Hivers & Strivers

Aegle is changing the funding of healthcare with a suite of custom credit-and risk-based financial instruments

Tumble is a smart laundry technology platform transforming shared laundry rooms into high-quality smart amenities. Tumble provides real-time availability of machines, cashless payment, cycle tracking notifications, a locking mechanism for the dryer, and live-chat with residents. This equals higher satisfaction, faster leasing, and increased property NOI.

True Made Foods is American food nutritious. We infuse fresh vegetables in our products and drastically cut back the sugar. We started with America's most popular sauces: Ketchup, BBQ Sauce and Sriracha - making these once empty-calorie foods into paleo, nutrient dense super foods.

LeaseLock is an insurance technology company replacing security deposits with insurance. Its flagship lease insurance product leverages artificial intelligence to eliminate security deposits from enterprise operating infrastructure—powering a faster, simpler, more affordable rental transaction. LeaseLock seamlessly deploys within the native online leasing checkout, resulting in significant conversion lift—while instantly generating industry-leading coverage for the property on every lease. LeaseLock has insured over $1 billion in leases backed by insurance rated A (Excellent) by A.M. Best. Its global investors include SoftBank Ventures Asia, Wildcat Ventures, Westerly Winds, Vertex Ventures US, Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures, American Family Ventures, Moderne Ventures, and Mucker Capital.

Rumi Spice is a spice company that brings flavorful, ethically sourced, and socially responsible spices from Afghanistan to customers while catalyzing sustainable rural economic development in Afghanistan and providing countless jobs to farmers and women who harvest and process the spices. The company reinvests in profits to build the agricultural and manufacturing infrastructure necessary to lay a foundation for peace and prosperity.

Pair (formerly Visidraft) is an Augmented Reality startup that develops a communications and design platform for architecture and construction work. The company offers a markerless AR tool to help developers and designers build structures by sharing visualized 3D maps and CADs via Apple’s iOS system. The tool allows builders to estimate costs, view design options, select materials and tools, and more. Pair was co-founded by Andrew Kemendo, Taylor Clark, Israel Medina, and Mike Mills in 2012 and is based in Hyattsville, Maryland.

The Ampsy (formerly Fliptu) platform offers brands a comprehensive suite of social aggregation tools to aggregate & curate their best brand & fan social content into beautiful, engaging social visualizations. In 60 seconds, a brand can build a campaign and have it live & embedded anywhere with a single line of iframe code. Our social embeds are proven to increase fan engagement and time-on-site, solving a major leakage problem in the customer acquisition & retention funnel. ***2014 SXSW Accelerator Finalist http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/2014/2014-sxsw-accelerator-finalists-revealed-startups-rock-austin-march ***Named 1 of the 20 Most Interesting Technologies at SXSW by IPG Media Lab of Interpublic Group - IPG (NYSE) http://www.ipglab.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SXSW2014_IPGMediaLab_Recap.pdf