gener8tor

gener8tor is a nationally ranked accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. Three times a year we invest $100K in each of five startups who receive a concierge experience during our 12-week accelerator program. gener8tor supports the growth of these startups through our network of experienced mentors, technologists, corporate partners, angel investors, and venture capitalists. gener8tor invests in high-growth startups, including software, IT, web, SaaS, life science, MedTech, e-commerce, and hardware. Accepted startups receive $100K and 12 weeks of mentorship-driven programming. gener8tor is a proud member of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN). It is a GOLD-tier accelerator in the U.S. as ranked by the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project.

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Share My Change

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Share My Change is a web-based application that provides location-based commerce tools to support retailers.

Babypalooza

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Community marketplace connecting first-time pregnant and new moms to the products and resources they need.

Pet Krewe

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pet Krewe Inc. manufactures and retails pet costumes and toys. The products and services are sold through the platform and also through the mobile application. The items offered by the company are, dog costumes, cat costumes, and pet horoscope. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Norton Hurley

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Norton Hurley operates an online platform created to provide adult absorbent briefs. It provides monthly and tailored subscriptions and delivers absorbent briefs at the user's home, enabling people who suffer from incontinence to get access to absorbent briefs easily in a discrete manner. David Woodbury established the company in Spearfish, South Dakota.

Modern Movement

Convertible Note in 2015
Modern Movement is pioneering a new method for measuring and improving balance. MM is aiming to be the first to market with a patented system which tracks instability and movement. The software runs through a smartphone and has three modes: Play, Train, and Measure. A range of solutions will enable this system to perform as a game controller, a fitness tool, or a physical therapy device. MM’s first generation products are already carried by over 100 retailers.

SoLo Funds

Venture Round in 2021
Solo is the community bank redefined where users borrow on their own terms and lend to reap the benefits. SoLo provides the science. SoLo Funds is the leading alternative financial solution providing the fastest loan option to borrowers and option for lenders to obtain significant value. SoLo launched as a unique & proprietary lending marketplace and has since grown to a multifaceted advanced community banking solution powered by individual capital and enabled by insurance, banking products, and dynamic A.I. underwriting.

Last Lock

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Last Lock manufactures secure smart locks by transforming mechanical lock systems of homes and businesses. The company places the electronic sensors in the smart cylinder that scan and store the physical key profile of owner for managing, tracking, and granting access digitally. It provides preferred access method, control access, self-powered battery cylinders, and installations. Last Lock was founded in 2019 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Nollapelli

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Nollapelli, Inc. manufactures bedding products. It offers bed sheets and pillowcases through its online store. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.

Men's Style Lab

Convertible Note in 2014
Men's Style Lab, Inc. provides online concierge style services for men in the United States. Its platform is used for men to select and provide information of clothing they require; receive the order; and return the remaining products. The company’s platform enables users to select clothing products, such as shirts, tees, sweaters, pants, shoes, blazers and outerwear, and accessories. Men's Style Lab, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Panty Drop

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Panty Drop is a subscription underwear box that personalized box of underwear for women. Panty Drop has a mission to empower women to be bold and confident. The company has a premium-brand panty subscription box for sizes XS-6XL. Each box helps close the gender leadership gap through the company's 1/1/1 program.

Curate

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Curate is a civic intelligence company that empowers organizations to monitor risk and find opportunities in local government discussions at scale. Curate is leveraging artificial intelligence to change the way organizations engage with local government. Government relations professionals and construction industry leaders use Curate’s database and custom weekly reports to track projects, policies, and hot topics in thousands of municipalities across the U.S. Based in Madison, Wisconsin. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.

Beereaders

Seed Round in 2021
Beereaders is a digital platform that promotes literacy skills among Spanish-speaking students presenting personalized learning and using original Spanish content in a game-like experience.

Cellular EMT

Seed Round in 2018
Cellular EMT is a smart device repair startup that repairs phone, tablet or any electronic device. Cellular EMT services includes screen repair, battery repair, water damage repair, simple and hard data recovery and an on demand repair.

Veramarx Inc.

Seed Round in 2017
Veramarx offers the only accurate diagnostic test for early-stage Lyme disease, which is one of the fastest growing infectious disease in the US and Western Europe. Lyme disease can only be treated effectively when diagnosed at the early stage of infection, when 75% of patients visit the doctor. Current tests are highly inaccurate, missing over 60% of the cases in the early stage. The proprietary Veramarx test is 92% sensitive at the critical early stage of Lyme disease infection, when the disease is still treatable. Veramarx also has 99% negative predictive value, to rule out Lyme disease.

4Degrees

Seed Round in 2021
4Degrees helps professionals build better relationships, and democratize access to social capital - driven by machine learning. The company envisions to equalize opportunity by enabling you to build stronger professional relationships. Its platform identifies the right connections for you to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and helps you activate your network when you need it.

Ad Badger

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Ad Badger uses intelligent automation to help Amazon sellers dramatically improve their Amazon PPC campaigns. Its quick customization abilities save sellers tons of time managing paid traffic campaigns and produces superior results compared to manually managing campaigns.

PlaceMe

Pre Seed Round in 2018
PlaceMe simplifies the rental market for young professionals and grad students by leasing all-inclusive fully-furnished bedrooms at a flat monthly rent with flexible lease terms.

Fiveable

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Fiveable, Inc., an educational technology company, provides education services through its platform. It offers Fiveable, an interactive social learning platform for AP students and teachers. The company’s platform provides services in the areas of history and social science, STEM, languages, and others. Fiveable, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

AkitaBox

Pre Seed Round in 2014
AkitaBox is a leading facility management software and implementation services provider dedicated to improving the way people manage the buildings they occupy. Founded in 2015, AkitaBox currently supplies accurate data and management tools to over 200 million square feet of educational, healthcare, and governmental organizations in the United States.

GenoPalate

Seed Round in 2018
GenoPalate, Inc. offers personalized nutrition advice. It takes saliva samples from customers, analyzes the DNA, and then produces personalized nutrition recommendations based on their genes and responses to a lifestyle and health questionnaire. The company also sells DNA test kits and existing DNA data through its online platform. GenoPalate, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Edison DC Systems

Seed Round in 2014
EDCS Power designs and builds equipment that improves end to end power efficiency in data centers. EDCS captures the energy savings of direct current (DC) over alternating current (AC) while addressing space and scalability costs traditionally associated with DC systems. EDCS’s patent-pending, modular AC to DC converter racks deliver more power more efficiently to IT server equipment. EDCS improves system reliability and increases operator safety. EDCS’s proprietary technology is the only direct current solution that can be implemented at the rack, row, or entire building level.

ReviewTrackers

Seed Round in 2014
ReviewTrackers is a customer feedback software that is used to measure and transform the customer experience. Its platform collects review data from review sites to generate new reviews that engage its customers and listen and respond to their comments to discover key business insights that enable brands to listen, comprehend and make data-driven decisions about what their customers truly need or want. ReviewTrackers helps busy professionals save time, money and resources so they can focus on what matters most of their customers. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Men's Style Lab

Seed Round in 2014
Men's Style Lab, Inc. provides online concierge style services for men in the United States. Its platform is used for men to select and provide information of clothing they require; receive the order; and return the remaining products. The company’s platform enables users to select clothing products, such as shirts, tees, sweaters, pants, shoes, blazers and outerwear, and accessories. Men's Style Lab, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Qlicket

Convertible Note in 2019
Qlicket is an AI SaaS platform that specializes in talent retention. It helps enterprises reduce employee turnover through continuous employee insights. Qlicket’s kiosk feedback system bridges the communication gap between high turnover workers and company executives. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

YachtLife

Seed Round in 2016
YachtLife Technologies, Inc. develops YachtLife, a mobile application that enables yacht owners to charter their luxury yachts. The company’s application allows its users to find and book yachts. It serves customers primarily in Nassau, Bahamas; Chicago, Illinois; Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Newport, Rhode Island; Ibiza, Spain; Cannes, France; and The Hamptons and New York, New York. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Y Translator

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Y Translator, Inc. develops speech to text translation software. It offers natural language processing to mimic professional captioners, auto-translation, auto-save, auto-punctuation, export options, and transcript. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Silver Bills

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of bill paying technology intended to take over the burden of paying bill for seniors. The company's technology receives clients' bills electronically, scrutinizes and pays them, employs technology-based secure systems to alleviate the hassles of daily money management and charges an economical, flat monthly fee, enabling elderly Americans and their families live in their homes without the stress and anxiety that often accompanies paying bills.

ilixer

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ilixer creates nutritionally-complete meals providing an optimal ratio of macronutrients and micronutrients from actual food. ilixer sells direct-to-consumer and wholesale through select retailers. ilixer is a Cincinnati-based, Delaware C-Corporation. Executive Summary available upon request.

Ivory Clasp

Seed Round in 2017
Ivory Clasp, LLC operates an online retail platform for bags. It offers totes, clutches, satchels, hobos, crossbody bags, and other styles from a variety of brands. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Kaleidoscope

Seed Round in 2018
Kaleidoscope Group PBC provides a cloud-based software platform for designing, building, and administering scholarship programs. It offers Kaleidoscope a scholarship management solution that enables individuals and organizations to administer, host, and manage scholarship programs. The company’s solution is used by organizations and advocates, fund leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, coaches, doctors, and others. Kaleidoscope Group PBC was formerly known as Hopscotch, PBC. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

HUED

Venture Round in 2021
HUED is a platform that diversifies the patient/doctor connection by connecting patients with diverse healthcare providers.

Allergy Amulet

Seed Round in 2016
Allergy Amulet is the world’s smallest and fastest consumer food allergen sensor, testing for common allergenic ingredients in seconds. Whether it’s on a keychain, a necklace, a wristband, or in a pocket, Allergy Amulet’s sleek and portable design allows users to savor life’s important moments, safely and simply. Food allergies affect 32 million Americans and between 220-520 million people globally. That’s 1 in 13 children and 1 in 10 adults. Allergy Amulet has the potential to improve the quality of life for the millions of people living with food allergies or intolerances.

Project Foundry

Seed Round in 2014
Project Foundry is a SaaS-based solution for managing project-based learning for grades K-12. It manages the workflow of teachers and students to plan, assess, report, and showcase project-based learning. It works with various students and teachers across schools in the United Sattes. Project Foundry originated in the mid-1990s with a Milwaukee-based non-profit called Homeboyz Interactive. It is a product of [Keystone Insights] (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/keystone-insights).

OpenHomes

Seed Round in 2013
OpenHomes Inc. connects home buyers and sellers through an online and offline residential real estate platform. OpenHomes allows qualified buyers instant, secure access to see a home in person, essentially making every day an open house. OpenHomes empowers buyers and sellers to safely and directly communicate and transact, when and how they want to – reducing transaction costs and agent interference.

Beekeeper Data

Seed Round in 2014
Beekeeper Data is a licensed, collaborative, software platform that lets executives and non-technical employees quickly ask many different questions of their company's complex data. Beekeeper off-loads data 'grunt work' from IT resources by allowing a company to build reusable and scalable reporting components that are easy for anyone to use. Beekeeper’s first product is rolling out to paid private beta customers during Q4 2014.

Behold.ai

Seed Round in 2016
Behold.AI, Inc. develops computer vision diagnostics software to identify visual differences between healthy and an unhealthy body parts that help radiologists to make medical decisions. It provides patient management solutions that include a user interface listing various patients and contacts that a medical practitioner is involved with and predictive tool that responds with the original images along with tags detailing abnormalities that the software identified. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in New York, New York.

Streo

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Streo allows artists to live stream, archive, and distribute their gigs thereby creating their own online music library for paid access. It is a one-stop platform for Artists to live stream & archive their live events, enabling a global audience to watch unlimited events on-demand for a monthly subscription. Streo pays royalties to perform artists as well as copyright owners which could be the original composer or a label, creating a new revenue stream for both the content providers.

Freeman Capital

Venture Round in 2021
Diversified investments for a diverse world.

Fiveable

Convertible Note in 2019
Fiveable, Inc., an educational technology company, provides education services through its platform. It offers Fiveable, an interactive social learning platform for AP students and teachers. The company’s platform provides services in the areas of history and social science, STEM, languages, and others. Fiveable, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Booklive

Pre Seed Round in 2017
BookLive is a live musician service that provides the perfect live music for weddings, parties, corporate events, and more. they hand-pick the highest quality musicians through a rigorous audition process, and curate them into the perfect ensemble to match your event.

Swannies

Seed Round in 2018
Swannies Footwear, LLC develops and sells golf apparel and footwear. It offers sandals; polos and outerwear, such as quarter zips, hoodies, and polos; hats, including golf, bucket, and winter hats; shirts and gears, such as backpacks and flags; and customized products. The company sells its products online. Swannies Footwear, LLC is based in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

ParqEx

Seed Round in 2016
ParqEx is a platform that helps to "unlock" the value of privately owned parking spots, which are often underutilized and/or difficult to manage. The ParqEx Marketplace helps owners to efficiently rent their parking to drivers on an hourly, daily, weekly or monthly basis. For parking spots secured behind gates or garage doors, Access+ is a technology solution that allows owners or managers to grant controlled access through the convenience of the ParqEx app. Finally, GuestParq is a tailored solution to improve the parking experience for guests, tenants, and property managers alike. Learn more at ParqEx.com

Modern Movement

Seed Round in 2014
Modern Movement is pioneering a new method for measuring and improving balance. MM is aiming to be the first to market with a patented system which tracks instability and movement. The software runs through a smartphone and has three modes: Play, Train, and Measure. A range of solutions will enable this system to perform as a game controller, a fitness tool, or a physical therapy device. MM’s first generation products are already carried by over 100 retailers.

Subsidence

Pre Seed Round in 2012
Subsidence is a weather data company that provides dense surface observations generated by their proprietary weather stations. This composite of granular weather data has applications across a variety of markets, including insurance, power trading, forecasting, and risk mitigation. They will work with you to establish a high-definition observation network that suits your weather data needs. Contact us for more information.

Nonnatech

Convertible Note in 2018
Nonnatech is an online platform that provides healthcare providers with health monitoring systems. The platform enables its users to monitor the health of their patients in real-time. It offers predictive analytics, alerts, and behavioral monitoring. The systems can be installed in the patients’ bathroom, assisted living apartment, and kitchen. Nonnatech was launched in 2010 and is based in New York.

Cloudux

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cloudux, Inc. develops platform to create, manage, and deploy code in a multi-cloud environment. It simplifies the coding process for software engineers working with distributed networks. The company’s software eliminates the risk of vendor lock-in with cloud providers. Cloudux, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Awayr A.I.

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Awayr A.I. uses data-driven design and machine learning to produce SaaS software products. Our solutions help engineers understand the human attention and distraction implications of designs in real-time, to help them build better and safer user interface.

Car Body Lab

Seed Round in 2019
Car Body Lab, Inc. owns and operates mobile vans for auto repair. It offers services in the areas of auto body repair, auto body paint, and paint less dent removal. The company serves customers in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Sacramento, and Bay Area, California; Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, and Tampa, Florida; Dallas and Houston, Texas. Car Body Lab, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Miami Beach, Florida.

SmartImplantSystems

Seed Round in 2017
SmartImplantSystems is a medical device company involved in the development of sensor-driven spine implants for the treatment of chronic back pain. In January 2014, Dr. Nazmi Peyman, a pain specialist, invented and patented the technology. In 2016 Dr. Peyman and Dr. Omid Souresrafil, an internal medicine doctor and medical device startup expert, founded the company to provide more advanced real solutions for long-term back pain sufferers. These are patients who have had little or no success with other pain management treatments. Once approved, we will offer patients relief to undertake simple daily tasks free of their discomfort. Patients can then live normal lives, free of the debilitating pain associated with spinal cord injuries and arthritis.

Quietyme

Seed Round in 2013
Quietyme, Inc. developed a noise monitoring and reporting system for the hospitality and healthcare industry. It offers alerts and reporting for the management of hotels, hospitals, and apartments. Once installed the system is really a sensor data platform capable of transmitting any sort of wireless sensor data. The company is based in Wisconsin.

EatStreet

Seed Round in 2012
EatStreet is an online and mobile food ordering service that streamlines commerce between restaurants and diners. To college students and young professionals, EatStreet is a smart, simple, and affordable way to order delivery and takeout from their favorite restaurants. To restaurant owners, EatStreet is a one-stop-shop for online ordering and marketing. By providing web, mobile, and social products for online ordering, EatStreet brings in new business for restaurants. Diners enjoy the upside of fast, simple ordering while restaurants see their sales soar. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.

MobileIgniter

Convertible Note in 2013
MobileIgniter is a leader in the Internet of Things space. We provide Device to Decision® solutions based on Fortune 500 experience identifying opportunity, embedding connectivity, and creating the key web and mobile interfaces to complete the circuit.

Errund

Seed Round in 2017
Errund, Inc., doing business as Errund, operates an online platform that allows users to find and book cleaning and service professionals for homes and offices. Its platform enables users to book professionals in Chicago, Illinois; Indianapolis, Indiana; Columbus, Ohio; Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin; Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha, Nebraska; Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; and other locations. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Passage

Seed Round in 2015
Passage powers ticketing and payments for special events both online and at-the-door. Passage caters to niche event verticals with category-specific branding and features, creating the top-of-mind brand in each category. One example is HauntPay, Passage’s ticketing and payment solution for the haunted attraction industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.

Prescribe Nutrition

Seed Round in 2015
Prescribe Nutrition, Inc. provides wellness and nutrition programs. Its programs helps in balancing hormones, body, and mind; turns resolutions into habits with resources, tools, material, and videos; and kids rule with weelicious menus. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

WeMontage

Seed Round in 2013
WeMontage Inc. operates a website for creative professionals. The company facilitates users to upload their photos, create a custom photo collage, and print on large removable wallpaper. It also offers canvas wraps, iPhone cases, pillows, and other products. The company is based in Neenah, Wisconsin.

TCARE

Series A in 2020
TCARE, Inc. develops a caregiver support SaaS solution. It offers TCARE, a cloud-based technology suite to help care professionals intervene before a family caregiver burns out. The company’s TCARE enables care professionals the means to assess for risk factors for family caregiver burnout and prescribe the right interventions, at the right time to prevent burnout. TCARE, Inc. was formerly known as Tailored Care Enterprises, Inc. Its solution is used by organizations, care professionals, and family caregivers in the United States. TCARE, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

RankMiner

Private Placement in 2018
Machine Learning, emotional voice analytics and predictive modeling are converging to revolutionize how call centers enable their agents and interact with customers. Analyzing voice from each call will enable call center agents to perform more effectively as well as give supervisors additional insights to better support their teams. RankMiner analyzes a person's voice, not the words used, but how they are spoken to reveal speaker intent and predict what that caller is likely to do. Clients use RankMiner to reduce the costs of employee turnover and increase revenues through cross-sales and collections.

OpenHomes

Seed Round in 2015
OpenHomes Inc. connects home buyers and sellers through an online and offline residential real estate platform. OpenHomes allows qualified buyers instant, secure access to see a home in person, essentially making every day an open house. OpenHomes empowers buyers and sellers to safely and directly communicate and transact, when and how they want to – reducing transaction costs and agent interference.

Scanalytics

Seed Round in 2013
Scanalytics Inc. offers software solutions to monitor and analyze customer behavior at retail stores and events. It offers a system that automates and analyzes information for actionable insights; and Analysis Lab, an actionable comparison tool that allows users to fine-tune their operations to create the profit machine. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

AION Prosthetics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AION Prosthetics develops a prosthetic system designed to provide an adjustable, durable, and affordable future for amputees. The company's unique approach to robotics and socket design creates an adjustable system that starts at the residual limb. AION Prosthetics was founded in 2021 and based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Greener Crop

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Greener Crop provides data-driven hydroponic farm management to enable the deployment of hydroponic farms at a meaningful scale. Our customers are private and corporate investors, farmers, ranchers, real estate developers, hotels & restaurants, and food manufacturers. We support our clients with the setup of their farms, supplying them with growing supplies, developing crop strategies, and operating their farms on a daily basis.

AirShare

Pre Seed Round in 2019
AirShare combines over 75 years of experience in advanced technology development and combines talents in high technology telecommunications, digital signal processing, embedded systems, and aerospace development, commercialization, and operations.

AION Prosthetics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AION Prosthetics develops a prosthetic system designed to provide an adjustable, durable, and affordable future for amputees. The company's unique approach to robotics and socket design creates an adjustable system that starts at the residual limb. AION Prosthetics was founded in 2021 and based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

KiraKira3D

Seed Round in 2017
KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application. They are redesigning the way girls learn engineering, through online 3D printing classes. They offer a rich and unique experience with their 3D printed packages, combining both the online 3D print class + the tangible 3D printed reward. More broadly, KiraKira is an online community of learning, making and sharing. Through their 3D modeling and printing lessons, they teach engineering commands and transferrable skills to various STEM disciplines and careers, including but not limited to architecture, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and industrial design.

DATTUS

Seed Round in 2016
Here at DATTUS, they may be experts in industrial innovations, but really they consider theirselves to be guides. They help their clientele navigate Industry 4.0. Nothing brings us greater joy than to implement a system that saves companies millions—literally—by achieving near zero-downtime while simultaneously increasing safety and decreasing overhead. They help industrial facilities compete with hardware and software solutions that enable data-driven decision making. Their platform provides a seamless path for industries to make their operations “smart.” This allows companies to ensure value delivery in maintenance and reliability, operational efficiency, process and quality management, yield and throughput, environmental health and safety — and post-sale support and warranties for machinery OEMs. Located in Indianapolis, DATTUS was born out of an Entrepreneurship Program at Purdue University. In 2016, they won the Techpoint Mira Award for Best New Tech Product. While their roots are local, their vision is global. They believe in the promise of smart machines, the industrial internet - and the next industrial revolution. They’re committed to delivering on that promise to their customers, around the world.

Transcend

Seed Round in 2020
Transcend enables members to access and discover unique personal care and holistic services.

CrossKudi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Blockchain-based international money transfer platform.

Castle One

Seed Round in 2020
Castle One is an operator of a cybersecurity platform dedicated to empowering small businesses. The company's platform takes complex features and transmutes them into digestible and actionable steps, thereby enabling small enterprises to make it easy to protect their devices, passwords, and emails.

SNAPSHYFT Labor Marketplace

Seed Round in 2018
The SnapShyft Labor Marketplace is a Staffing-as-a-Service software and mobile app connecting food service and food manufacturing businesses with fully vetted & experienced professionals, on-demand. We help fill shifts fast— combining the best attributes of the gig-economy and HR Tech while eliminating bias and discrimination in the process. As the #1 rated most reliable staffing solution in the market the SnapShyft platform is generating positive socio-economic outcomes through empowering businesses to staff-on-the-fly, and tens of thousands of essential workers to have full flexibility to generate income as needed, and the community at large.

TCARE

Seed Round in 2018
TCARE, Inc. develops a caregiver support SaaS solution. It offers TCARE, a cloud-based technology suite to help care professionals intervene before a family caregiver burns out. The company’s TCARE enables care professionals the means to assess for risk factors for family caregiver burnout and prescribe the right interventions, at the right time to prevent burnout. TCARE, Inc. was formerly known as Tailored Care Enterprises, Inc. Its solution is used by organizations, care professionals, and family caregivers in the United States. TCARE, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Lumanu

Private Placement in 2018
Lumanu, Inc. develops a digital marketing platform that connects companies with brand ambassadors. It offers SocialCert, a solution that allows influencers to share content, audiences, and usage rights with marketers; Content Manager, a solution for ingesting content from the influencers; and SmartBoost, a solution that creates ads using influencer creatives. The company serves brand marketers, performance marketers, agency marketers, and creators and influencers. Lumanu, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in Oakland, California with an additional office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Mark Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2021
MARK Labs Inc. provides a platform for nonprofits and their donors to understand and communicate their social impact data. It helps donors to track, analyze, and report the impact of their grant making and internal sustainability programs; and allows nonprofits to track movement between various activities and report to their funders. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Washington, District Of Columbia with an additional location in London, United Kingdom.

GrocerKey

Pre Seed Round in 2015
GrocerKey, Inc. develops and provides an e-commerce grocery solution for retailers. Its products include GrocerKey, an end-to-end technology that delivers user experience and back-end management system, as well as a mobile application for e-commerce grocery operations. It offers a mobile-optimized e-commerce store and native mobile applications, a management dashboard to oversee store-level operations and update settings in real time, and a pick, pack, and fulfill mobile operations application that provides operational efficiency. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

ALACARTE

Convertible Note in 2018
Alacarte owns the entire process of preparing, packaging and shipping 15+ data driven private and partner restaurant brands from a single location via the Alacarte network.

Part Analytics

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Part Analytics strategic sourcing solution transforms Direct Material Sourcing to optimize cost, drive efficiency and mitigate supply chain risk with AI-powered analytics and insights. By combining organization's internal data with market, community and network data, our AI powered platform continuously streams opportunities for savings and risk mitigation to enterprise sourcing leaders. On average, we are able to save enterprise customers up to 20% in direct material costs.

Acclinate

Pre Seed Round in 2020
We are a trusted healthcare solutions provider integrating culture and technology to source diverse participants for genomic research and clinical trials

Carson Life

Seed Round in 2015
Carson Life is a natural health and beauty products company focused on the Hispanic market. Its products include offerings in the hair care, weight loss, skincare, vitamins, and rejuvenation categories. Carson Life has exclusive endorsement deals with well-¬known celebrities in the Hispanic market. Its products are currently sold online and through retailers such as Walmart, Walgreens, Kmart, and CVS across the United States and Puerto Rico. Also, its products are sold online through its webshop and e-commerce platforms like Walmart.com, Jet.com, LuckyVitamin.com, Walgreens.com, and Amazon. It was founded in 2914 by Sonia Guzman and is based in Miami, Florida.

Kaleidoscope

Private Placement in 2018
Kaleidoscope Group PBC provides a cloud-based software platform for designing, building, and administering scholarship programs. It offers Kaleidoscope a scholarship management solution that enables individuals and organizations to administer, host, and manage scholarship programs. The company’s solution is used by organizations and advocates, fund leaders, artists, entrepreneurs, coaches, doctors, and others. Kaleidoscope Group PBC was formerly known as Hopscotch, PBC. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Brandery

Merger/Acquisition in 2018
The Brandery is a seed-stage startup accelerator nationally ranked as one of the top ten programs in the United States. The Brandery is a seed stage startup accelerator that leverages the expertise of the Cincinnati region, namely branding, marketing and design. We believe that building your brand-- and not just a product-- is a way startups can be more resource efficient and increase their probability of success. In addition to an elite mentor list, startups will be paired with world-class creative agencies and have access to some of the biggest companies in the world, including Procter & Gamble, dunnhumby, and Kroger. The Brandery runs one, four-month accelerator program a year for 10-12 companies. We receive a 6% equity stake in each startup in exchange for $50k, a year of free office space, and over $200k in additional benefits.

Optyn

Seed Round in 2013
Optyn is an email marketing software platform that offers an easy-to-use tool for email marketing campaigns. It makes marketing simple for small businesses by providing easy, automated tools to acquire and engage their customers. Optyn’s marketing platform helps business owners decide what message to communicate and then enables them to create, schedule, and send an email campaign. It also ensures consumers only get emails from merchants they have chosen. Louis Morales, Alen Malkoc, and Gaurav Gaglani started the company in Chicago, Illinois in 2013.

Bumper

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bumper makes investing more engaging and accessible for Gen Z teenagers. Bumper has taken a traditional custodial investment account, typically built for and run by the parents, and put the focus on younger teenagers. Kids are able to find companies and ETFs they want to own, learn about the security through news articles and analysis, and request the trade. Bumper also gives the account sponsor, typically parents or guardians, safety guardrails and controls to encourage healthy investing habits.

Truelytics, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Truelytics is a B-to-B Enterprise SAAS startup located in Boston, pioneering what we call the Advisor Transition Management platform. We are the first end-to-end data-driven platform to help wealth management enterprises recruit, grow, and retain businesses while reducing time and costs related to transitions.

Advocatia Solutions

Private Placement in 2018
Advocatia Solutions, Inc. offers benefit advocacy and enrollment software solutions for hospitals and employers. The company provides tools, such as Benefit Screening, Benefit Text, and Benefit Triage that supports hospitals, employers, and other networks to help the uninsured and underinsured patients easily find, navigate, and secure available benefits. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lake Bluff, Illinois.

MobileIgniter

Seed Round in 2012
MobileIgniter is a leader in the Internet of Things space. We provide Device to Decision® solutions based on Fortune 500 experience identifying opportunity, embedding connectivity, and creating the key web and mobile interfaces to complete the circuit.