Capital Innovators

Capital Innovators is an accelerator and venture capital firm specializing in providing growth capital, early stage, and seed funding to startups. It typically invests in the technology sector focusing on wireless telecommunication services, web-based, mobile, or other software-as-a-service (SaaS) sectors. The firm seeks to invest in companies based in St. Louis. It prefers to invest $0.05 million in seed funding. It also provides follow on funding. The firm takes approximately five percent to 10 percent equity stake. It offers a 12 week program twice a year, and usually accept five companies per class. Capital Innovators was founded in 2010 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Henry Chi

Investor

Brian Dixon

COO

FH

Frank Hopper

MD

AJ

Adam Jendrisak

Associate Portfolio Manager

Judy Sindecuse

CEO / Managing Partner

Past deals in Missouri

Hatchbuck

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.

NATIVE

Seed Round in 2019
Native is creating a transparent and sustainable food supply chain. Our software helps seed/genetics companies, growers, and CPG's manage their data, digitize their supply chains, and acquire 1st-party consumer insights. The result of this is cleaner labels, reduced costs, and more profits as our customers provide traceable ingredients that meet the increasing expectations of consumers and regulators.

Purfresh Wine

Series A in 2021
Purfresh Wine is a technology service company for the wine industry. We are on a mission to provide ozone technology that improves winemaking, wine quality and saves harvests from smoke taint caused by wildfires. Increasing global wildfires is a consequence of climate change that impacts the viability for wine grapes to be processed. The risk of smoke taint makes wine that has a burnt, ashy or medicinal taste. There is over $420M of damaged smoke tainted grapes globally each year, and this number is increasing by 8% per year. Purfresh Wine's ozone technology is a key component in disaster recovery for the wine industry. Our technology also enhances fermentation and improves wine quality for healthy grapes; positively impacting quality, taste, color, stability and provides significant value growing average wine sales prices as well as reducing amounts of wine that requires declassification.

MeterGenius

Seed Round in 2015
In 2013, MeterGenius set out to create smart energy consumers. They accomplished this by engaging customers with their electricity consumption. The insight, analytics, tools, and motivations they provide have proven to be effective at engaging customers like never before. Because of this, their energy-conscious users have also proven to be more loyal and valuable to their electricity providers. Whether your goal is to increase customer retention, lower electricity consumption during peak hours, or add additional revenue streams, MeterGenius's platform and experience will be the solution to create value for you and your customers.

SUNSTATION USA

Seed Round in 2016
SUNSTATION is a weather resistant, 100% all-natural, Eco-friendly, touch-free sunscreen dispenser that is your community’s #1 resource for preventing sunburns and skin cancer.

Global Yodel LLC

Seed Round in 2014
Global Yodel LLC, a community of citizens, operates a portal of expression that allows its community to see and share inspiration, life, and culture through place. It explores destination, place, culture, people, and products around the world from the perspective of locals; produces and publishes photography, video, writing, and design rooted in places; offers destination tips and insight into place; sells one-of-a-kind, exclusive, and collectable limited edition photography and designs, including limited editions, open editions, edition cards, prints, and frames online; and showcases and promotes the work of artists, creatives, and writers in its community. The company serves customers around the world. Global Yodel LLC is based in Anacortes, Washington.

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.

LockerDome, LLC

Seed Round in 2012
LockerDome is an ad platform with a brain, designed specifically for performance-based advertising. The brain behind the platform is Neo, an in-house AI, which uses machine learning to process billions of data points and make intelligent decisions at lightning speed.

Label Insight

Seed Round in 2012
Label Insight collects, aggregates and analyzes CPG label data to allow the government, retailers, manufacturers and app developers a comprehensive view of food labels. This includes allergens, additives, ingredient, and claims analysis.

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!

Heartbeat Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Heartbeat has developed an algorithm that enables doctors, nurses, and patients to monitor hemodynamic parameters and provide care management with actionable information to help prevent hospital re-admissions and advanced remote monitoring. With Heartbeat’s application, these parameters can be measured using any off-the-shelf Pulse Oximeter or wearable device.

Tunedly (Canada)

Seed Round in 2021
Tunedly lets you link up with 100s of hand-picked session musicians and uncover new opportunities to gain exposure for your music. Started by musicians, the idea for the live collaboration music production platform came out of the need to provide better opportunities for people who are interested in making music, but either lack the means to make it happen, or are not able to connect with the right talent and resources.

Drive Software Solutions Ltd

Venture Round in 2020
Drive Software Solutions Ltd develops and offers fleet management and leasing software that supports vehicle management requirements. The company’s software provides asset management solutions. The features of the software include customer management, finance; fleet administration; reporting; rentals; workshop and stores monitoring; workflow management; mobility; leasing and quotations; credit management; complaints; and acquisitions and disposals. Additionally, the company offers consultancy services to the clients is to support the implementation of the software. Drive Software Solutions Ltd was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Stevenage, United Kingdom.

MyMarkit

Pre Seed Round in 2020
A fintech transaction marketplace where consumers bypass loss in purchasing power using one-of-a-kind blockchain automation technology and a true digital currency. MyMarkit is starting in the luxury resale space and moving into retail verticals.

Norse

Seed Round in 2011
Based in California, Norse is a cybersecurity firm that offers internet security intelligence solutions to e-commerce and enterprise clients. The firm delivers live and accurate attack intelligence solutions enabling its customers to block attacks, uncover hidden breaches, and track threats emerging around the globe. It is focused on improving the performance, catch-rate, and return-on-investment for enterprise security infrastructures. Norse, which was founded in 2010, serves global financial, government, and technology organizations through its products and services.

Gainsight, Inc.

Seed Round in 2011
Gainsight’s customer success technology helps businesses retain customers and drive company growth. Its innovative customer-centric technology is driving the future of customer success. The company’s customer cloud offers a powerful set of solutions focused on customer success, product experience, revenue optimization, customer experience, and customer data, that together enable businesses to put the customer at the center of everything they do. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Aisle411

Seed Round in 2012
Aisle411 Inc. provides mobile in-store location services platform for retailers. The company’s platform allows shoppers to map products, offers, and lists by aisle location, as well as discover information based on a shopper’s in-store location; and enables retailers to reach shoppers at the shelf with context and location relevant information that enhances the shopper experience. Its indoor retail mapping and location service, and mobile platform allows shoppers to navigate through retail stores to find exactly what they want by collecting, organizing, and monetizing retailers’ product inventory, location data, and enterprise software space planning systems and store maps. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in St. Louis, 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!

Dabble

Angel Round in 2015
Dabble Inc. is a community marketplace for people to teach, discover, and host affordable in-person classes in their community. It offers classes in various classes that include print making, textiles, photography, fitness, bicycles, coffee, growth, entrepreneurship, woodworking, gardening, cooking, metal arts, cocktails and spirits, writing, beer, technology, wine tasting, career, glass arts, and blogging. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Keen Bean Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Keen Bean Organics is a digitally native, direct-to-consumer, baby food brand by parents for parents. Think cold-pressed juice meets baby food with superfoods+probiotics. Even the pickiest of (tiny) eaters, deserve to be nourished with the healthiest and cleanest ingredients. - Keen Bean Organics was the Most Funded Baby Food project on Kickstarter ever | 2017 - Completed Food Evolutions Accelerator by Ebro Foods/GREY | Spring 2018 - Completed Capital Innovators Accelerator (Top 10 ranked accelerator 4 years in a row | 6 companies chosen out of 450+ applicants) | Fall 2018.

DiningCircle LLC

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.

Smart Screen

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Smart Screen is an automated onboarding and screening solution delivering fast, affordable, and highly personalized background checks. They allow organizations to reduce risk through screening of employees, contractors, and suppliers using their intuitive, low-cost, secure, and compliant platform.

AdStash

Seed Round in 2019
AdStash is a digital signage platform that utilizes programmatic advertising to generate a new revenue stream for businesses. Its services are dedicated to helping businesses of all sizes easily generate new streams of income. The company specializes in developing tools to empower businesses to generate extra income and provide exceptional value to their visitors and customers. AdStash device and app help customers transform their digital screens into revenue-generating content and ad delivery systems.

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!

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.

RippleNami

Seed Round in 2017
RippleNami frees users from information silos, making big data relevant, decipherable and actionable. The cloud-based, device-agnostic and cost-effective platform can be customized to control access to valuable data with specific profiles and permission levels. The only traceability and transparency solution of its kind, RippleNami helps deliver real-time information on any device, allowing users the power to easily solve problems, make critical decisions and collaborate like never before.

Need Fixed Parts

Seed Round in 2015
Need Fixed LLC, also known as Need Fixed Parts, operates an online portal that sells smartphone and tablet replacement parts. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bonfyre

Seed Round in 2015
Bonfyre is an enterprise communications platform that is changing the way companies build culture and engage their employees. Our technology brings people together and helps organizations build camaraderie, align culture and drive real-time HR business intelligence.

Gluetech, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Gluetech, Inc. develops software that provides real time insights and transparency of financial data sets. The company offers Dataprobe, a software that controls, tracks, improves, and gives transparency to metadata financial models to its users. Dataprobe also automates regulatory compliance in the financial operating environment. Gluetech, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in East Hampton, New York.

Saasuma Inc

Venture Round in 2020
Saasuma Inc. provides mobile and desktop application software for users to search across clouds and devices from a single search box .The company is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Pixel Press Technology, LLC

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.

Kwema, Inc.

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.

Bonfyre

Seed Round in 2012
Bonfyre is an enterprise communications platform that is changing the way companies build culture and engage their employees. Our technology brings people together and helps organizations build camaraderie, align culture and drive real-time HR business intelligence.

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.

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.

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.

Viewpoint LLC

Seed Round in 2013
ViewPoint is the mobile access point to all of your business’ essential information. It lets you view all reports, workflows, presentations, and other need-to-know information to help you make decisions on the go and in real time. We already rely on our mobile devices for everything else in our lives when we’re on the go. Now with ViewPoint, you can truly manage your business from the same devices -- anywhere, anytime.

Vetty

Seed Round in 2017
Vetty, Inc. designs and develops an artificial intelligence-based employee verification platform for gig-economy marketplaces and enterprises. It offers a mobile and desktop-based identity and background verification platform for the employee hiring process that stores the information needed for the applicant’s background check. It provides various checks, including identity checks, criminal checks, credential checks, financial checks, driving record checks, and drug testing. The company serves hospitality, technology, financial services, staffing, healthcare, commercial drivers, non-profit, marketplaces, and the on-demand economy industries. Vetty, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

Jubel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Jubel, Inc. develops a trip planning platform for adventurous travelers. It offers a multi-destination experiential trip that helps users to have a complete travel experiences for their budget and style. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Chula Vista, California.

Tame the Beast

Series A in 2020
At TAME the BEAST® we create men's grooming products with arousing scents and energizing properties. We also know a thing or two about being a man.

Allosense Inc.

Convertible Note in 2020
Allosense delivers an easy user experience for integrating smart sensors and analyzing data. We design and manufacture "always connected" asset trackers that use satellite, cellular, and mesh connectivity. Our trackers incorporate a suite of sensors for monitoring high-value assets in real-time.

Alphachannel, Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
Alphachannel, Inc. connects brand marketers with production partners to create and manage technology-based marketing content. It offers CMO-enablement tool for discovering marketing engagements and sourcing digital content formats, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, wearable technology, chatbots, and brand integrations for brands, agencies, and publishers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Stratifund

Seed Round in 2016
Stratifund is a web-based educational platform for equity crowdfunding investors and early stage companies. It offers research reports to help investors determine whether or not an equity crowdfunded offer makes sense for them. The platform combines independent research reports and a proprietary rating system to help individuals make informed investment decisions. Stratifund was launched in 2016 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

FocalCast LLC

Seed Round in 2015
FocalCast offers a range of interactive web-based market research platforms for global brands and marketing agencies. FocalCast was founded by Devin Turner and Charlie Beckwith in September 2013 and is based in St Louis, Missouri.

Eggschain

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a community mobile application created to facilitate eggs-freezing procedure communication. The company's application educates, supports and provides peace of mind to women before, during and after the eggs-freezing procedure, enabling women to create a digital, trackable identity for their frozen eggs.

RunIQ

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.

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!).

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.

Tunespeak, LLC

Seed Round in 2012
Tunespeak, LLC operates a musician-to-fan loyalty platform. Its platform enables users to earn points by listening music, watching videos, checking photos, and sharing with their friends and followers. Its platform also facilitates a user’s friend to earn points for a contestant once for each song, picture, and video for the entire duration of the contest or raffle. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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 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.

AppNotch LLC

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.

SpenDebt

Pre Seed Round in 2019
• SpenDebt is a financial technology company designed to assist people to pay off debt or bills, leveraging micropayments (i.e. $1.00) through every day transactions. As a customer spends, a predefined amount is automatically added to the transaction, then those micropayments are added up and submitted as a monthly payment. SpenDebt makes debt or bill repayment automatic and creates discipline, providing on time payments that reduce consumer’s account balance over time and improves their financial health.

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.

SchoolTube, Inc.

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.

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.

Keydabra

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

OmniValley

Pre Seed Round in 2020
OmniValley, Inc. operates as an online community for startup and investors seeking connections to entrepreneurial ecosystems. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

LockerDome, LLC

Seed Round in 2011
LockerDome is an ad platform with a brain, designed specifically for performance-based advertising. The brain behind the platform is Neo, an in-house AI, which uses machine learning to process billions of data points and make intelligent decisions at lightning speed.

rankedHiRe

Seed Round in 2015
rankedHiRe organizes and ranks agency talent, granting corporate recruiters inside access to job seekers who were previously hidden behind agencies’ closed doors. Recruiters take back control of the process using our powerful search algorithm, pricing tools, and skill comparisons to view the highest rated talent profiles. By viewing professionals from countless agencies while only engaging with the candidates (and agencies) that have the skills and experience they need, recruiters significantly reduce time-to-fill. Don’t worry about the agencies. They get another channel through which to market their best candidates to in-market businesses. By utilizing their existing talent networks, they place more candidates into local businesses. Everyone wins. With rankedHiRe, talent meets opportunity faster.

ROWViGOR

Seed Round in 2017
ROWViGOR™ is a virtual in-door row house that liberates the fitness experience through full-body, mind blowing and life changing workouts. The mobile application provides rowing based live and archived fitness experiences, data tracking, competition, games and more. ROWViGOR™ has built a platform, including a production quality studio, that allows users to choose a variety off different content to access live or on demand; the Company also has a platform built for gyms and studios to create virtual boutique rowing studios.

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.

Youthful Savings

Seed Round in 2019
Youthful LLC operates an online platform that provides financial education and entrepreneurship training. It provides Financial Freedom, a tool that offers college planning solutions and My Own Business Challenge, a platform for youth financial education and entrepreneurship training. Youthful LLC was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Mylestones

Seed Round in 2020
Seniors are feeling more isolated than ever, we The Mylestones digital life project creator guides a senior and their loved one through the story of their life with a 165-question guide. A video call is directed by a loved one and questions like “tell me about your first car” are answered, the application records the conversation and video of all parties. This natural language story is placed into the senior’s life feed to be shared with all parties. We help the senior create, store, and share the story of their life. all seen the videos of Grandparents and their loved ones waiving to each other from a fourth story window or trying to pay tick, tac, toe through a pane of glass. Seniors wish to share the story of their lives but don't best know how We are now using video chats like Zoom and Skype to communicate with our senior loved ones, however these conversations can become a bit trite and trivial, all in all we want to create greater meaning in the time we spend on these calls. The Mylestones digital life project creator guides a senior and their loved one through the story of their life with a 165-question guide. A video call is directed by a loved one and questions like “tell me about your first car” are answered, the application records the conversation and video of all parties. This natural language story is placed into the senior’s life feed to be shared with all parties. We help the senior create, store, and share the story of their life.

TrackBill

Seed Round in 2013
TrackBill is the solution government affairs professionals trust for simple, fast, mobile access to state and federal legislative information. Professional service firms, corporations, and interest groups of all sizes rely on TrackBill to identify bills within their areas of interest, track their activity, and report this information to their stakeholders.

Lumate

Seed Round in 2013
Lumate is a developer of a technology platform used for programmatic buying of mobile advertising. The company offers products that fill voids in the mobile advertising supply chain by providing advertisers and ad networks with data-rich audience targeting capabilities. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

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.

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.

Tunedly (Canada)

Seed Round in 2017
Tunedly lets you link up with 100s of hand-picked session musicians and uncover new opportunities to gain exposure for your music. Started by musicians, the idea for the live collaboration music production platform came out of the need to provide better opportunities for people who are interested in making music, but either lack the means to make it happen, or are not able to connect with the right talent and resources.

Obe, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Obe’s digital wellness platform makes it easier for veterinarians and pet parents to keep their dogs and cats healthier and happier, for longer. Real-time, accurate consumption data allows better health and nutrition decisions to help with preventative care and early diagnosis of potential problems, long before the problems are acute.

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.

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!).

Better Weekdays

Venture Round in 2015
Better Weekdays, Inc. owns and operates an online career services platform and mobile application under the name The Whether. The company's solution enables university recruiters reduce cost per hire through personalized content marketing to college students. It provides self-assessment, job matching, and career development services to students and professionals; and allows employers to attract, hire, and retain top talent. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Spinball Sports LLC

Seed Round in 2015
Spinball Sports LLC manufactures baseball pitching machines, automatic ball feeders, cricket bowling machines, and related parts. The company is based in Mt Vernon, Illinois.

Invisible Girlfriend

Seed Round in 2015
Invisible Girlfriend, and its partner service Invisible Boyfriend, helps users tell a story about a relationship they aren’t actually in. It is a combination of text chatting, voicemails, handwritten notes, selfies, and a personalized story. Users can also opt to receive gifts, personalized notes, and themed packages perfect for holidays. The service enables users to craft their invisible partner’s personality, the story of how they met, and their day-to-day interactions. Every user can give his girlfriend a name, choose her age and photo, and create her personality. They can chat and receive real-time responses. The chat replies are written by an online workforce of anonymous, real people. Invisible Girlfriend received the 1st Place at St. Louis StartUp Weekend in 2013. Invisible Girlfriend is operated from 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.

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.

RippleNami

Seed Round in 2016
RippleNami frees users from information silos, making big data relevant, decipherable and actionable. The cloud-based, device-agnostic and cost-effective platform can be customized to control access to valuable data with specific profiles and permission levels. The only traceability and transparency solution of its kind, RippleNami helps deliver real-time information on any device, allowing users the power to easily solve problems, make critical decisions and collaborate like never before.

BlueStrata EHR

Seed Round in 2015
Integration: Our comprehensive design leads the industry through seamless data sharing across the entire medical record and billing system, meeting today’s standards of practice. Intuitive: By utilizing the conveniently located touch screen kiosks and utilizing cloud-based technology, caregivers will capture accurate resident care information from where ever they are.
Pico Media Memories Ltd provides discovery, data, engagement, and communication tools for sports teams, music artists, venues, and more. Its platform allows users to learn who their fans are and communicate with them directly. The platform also creates a social media communication channel which translates to the game experience through the arena’s video display boards. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Haifa, Israel with an additional office in St. Louis, Missouri.

Collabra Innovations, LLC

Seed Round in 2016
Collabra Innovations, LLC provides Collabra, an online tool for artists to create, collaborate, and share their material. Its tool enables members to upload or record tracks direct to Collabra, connect and share across their existing social networks, and provide the potential for fan feedback from the digital studio. The company is based in Louisville, Kentucky.
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.

adFreeq, LLC

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.

LockerDome, LLC

Seed Round in 2012
LockerDome is an ad platform with a brain, designed specifically for performance-based advertising. The brain behind the platform is Neo, an in-house AI, which uses machine learning to process billions of data points and make intelligent decisions at lightning speed.

QuantiModo

Seed Round in 2016
QuantiModo consists of a website and suite of mobile applications and browser extensions that collect and aggregates data from a wide array of life-tracking apps and devices. Through the analysis of data on symptoms, diet, sleep, exercise, weather, medication, and anything else, it can then tell you what you can do to maximize your health and happiness.

TAKO

Seed Round in 2014
TAKO, Inc. designs and develops a cloud software that allows users to modify files on different devices. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

MojiLab

Seed Round in 2016
Emoji studio & digital sticker agency

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.

BenMedica, LLC

Angel Round in 2016
BenMedica, LLC provides BenConnect platform that connects providers existing electronic prescribing infrastructure with their electronic health/medical records systems. It helps payors to communicate with providers and patients at the point of care, as well as provides information that allows them to make informed decisions regarding their drug benefit. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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.

GiftAMeal

Seed Round in 2016
GiftAMeal is a mobile application that helps provide a meal to someone in need each time a user takes a photo at a partner restaurant. Users may also share photos on social media to provide another meal.

Tame the Beast

Seed Round in 2018
At TAME the BEAST® we create men's grooming products with arousing scents and energizing properties. We also know a thing or two about being a man.

W9manager

Seed Round in 2020
W9manager helps companies simplify and automate the entire W-9/1099 process from vendor onboarding through 1099 issuance. Companies can request electronic W-9s and store them all in one place. Its guided reportability process with contextual help will help users determine the reportability of vendor payments.

MathBRIX LLC

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.

Anchor

Seed Round in 2017
Anchor is your on-demand friend with a boat. By downloading the Anchor Passenger app, you are only a few taps away from an adventure on the water. Private boat owner's are cruising nearby ready to pick you up dockside... We turn your boat into your business. Taking an "education first" approach, Anchor is providing all of the licensing necessary to turn boat owners in the certified Captains free of charge.

Pixel Press Technology, LLC

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.

Provider Pool

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Provider Pool is an online labor marketplace created specifically for the healthcare industry. Our human cloud platform algorithmically matches hospitals with ideal nursing professionals for short-term and longer-term staffing needs. Hospitals gain direct access to hyperlocal nursing talent saving time and money on staffing and recruitment. Using unparalleled matching technology powered by AI, Provider Pool presents nurses with the shifts they’re most likely to accept. Provider Pool is powering the future of work in healthcare.

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.
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.

Jobsite Unite

Seed Round in 2015
Jobsite Unite is a communication network that delivers live updates and enables constant communication between teams on construction jobsites. By harnessing mobile technology, Jobsite Unite provides project-wide access to critical information and resources needed in everyday construction operations. The ability to communicate with any member of a project or team will vastly reduce wasted time, materials, and labor. Our goal is to take the headaches out of reaching other teams. This means that project managers, superintendents and foremen will spend less time communicating schedules, changes, reassigning locations, and relocating equipment while empowering employees with the vital information they need for day to day operations. Information exchange and data capture done directly in the field greatly reduces strain on building projects both large and small.

Collaborata

Seed Round in 2017
Collaborata, Inc. operates a crowdfunding marketplace for market research. The company's online platform enables co-sponsoring of market research projects by connecting researcher clients and suppliers to shape and launch transformative insights projects. It offers syndicated sharing service to find projects that fill critical business needs and custom concierge service to have project placed with the right expert. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

Semantix

Seed Round in 2016
Semantix is a Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence company. Leveraging proprietary algorithms and a powerful data warehouse of clinical notes for training machine learning models, Semantix is delivering the next generation of medical coding technology for providers and payers.

Hidrent

Seed Round in 2020
Hidrent helps firefighters supplement their incomes during their 20 off-duty days each month by connecting them with people looking for a safe, trustworthy and reliable handyman.

Viewpoint, Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
Viewpoint is the global provider of integrated software solutions for the construction industry. We are trusted by nearly 8,000 customers to connect their office, team and field operations, improving project profitability, enhancing productivity, and effectively collaborating across the broad construction ecosystem. Our innovations transform construction by aligning financial and HR systems, project management tools, and mobile field solutions to minimize risk and increase efficiency.

Figures.com

Seed Round in 2011
The Figures.com network is the largest group of action-figure sites online, serving 10 million pages a month to 300,000 unique visitors.

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.

HIPAAtrek

Seed Round in 2015
HIPAAtrek, LLC provides a module that guides users in creating and managing security, privacy, and breach notification policies and procedures in a single place. Its dashboard displays required and addressable policies and procedures. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Juristat

Seed Round in 2013
Juristat transforms public patent data into actionable analytics to help firms and in-house counsel optimize patent prosecution strategies. Our Examiner Report analyzes past behaviors of all USPTO patent examiners to predict their future behavior. Using our reports, counsel can increase allowance rates, decrease time to allowance, and reduce costs by avoiding unnecessary and statistically inefficient and ineffective strategies, particularly when determining how to best respond to an adverse office action. We can filter results by individual examiners, art units, assignees, application types, and claims. Furthermore, we can show changes in behavior over time. Our continually growing database includes complete image file wrappers for over 5.5 million patent applications, as well as 99% of all active art units (over 900 in total) and active examiners (over 8,000 in total).

ReachDynamics, LLC

Seed Round in 2014
ReachDynamics, LLC is a leader in email remarketing and direct mail retargeting. The company designs and develops email remarketing and direct mail retargeting solutions. It sends targeted emails and direct mails to website visitors who leave without providing contact information or making a purchase, to convert lost website traffic into sales and leads. Find out more at www.ReachDynamics.com.

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.

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.