Innovation Works

For more than 20 years, Innovation Works has played a vital role in Southwestern PA's technology economy, investing capital, business expertise, and other resources into high-potential companies with the greatest likelihood for regional economic impact. IW is the single largest investor in seed-stage companies in the region. They also provide resources for manufacturers to adopt new technologies.

Ven Raju

CEO and President

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Duo Oncology

Seed Round in 2023
Duo Oncology develops a new nanoparticle technology specially tailored to penetrate established tumors. Duo Oncology operates as a lean pharma business. The company works hand-in-hand with world-class university scientists and medical oncologists to develop their products through a network of established research organizations with the greatest possible speed and efficiency.

Setex Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Setex Technologies is a spin out of Carnegie Mellon University, is the first commercial manufacturer of dry adhesive technology providing micro-fibrillar polymer based dry adhesives and surfaces for a wide range of product applications. Founded in 2009, the company operates in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

LeanFM Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Provider of a information and facility operations platform intended to help facility managers gain easy access to actionable information and make data-driven decisions. The company's information and facility operations platform offers to understand maintenance history and backlog in context of buildings, as well as helps to gain new insights from artificial intelligence enriched maintenance and building information, enabling clients to minimize waste and maximize value to owners and occupants.

Gus Gear

Seed Round in 2022
Gus Gear offers medical devices intended to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. Its flagship product, the Central Line Vest, prevents damage, breakage, and accidental removal of central catheters, keeping patients out of the hospital, so they can live their lives to the fullest, even while receiving treatment.

Safe Space Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Safe Space Technologies is a robot with disinfection supplies that is intended to be a superior replacement for conventional disinfection services. The business creates robots that employ UVC disinfection technology to neutralize dangerous infections, create safer working environments, and allow individuals to sanitize their areas more fully.

Lumis

Seed Round in 2022
At Lumis,they are passionate about providing next-generation learning systems to improve patient care.They want to make sure that the educational tools preparing our clinicians support their life-critical operations. Lumis provides illuminating healthcare education through hands-on, simulation-based training that utilizes augmented reality and automated instruction for individualized, 24/7, on-demand learning. You can add our products to any existing mannequin–from a $25 CPR shell up to a $250,000 computer-controlled full-body mannequin.

Roadies

Seed Round in 2022
Roadies is the blockchain-powered web platform where you can invest in the next big artist. Roadies enables visual artists to offer tokenized shares in physical art, allowing their supporters to buy and trade shares in their favorite art. Our mission is to help artists make a sustainable career out of their creations and let their communities become shareholders in that.

TalkMeUp

Seed Round in 2022
TalkMeUp is tackling the $100B corporate training market by providing on-demand, customized, and cost-effective communications training for organizations, improving employee competency in all professional scenarios. Leveraging AI technologies, TalkMeUp equips a company’s employees with a smart communications coach easily accessible on their phone or computer. By speaking into their cameras, users can get instant, objective, data-driven feedback on their communications performance, from their delivery style to their content. Our software is geared for organizations that want to empower their teams with powerful communication skills, whether in retail, education or hospitality, and across a range of roles from sales to customer service.

Arieca

Series A in 2022
Arieca manufactures and distributes a thermally conductive rubber composite. Arieca's composite is a stretchable, thermally conductive rubber that combines elasticity of soft silicone with the thermal of metal to be used as circuit wiring, sensors, and passive heat exchangers, allowing manufacturers to deploy an alternative form of rubber that improve the performance electronics and help them to safely interact with humans.

Komodo Analytics

Seed Round in 2022
Komodo streamlines the municipal credit evaluation process. Komodo combines financial, demographic, and economic data to give municipal bond professionals a consolidated view of a municipality’s credit health and outlook. Komodo instantly provides all the information needed to evaluate a bond.

TouchWood Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Touchwood Labs is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Touchwood’s proprietary invisible displays magically come to life through the surfaces of our furniture and surroundings. By merging the capabilities of this hardware platform with mindful design, Touchwood Labs is developing an ecosystem of products to build healthier relationships with technology.

Enkris Semiconductors

Series B in 2022
Enkris Semiconductors is a developer of high-quality GaN epi-wafers for power electronics. It specializes in GaN-on-Si, GaN-on-SiC, GaN-on-Sapphire, and GaN-on-GaN material solutions with our own IP, enabling the next generation of RF devices, micro-LED, and power electronics. The company is providing high-quality gallium nitride epitaxial material solutions for power electronics and micro-display fields. leading position.

Civic Champs

Seed Round in 2022
Civic Champs develops a mobile-based platform designed to automate volunteer management. It helps volunteers with their hour tracking, scheduling, engagement, and analytical insights, for service organizations.

Revitalize Energy

Seed Round in 2022
Revitalize Energy is a consumer energy company that helps fight tired eyes and provides a moisturizing effect with the energy needed. Revitalize provides energy instantly on contact to keep moving and improving. With just 1-2 drops in each eye, they feel refreshed and ready to go.

Phlux Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Phlux is making robotics and automation safer and more efficient with a new class of programmable 3D sensors. Their products help robots navigate, protect workers from dangerous machinery, and alert vehicles of obstacles. Phlux Technologies was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Lanzhou Technology

Seed Round in 2022
Lanzhou cognitive intelligence platform is an industrial service cloud platform with NLP as the core, providing a series of services such as a graph, machine translation, assisted writing, sentiment analysis, intelligent retrieval, intelligent customer service, document analysis, etc. Enter search, generation, translation, dialogue, and other business scenarios. They provide solutions for financial, marketing, cultural, and creative industries, focusing on the core scenarios in the industry to provide solutions to help enterprises upgrade intelligently.

AlgenAir

Seed Round in 2022
AlgenAir develops a natural air purifier designed to reduce carbon dioxide using algae.

Spoken

Seed Round in 2021
Spoken is a text-to-speech smartphone application that helps people that are having difficulty communicating. The company is based in Marietta, Ohio.

Rimsys

Series A in 2021
Rimsys is a world-leading Regulatory Information Management (RIM) software for medical technology companies. Built by and for regulatory affairs professionals, Rimsys digitizes, automates, and creates regulatory order to ensure products adhere to changing global regulations. It is the only holistic RIM software for medical devices, in-vitro diagnostics, and medical device software that makes it easy to manage global UDI requirements and navigate the pillars of regulatory affairs, including product registration, standards management, essential principles/GSPR, and regulatory intelligence.

Conservation Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Conservation Labs is an Amazon Alexa Fund portfolio company. We founded Conservation Labs to help you save money and better manage our natural resources. This is our big challenge: there are over 3 trillion gallons of unwanted water use each year in the U.S. alone, costing us $70 billion. With water, a little knowledge goes a long way. H2know helps you save money and improve our water use.

Telling.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Telling.ai analyzes voice and breath sounds to assess lung health. They offer signatures found in breath and speech that are indicators of many medical conditions, including respiratory diseases and infections. Their mission is to assist in managing the care of the more than 1 billion people who suffer from acute or chronic respiratory disorders.

Creegh Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2021
Creegh Pharmaceuticals specializes in the pharmaceutical preparation industry. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Parcel Health

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Parcel Health® is on a mission to fill medicine cabinets with safe parcels, not plastics. We have developed the world’s first paper-based prescription bottle that is fully brandable and compostable. Our products provide improved temperature and logistical safety during shipping of medications compared to traditional plastic bottles, reducing in-transit damage and delivering on customer satisfaction and trust.

Hava Health

Seed Round in 2021
Hava Health is a biotechnology research company that develops a digital drug therapy device for nicotine de-addiction.

Miror

Seed Round in 2021
Miror is an online platform that allows users to explore and connect to people.

MindTrace

Seed Round in 2021
MindTrace is a medical software company that develops personalized 3D brain maps to guide neurosurgeries. The company pairs 3D brain maps with machine learning algorithms to simulate surgical resection plans and allow surgeons to predict their patient’s cognitive outcome – all before the first incision, enabling surgeons to remove as many brain tumors as possible without damaging the nearby healthy tissue. It is supported by the Creative Destruction Lab.

ESTAT Actuation

Seed Round in 2021
ESTAT Actuation is a developer of electroadhesive clutches to make robots or machines more capable and affordable. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Stocksnips

Seed Round in 2021
Their vision is to provide easy access to stock market news analysis to investors. Understanding market sentiment trends is an important element in managing one’s stock portfolio. StockSnips crawls, aggregates and analyzes news related to public companies listed on Nasdaq and NYSE. It reads 50,000 articles a day and filters out the noise and analyzes news sentiment. StockSnips enables you to gain stock insights and track a company’s financial and business operations. It categorizes news snippets by key performance indicators like revenue, sales, earnings.

Equa Health

Seed Round in 2021
Equa Health is a personalized meditation training technology. We are currently delivering our hybrid training program to select B2B clients seeking to build a happier and more engaged workforce.

CytoAgents

Seed Round in 2021
CytoAgents is a clinical stage biotechnology company focused on the development of innovative pharmaceutical products for the treatment of life-threatening symptoms associated with Cytokine Release Syndrome (CRS), an overreaction of the immune system causing systemic inflammation also known as cytokine storm.

PECA Labs

Seed Round in 2021
PECA Labs is a Carnegie Mellon and UPMC spin-off dedicated to bringing better medical devices to orphan populations, with an initial focus on the pediatric cardiovascular system. Our first product, the MASA Valve, is a novel synthetic heart valve for a rare pediatric cardiac reconstructive procedure. The MASA Valve has already received a Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) designation from the FDA, and 70 human implantations of the intra-operatively constructed version have shown improved freedom from re-operation compared to any currently available option. PECA Labs was founded in 2011 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Endolumik

Seed Round in 2021
Endolumik makes minimally invasive surgical tools more visible using near infrared technology. Endolumik was headquartered in Morgantown, USA.

TouchWood Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Touchwood Labs is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Touchwood’s proprietary invisible displays magically come to life through the surfaces of our furniture and surroundings. By merging the capabilities of this hardware platform with mindful design, Touchwood Labs is developing an ecosystem of products to build healthier relationships with technology.

Mamalux

Seed Round in 2021
Mamalux makes game-changing, leakproof apparel for maternity & breastfeeding

Ariel Precision Medicine

Seed Round in 2021
Ariel Precision Medicine is a healthcare company that creates innovative solutions to simplify the personalized treatment of complex disease. It offers clinical decision support tools for the emergency department and the clinic. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Pennsylvania, United States.

AdSkate

Seed Round in 2021
AdSkate’s machine learning and artificial intelligence technology provide multiple data points to make the ad buying and selling process effective and transparent

Gridwise

Seed Round in 2021
The Gridwise app is the leading business platform for gig economy drivers, helping them maximize their earnings and track their business performance all in one place. Their app empowers 100s of thousands of all US gig drivers to run their businesses with unique demand insights, earnings, and activity tracking, performance reporting, and a marketplace of gig worker benefits.

Lumis

Seed Round in 2021
At Lumis,they are passionate about providing next-generation learning systems to improve patient care.They want to make sure that the educational tools preparing our clinicians support their life-critical operations. Lumis provides illuminating healthcare education through hands-on, simulation-based training that utilizes augmented reality and automated instruction for individualized, 24/7, on-demand learning. You can add our products to any existing mannequin–from a $25 CPR shell up to a $250,000 computer-controlled full-body mannequin.

Make it Home Safe

Seed Round in 2021
Make it Home Safe is a mobile app that provides safety and security services for police and citizens during traffic stops. Make it Home Safe was founded in 2017 and was headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Apollo Neuroscience

Seed Round in 2021
Apollo is a wellness product, the first clinically validated wearable that actively helps the body recover from stress. Apollo Neuroscience is a wellness product not intended to treat psychiatric disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder. Apollo is not a substitute for professional medical care.

Minti

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Mint enables creators to automatically mint social posts as non-fungible tokens. Creators can now mint their social content with Minti and post it to Instagram and Twitter, where all of their followers are.

Phlux Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Phlux is making robotics and automation safer and more efficient with a new class of programmable 3D sensors. Their products help robots navigate, protect workers from dangerous machinery, and alert vehicles of obstacles. Phlux Technologies was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Subtl Beauty

Seed Round in 2021
Subtl Beauty is a cosmetics brand that offers compact and customizable makeup products. With a built-in network effect of modularized products, our unique, stackable packaging offers our customers a more cohesive & convenient experience in their daily routines. Subtl Beauty's makeup solutions are tailored for the contemporary, fast-paced lifestyle, providing compact, travel-friendly, and customizable products. Each formula from Subtl is meticulously crafted for efficiency, easy application, and enduring wear. Their essential products align with the values of conscious consumers, being clean, vegan, cruelty-free, paraben-free, and fragrance-free.

Circadiance

Seed Round in 2021
Circadiance is a medical device manufacturing company that develops, manufactures, and markets respiratory products for people with sleep-disordered breathing, who need non-invasive ventilation or who require monitoring. The company was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Pennsylvania, United States.

RealX Ventures

Seed Round in 2021
RealX Ventures is a developer of a property dealing platform used to trade property rights online. Its platform offers to register the properties for sale or leasing simplifies the acquisition and disposition of property rights within one online exchange that enables dealers to search for properties online and carry out effecting selling, buying, or leasing of property rights.

Emergence Dental

Seed Round in 2021
Emergence Dental is a research and development medical device company that focuses on medical device design and pre-clinical development. Emergence Dental was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in Pittsburgh, USA.

SpIntellx

Seed Round in 2021
SpIntellx has the first-mover advantage in Precision Pathology and Spatially Intelligent Biology by applying truly unbiased spatial analytics software powered by explainable AI to decipher the complex cancer biology. SpIntellx’s software solutions have the potential to unlock a plethora of new applications in medicine and research by answering the fundamental question “Why?”, thus revealing the underlying patient-specific disease network biology, across each stage of the drug development, diagnostics, and treatment pipelines.

Sterile Vision

Seed Round in 2021
Sterile Vision provides a platform for organizing and tracking sterilizable tools and consumables through an entire use cycle in the perioperative environment, such as through multiple steps of the sterilization, processing, and distribution workflow. This is accomplished through the use of computer vision to capture images of the surgical tools along multiple steps of the use cycle, and machine learning algorithms to process the images and determine the identity of each surgical tool. This information will be used to determine to remove most if not all of the points of potential tool loss and offer great time savings by providing automatic methods and systems for tool tracking.

Komodo Analytics

Venture Round in 2021
Komodo streamlines the municipal credit evaluation process. Komodo combines financial, demographic, and economic data to give municipal bond professionals a consolidated view of a municipality’s credit health and outlook. Komodo instantly provides all the information needed to evaluate a bond.

WOW COLOUR

Series A in 2021
Wow Colour offers beauty collection store, it is a one-stop professional beauty and personal care retailer.

JuneBrain

Seed Round in 2021
JuneBrain is an early start-up company that helps multiple sclerosis patients through the power of telemedicine. It aims to develop a wearable and non-invasive imaging device that enables multiple sclerosis patients to monitor their disease activity at home, leading to earlier detection of MS attacks and improved monitoring of treatment efficacy. Its long-term goal is to extend the use of our device into the broader neurodegenerative disease population, thus creating a pathway towards more frequent, widely accessible monitoring of brain health.

Civic Champs

Seed Round in 2021
Civic Champs develops a mobile-based platform designed to automate volunteer management. It helps volunteers with their hour tracking, scheduling, engagement, and analytical insights, for service organizations.

Gus Gear

Seed Round in 2021
Gus Gear offers medical devices intended to improve patient outcomes and quality of life. Its flagship product, the Central Line Vest, prevents damage, breakage, and accidental removal of central catheters, keeping patients out of the hospital, so they can live their lives to the fullest, even while receiving treatment.

sovaSage

Seed Round in 2021
SovaSage is a digital healthcare platform used to come up with the treatment of sleep apnea patients and other chronic conditions. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Encentiv Energy

Venture Round in 2021
Encentivizer™ provides actionable data for manufacturers, energy efficiency professionals, and utilities. It’s cost effective digital customer engagement for all the industry’s stakeholders -- empowering all customers to make smarter + faster energy efficiency decisions. Encentivizer™ is a scalable, cloud technology that uses vast amounts of energy efficiency product information and utility incentives which empowers utilities and the energy efficiency community to engage business customers and guide them to take action to permanently reduce their energy consumption.

ESTAT Actuation

Seed Round in 2021
ESTAT Actuation is a developer of electroadhesive clutches to make robots or machines more capable and affordable. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

GoJaneGo

Seed Round in 2021
Go Jane Go galvanizes a new sector of discerning, pragmatic professionals to get the specific products and level of service they deserve on the road. ​ Above all, their diverse group of women wants one thing: seamless travel within an industry built by and for men.

Bindr

Series A in 2020
Bindr is the first label free dating platform designed for the entire LGBTQIA+ community. We're creating a safe space for people that don't want to identify specifically as lesbian, gay, bisexual or pansexual. We've found that most bisexual, bicurious and pansexual people don't want this either so you don't have to label yourself to use our platform. Simply just select who you'd like to not see and our platform will do the rest with zero biase. We've been growing like crazy with well over 20,000 users now in under a year that has been compounding at 1% of our existing user base daily. We're getting hundred of new users a day and it's been spanning out all through organic traffic through keywords such as bisexual, bisexual dating, lesbian dating and more that we've been climbing the ranks on. We've discovered that our own needs for a dating app is also shared largely with our community. Building something that people love for a community that we love is something we take immense pride in. As of July 2023, all funding received has been through pitch competitions on a local and national level. The entire company is still owned by ourselves and we've raised $33,750 through equity free grants and pitch competitions. We've also been generating revenue for several months that has been increasing month over month at about a 100% increase each month. We're women and LGBTQIA+ owned (crunch base should add this to the categories of diverse groups) and we've also found that these areas are highly ignored in the technology sector. In addition to the dating platform we're building a diverse base of resources for the LGBTQIA+ community to geo locate resources to our growing user base. We're for us, by us.

Xogo

Seed Round in 2020
Our first product, Xogo, is a platform that allows you to utilize and connect any and all devices in whatever ways work best for you. Xogo is compatible with a wide range of devices which means you can connect all standard USB, Bluetooth, WiFi, and 3.5mm jack inputs to things like cable boxes, smart home devices, video game consoles, and more. So regardless of their brand or function, you can use all forms of technology together in the way that best fits your lifestyle and needs. Whether you aren't able to use technology to its fullest capacity because of a disability, because of a lack of tech savviness, or you simply can’t get your devices to cooperate due to incompatibilities, Xogo help by making technology work for you, and not the other way around.

SwifTAG Systems

Seed Round in 2020
SwifTAG Systems concepts and products were conceived by active researchers in the medical field who recognized the dramatic inefficiencies of existing small animal management systems and processes. Their mission is to bring high technology and medical research together to drive down costs and increase the time researchers spend doing actual research. They envision laboratories where animal management systems are functional, low maintenance, efficient, and as easy to use as a well-designed smartphone app. They want to see researchers focusing on medical breakthroughs, not on mindless small animal logistics. Their product lines include small animal tags, handheld and tabletop readers, cage and rack readers, whole laboratory management systems, and support software.

Caregogi

Seed Round in 2020
Caregogi is a developer of a care management platform with a match-making algorithm designed to connect with caregivers for assisting elderly clients with ALDs. It offers users the ability to directly find caregivers and resources in their area.

ForeFront Product Design

Seed Round in 2020
ForeFront Product Design has developed the first intelligent industrialized handheld sprayer called the Green Gorilla. The Green Gorilla line of commercial and industrial compressed air sprayers allows completing work in less time without ever having to pump again. The manual process of pumping the sprayer has been eliminated and the tank pressure is automatically maintained at an optimum level. The optimum tank pressure is accomplished using Smart Pressure Technology which utilizes a patented system to maintain and control pressure to maximize the commercial end-users productivity.

Mighty

Seed Round in 2020
Mighty is a Proptech marketplace for home inspections and repairs designed to streamlines the homebuying and selling process. Using AI, Mighty’s platform turns home inspection repairs into estimates that provides home buyers and sellers with real data to negotiate and close on homes.

Mighty

Seed Round in 2020
Mighty is a Proptech marketplace for home inspections and repairs designed to streamlines the homebuying and selling process. Using AI, Mighty’s platform turns home inspection repairs into estimates that provides home buyers and sellers with real data to negotiate and close on homes.

Identified Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Identified Technologies offers its industrial customers with a mapping drone solution to increase project visibility and team productivity. Its integrated software and services take care of everything from FAA compliance and flight planning to advanced analytics. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Gridfruit

Seed Round in 2020
Gridfruit is a provider of a data-driven intelligence to food operations. Its artificial intelligence-based learning platform utilizes existing food data to reduce energy and maintenance costs for food businesses. The companty was established in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2018.

Rapid Flow Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
Rapid Flow Technologies spun out of Carnegie Mellon University with the goal of introducing new Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies into the marketplace. Rapid Flow was created to commercialize the Surtrac adaptive traffic signal control technology developed in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon as part of the Traffic21 research initiative. The company’s founders include the original inventors of Surtrac, who have successfully expanded the initial pilot deployment of Surtrac in Pittsburgh to a network of 50 intersections over the past three years. Rapid Flow holds an exclusive license to the patented Surtrac technology from Carnegie Mellon University, and the University has a stake in the company. In addition to Surtrac, Rapid Flow is also engaged in the development of ubiquitous Bluetooth AVI sensor network technology for ITS performance modeling and other applications through a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Hibersense

Seed Round in 2020
Hibersense Comfort Control for Every Room empowers homeowners with a smart HVAC control solution. The patent-pending, easy retrofit system uses wireless sensors, machine learning & battery-operated, wireless vents to heat or cool every space ensuring maximum room-by-room comfort and HVAC energy savings of up to 40%. Further, Hibersense services for multi-family operators increase tenant comfort, satisfaction, and renewal rates while providing detailed building thermal dynamics and usage rates providing increased opportunities for profitability and shareholder value.

CompleteBankData

Seed Round in 2020
Red River Research offers CompleteBankData.com, a banking database of financials on unlisted stocks. Its database of tools provide banks with strategy insights and lead generation tools used to grow their lending and offers a number of products including proprietary investment research on private and unlisted companies. It was formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Interphase Materials

Seed Round in 2020
Interphase Materials is an advanced materials company that provides solutions to improve efficiency of heat transfer and reduce maintenance costs in cooling systems. With corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, PA, their customers include power plants, commercial and industrial HVAC systems, international heat exchanger manufacturers, as well as the U.S. Navy. Interphase’s HTE system has been shown to improve heat exchanger heat transfer efficiency by 5-10% in preliminary tests. It was founded in 2015.

Women's Job Search Network

Seed Round in 2020
Women’s Job Search Network is the go-to-resource to equip female job seekers to confidently take control of their job search and transform their lives.

Nollapelli

Seed Round in 2020
Nollapelli develops textiles that give consumers a new way to care for their skin while they sleep. Allison Howard headquartered the company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2016.

EKTO VR

Seed Round in 2020
EKTO VR develops wearable robotic boots that allow for locomotion in virtual reality environments. The company enhances the realism of training simulations and accelerates the development of experience from anywhere on the globe.

Adrich

Venture Round in 2020
Adrich connects brands and retailers through product usage data and analytics. Its post-purchase engagement platform is comprised of two essential components which include smart packaging hardware and customized software. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Conservation Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Conservation Labs is an Amazon Alexa Fund portfolio company. We founded Conservation Labs to help you save money and better manage our natural resources. This is our big challenge: there are over 3 trillion gallons of unwanted water use each year in the U.S. alone, costing us $70 billion. With water, a little knowledge goes a long way. H2know helps you save money and improve our water use.

Stocksnips

Seed Round in 2020
Their vision is to provide easy access to stock market news analysis to investors. Understanding market sentiment trends is an important element in managing one’s stock portfolio. StockSnips crawls, aggregates and analyzes news related to public companies listed on Nasdaq and NYSE. It reads 50,000 articles a day and filters out the noise and analyzes news sentiment. StockSnips enables you to gain stock insights and track a company’s financial and business operations. It categorizes news snippets by key performance indicators like revenue, sales, earnings.

Leaders of Change

Seed Round in 2020
Leaders of Change is a benefit corporation that aims to develop sustainable social and economic business solutions. It makes their services accessible to organizations and businesses that typically do not have the access. The corporation assess wins, provide action steps, and develops a plan to facilitate and provide tangible objectives to get companies moving in the right direction. It was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2019.

ARIN Technologies

Seed Round in 2020
ARIN Technologies is a startup developing high accuracy indoor positioning systems to improve productivity and safety in indoor work environments. It system enables them to accurately determine the location of a tag inside buildings. Its product comprises two parts, hardware and software. The hardware system is called SpotRightTM while the SaaS based software system is called SpotLightTM. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

TouchWood Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Touchwood Labs is revolutionizing the way we interact with technology. Touchwood’s proprietary invisible displays magically come to life through the surfaces of our furniture and surroundings. By merging the capabilities of this hardware platform with mindful design, Touchwood Labs is developing an ecosystem of products to build healthier relationships with technology.

Farm Jenny

Seed Round in 2020
Farm Jenny is an Agricultural Technology company focused on animal health and productivity, handler safety, and operator enjoyment for small to mid-sized farms.

Treatspace

Seed Round in 2020
Treatspace is a platform where they can post accurate, up-to-date, and verifiable facts about their practices. For patients, Treatspace is a site where they can find and follow trustworthy information about their doctors. It enables high-performance referral management, powers online patient engagement, and facilitates clinical collaboration. Treatspace changes the way primary care, specialty care, and hospital-based systems collaborate in closed-loop referral management and care coordination. The platform was founded in 2012 and is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

Subtl Beauty

Seed Round in 2020
Subtl Beauty is a cosmetics brand that offers compact and customizable makeup products. With a built-in network effect of modularized products, our unique, stackable packaging offers our customers a more cohesive & convenient experience in their daily routines. Subtl Beauty's makeup solutions are tailored for the contemporary, fast-paced lifestyle, providing compact, travel-friendly, and customizable products. Each formula from Subtl is meticulously crafted for efficiency, easy application, and enduring wear. Their essential products align with the values of conscious consumers, being clean, vegan, cruelty-free, paraben-free, and fragrance-free.

Toaster Party

Seed Round in 2020
Toaster Party is a developer of an animation studio platform used to create quality and engaging cartoons. Its platform allows users to pick from a variety of accessories and backgrounds to customize a character and environment for stories that enable users to create, experiment, collaborate, and share their creativity. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

RC21X

Seed Round in 2020
RC21X is a user-friendly, web-based measurement and monitoring system consisting of 15 brief, game-like modules as well as unique reporting and performance Brain Health is a vital, yet often neglected area of wellness. With RC21X, you can monitor and be proactive with how well your brain is performing. They are moms and dads, grandparents, the children of seniors, youth coaches and former athletes. They are recognized researchers, respected medical practitioners, experienced game and software designers, and successful business and organizational administrators. They promote brain health, and they are here for you. They’ve developed innovative brain performance monitoring services for the B2B and B2C markets. Their services are provided either in a clinical setting or via a self-administered portal in the comfort of a home. The core product screens brain function by using fun, game-like experiences that encourage repeated use across a person’s lifespan. It’s about brain health and neuroplasticity—the ability to generate new brain cells and new connections throughout life. The more mental reserves you build up and the more you know about how well your brain is functioning, the better you can stave off age-related cognitive decline over the years. For us, it’s more than just a game.

Aurochs Brewing

Seed Round in 2020
Aurochs Brewing set out to honor the spirit of the Aurochs, a legendary beast that roamed the wild countryside thousands of years ago. We brew with ancient, untamed grains to impart complex flavors shaped by generations of growth in the wilderness. We develop our own unique, original recipes that hark back to a time when man and beast refused to give up a life of freedom. Our commitment to quality ensures that every beer is naturally gluten-free and brewed from only the purest ingredients. We give our consumers the right to choose something wild and untamed because, much like the Aurochs, our beers are Never Domesticated. Always Free.

Honeycomb Credit

Seed Round in 2020
Honeycomb Credit is a developer of a peer-to-peer lending platform designed to allow friends and family to fund small businesses.

Hebi Robotics

Seed Round in 2020
Hebi Robotics builds intelligent and connected building blocks for creating robotic solutions and uses these building blocks to deliver these solutions faster, better, and cheaper than current technology. Well-defined interfaces, internet-enabled connectivity, and smart software tools allow implementers to spend their time focusing on the task at hand rather than low-level implementation details, resulting in faster development. The flexibility and reconfigurability of these tools allow robotic solutions to be more appropriately customized for their tasks, resulting in better robots. Finally, these both result in solutions that are cheaper, both due to reduction in development time and because customization means that only necessary parts are purchased.

Lumis

Seed Round in 2020
At Lumis,they are passionate about providing next-generation learning systems to improve patient care.They want to make sure that the educational tools preparing our clinicians support their life-critical operations. Lumis provides illuminating healthcare education through hands-on, simulation-based training that utilizes augmented reality and automated instruction for individualized, 24/7, on-demand learning. You can add our products to any existing mannequin–from a $25 CPR shell up to a $250,000 computer-controlled full-body mannequin.

Trek Gum

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Trek Gum makes plastic-free chewing gum with functional ingredients to create gum lines with all-natural functional ingredients inside. They provide for restoring, progressing, and protecting the environment. They provides one-use plastic products.

Jetpack Workflow

Seed Round in 2020
Jetpack helps small- to medium-sized accounting firms manage workflow, repetitive processes, and build a paperless office.

Module

Seed Round in 2020
Module is a provider of housing projects to create modular residential houses. Its housing projects include designing and building housing in a modular way that brings intelligent architectural design to a mass market and offers an affordable and flexible entry point for homeownership.
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