

Seed Round in 2016
Sunstation USA specializes in the manufacturing of eco-friendly, all-natural sunscreen dispensers designed to prevent sunburns and skin cancer. Their products are weather-resistant and touch-free, offering broad-spectrum sunscreen that is accessible to the community. By providing an online retail platform, Sunstation USA enables customers to enjoy outdoor activities with peace of mind regarding sun protection. The company's focus on sustainability and health makes it a valuable resource for promoting safe sun exposure.

SchoolTube

Venture Round in 2016
SchoolTube is a video sharing platform that allows K-12 students and teachers to watch and share educational video content. It has registered users representing over 70,000+ K-12 schools, and we're on our way to full representation in all US schools in 2019. SchoolTube videos reach hundreds of thousands of people each day around the globe. SchoolTube supports the U.S. market of 5 million teachers and 55 million students (plus 1.4 billion students worldwide!) – with over 600,000 student and educator videos from across the globe.

Greetabl

Seed Round in 2016
Greetabl makes it incredibly easy to send unique and personalized gifts that your people will love. In a few clicks, turn your photos into a greeting card that doubles as a gift box. Select from gift cards, chocolates and more to complete your perfect gift (starting at $20!).

BenMedica

Angel Round in 2016
BenMedica, LLC, founded in 2012 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, operates the BenConnect platform, which integrates with existing electronic prescribing and health record systems. This platform enhances communication between insurers, providers, and patients at the point of care, allowing for informed decisions regarding drug benefits. By providing real-time access to pharmacy benefit information and clinical data, BenMedica facilitates collaboration between insurers and prescribers without disrupting office workflows. The company aims to improve formulary awareness and reduce inefficiencies in prescription decision-making, ultimately lowering healthcare costs for patients and providers.

Riley’s Organics

Seed Round in 2016
Riley’s Organics, They believe in being good corporate citizens and good global citizens and good human beings. They believe that doing the right thing sometimes is harder, but it is worth it.

GiftAMeal

Seed Round in 2016
GiftAMeal is a mobile application that addresses hunger by providing a meal to someone in need each time a user takes a photo at a partner restaurant. The platform encourages social engagement by allowing users to share these photos on social media, which results in additional meal donations. By partnering with restaurants, GiftAMeal facilitates a simple and effective way for users to contribute to their communities while enjoying their dining experiences. Through this innovative approach, the application aims to combat hunger and create a positive social impact.

MedSocket

Seed Round in 2015
MedSocket of Missouri, Inc. provides health information technology solutions. It offers 1-CDS (1-Click Decision Support), a clinical decision support system; and 1-Search, a search engine that provides evidence-based information for clinicians. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Columbia, Missouri.

Mentor Spaces

Venture Round in 2015
Mentor Spaces, developed by Better Weekdays, Inc., is a virtual mentorship platform aimed at supporting emerging Black and Latinx professionals. The platform facilitates communication between corporate mentors and prospective employees through career interest-based groups, thereby assisting companies in their efforts to scale diversity and inclusion initiatives. Mentor Spaces is currently utilized by over 10,000 emerging leaders, helping organizations from startups to Fortune 500 companies to find, hire, and retain diverse talent. By enhancing the development of underrepresented minorities, Mentor Spaces contributes to building a diverse talent pipeline, improving employee retention, and fostering an inclusive corporate culture. Better Weekdays, founded in 2011 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri, operates this innovative platform as part of its broader online career services offering.

MedSocket

Seed Round in 2015
MedSocket of Missouri, Inc. provides health information technology solutions. It offers 1-CDS (1-Click Decision Support), a clinical decision support system; and 1-Search, a search engine that provides evidence-based information for clinicians. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Columbia, Missouri.

Need Fixed LLC

Seed Round in 2015
Need Fixed LLC, also known as Need Fixed Parts, is a St. Louis-based company that specializes in the online sale of replacement parts for smartphones and tablets. Established in 2014, the company caters primarily to repair shops across the United States, providing them with high-quality components sourced from manufacturers in China. By alleviating the challenges associated with sourcing parts, Need Fixed Parts enables repair shops to concentrate on their core competency of device repair. The company has built strong relationships with channel partners, facilitating its growth and establishment in the industry. By prioritizing quality, Need Fixed Parts has gained recognition and trust among its customers, ensuring that repair shops can confidently serve their clients with reliable, non-defective parts, thereby fostering their ongoing success.

WattRunner

Seed Round in 2015
RunIQ started out as an idea shared by a few passionate individuals. An idea to change fitness data so it didn’t cage and constrain runners, but instead set them free to passionately chase down their goals. They wanted to bring an entirely new dimension to training. It was an idea so revolutionary, it launched their team into first place for the inaugural St. Louis Startup Weekend HEALTHbio in 2015. It was the idea that built the RunIQ you see here. And just like you, it’s always improving, getting smarter and stronger every day.

Invisible Girlfriend

Seed Round in 2015
Invisible Girlfriend, along with its counterpart Invisible Boyfriend, offers a unique service that allows users to create a fictional relationship. This platform enables individuals to design their invisible partner by selecting attributes such as name, age, and personality, and to engage in text chats, receive voicemails, handwritten notes, and selfies. Users can also opt for themed packages and gifts, enhancing the illusion of a genuine relationship. Conversations are managed by a team of anonymous writers, providing real-time, personalized interactions that help users practice flirting and build confidence in dating scenarios. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Invisible Girlfriend aims to make the dating experience less awkward and more enjoyable for its users.

Greetabl

Seed Round in 2015
Greetabl makes it incredibly easy to send unique and personalized gifts that your people will love. In a few clicks, turn your photos into a greeting card that doubles as a gift box. Select from gift cards, chocolates and more to complete your perfect gift (starting at $20!).

SmartCare system

Seed Round in 2015
SmartCare Consultants, LLC provides services and technology needed to improve the quality of life and assist in providing proactive care for residents in senior communities in Missouri. It offers SmartCare Sense, a system that features discrete, non-obtrusive sensors strategically placed around the resident’s room that communicate to a receiver/processor; processes the information it receives and transmits a signal to the SmartNetwork servers in real-time making the information available to the community and family; and facilitates to view the information through a Web-based interface. The company is based in Clayton, Missouri.

CellARide

Seed Round in 2015
CellARide has built its award-winning technology from the ground up while establishing itself as a leader in client-driven solutions for automotive marketing technology. CellARide works directly with automotive manufacturers, dealer groups, national advocacy organizations and coalitions to identify and capture dynamics of consumer behavior, providing effective methods of customer engagement. CellARide provides clients with an intuitive shopper insights, compliant communications and data capture platform. CellARide’s solutions use broadly adopted mobile messaging technologies to reach consumers directly and provide real-time, actionable data for clients.

FocalCast

Seed Round in 2015
FocalCast LLC, founded in 2013 and located in St. Louis, Missouri, specializes in providing a web-based software platform for market research. The company offers interactive tools that enable global brands and marketing agencies to conduct market research effectively. Its services include the creation of stimuli and content, live annotation, project management, as well as polling and data analysis. FocalCast aims to enhance the market research process by facilitating real-time engagement and data collection.

Bonfyre

Seed Round in 2015
Bonfyre Inc. is an employee engagement platform that focuses on enhancing employee recognition, communication, feedback, and event management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, Bonfyre aims to transform workplace culture by fostering camaraderie and alignment within organizations. The platform facilitates real-time insights into human resources, enabling companies to better understand and engage their workforce. Through its comprehensive suite of tools, Bonfyre is dedicated to improving employee experience and driving organizational success.

MeterGenius

Seed Round in 2015
MeterGenius, Inc., founded in 2013 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, offers a platform designed to empower homeowners to manage their electricity consumption effectively. By providing insights, analytics, and tools through a user-friendly website, MeterGenius enables consumers to track their electricity use on an hourly basis and offers tips to reduce their consumption. The company also develops custom-branded customer portals for clients, which include energy management tools, smart appliance connectivity, and a rewards program that incentivizes users to consume electricity during off-peak hours. This engagement not only helps consumers save money on their electricity bills but also fosters loyalty among users, thereby enhancing the value they bring to their electricity providers.

Love Will Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
At Love Will they provide their customers with the ability to move money around the world quickly, securely, and for little to no cost. Their mission is to help create a world where all people and all businesses, regardless of socioeconomic status, location, or industry, can participate in and enjoy the benefits of a truly frictionless, global financial system.

AppNotch

Seed Round in 2015
An online service that lets you build feature rich html5 and jquery based mobile sites, android and iphone apps in under 4 steps. A super fast & addictively easy way to build Apps in 2 steps. Takes less than 30 seconds. Nothing to Download or Install. No Programming Required. Just Drag & Drop. Its 100% Free. We offer new templates for users to pick and choose from to help get started with design and layout ideas.

BlueStrata EHR

Seed Round in 2015
BlueStrata EHR specializes in developing a cloud-based electronic health records software platform tailored for long-term care and resident care facilities. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, the company offers an integrated solution that combines clinical, financial, and point-of-care services, facilitating seamless data sharing across medical records and billing systems. The platform is designed for ease of use, allowing caregivers to capture accurate resident care information through intuitive touch screen kiosks, regardless of their location. As of August 1, 2018, BlueStrata EHR is a subsidiary of Mediware Information Systems, Inc.

HIPAAtrek

Seed Round in 2015
HIPAAtrek, LLC, founded in 2014 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, specializes in providing a comprehensive platform for the creation and management of security, privacy, and breach notification policies and procedures. Its software features an intuitive dashboard that allows users to easily navigate required and addressable policies, facilitating collaboration among team members. By offering customizable solutions tailored to individual organizations, HIPAAtrek addresses the common challenges faced by practice administrators in maintaining compliance with HIPAA regulations. The platform aims to streamline the process of policy management and staff training while also incorporating features for task management and security risk assessment. HIPAAtrek's mission is to make HIPAA compliance more accessible and manageable for healthcare organizations, enhancing their ability to uphold privacy and security standards effectively.

MedSocket

Seed Round in 2014
MedSocket of Missouri, Inc. provides health information technology solutions. It offers 1-CDS (1-Click Decision Support), a clinical decision support system; and 1-Search, a search engine that provides evidence-based information for clinicians. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Columbia, Missouri.

ReachDynamics

Seed Round in 2014
ReachDynamics, LLC, founded in 2013 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, specializes in email remarketing and digital direct mail retargeting services. The company focuses on engaging website visitors who leave without making a purchase or providing contact information. By sending targeted emails and direct mail to these individuals, ReachDynamics aims to convert lost web traffic into sales and leads. Its advertising technology allows for advanced campaign filtering and the integration of direct mail with digital activities, offering clients a comprehensive omnichannel marketing approach.

PFITR

Seed Round in 2014
PFITR, Inc. develops integrated mobile solutions for public funds investment managers. The company’s software-as-a-service solution enables users overseeing tax dollars to see valuation metrics based on market transactions to make the investment decisions. It offers Bond Price Validation Tool, a software platform that enables institutional investors to manage their portfolios. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri.

Pixel Press

Seed Round in 2014
Pixel Press is a technology company that focuses on building engaging gaming and interactive experiences. Its products are fun for all ages, and flexible enough for many applications. The company's patented build your own video game technology platform integrates physical and digital play, adding a new dimensions to toys and video games, educational content, traditional storybooks, and other entertainment mediums.

CellARide

Seed Round in 2014
CellARide has built its award-winning technology from the ground up while establishing itself as a leader in client-driven solutions for automotive marketing technology. CellARide works directly with automotive manufacturers, dealer groups, national advocacy organizations and coalitions to identify and capture dynamics of consumer behavior, providing effective methods of customer engagement. CellARide provides clients with an intuitive shopper insights, compliant communications and data capture platform. CellARide’s solutions use broadly adopted mobile messaging technologies to reach consumers directly and provide real-time, actionable data for clients.

Pixel Press

Angel Round in 2013
Pixel Press is a technology company that focuses on building engaging gaming and interactive experiences. Its products are fun for all ages, and flexible enough for many applications. The company's patented build your own video game technology platform integrates physical and digital play, adding a new dimensions to toys and video games, educational content, traditional storybooks, and other entertainment mediums.

Kingdom Scene Endeavors

Seed Round in 2013
Kingdom Scene Endeavors, LLC designs and develops games for kids. It also develops story-based gameplay, online environment, and character based games. It serves families and churches. Kingdom Scene Endeavors, LLC was founded in 2009 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Symvato

Seed Round in 2013
Symvato provides self-paced HIPAA compliance tools for healthcare providers. It also offers security policy assessments with score cards; and policy gap analysis services. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Rovertown

Seed Round in 2013
RoverTown is a developer of a customer loyalty platform used to automatically drive customers to stores. It offers online tools to easily accept mobile coupons, as well as also facilitate coupon campaign, loyalty program, and seamless point of sale integration that enables businesses to increase their sales and revenues with just a push button. It was founded in 2009 and is based in St Louis, Missouri.
SanusEO engagement and intervention platform triggers behavior modification at critical points in transition care saving healthcare dollars while improving patient outcomes. SanusEO is an mHealth company, offering mobile texting and web services to support population health management and help improve both clinical and financial outcomes. Their proprietary Patient Engagement Platform (PEP), supports healthcare providers, patients and payers by providing care teams with daily alerts and access to real-time participant program data for both immediate and long-term intervention planning. SanusEO’s platform is standalone, scalable and low-cost. Adoption is fast and easy for care teams as well as for program participants.

Juristat

Seed Round in 2013
Juristat specializes in transforming public patent data into actionable analytics to assist firms and in-house counsel in optimizing patent prosecution strategies. The company's platform employs natural language processing to analyze data from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, creating detailed behavioral models of patent examiners. This analysis is encapsulated in the Examiner Report, which examines historical behaviors of examiners to forecast their future actions. By utilizing these insights, legal counsel can enhance allowance rates, reduce time to allowance, and lower costs by avoiding ineffective strategies, particularly when responding to adverse office actions. Juristat's extensive database includes complete image file wrappers for over 5.5 million patent applications, covering 99% of active art units and examiners. The platform allows for filtering results by various criteria, including individual examiners and application types, while also tracking changes in examiner behavior over time.

Manufacturers' Inventory

Seed Round in 2013
Manufacturers' Inventory is an inventory marketplace and online resource that helps give new life to unused, surplus industrial parts, and components by connecting buyers and sellers. They provide software that takes the manual work out of selling electrical parts online. It alleviates unused idle and excess industrial automation, and electrical components in the manufacturing space. The system markets industrial parts directly to other buyers, resellers, or manufacturers in need of parts. It analyzes online pricing, availability, and recent purchases to recommend competitive prices for its users. Manufacturers' Inventory was founded by Brian Kohlberg in 2013 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

The Sea App

Seed Round in 2013
The Sea App is the "Kayak" for shopping. Whether you are searching for electronics, shoes, books, or even travel... you can get the results – and the prices – you need within seconds. Search at one location and get thousands of products aggregated for the best price.

BidRazor

Seed Round in 2013
BidRazor, LLC develops software solutions for reducing the time taken for construction bidding process. It serves construction professionals, contractors, real estate professionals, and investors. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in St. Charles, Missouri.

Time to Cater

Seed Round in 2013
Time To Cater is a web-based platform that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered even at NO EXTRA COST to client. If you have had to coordinate catering for events or if you need food ordered quickly online, and especially if you have done it consistently, you understand that valuable time is wasted calling potential caterers for availability, prices, and delivery details, etc. We fix this problem by providing a web-based platform and mobile app that helps companies and individuals coordinate their ideal catered event. Our client only has to submit their event details and budget to our web application and then show up for the event and enjoy! We take care of EVERYTHING in between. And the BEST part is that there is NO EXTRA COST to our client for our service! We make money by making a commission from the caterers in our Preferred Caterer Network.

TrackBill

Seed Round in 2013
TrackBill provides government affairs professionals with efficient mobile access to state and federal legislative information. It serves a diverse clientele, including professional service firms, corporations, and interest groups, enabling them to monitor bills relevant to their interests and track legislative activities. Users benefit from real-time alerts on key actions such as introductions, amendments, hearings, and votes. Additionally, TrackBill simplifies legislative reporting by allowing users to generate professional documents in Word, PDF, and Excel formats, as well as customizable, auto-updating website feeds. This functionality ensures that stakeholders remain informed about important legislative developments.
Dead Inventory Management System (DIMS) provides a software platform that is a low-touch, cloud-based system that does not require physically logging excess inventory. Instead, it interfaces directly with the OEM’s ERP system that can list up to 5,000 products per hour directly into our own online marketplace as well as eBay and Google Shopper.

Lumate

Seed Round in 2013
Lumate, LLC is a company that specializes in a context-driven mobile advertising platform designed to help advertisers effectively reach their target audiences. The platform incorporates geo-location and real-time bidding technologies, offering audience targeting capabilities to ad networks, agencies, media buyers, publishers, and self-service advertisers. Key products include AdTrade, a bidding engine that contextualizes mobile advertising by analyzing data points related to user behavior, AdMotive, a self-service portal that allows customization of ad reach, and DataWell, an API and SDK aimed at publishers and data providers for monetizing audience segment data. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, Lumate also operates a satellite office in Rolla, Missouri.

Gremlin Social

Seed Round in 2012
Gremlin Social offers organizational tools to streamline all of your social media marketing needs. Save time and money with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all in one easy-to-use dashboard. Engage with customers, search Twitter hashtags and brand mentions, and schedule your posts in as little as 15 minutes a day at the optimal time and frequency in each social network without leaving GremlinSocial.com. Gremlin Social employs a staff of experts who specialize in social media best practices. We offer services for our customers including strategy, training, analytics, and research (STAR). Gremlin Social Guardian is also endorsed by the American Bankers Association – through its subsidiary the Corporation for American Banking - and the New York Bankers Association (NYBA) as the recommended social media management and compliance toolkit for all member financial institutions. Products Gremlin Social offers enterprise and white label options for banks and financial services. Gremlin Social features include: team management, scheduled and recurring posts, keyword filtration, translation, branded reports, analytics, content libraries, Bit.ly and Brev.is link shorteners, and much more!

BenchmarkONE

Seed Round in 2012
BenchmarkONE is sales and marketing software for small businesses and marketing agencies. We help agencies and small business owners propel relationships into sales with all-in-one CRM and marketing automation. Cut through the clutter and complexity of bulky tools with a simple, affordable platform made for you.

adFreeq

Seed Round in 2012
AdFreeq is a socially integrated classified ad service that brings buyers and sellers together in real-time. The platform allows companies to present all of their goods or services as a simple ad on any website. AdFreeq was founded in 2011 and is based in Columbia, Missouri, United States.

Tunespeak

Seed Round in 2012
Tunespeak, LLC operates a musician-to-fan loyalty platform designed to engage users through various media interactions. Founded in 2011 and based in St. Louis, Missouri, the platform allows users to earn points by listening to music, watching videos, and sharing content with friends and followers. Additionally, it enables users' friends to accumulate points for a contestant based on their interactions with songs, pictures, and videos throughout contests or raffles. By fostering a deeper connection between musicians and their fans, Tunespeak enhances fan engagement and loyalty in the music industry.

Decide

Seed Round in 2012
Decide operates an interest-based social platform that caters to various topics, including gaming, music, and politics. The company provides native advertising solutions that allow brands to effectively engage with their target audiences. It offers tools for audience development, such as polls, contests, quizzes, and feedback mechanisms, enabling publishers to activate user engagement through customizable actions like newsletter subscriptions and social media follows. Additionally, Decide assists in campaign planning, content creation, and performance optimization, while allowing real-time measurement of results. The platform leverages an in-house artificial intelligence, known as Neo, which utilizes machine learning to analyze vast amounts of data and make informed advertising decisions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, with an additional office in New York, Decide aims to enhance the advertising experience by connecting advertisers with relevant publishers and users.

Material Mix

Seed Round in 2012
Material Mix owns and operates an exchange for reusable industrial byproducts. Each year, US manufacturers pay to dispose of 176 million tons of waste, 34% of which is reusable. The online trade of these recoverable materials represents an unrealized $13.2 billion market opportunity. Material Mix's business model features a disruptive technology that commoditizes the trade of industrial byproducts within the current waste collection industry via a web-based, customer-regulated platform where businesses may create a personalized waste management dashboard, receive updates on available material, and post their own reusable byproduct for auction.

BusyEvent

Pre Seed Round in 2012
BusyEvent is a live event CRM company monetizing the hundreds-of-millions of face-to-face interactions that occur at conferences, trade shows and business to business events each year. Expensive to produce, inefficient and seemingly stuck in a 20-year old model, the 14,000 live events that occur in North America alone have become, tragically, a place where good leads go to die. BusyEvent licenses an easy to customize, live event mobile cloud app that makes any trade show or conference easier to manage and more profitable to produce. By tracking buyer behavior before, during and after an event and then filtering the overload of data into actionable information, they create revenue streams for their event producer clients, from the more than 10MM attendees and 2MM vendors; all of whom can use, BusyEvent.

Decide

Seed Round in 2012
Decide operates an interest-based social platform that caters to various topics, including gaming, music, and politics. The company provides native advertising solutions that allow brands to effectively engage with their target audiences. It offers tools for audience development, such as polls, contests, quizzes, and feedback mechanisms, enabling publishers to activate user engagement through customizable actions like newsletter subscriptions and social media follows. Additionally, Decide assists in campaign planning, content creation, and performance optimization, while allowing real-time measurement of results. The platform leverages an in-house artificial intelligence, known as Neo, which utilizes machine learning to analyze vast amounts of data and make informed advertising decisions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, with an additional office in New York, Decide aims to enhance the advertising experience by connecting advertisers with relevant publishers and users.

Bonfyre

Seed Round in 2012
Bonfyre Inc. is an employee engagement platform that focuses on enhancing employee recognition, communication, feedback, and event management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, Bonfyre aims to transform workplace culture by fostering camaraderie and alignment within organizations. The platform facilitates real-time insights into human resources, enabling companies to better understand and engage their workforce. Through its comprehensive suite of tools, Bonfyre is dedicated to improving employee experience and driving organizational success.

Aisle411

Seed Round in 2012
Aisle411 Inc., founded in 2008 and headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, specializes in providing mobile in-store location services for retailers. The company's innovative platform enables shoppers to easily navigate retail environments by mapping products, offers, and shopping lists based on aisle location. It enhances the shopping experience by delivering contextually relevant information to consumers as they move through stores. For retailers, Aisle411's technology helps them engage shoppers at the shelf, facilitating access to product inventory and location data. The platform is designed to collect and organize this information, allowing for improved merchandising insights and customer engagement. Additionally, Aisle411 collaborates with leading indoor positioning technology providers to enhance its services, ultimately driving higher customer satisfaction and simplifying the overall shopping experience.

Decide

Seed Round in 2011
Decide operates an interest-based social platform that caters to various topics, including gaming, music, and politics. The company provides native advertising solutions that allow brands to effectively engage with their target audiences. It offers tools for audience development, such as polls, contests, quizzes, and feedback mechanisms, enabling publishers to activate user engagement through customizable actions like newsletter subscriptions and social media follows. Additionally, Decide assists in campaign planning, content creation, and performance optimization, while allowing real-time measurement of results. The platform leverages an in-house artificial intelligence, known as Neo, which utilizes machine learning to analyze vast amounts of data and make informed advertising decisions. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri, with an additional office in New York, Decide aims to enhance the advertising experience by connecting advertisers with relevant publishers and users.

The Sea App

Angel Round in 2011
The Sea App is the "Kayak" for shopping. Whether you are searching for electronics, shoes, books, or even travel... you can get the results – and the prices – you need within seconds. Search at one location and get thousands of products aggregated for the best price.

DiningCircle

Seed Round in 2011
DiningCircle LLC offers web-based services to restaurants for managing their reservations, guests, and bottom-line. Its services include online reservations, managing walk-in customers, determining optimal seating, and tracking the activity, preferences, and personal contact information of its customers. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Clayton, Missouri.

Gremlin Social

Seed Round in 2011
Gremlin Social offers organizational tools to streamline all of your social media marketing needs. Save time and money with Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn all in one easy-to-use dashboard. Engage with customers, search Twitter hashtags and brand mentions, and schedule your posts in as little as 15 minutes a day at the optimal time and frequency in each social network without leaving GremlinSocial.com. Gremlin Social employs a staff of experts who specialize in social media best practices. We offer services for our customers including strategy, training, analytics, and research (STAR). Gremlin Social Guardian is also endorsed by the American Bankers Association – through its subsidiary the Corporation for American Banking - and the New York Bankers Association (NYBA) as the recommended social media management and compliance toolkit for all member financial institutions. Products Gremlin Social offers enterprise and white label options for banks and financial services. Gremlin Social features include: team management, scheduled and recurring posts, keyword filtration, translation, branded reports, analytics, content libraries, Bit.ly and Brev.is link shorteners, and much more!

Adjudica

Seed Round in 2011
Adjudica, LLC has developed HealthSight, the world's first group transparency and engagement web platform for employer and government health plans. With a Facebook-like approach to building a sense of community around healthcare, the HealthSight platform is designed to help transform how people view their group healthcare and help plan sponsors and members save money and get the best value from their healthcare spending. Adjudica is using a partner channel distribution strategy to provide HealthSight to the thousands of employers that provide healthcare to over 100 million people. Further the HealthSight platform has an opportunity to be a key component of any healthcare reform, providing the engagement that will be necessary for any of the approaches to controlling costs while extending coverage.