SnapDesk provides conversational, collaborative messaging that seamlessly integrates with all aspects of business service, sales, and support. SnapDesk text messaging tools enable companies to simply and easily send invoices, schedule appointments, send reminders, and carry on conversations.
Botco.ai, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a conversational marketing platform designed to enhance interactions between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Milpitas, California, Botco.ai offers an AI-powered chat solution that simplifies the buying process by addressing customer inquiries efficiently. The platform features customizable conversation templates and provides insights into user experiences, allowing businesses to improve engagement rates. Its capabilities include a comprehensive analytics dashboard that tracks chat campaigns across various channels, such as web and Facebook Messenger. Additionally, Botco.ai's API-based interface facilitates the seamless transfer of leads and data into popular sales and marketing automation tools, enabling businesses to optimize their customer conversion strategies without the need for extensive technical resources.
StimAire, Inc. is a Tucson, Arizona-based company that designs, develops, and manufactures injectable devices aimed at treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Founded in 2017 as a spin-off from the University of Arizona, StimAire specializes in neural stimulation technology that not only addresses OSA but also shows promise in treating conditions such as bladder control issues, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and various types of pain. The company's innovative approach offers a patient-friendly alternative to traditional surgical procedures, potentially reducing the need for major surgeries and hospital stays.
Aural Analytics, Inc. is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company founded in 2015 that focuses on brain health monitoring through its multi-modal analytics platform. The company integrates decades of research in neurological diseases, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and speech pathology to develop proprietary metrics that utilize speech to detect changes in neurological health. By offering downloadable applications for smartphones and tablets, Aural Analytics transforms these devices into effective brain health monitors. This innovative technology enhances traditional functional rating scales used in clinical trials by providing objective, interpretable, and continuous outcomes, leading to more reliable assessments of the effectiveness of drugs and other interventions. Aural Analytics' approach enables the detection of incremental changes in patient health, offering a deeper understanding of disease progression.
Qwick, Inc. is a Phoenix-based on-demand staffing platform founded in 2017 that connects hospitality businesses with service industry professionals in real-time. The company offers a solution for food and beverage professionals to find shifts at hotels, caterers, event venues, and restaurants, allowing them to work flexibly according to their own schedules. Qwick boasts a 98 percent average fill rate, providing hospitality businesses with immediate access to a pre-vetted workforce. The company has partnered with prominent hospitality brands such as Hilton, Aramark, and Marriott International, and has received support from investors including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Peak Ventures. Qwick is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Vartega is a technology development company focused on recycling carbon fiber reinforced plastics, specifically through its innovative patent-pending processes. Established in 2014 and located in Golden, Colorado, Vartega aims to provide low-cost carbon fiber for various mass market applications across several industries, including aerospace, automotive, wind energy, and sporting goods. The company produces recycled carbon fiber suitable for use in nonwoven fabrics, thermoplastic pellets, yarns, and 3D printing filaments. By developing alternative recycling technologies and equipment, Vartega seeks to contribute to the sustainability of carbon fiber materials and enhance their accessibility for broader applications.
Regulonix is an early-stage biotechnology company developing non-opioid drugs for chronic pain. By indirectly targeting the sodium channel NaV1.7 – a well-established and genetically validated pain target – and focusing on the signaling pathways that control this channel’s activity, the Regulonix team has isolated compounds demonstrated in animal models to be non-addictive and more effective than morphine. This unique platform helps address a global pain management therapeutics market projected to reach $83B by 2024, affecting more than 100 million Americans and 1.5 billion people globally.
Post.Bid.Ship, Inc. operates as an online freight matching platform that connects shippers, carriers, and brokers across North America. By utilizing an online load bidding system, the platform allows shippers to post their freight needs while ensuring that carriers meet necessary safety and insurance standards. Shippers can manage their bids confidentially and select the best carrier based on received offers. Conversely, carriers can set up accounts to receive freight alerts, review available loads, and place bids, facilitating an efficient matching process. The service aims to modernize freight logistics by replacing outdated workflows with a real-time, automated bidding process that enhances cost-effectiveness and asset utilization. Founded in 2010 and originally named TruckItNow, Post.Bid.Ship was rebranded in 2011 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
GT Medical Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures a medical equipment for the treatment of brain tumors. The company offers GammaTile, a biocompatible device that combines conformable collagen matrix with brachytherapy (radiation) seeds. The company caters to the healthcare industry. GT Medical Technologies, Inc. was formerly known as Gammatile, Inc. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Tempe, Arizona.
Vartega is a technology development company focused on recycling carbon fiber reinforced plastics, specifically through its innovative patent-pending processes. Established in 2014 and located in Golden, Colorado, Vartega aims to provide low-cost carbon fiber for various mass market applications across several industries, including aerospace, automotive, wind energy, and sporting goods. The company produces recycled carbon fiber suitable for use in nonwoven fabrics, thermoplastic pellets, yarns, and 3D printing filaments. By developing alternative recycling technologies and equipment, Vartega seeks to contribute to the sustainability of carbon fiber materials and enhance their accessibility for broader applications.
Vector was founded by several members of the original SpaceX team and is a disruptive innovator that connects space startups with affordable and frequent launch and platforms to enable space capabilities at a speed and price point never before possible. Vector has a big vision to reshape the 400 billion dollar space market by combining dedicated low-cost micro satellite launch and software defined satellites (Galactic Sky) to dramatically increase access and speed to orbit.
ClickIPO is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of initial public offerings, securities, software, IPO, and investing. It offers a software platform for issuers, underwriters, and online brokerages to leverage the benefits of broad retail distribution and gain access to a large liquidity pipe of buy and hold retail investors, across multiple online brokerages. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Codelucida, Inc. specializes in developing customized error correction solutions utilizing low density parity-check technology, aimed primarily at the storage and communications sectors. The company’s offerings cater to various storage products, including solid-state drives and hard-disk drives. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, Codelucida has pursued federal funding to support its growth. It successfully completed a $150,000 Phase-1 grant, which allowed it to qualify for a competitive Phase-2 grant designed to facilitate further commercialization efforts over a two-year period.
Tempronics is developing devices to revolutionize the way we cool things and generate electricity.
Thermoelectric devices have the potential to replace rotating machines used today for cooling and power generation, including compressors, gas turbines, steam turbines and electrical generators. These machines are noisy, heavy, and wear out from moving parts. Thermoelectric devices are solid state chips that are lighter, silent, potentially more efficient, and do not require environmentally damaging fluids like Freon.
ClearVoice helps companies create engaging content to power their blogs, SEO, social media, and marketing automation. Its content marketing platform offers access to content strategists, industry expert writers, and editors to enable scalable, high-quality content.
It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
Picmonic Inc. operates an audiovisual learning platform designed to enhance memory retention and improve exam performance for students in various fields, particularly nursing and medicine. The platform transforms traditional textbook information into engaging visual stories, known as Picmonics, which utilize humor and memorable graphics to facilitate effective studying. Covering a wide range of subjects including pharmacology, microbiology, and anatomy, Picmonic also offers tools for users to learn, review, and quiz themselves, making the study process interactive and personalized. Founded in 2011 and based in Tempe, Arizona, Picmonic aims to foster a collaborative educational community where learners can create, share, and discover content that enhances academic and professional outcomes.
CampusLogic provides critical tools and resources for the 15 million students who travel the higher education journey each year. The company currently serves more than 750 schools increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates with a platform, which includes a net price calculator, complete scholarship management, personalized digital communications, simplified financial aid verification, 24×7 personalized virtual advising, tuition, and scholarship crowdfunding, and integrated data visualizations.
Crowd Mics LLC, founded in 2014 and based in Mesa, Arizona, has developed a mobile application that enhances audience interaction during live events. The app transforms audience members' iOS and Android devices into wireless microphones, allowing them to speak directly into their phones to be heard over the sound system. In addition to this innovative feature, Crowd Mics offers text commenting and live polling capabilities, which facilitate increased engagement and enable participants to express their viewpoints effectively. The application aims to empower audiences, making them active contributors in various event settings.
There are thousands of products on sale in a grocery store in a typical week, but grocers can only fit 150 to 200 of them into their weekly newspaper circular. As a result, an individual shopper may be interested in only a few of those products.
Yapert is headquartered in San Diego and operates MyFvs, a pop culture portal and community for millennials. MyFvs curates the most popular visual content from across the social world including music, entertainment, sports, fashion, fitness and lifestyle interests. By directly working with content creators such as media companies, brands, entertainers, and musicians, MyFvs also offers exclusive, behind the scenes content.
Siamab Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that develops therapies targeting abnormal carbohydrates found only on cancer cells. It has developed a platform of technologies that enables the discovery and development of anti-TACA therapeutic antibodies.
The company’s core technologies were licensed from the laboratory of Ajit Varki, a professional in glycobiology and sialic-acid biochemistry. It has brought together a team of scientists and advisors in oncology, glycoimmunology, and antibody engineering to support its anti-TACA antibody discovery and development programs.
Siamab Therapeutics was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Newton, M.A.
The rSmart Group, Inc. develops open source application software and solutions for higher education. Its product includes OneCampus, a cloud-based service discovery platform that helps users locate and access campus information and applications. The company also provides students, faculty, and staff access to campus services. Its clientele include Lynn University, University of Delaware, Purdue University, University of Maryland, and University of Hawaii. The rSmart Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The rSmart Group, Inc. develops open source application software and solutions for higher education. Its product includes OneCampus, a cloud-based service discovery platform that helps users locate and access campus information and applications. The company also provides students, faculty, and staff access to campus services. Its clientele include Lynn University, University of Delaware, Purdue University, University of Maryland, and University of Hawaii. The rSmart Group, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
CellzDirect, Inc., a bioscience company, provides cell products and contract laboratory services to bio/pharmaceutical companies. It focuses primarily on drug metabolism and toxicology. CellzDirect serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical companies, as well as various academic and governmental agencies. The company has a facility in Austin, Texas. CellzDirect, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. As of January 31, 2008, CellzDirect, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Life Technologies Corporation.