Flashstarts

Flashstarts is a Cleveland-based business startup accelerator and venture fund focused on unique and innovative uses of software and technology. Flashstarts provides the resources, capital and guidance necessary to support the earliest stage entrepreneurs. The Flashstarts Accelerator is powered by rapid cycles of feedback and iteration, customized guidance from coaches, an extensive network of mentors, and a team of talented interns. Our formal accelerator program runs for 12 weeks, and our third class begins in May of 2015. However, our relationship with teams truly starts with the application process - not every team that applies is admitted, but everyone receives feedback. While we will review any team with any idea, our sweet spots are Enterprise IT (EIT) and Healthcare IT (HIT). For our 2014 summer accelerator class, we have defined six “R&D labs” filled with vertical-specific resources to give Flashstarts teams valuable expertise and access. Each lab has a robust network of resources, mentors and corporate partners for our startup teams to leverage. Our Cleveland location is home to a world-class healthcare ecosystem with top 10 hospitals, 700+ health-related companies and institutions, 230,000 workers, and has received $1.3 billion in recent investment. A $465 million, 1 million-square-foot Global Center for Health Innovation has opened in the Fall 2013. Flashstarts teams are ideally positioned to leverage these extraordinary assets. We are continuously seeking like-minded entrepreneurs with truly unique, breakthrough ideas that have the potential to change the world. We are also open to outstanding entrepreneurs even if they don’t have an idea – if you share our passion, we will help generate the idea. Our Venture Capital fund operates our startup accelerator and will create, fund and support 12 new software companies in 2014. The fund is currently open, with 50 units available to accredited investors. Interested investors can visit www.flashstarts.net.

Lyons MSOD, Shannon

COO / Partner

26 past transactions

VirtualSpaces

Seed Round in 2018
VirtualSpaces specializes in creating immersive mobile virtual reality experiences for the real estate industry. The company focuses on transforming architectural drawings into photorealistic 3D visualizations that enable potential buyers to explore properties that have yet to be constructed. By utilizing advanced VR technology, VirtualSpaces allows users to grasp the scale, size, height, and depth of these spaces without needing to visit them physically. This innovative approach not only enhances the property viewing experience but also helps real estate developers and related professionals, such as architects and interior designers, reduce costs and improve sales effectiveness. The company is recognized for achieving impressive graphical quality, rendering millions of vertices on standalone VR headsets, thus setting a new standard in the industry.

Adminix

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Adminix is an AI-enabled no-code app development and automation software that empowers businesses to enhance their productivity significantly. By offering an intuitive platform, Adminix allows companies to build and deploy custom process automation without the need for developer engagement, thus saving both time and money. The software enables users to create low-code workflows and deploy them as serverless logic within their cloud environments. This approach helps organizations streamline their routine business processes efficiently, ultimately facilitating a more productive work atmosphere.

Komae

Angel Round in 2017
Komae is a communal service sharing platform that exchanges points for favors. Their first version targets the child care market and is live in the app stores with over 12,500 accounts created. Parents create a personalized, trusted social network of friends and the app makes it easy to exchange free time, schedule play dates, and grow a network to swap free child care. Their market expansion strategy includes adding pet sitting, carpooling, elder care...anything people care for. Their brand is built on the principle that it takes a village, in fact Kṓmē (ko'-may) means Village in Greek.

Windrush

Seed Round in 2016
Windrush is a collaborative data visualization platform for the financial space. Analysts can quickly create live-updating interactive charts directly in Excel, making them more productive and produce higher quality reports. With our model and visualization versioning, large organizations can track their data’s audit trail, saving enormous amounts of time and money with their compliance team. Windrush makes large organizations more productive, engaging, and compliant.

Colign

Seed Round in 2015
Colign operates as an online marketing platform that facilitates connections and collaborations among innovators, research institutions, corporations, and entrepreneurs. By enabling these diverse stakeholders to engage with one another, Colign streamlines the process of forming intellectual property and research partnerships. The company's focus is on matching today’s innovators with the solutions needed for future advancements, thereby fostering a collaborative environment that supports innovation across various industries.

Brilliency

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Brilliency provides a modern, flexible technology platform that streamlines and deepens the relationship between people and utilities. The company's platform offers personalized, game-based engagement education tools and communication channels, comparable consumption, and cost data on an interactive dashboard and also offers behavioral demand response, enabling users to engage and rewarding for consumers to measure, manage and control electric, gas and water consumption.

Remesh

Seed Round in 2014
Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale and organize audience responses in real-time. It helps users to understand their customers or employees and make more informed business decisions by empowering them to engage with up to 1,000 people at once- online and in real-time.

Mango

Seed Round in 2014
Mango is a digital advertising platform that helps colleges market their brand internationally on foreign social media. They offer a multitude of services aimed at assisting universities and colleges in increasing their ability to recruit international students.

Bracketr

Seed Round in 2014
Bracketr is a digital marketing company based in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in solutions that enhance brand awareness and promote product sales. By leveraging predictive consumer insights, Bracketr helps brands connect with the right customers, ultimately driving sales and fostering brand loyalty. The company's focus on utilizing data-driven strategies positions it as a valuable partner for businesses seeking to optimize their marketing efforts.

Class6ix

Seed Round in 2014
Class6ix is a discovery platform for video news, connecting content providers with an audience online most likely to engage with their content. Using an interface that pairs the simplicity of television with a patent-pending personalization algorithm, Class6ix pulls national, local, and new media sources together into a meaningful newscast for the user. Using the product is as easy as listening to Pandora; users simply watch and skip videos as they choose for leanback viewing, and they can lean forward at any point for greater control. The entire experience transitions seamlessly from device to device, allowing them to catch up on the news whether they have three minutes or 30.

Lufthouse

Seed Round in 2014
Lufthouse, Inc., based in Cleveland, Ohio, specializes in creating digital experiences through its innovative app that utilizes proximity-based communication technology. Founded in 2014, the company leverages iBeacon and Bluetooth technology to deliver multimedia content directly to consumers, enhancing engagement by providing relevant information about businesses, products, and promotions at the right moment. Lufthouse also offers a user-friendly drag-and-drop content management system, allowing clients to easily update and manage their digital content as needed. The company is part of the Flashstarts startup accelerator and aims to transform the way businesses interact with their customers through seamless digital communication.

KnotProfit

Seed Round in 2014
KnotProfit is an online platform based in Cleveland, Ohio, that specializes in donation-based wedding registries and wedding favors. It connects couples with nonprofit organizations and socially responsible wedding vendors, allowing couples to create custom wedding websites and choose a nonprofit to support. Through KnotProfit, couples can establish a donation-based wedding registry, providing a meaningful experience for their guests while addressing the common desire for impactful gift-giving. Guests can contribute donations towards nonprofit projects or fund larger wedding items, ensuring that a portion of their contributions supports the chosen cause. The platform also offers access to wedding vendors who make donations to the couple's selected nonprofit and offer discounts for their services. KnotProfit was founded by Joshua and Kritika, who aimed to enhance the wedding planning experience based on their own challenges during the process.

Travel Later

Angel Round in 2014
Travel Later is an easy to use, flexible platform that helps consumers budget, plan and pay for vacation while linking their financial & social accounts online, helping consumers achieve their vacation savings goals. Travel Later wants to be the Mint.com for vacationers and will serve as a virtual wallet making it an interactive and fun experience to save for vacation with a social component that allows travelers to share their savings goals, vacation plans and photos through Facebook, Twitter and other social network outlets.

Vestor

Seed Round in 2014
Vestor is a web platform that allows real estate developers to access private equity as a form of financing for their projects while at the same time providing accredited investors with a unique and engaging way to invest in real estate.

Bold Guidance

Seed Round in 2014
BOLD Guidance helps your students get into college. BOLD Guidance is a Software as a Service that allows students to easily and efficiently manage the college application process, while counselors and parents track their progress. The platform, which is accessible on mobile devices and computers, provides a step-by-step guide, interactive checklist and automated task reminders customized for each university application. Students, counselors and parents are no longer missing deadlines or requirements with our interactive tool provides easy access to important deadlines, task requirements and all other information related to the application process. Over 4 million students enroll in college every year and they apply to an average of 9 colleges with over 10 requirements averaging almost 100 deadlines to keep up with. With the average high school counselor ratio being 1 to 460, they cannot provide students with in-depth college counseling. Enrolling in college is one of the most important and expensive decisions for students and their parents, yet the process is complicated and overwhelming. BOLD Guidance simple and easy software makes applying for college less stressful and more efficient for everyone.

Crowdentials

Seed Round in 2014
At Crowdentials, we believe that compliance burdens produced by the JOBS Act are mitigating its ability to increase capital formation. One of these compliance burdens is the need for issuers to verify the accreditation status of their investors. Our Investor Verification tool streamlines and automates this process using the principles-based methodology outlined by the SEC and promoted by the Angel Capital Association. We know privacy is paramount to investor and have built our software around this simple fact. As the JOBS Act becomes finalized and implemented, investor verification will not be the only compliance headache issuers and investors will face. Crowdentials will alleviate these roadblocks as they come with our suite of compliance software which include bad actor checks, automatic Form D filings.

Complion

Seed Round in 2014
Complion platform offers tremendous benefits to every role in the clinical trial ecosystem. It allows administrators and research coordinators to more efficiently maintain compliance protocols. It unleashes investigators to explore potential innovation with fewer hassles. It streamlines crucial information that auditors and quality assurance personnel need and it permits collaborators and reviewers to more easily participate in clinical research.

Crowdentials

Seed Round in 2013
At Crowdentials, we believe that compliance burdens produced by the JOBS Act are mitigating its ability to increase capital formation. One of these compliance burdens is the need for issuers to verify the accreditation status of their investors. Our Investor Verification tool streamlines and automates this process using the principles-based methodology outlined by the SEC and promoted by the Angel Capital Association. We know privacy is paramount to investor and have built our software around this simple fact. As the JOBS Act becomes finalized and implemented, investor verification will not be the only compliance headache issuers and investors will face. Crowdentials will alleviate these roadblocks as they come with our suite of compliance software which include bad actor checks, automatic Form D filings.

Smooth

Seed Round in 2013
Smooth is the first financial dashboard that is truly on a lifetime scale. Financial planners are prohibitively expensive and personal finance programs don’t go far enough. Digital personal finance tools available provide oversight of one’s finances, through budgeting and categorization, but struggle to project forward. Smooth’s proprietary financial engine accurately projects forward to provide not only oversight, but insight and foresight. Smooth integrates the most powerful financial planning engine (according to the Washington Post), with data aggregation technology and bank-level security, resulting a platform that’s highly sophisticated, yet simple to use.

Complion

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Complion platform offers tremendous benefits to every role in the clinical trial ecosystem. It allows administrators and research coordinators to more efficiently maintain compliance protocols. It unleashes investigators to explore potential innovation with fewer hassles. It streamlines crucial information that auditors and quality assurance personnel need and it permits collaborators and reviewers to more easily participate in clinical research.

Curiosidy

Seed Round in 2013
Curiosidy, Inc. is a Cleveland-based company that offers a social media platform focused on storytelling for organizations, including non-profits, businesses, and universities. Founded in 2013, Curiosidy allows members to create profiles and share personal narratives with their peers, fostering effective communication and collaboration within teams. The platform is designed to enhance creativity and improve group dynamics by enabling users to connect through their stories in a secure and user-friendly environment. By emphasizing personal storytelling, Curiosidy aims to strengthen organizational relationships and facilitate a deeper understanding among team members.

Aproofed

Seed Round in 2013
Aproofed Inc. operates an online platform designed to facilitate collaboration between writers and editors, focusing on enhancing academic performance. Founded in 2013 and based in Brunswick, Ohio, the company serves students and alumni by providing access to a marketplace of vetted, self-employed editors. These editors review submitted documents, offering comments and corrections to improve quality and ensure adherence to industry standards in formatting and grammar. By connecting users with professional editing services, Aproofed aims to support individuals in producing polished and effective academic and professional documents.

Bold Guidance

Angel Round in 2013
BOLD Guidance helps your students get into college. BOLD Guidance is a Software as a Service that allows students to easily and efficiently manage the college application process, while counselors and parents track their progress. The platform, which is accessible on mobile devices and computers, provides a step-by-step guide, interactive checklist and automated task reminders customized for each university application. Students, counselors and parents are no longer missing deadlines or requirements with our interactive tool provides easy access to important deadlines, task requirements and all other information related to the application process. Over 4 million students enroll in college every year and they apply to an average of 9 colleges with over 10 requirements averaging almost 100 deadlines to keep up with. With the average high school counselor ratio being 1 to 460, they cannot provide students with in-depth college counseling. Enrolling in college is one of the most important and expensive decisions for students and their parents, yet the process is complicated and overwhelming. BOLD Guidance simple and easy software makes applying for college less stressful and more efficient for everyone.

OnShift

Seed Round in 2008
OnShift provides cloud-based human capital management software designed to address workforce challenges in post-acute and long-term care facilities. Its platform includes tools for hiring, scheduling, employee engagement, and talent acquisition, aimed at enhancing productivity and profitability. By leveraging intuitive design and predictive analytics, OnShift helps healthcare providers maintain a consistent and engaged workforce. The company’s services are utilized by numerous organizations in the senior living sector, assisting them in delivering quality care while effectively managing costs and performance.
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