JumpStart

JumpStart Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Cleveland, Ohio, dedicated to enhancing the economic impact of entrepreneurial ventures and the ecosystems that support them. Founded in 2004, the organization provides intensive entrepreneurial development assistance to Ohio entrepreneurs leading high-potential, early-stage companies. JumpStart is committed to fostering economic inclusion by focusing on the success of minority and women entrepreneurs in building high-impact businesses. In addition to direct support for entrepreneurs, JumpStart works to strengthen Ohio's innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem by securing resources and collaborating with community and regional leaders to promote the growth of high-growth companies. Through these efforts, JumpStart aims to create significant and sustainable economic impacts across the region.

Joshua Borstein

Investment Associate

Hardik Desai

Senior Partner, Investing

Harold Jones Ph.D

Senior Vice President

Danielle Morris

Partner, Revenue and Compliance Management

153 past transactions

Unify Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Unify Labs is a nonprofit tech innovation center that transforms the hiring experience for job seekers and employers.

SHARE Mobility

Series A in 2022
SHARE Mobility provides transportation solutions for companies. We fill open jobs and improve employee retention by helping companies provide transportation as a benefit. Turnkey Mobility-as-a-Service for safe and sustainable transportation.

TonDone

Seed Round in 2022
TonDone provides an all-in-one management software that helps users retain customers and increase sales.

orthobrain

Series A in 2022
Orthobrain provides an orthodontic growth system that assists general dentists in integrating orthodontic services into their practices. By combining digital technology, proprietary AI-driven learning systems, and expert orthodontic mentorship, Orthobrain offers a comprehensive solution encompassing patient acquisition through treatment, aiming to enhance practice capabilities and clinical confidence. Additionally, Orthobrain offers the SimplyClear aligner system, designed to provide patients with an effective means to achieve straighter smiles. The system includes comprehensive clinical support, featuring access to U.S.-based orthodontic experts. In 2024, SimplyClear™ was honored with the Product of the Year award by Benco, a national dental distributor.

Wizest

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wizest is a trading platform for investments that democratizes stock market access so that everyone can invest like the 1%. By simply copying their portfolios, users can form a team of financial experts to invest on their behalf. Optimize with performance leaderboards, select Experts who relate to them and share their values, and then learn why they trade in their news feed.

Aware

Series C in 2021
Aware is a cloud intelligence platform that adopts the latest advancements in cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analytics to amplify enterprise value by monitoring the social graph. They harness the power of their platform’s insights into human behavior and interactivity to create great value for the enterprise.

Renalis

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Renalis is a digital health company that develop platforms to improve experiences and outcomes for people with pelvic health conditions. Designed to tackle the challenges in pelvic health management, Renalis platforms increase patient engagement, improve adherence, decrease out-migration, saving providers valuable time and effort.

OnStation

Seed Round in 2021
OnStation builds an app that provides instant jobsite location, access to plans and design, and a team communication tool. It features an automatic station finder that empowers the user with the quickest and easiest way to know their location on the job. Their Station Finder feature can be converted to operate from the user's statewide milepost network. This allows OnStation to provide value on the numerous smaller jobs where survey data and project documents might be limited.

Axuall

Series A in 2021
Axuall is a workforce intelligence company built on a national real-time practitioner data network. Axuall offers a holistic approach to workforce analytics, including an integrated platform for driving smarter decisions and quickly onboarding providers. It enables healthcare systems, staffing firms, telehealth, and health plans to reduce onboarding and enrollment time while also providing unique, powerful data insights for network planning, analytics, and reporting.

Checkpoint Surgical

Venture Round in 2021
Checkpoint Surgical provides physicians with medical devices to locate, evaluate, and protect nerves and muscles in surgical procedures. The company's flagship product, the Checkpoint Stimulator/Locator is a single-use, hand-held stimulator with a broad range of stimulation parameters that are fully controllable by the surgeon with one hand and capable of eliciting a muscle contraction from stimulating the nerve directly or the tissue surrounding the nerve. The Checkpoint Surgical team continues to develop new and innovative first in class devices to help surgeons achieve better patient outcomes.

S4 Medical

Series A in 2021
Sotera is a medical device company that focuses on innovative solutions for cardiac procedures. The company’s initial product is a solution for reducing complications to the esophagus during catheter ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation. It is commercializing a novel medical device designed to protect the esophagus during catheter ablation procedures.

Aware

Series B in 2020
Aware is a cloud intelligence platform that adopts the latest advancements in cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analytics to amplify enterprise value by monitoring the social graph. They harness the power of their platform’s insights into human behavior and interactivity to create great value for the enterprise.

7SIGNAL

Series D in 2020
7SIGNAL is an enterprise wireless experience monitoring. 7SIGNAL provides a cloud-based platform that continuously monitors wireless networks and identifies elusive performance issues impacting application performance. By taking the “outside-in” approach to monitoring 7SIGNAL has visibility into the edge of any enterprise or home Wi-Fi network where complex device interaction exists, and user experience matters most. The platform maximizes employee productivity, operational efficiency, and network ROI. Designed for the world’s most innovative organizations, educational institutions, healthcare systems, and government agencies, the platform is currently deployed at Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and large venues globally.

ReadySet Surgical

Series A in 2020
Creating harmony between hospital and medical device manufacturer, from large academic medical centers, community hospitals, and every size in between, including over 25% of the 2024 Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25, ReadySet Surgical empowers supply chain, sterile processing, and operating room teams with real-time data. Streamline communication, automate manual processes, and scale surgical operations while reducing costs, improving efficiency, and elevating patient care. ReadySet Loaner Tray Management automatically notifies vendors of new cases and scheduling changes, ensuring your entire team knows exactly which trays are required for each case and when they'll arrive - powered by direct integrations with the biggest medical device OEMs. ReadySet Bill-Only replaces paper charge sheets with standardized digital charge sheet submission, tying vendors to the case ID and bill sheet. Cross-check submitted charges with your item master and contracts repository to validate pricing in real time. Automate the requisition creation and delivery of POs to vendors hands-free. How can we partner with your facility? Let us know at readysetsurgical.com. YouTube: youtube.com/@ReadySetSurgical

S4 Medical

Venture Round in 2020
Sotera is a medical device company that focuses on innovative solutions for cardiac procedures. The company’s initial product is a solution for reducing complications to the esophagus during catheter ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation. It is commercializing a novel medical device designed to protect the esophagus during catheter ablation procedures.
EmployStream is a hiring workflow automation software platform for staffing companies and other high-volume employers. It also creates high-quality, user-friendly for high-volume employers that automates the hiring and onboarding process for employers. The platform eliminates costly mistakes and delays allowing companies to hire up to 90% faster and at half the cost. The company provides an online hiring platform which offers different features such as paper onboarding, real-time alerting, online application, background checks, applicant pre & interview screening, and verification. EmployStream was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cleveland Ohio, USA.

SoLo Funds

Seed Round in 2019
SoLo is a financial service provider enabling a marketplace where members can request and fund emergency needs. SoLo launched in 2018 with the goal of providing a lending alternative that was equitable, empowering, and community-driven. Since then, we’ve processed millions of transactions and redefined financial services for our community members. Today, we’re driven to new heights launching banking, credit building and premium member services, but grounded in the same hope and mission: to build a community that enables financial autonomy for all.

MedPilot

Seed Round in 2019
MedPilot is a payment platform with simple verification that explains what patients owe and why. The company's post-payment surveys also provide vital input on the patient experience to our clients. Both the support crew and the digital help center provide assistance to patients.

Vitalxchange

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Vitalxchange is a holistic virtual platform that helps a parent show up confidently in all aspects of raising a child. The patent pending parent-tech platform uniquely combines human expertise with a proprietary expert system to help families with their child’s developmental, behavioral, learning, and overall well-being. Each family is matched with a team of VitalGuides who provide complete support through the parenting journey, identify problems early, and facilitate diagnosis/treatment with the child's clinical or educational providers. Families can access the platform through an all-inclusive monthly subscription model that they can purchase directly from the Vitalxchange website or through their employer benefits programs.
EmployStream is a hiring workflow automation software platform for staffing companies and other high-volume employers. It also creates high-quality, user-friendly for high-volume employers that automates the hiring and onboarding process for employers. The platform eliminates costly mistakes and delays allowing companies to hire up to 90% faster and at half the cost. The company provides an online hiring platform which offers different features such as paper onboarding, real-time alerting, online application, background checks, applicant pre & interview screening, and verification. EmployStream was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cleveland Ohio, USA.

enosiX

Series B in 2018
enosiX, an end-to-end business process flow solution which seamlessly and intelligently integrates Salesforce with SAP. The enosiX Enterprise Edition empowers your Salesforce users with SAP data such as customers, materials, pricing, inventory, quote/order creation (CPQ), and complete business process visibility in real-time, with no middleware. By enabling real-time sharing of data, insights and knowledge across sales, sales operations and services teams, your employees can capitalize on new opportunities faster and close them quickly. Achieve real-time integration, in days, not months. Our SAP Customer 360° App on the Salesforce AppExchange offers you pre-built scenarios for a true 360° view of your customers in less than a day, with zero coding. Real-time access to SAP means increased selling time, more productive reps, better customer engagement, and increased Salesforce adoption. Sales reps have gained back as much as eight hours per week in productivity. In addition to Salesforce / SAP integration, enosiX also provides SAP mobility solutions. The need to make SAP mobile spans beyond sales. Order management, manufacturing, logistics, service, and finance need real-time access to SAP data and processes. Pre-built enosiX apps for SAP can be accessed from any smartphone to empower your mobile workforce to enhance customer relationships and drive productivity.

Bezlio

Venture Round in 2018
Bezlio enhances manufacturing shop floor productivity and efficiency. It is a saas product that allows their mobile workforce to visualize their data and analytics from anywhere, on any device.

Mezu

Venture Round in 2018
Mezu is a mobile payment app that gives you a private and secure way to give and get money without sharing your personal information. Just like cash, with Mezu, you can conveniently pay, tip, earn and donate safely and for free. Because Mezu believes that what you do with your money is your business. Mezu is now available on iOS and Android in the United States. Sign up and learn more: https://www.mezu.com.

S4 Medical

Seed Round in 2018
Sotera is a medical device company that focuses on innovative solutions for cardiac procedures. The company’s initial product is a solution for reducing complications to the esophagus during catheter ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation. It is commercializing a novel medical device designed to protect the esophagus during catheter ablation procedures.

7SIGNAL

Series C in 2018
7SIGNAL is an enterprise wireless experience monitoring. 7SIGNAL provides a cloud-based platform that continuously monitors wireless networks and identifies elusive performance issues impacting application performance. By taking the “outside-in” approach to monitoring 7SIGNAL has visibility into the edge of any enterprise or home Wi-Fi network where complex device interaction exists, and user experience matters most. The platform maximizes employee productivity, operational efficiency, and network ROI. Designed for the world’s most innovative organizations, educational institutions, healthcare systems, and government agencies, the platform is currently deployed at Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and large venues globally.

Aware

Series A in 2018
Aware is a cloud intelligence platform that adopts the latest advancements in cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analytics to amplify enterprise value by monitoring the social graph. They harness the power of their platform’s insights into human behavior and interactivity to create great value for the enterprise.

Wisr

Seed Round in 2017
Wisr is a digital platform that enables colleges and universities to create private, university-branded networks for their admitted and prospective students. This type of virtual engagement space is a critical tool in attracting Gen Z students, who seek personal connection and authentic information about their future academic home. Wisr allows students to easily find their fit by allowing them to join general and niche communities, explore relevant discussion threads, and connect with their peers, including student ambassadors.

CompanionLabs

Seed Round in 2017
CompanionLabs have spent a combined 50 years building software platforms to help the biggest brands and agencies around the globe harness the power of data and digital marketing.

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.
EmployStream is a hiring workflow automation software platform for staffing companies and other high-volume employers. It also creates high-quality, user-friendly for high-volume employers that automates the hiring and onboarding process for employers. The platform eliminates costly mistakes and delays allowing companies to hire up to 90% faster and at half the cost. The company provides an online hiring platform which offers different features such as paper onboarding, real-time alerting, online application, background checks, applicant pre & interview screening, and verification. EmployStream was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cleveland Ohio, USA.

Vlipsy

Seed Round in 2017
Vlipsy is a startup that offers users short, conversational video clips from their favorite internet videos to share in their online communication—similar to the way sites like GIPHY provide looping images known as GIFs. However, Vlipsy's clips also feature sound, unlike GIFs, which are silent. Founded in 2017 by Nickless, Co-founder Matt Tew and a team of consumer startup veterans, Vlipsy has quickly gained momentum with users. Meanwhile, the platform's API for developers also makes third-party integration easy for partners including Slack, Skype, Viber, Telegram, Kik and more

Able (formerly EmployStream)

Seed Round in 2017
EmployStream is a hiring workflow automation software platform for staffing companies and other high-volume employers. It also creates high-quality, user-friendly for high-volume employers that automates the hiring and onboarding process for employers. The platform eliminates costly mistakes and delays allowing companies to hire up to 90% faster and at half the cost. The company provides an online hiring platform which offers different features such as paper onboarding, real-time alerting, online application, background checks, applicant pre & interview screening, and verification. EmployStream was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cleveland Ohio, USA.

Neuros Medical

Series A in 2017
Neuros Medical is a neuromodulation company, is focused on developing proprietary therapies for the unmet needs of patients worldwide. The Company's patented platform technology, Electrical Nerve Block, is focused on the elimination of chronic pain in a variety of applications including neuroma/residual limb pain, chronic post-surgical pain, and chronic migraine.

Heureka Software

Seed Round in 2017
Heureka provides organizations with tools to help them solve challenges related to managing unstructured data. Its platform makes it fast and easy to search and manage your data across your entire enterprise. It gives you real-time access to unstructured data on network file systems, servers, VM’s, laptops and desktops in order to respond to eDiscovery requests, comply with GDPR & privacy regulations and to automate information governance policies.

Aware

Series A in 2017
Aware is a cloud intelligence platform that adopts the latest advancements in cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, and behavioral analytics to amplify enterprise value by monitoring the social graph. They harness the power of their platform’s insights into human behavior and interactivity to create great value for the enterprise.

Wisr

Seed Round in 2017
Wisr is a digital platform that enables colleges and universities to create private, university-branded networks for their admitted and prospective students. This type of virtual engagement space is a critical tool in attracting Gen Z students, who seek personal connection and authentic information about their future academic home. Wisr allows students to easily find their fit by allowing them to join general and niche communities, explore relevant discussion threads, and connect with their peers, including student ambassadors.

SoLo Funds

Convertible Note in 2017
SoLo is a financial service provider enabling a marketplace where members can request and fund emergency needs. SoLo launched in 2018 with the goal of providing a lending alternative that was equitable, empowering, and community-driven. Since then, we’ve processed millions of transactions and redefined financial services for our community members. Today, we’re driven to new heights launching banking, credit building and premium member services, but grounded in the same hope and mission: to build a community that enables financial autonomy for all.

7SIGNAL

Series B in 2017
7SIGNAL is an enterprise wireless experience monitoring. 7SIGNAL provides a cloud-based platform that continuously monitors wireless networks and identifies elusive performance issues impacting application performance. By taking the “outside-in” approach to monitoring 7SIGNAL has visibility into the edge of any enterprise or home Wi-Fi network where complex device interaction exists, and user experience matters most. The platform maximizes employee productivity, operational efficiency, and network ROI. Designed for the world’s most innovative organizations, educational institutions, healthcare systems, and government agencies, the platform is currently deployed at Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and large venues globally.

Monarch Teaching Technologies

Venture Round in 2017
Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc. develops and markets proprietary software for the treatment of children with Autism and other communication disorders.

Talmetrix

Venture Round in 2017
Talmetrix humanizes employee and organizational data to elevate performance and productivity. Through its’ technology, solutions, and services, Talmetrix enables organizations to listen for and respond to the factors influencing the employee experience and organizational performance. Talmetrix captures, connects, and transforms disparate data into relevant insights to improve business decision-making and outcomes.

StreamLink Software

Venture Round in 2016
StreamLink Software-is a Software-as-a-Service company that develops grant management software for nonprofits and the public sector. Ther grants management solution, AmpliFund, is designed for managing every stage of the grant lifecycle and is at the forefront of automating grant compliance and data standardization in the public sector. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

ExpenseBot

Seed Round in 2016
ExpenseBot is a developer of an expense management platform used to make business expense reporting easier. The company's software automates the process of filling out expense reports by pulling in information from calendar apps, e-mail, credit card purchase reports, and even a phone’s GPS software. It’s powered by artificial intelligence software that can remind users to file expense actions like meals or a commute. ExpenseBot was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Milo Biotechnology

Venture Round in 2016
MILO BIOTECHNOLOGY Milo Biotechnology is a Cleveland-based company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with neuromuscular diseases. Milo's early clinical stage follistatin program, exclusively licensed from Nationwide Children's Hospital, is designed to increase muscle size and strength.

Unific

Seed Round in 2016
Revenue Conduit is the leading marketing system for small online retailers, designed to help you automatically convert more visitors into customers and more customers into customers for life.

StreamLink Software

Venture Round in 2016
StreamLink Software-is a Software-as-a-Service company that develops grant management software for nonprofits and the public sector. Ther grants management solution, AmpliFund, is designed for managing every stage of the grant lifecycle and is at the forefront of automating grant compliance and data standardization in the public sector. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Checkpoint Surgical

Series C in 2015
Checkpoint Surgical provides physicians with medical devices to locate, evaluate, and protect nerves and muscles in surgical procedures. The company's flagship product, the Checkpoint Stimulator/Locator is a single-use, hand-held stimulator with a broad range of stimulation parameters that are fully controllable by the surgeon with one hand and capable of eliciting a muscle contraction from stimulating the nerve directly or the tissue surrounding the nerve. The Checkpoint Surgical team continues to develop new and innovative first in class devices to help surgeons achieve better patient outcomes.

7SIGNAL

Series A in 2015
7SIGNAL is an enterprise wireless experience monitoring. 7SIGNAL provides a cloud-based platform that continuously monitors wireless networks and identifies elusive performance issues impacting application performance. By taking the “outside-in” approach to monitoring 7SIGNAL has visibility into the edge of any enterprise or home Wi-Fi network where complex device interaction exists, and user experience matters most. The platform maximizes employee productivity, operational efficiency, and network ROI. Designed for the world’s most innovative organizations, educational institutions, healthcare systems, and government agencies, the platform is currently deployed at Fortune 500 companies, hospitals, and large venues globally.

O2 RegenTech

Pre Seed Round in 2015
O2 RegenTech is commercializing cost-effective, easy-to-use wound care solutions. Our proprietary, patented technology is used in our initial product offering, OXAID™, as an oxygenating, moist, and antimicrobial dressing to promote and accelerate chronic wound healing. Now live with a RegCF fundraising campaign: https://www.netcapital.com/companies/o2regentech

Let's Gift It

Seed Round in 2013
Lets Gift It is an easy, fun and affordable way for friends, family, and coworkers to contribute towards the purchase of a gift for someone special. If you have ever organized or contributed towards a group gift, you know that collecting money, feeling obligated to give, and dealing with long email threads can be a pain. We experienced this pain and set out to build a better way to give as a group. Gift giving is about making someone's day special. Gift giving is not about how much you are able to spend. These two principals helped shape the product vision for Lets Gift It. We focused our efforts on creating a product that was easy to use, while making it affordable and fun for a folks who all have a connection to the recipient to give as a group. Lets Gift It is built on cutting edge technology to bring together people from a social graph, who for many different reasons, may not have otherwise been compelled to give a gift to a friend. Imagine its your birthday, and you opened the mail to find a new Callaway Driver generously gifted by the contributions of folks who may not know each other, but all know you. The collective buying power of the group can accomplish a lot of gifting.

BoxCast

Seed Round in 2013
BoxCast is a complete video streaming solution that fits in the palm of your hand. Anyone with a video camera can broadcast live video through their website, email, or social media. Viewers tune-in using any Internet connected computer, tablet, or modern smartphone.

Zuga Medical

Seed Round in 2013
Zuga Medical designs, manufactures and markets innovative dental implant systems. The patent-pending system allows dental professionals to reduce chair time, eliminate outsourced patient and laboratory services, and allow general dentist to perform the complete patient service with fewer visits.

Movable

Seed Round in 2013
Movable offers a wrist-worn activity monitor that measures all movement. Its product MOVband is a simple and fun wrist-worn activity monitor that measures all movement, not just steps. The company’s primary targets are corporate and school-based wellness programs.

eFuneral

Seed Round in 2013
eFuneral is a first-of-its-kind digital sales and lead generation platform that works with funeral providers to allow their families to shop, select and purchase their funeral goods & services online. The eFuneral digital storefront is a simple and convenient guided experience for consumers to utilize from the comfort of their own home, or alongside funeral staff who can provide additional guidance through the funeral planning process. Since officially launching the digital sales platform in 2019, eFuneral has sold $32 million in funeral arrangements for their funeral partners through December 2023 - $20 million of which were preneed funeral arrangements. They have also provided almost 200,000 families with online quotes, helping them get a better understanding of how much a funeral arrangement with their personal needs and beliefs may cost. eFuneral is a subsidiary of Homesteaders Life Company, one of the leading preneed insurance carries in the US.

Intellirod Spine

Seed Round in 2013
Formerly Known as OrthoData. Intellirod Spine's innovative diagnostic system will allow spine surgeons to accurately assess the success of spinal fusion and eliminate the need for unnecessary exploratory surgery while accelerating patients’ return to work after surgery.

Casentric

Convertible Note in 2013
Casentric offers CaseXpert™, a cloud-based, enterprise software-as-as-solution application that helps property and casualty insurance companies and self-insured organizations to evaluate and resolve third party personal injury and property damage claims more accurately, faster and for less money. CaseXpert™ currently consists of four components. The first component is used by claims handlers to evaluate comparative fault (or liability) among two or more actors who contribute to an event of loss. The second component is used to assess the extent of damages--such as pain and suffering, medical bills, and lost wages--that accrued from an event of loss. The third component, reporting, provides certain pre-set reports and analyses on open cases and closed cases. The company has developed a fourth component to provide real-time negotiation guidance to claims handlers during settlement negotiations to achieve improved settlement outcomes. The property and casualty insurance industry spends $225BN annually on personal injury and property damage claims. Companies spend approximately 75% of their revenue from insurance premiums on such claims, an amount that is rising due in part to rising medical costs. The vast majority of companies in the industry do not use any automated solution to help evaluate claims and, instead, rely on their individual claims handlers' experience to evaluate and resolve claims. This results in considerable variability in outcomes among claims handlers within companies and, importantly, no ability to measure outcomes and control expenses. Claims handlers today still substantially rely on handwritten, or unstructured, notes to record information, even though they handle far more cases and receive substantially less training than in the past. The industry is facing a significant shortage of claims handlers as many senior claims handlers will begin to retire in the next several years. Competing software applications exist, however, their penetration into the market has been hampered by their high complexity, high cost, and inability to reduce costs. Their proprietary "blackbox" approach also prevents claims handlers from understanding how to do their jobs and be successful in resolving claims. CaseXpert™ takes a very different approach from these applications. Its intuitive framework makes learning and using the application fast and easy. The application presents a common framework for isolating the elements of a case and forcing claims handlers to think critically to understand the value of each element. Claims handlers evaluate more information more efficiently, which enables them to more successfully negotiate and settle cases in less time and with better outcomes. Casentric's first pilot at a small auto insurance company in 4Q2012/1Q2013 tested CaseXpert™'s liability component. Results showed that users applied more information to cases that they evaluated, which resulted in 3X more settlements using comparative negligence, 3X more success in settling cases at their assessed value, and 5 percentage point loss reduction, or $4.5MM/year. Users gave positive feedback on CaseXpert™'s ease of use, its impact on their ability to understand their jobs better and learn, and resolve cases more successfully. Casentric engaged in a second paid pilot with a second P&C insurance company in 4Q2013/1Q2014 to test its liability module. Results showed that CaseXpert™'s liability module was projected to achieve, initially, $1MM in cost reductions, or 1% of their annual expense spend, in 2014. As of 1Q2014, Casentric has four paying customers, two of which are in pilot, and is building a customer pipeline, with a MRR of $9K and growing. Along with additional reporting capabilities to show how claims handlers individually perform relative to one another, Casentric is demonstrating that claims handlers use more evidence and arguments with CaseXpert™, resulting in significant reductions in amounts paid by companies for claims by third parties for losses related to medical bills and pain and suffering, in addition to the portion of the losses for which their customers are responsible. Casentric has been funded to date by its founders ($350K+), a $250K convertible note from JumpStart, Inc., a Cleveland-based nonprofit venture association, and a $100K nonrecourse note from a local county economic development fund.

Guided Interventions

Seed Round in 2013
Guided Interventions is a Cleveland-based medical device startup Led by CEO Dr. Matthew Pollman, Guided Interventions develops a a fractional flow reserve (FFR) guidewire that is designed to provide an effective way to obtain FFR measurements during coronary catheterization procedures. It is optimized for improved maneuverability and handling.

SoftoSource

Seed Round in 2012
SoftoSource is a software development company. They provide cloud applications, web applications, software testing, database development, and business and requirements analysis services. They also offer UI and UX design services.

MedCity News

Seed Round in 2012
MedCity News creates content for people who care about health care. It is a solution for media companies and organizations that need content, stakeholders who need actionable information about the medical industry, and advertisers who want to speak to this valuable niche audience. Founded by veteran journalists with both health care reporting and online editorial experience, MedCity News is poised to build an innovative new-media enterprise capable of taking advantage of these converging forces while building a profitable national business and brand. It operates the MedCity News Service, a type of niche wire service focused on the innovation economies in major "medical cities" and states (it has offices in Minnesota and Ohio, but also covers dealflow in the Midwest and Pittsburgh). It also operates MedCityNews.com and a custom content service that creates made-to-order content for anyone that wants it. Its news content is syndicated throughthe Ohio News Network, Akron Beacon Journal, The Kindle, WKYC, the Boston online journal MassDevice and the Zemanta blog aggregator, among others.

LifeMedix

Seed Round in 2012
LifeMedix, LLC is developing a hand-held, ultra-portable medical infusion pump. Generating its own electricity in conjunction with a piezoelectric component and battery, the device requires no external electrical power source or battery recharging.

Enforcer eCoaching

Seed Round in 2012
Enforcer eCoaching is an email-based health coaching company offering a series of interactive, personalized, high-value wellness programs. These programs produce enduring behavioral and environmental changes, resulting in disease reversal and greatly improved quality and vitality of life for participants.

Neuros Medical

Series B in 2012
Neuros Medical is a neuromodulation company, is focused on developing proprietary therapies for the unmet needs of patients worldwide. The Company's patented platform technology, Electrical Nerve Block, is focused on the elimination of chronic pain in a variety of applications including neuroma/residual limb pain, chronic post-surgical pain, and chronic migraine.

GenomOncology

Seed Round in 2012
A venture backed and Cleveland, OH based healthcare technology company, GenomOncology is enabling precision medicine by transforming data into actionable information. We offer the GO Precision Medicine Portfolio - a suite of solutions that addresses the full range of needs for Healthcare Institutions. The portfolio supports technical assay validation and testing, clinical decision support, collaborative decision support for Molecular Tumor Board workflows and analytics for monitoring and discovery – to enable cancer precision medicine.

Cryothermic Systems

Seed Round in 2012
Cryothermic Systems (formerly Life Core Technologies) is an American medical device firm that develops a series of products to improve patient outcomes by preventing brain damage. Its product Excel Cryo is a device that lowers the temperature of the brain, which can be applied immediately at the onset of neurologic injury.

Milo Biotechnology

Pre Seed Round in 2012
MILO BIOTECHNOLOGY Milo Biotechnology is a Cleveland-based company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with neuromuscular diseases. Milo's early clinical stage follistatin program, exclusively licensed from Nationwide Children's Hospital, is designed to increase muscle size and strength.
Intelligent Mobile Support provides innovative technology solutions to help you support your sales reps and technicians in the field.

Intelligent Mobile Support

Seed Round in 2011
Intelligent Mobile Support provides innovative technology solutions to help you support your sales reps and technicians in the field.

SpearFysh

Pre Seed Round in 2011
SpearFysh is a breakthrough technology that utilizes proprietary software to capture real-time sales interactions, which are then analyzed and translated into valuable business intelligence. In turn, this business intelligence is leveraged to increase sales, speed up selling cycles, improve win rates, and more. SpearFysh allows Management to lead more effectively and Marketers to identify opportunities faster and more accurately. SpearFysh is a web-services application where Executives, Sales Managers, and Salespeople can securely manage, share, coach, and search conversations that have been machine analyzed. SpearFysh was founded by Marc Miller, CEO of Sogistics and author of two best-selling books on sales productivity. His belief is that the new key to sustaining profitable enterprise growth is creating agile, nimble, and quick-to-execute sales and marketing teams.

Anderson Aerospace

Seed Round in 2011
Anderson Aerospace, a Kent, Ohio-based company that designs and manufactures advanced technology satellite antenna systems for aircraft.Anderson Aerospace, LLC was founded to pursue new opportunities in aerospace, advanced manufacturing and satellite communications. Their world class team has 140 years of experience in aerospace with 82 years of experience designing, manufacturing and selling aircraft satellite antenna systems.

Cureo

Pre Seed Round in 2011
Cureo is a web-based collaboration platform purpose-built for nonprofit organizations. The platform allows internal team members to curate and orchestrate collaborations and communications internally AND with all of their external board members, committee members, donors, volunteers, clients, and community partners. This is ideal for teams struggling to get organized and more efficient in this world of app overload and email purgatory. What's unique about Cureo is that its architecture reflects the reality of collaboration in the nonprofit sector and in civic community interactions such as multi-entity task forces working to improve lives and solve critical social problems. The reality is that the vast majority of collaborators are not captive employees of the organizations they contribute to as board members, donors, volunteers, etc. and must interact via multiple channels including email without ever having to log into portal software. Used by some of the most recognized global non-profit entities, Cureo is secure, super easy to use, mobile-friendly and accessible from anywhere.

Cervilenz

Venture Round in 2011
CerviLenz is a new, disposable device that measure vaginal cervical length during a speculum exam. Cervical length is a powerful predictor of preterm birth risk and influences patient management decisions. CerviLenz gives clinicians an immediate, reliable method for measuring the cervix at the point of care. CerviLenz is manufactured and distributed by Cervilenz Inc. headquartered in Chagrin Falls, Ohio.

SironRX Therapeutics

Series A in 2011
SironRX is developing novel therapies exclusively licensed from Juventas Therapeutics and Cleveland Clinic that promote dermal wound repair and reduce scarring. Our lead product is a clinically tested biopharmaceutical that encodes Stromal cell-Derived Factor-1 (SDF-1). SDF-1 is key molecule responsible for activating natural repair processes after tissue injury through prevention of cell death and recruitment of stem cells to the damaged organ. Studies from several laboratories suggest the therapeutic potential of SDF-1 for treatment of a range of wounds such as post-surgical incisions, chronic diabetic ulcers and burns. Development of a cost-effective interactive wound therapy that can be topically administered at the site-of-injury or in chronic wound care settings with the potential to significantly improve function of the damaged tissue will have a major impact on the multi-billion dollar advanced wound management market.

Segmint

Venture Round in 2011
Segmint empowers financial institutions and financial technology providers to easily understand and leverage data, interact with customers, and measure results. Derived from billions of transactions, Segmint provides the fastest and most accurate customer insights through advanced data tagging, categorization, and contextualization. Our insights enable all functions of an organization to inform strategies including competitive analysis, risk, marketing, customer experience, and product innovation.

Securus Medical Group

Series A in 2011
Securus Medical Group engages in the development of clinical tools to improve the safety and efficacy of ablation therapy by providing real-time, non-contact, high-resolution tissue temperature monitoring, and mapping products. The company engages in developing real-time, noncontact, thermal mapping systems to determine intrabody tissue temperatures.

CoverMyMeds

Seed Round in 2011
CoverMyMeds is a free website and suite of integrated workflow tools that helps physicians and pharmacists complete prior authorization (PA) and other insurance coverage determination forms for any drug and almost all drug plans. PA is the process used by insurance companies to approve or reject prescriptions based on plan formulary. CoverMyMeds makes money by partnering with pharmaceutical manufacturers to improve patient access to branded medications.
CardioInsight is commercializing a revolutionary technology called Electrocardiographic Mapping (ECM) that non-invasively generates 3D images of the electrical activity of the heart. The images help physicians more accurately treat certain heart ailments such as arrhythmias and congestive heart failure. ECM non-invasively generates real-time, whole heart images of the electrical activity on the surface of the heart by combining body surface electrical data with 3-D anatomical data obtained from CT scans. The CardioInsight system reconstructs and displays 3D images and other useful measures of cardiac electrical activity as if the measurements were taken directly from the surface of the heart. The ability of ECM to generate accurate images of the heart's electrical activity and its potential to guide therapy in both cardiac arrhythmias and congestive heart failure has been demonstrated in over 260 patient studies sponsored by the Company.

Caralon Global

Seed Round in 2011
Caralon Global is developing and commercializing an ultra-thin, highly efficient insulation product. The patent-pending technology used to create its Nanotheca® insulation is a uniquely-manufactured vacuum insulated panel that reduces heat transfer better than traditional fiberglass or polyurethane products.

SPR Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2011
SPRA Therapeutics is a medical device company that is commercializing pain treatments utilizing its proprietary peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS) products. They are developing a pipeline of neurostimulation pain therapies that will exploit the same physiologic mechanism of action, proprietary technology, and clinical approach. The first product to be commercialized is the SMARTPATCHâ„¢ PNS System, which is a short-term, minimally invasive system that is simple to deliver and can be used for up to 30 days to stimulate electrically a peripheral nerve to relieve pain.

Thermalin

Series A in 2011
Thermalin hopes to disrupt the $30B insulin/insulin delivery market with a disposable, postage-stamp-sized glucose management system enabled by our first-in-class stabilized, highly concentrated, and ultra-rapid acting insulin. This same new insulin molecule in "ordinary" (U-100) concentration will enable the factory-filling of reservoirs for existing insulin pumps. In addition to this lead program, Thermalin is developing partnerships on no-cold-chain basal and mix insulins and on glucose-responsive insulins.
OrthoHelix Surgical Designs is a medical device company developing a comprehensive line of implants and instruments for use in small bone reconstructive surgery. OrthoHelix is dedicated to being the most responsive device maker in the orthopedic industry. We provide state of the art extremity fixation products that are reliable and easy to use. We enhance surgical outcomes of patients. Our vision is to be an orthopedic company that succeeds by listening to surgeons, giving them what they want and need for safer, faster, easier surgical procedures and improved patient outcomes. We take pride in upholding values of Integrity, Compliance, Dedication, Focus and Speed. Surgeons Speak.

SironRX Therapeutics

Venture Round in 2011
SironRX is developing novel therapies exclusively licensed from Juventas Therapeutics and Cleveland Clinic that promote dermal wound repair and reduce scarring. Our lead product is a clinically tested biopharmaceutical that encodes Stromal cell-Derived Factor-1 (SDF-1). SDF-1 is key molecule responsible for activating natural repair processes after tissue injury through prevention of cell death and recruitment of stem cells to the damaged organ. Studies from several laboratories suggest the therapeutic potential of SDF-1 for treatment of a range of wounds such as post-surgical incisions, chronic diabetic ulcers and burns. Development of a cost-effective interactive wound therapy that can be topically administered at the site-of-injury or in chronic wound care settings with the potential to significantly improve function of the damaged tissue will have a major impact on the multi-billion dollar advanced wound management market.

MedCity Media

Seed Round in 2010
MedCity News is a media organization dedicated to providing content related to the healthcare industry, catering to a diverse audience that includes stakeholders seeking actionable information, media companies in need of specialized content, and advertisers targeting this niche market. Founded by experienced journalists with expertise in health care reporting and online editorial practices, the organization operates a news portal that features a variety of offerings, including podcasts, newsletters, research, and analysis on both startups and established entities within the sector. It also runs the MedCity News Service, a niche wire service focused on innovation within key medical cities and regions, including Minnesota and Ohio. Additionally, MedCity News customizes content for clients looking for tailored solutions. The organization syndicates its news content through various platforms, enhancing its reach within the healthcare community.

Tursiop Technologies

Seed Round in 2010
Tursiop Technologies is developing revolutionary MRI coil devices utilizing proprietary nanotechnology, which will produce higher image quality and faster scan times resulting in a significant boost of the functional capabilities of any installed MRI system. Tursiop-generated imaging enhancements will apply across the entire range of MRI system field strengths, from low-field to high-field systems. Increased diagnostic competency will lead to improved patient outcomes and open the doors to new therapeutic opportunities within the areas of interventional, intra-operative and functional MRI and molecular imaging.

OnShift

Series A in 2010
OnShift delivers cloud-based human capital management software and proactive services to solve everyday workforce challenges in healthcare. Our suite of products for hiring, scheduling and employee engagement drives quality care, lower costs and higher performance by empowering providers to staff consistently and efficiently. Intuitive design, predictive analytics and customer success management are why thousands of post-acute care and senior living organizations rely on OnShift.

Ayalogic

Venture Round in 2010
Ayalogic was founded in 2002 and is backed by Draper Triangle Ventures, Early Stage Partners, and JumpStart, Inc. imVOX was created by Ayalogic to revolutionize communication in gaming. Ayalogic also runs the Green-Ear network, and has been providing integrated voice services to indie game developers since 2008.

CoverMyMeds

Seed Round in 2010
CoverMyMeds is a free website and suite of integrated workflow tools that helps physicians and pharmacists complete prior authorization (PA) and other insurance coverage determination forms for any drug and almost all drug plans. PA is the process used by insurance companies to approve or reject prescriptions based on plan formulary. CoverMyMeds makes money by partnering with pharmaceutical manufacturers to improve patient access to branded medications.

Max Endoscopy

Seed Round in 2010
MAX Endoscopy designs and manufactures innovative endoscopic accessory devices that fill unmet needs in the field of Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. We develop devices and instruments that are novel and yet practical and cost effective, providing opportunities for physicians in gastroenterology and related medical specialties to provide better treatment.

Thermalin

Venture Round in 2010
Thermalin hopes to disrupt the $30B insulin/insulin delivery market with a disposable, postage-stamp-sized glucose management system enabled by our first-in-class stabilized, highly concentrated, and ultra-rapid acting insulin. This same new insulin molecule in "ordinary" (U-100) concentration will enable the factory-filling of reservoirs for existing insulin pumps. In addition to this lead program, Thermalin is developing partnerships on no-cold-chain basal and mix insulins and on glucose-responsive insulins.

Endotronix

Seed Round in 2010
Endotronix is a developer of hemodynamic monitoring technologies to help detect worsening heart failure earlier than ever before. The company's platform includes a cloud-based disease management data system and outpatient hemodynamic management with a breakthrough implantable wireless pulmonary artery sensor for early detection of worsening heart failure. It was founded in 2007 and is based in Lisle, Illinois.

Theravasc

Series A in 2010
TheraVasc, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops repurposed drugs for vascular disease markets. It offers TV1001, an oral formulation of sodium nitrite that targets patient populations with poor blood flow to the extremities, such as those with diabetic leg and foot problems, and peripheral artery disease. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Laguna Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2010
ChanRx Corp. intends to develop and market small molecule pharmaceuticals to treat atrial fibrillation, a common arrhythmia that can cause heart attacks and strokes. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

InSeT Systems

Seed Round in 2010
InSeT Systems LLC is the developer of the patented (Patent #7,400,246) Inertial Sensor Tracking system that dramatically aids rescue efforts in mines. The InSeT System uses miniature inertial sensors, proprietary software, and a wireless mesh radio network to display and record the real-time location of miners working underground. The InSeT System provides unprecedented tracking accuracy – tracking miners within a matter of a few feet – thereby enabling rapid, highly targeted rescue efforts when mining disasters occur.

Echogen Power Systems

Series A in 2010
Echogen is a producer of scalable heat-to-power systems. Their process captures heat energy—which would normally be lost—and converts into higher value, usable power. Echogen offers a cost-effective solution to monetize their customers’ otherwise wasted heat.

Checkpoint Surgical

Series A in 2010
Checkpoint Surgical provides physicians with medical devices to locate, evaluate, and protect nerves and muscles in surgical procedures. The company's flagship product, the Checkpoint Stimulator/Locator is a single-use, hand-held stimulator with a broad range of stimulation parameters that are fully controllable by the surgeon with one hand and capable of eliciting a muscle contraction from stimulating the nerve directly or the tissue surrounding the nerve. The Checkpoint Surgical team continues to develop new and innovative first in class devices to help surgeons achieve better patient outcomes.

ABSMaterials

Series A in 2010
ABS Materials designs, develops, and delivers solutions for ground, surface, and municipal water contamination. Its solutions include VoC-Eater system, which destroys pharmaceuticals, chlorinated solvents, herbicides, endocrine disruptors, PCBs, dyes, and phenols to outflow clean water; Osorb, a solution to destroy persistent organic pollutants in the groundwater; and Iron-Osorb, an inert sand-like glass used on TCE/PCE/DCE/PCBs. The company’s solutions are used to clean solvents, pesticides, and other persistent organic pollutants from the water, soil, and air. It offers its systems on a rental and long term lease basis. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Wooster, Ohio with an additional office in Houston, Texas.

Catacel

Seed Round in 2010
Catacel maintains industry-leading expertise in foil-supported reaction materials, including: * Catalysts and sorbents for a wide range of reactions: fuel reforming, hydrogen syngas production, tail gas combustion, catalytic partial oxidation, gas separation * High-temperature, heat exchanging materials for endothermic and exothermic reactions * Foil substrate design, manufacturing, and coating Our unique strengths in those competencies include: * Synthesis and evaluation of high-performance catalytic materials * World-class technology for durable bonding of catalyst and sorbent materials to complex metal foil surfaces * Design and manufacturing of metal foil structures that operate in hostile conditions while providing high-performance heat transfer and heat management * Development of custom prototypes and demonstration systems, to high-volume manufacturing and global supply

Melody Management

Seed Round in 2010
Melody Management provided online music management services to manage music careers.

iGuiders

Venture Round in 2010
iGuiders patent-pending online decision technology helps simplify online product searches & turns web visitors into qualified leads and closed sales. "Half of potential Web sales are lost because visitors simply can't find what they want." (Informationweek.com) The "thinking" help people need to make decisions isn't provided online. Buyers & sellers both lose out. Online search is an independent activity, yet people still want expertise along the way to facilitate quick decision-making. Guiders help online visitors quickly identify what they want, leads them to the exact information they need, and helps them make decisions faster. The Guider technology enables companies to create a series of questions on their product or service which then leads different customers to the specific solution that matches their needs. Qualified leads and metrics are collected from users guided sessions and provided to Guider owners. Guiders complete the search process by picking up where search engines leave off. They take generalized searches and make them personalized and specific. See our demo @ www.iGuiders.com/explore

Max Endoscopy

Seed Round in 2010
MAX Endoscopy designs and manufactures innovative endoscopic accessory devices that fill unmet needs in the field of Gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy. We develop devices and instruments that are novel and yet practical and cost effective, providing opportunities for physicians in gastroenterology and related medical specialties to provide better treatment.

Theravasc

Seed Round in 2010
TheraVasc, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops repurposed drugs for vascular disease markets. It offers TV1001, an oral formulation of sodium nitrite that targets patient populations with poor blood flow to the extremities, such as those with diabetic leg and foot problems, and peripheral artery disease. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

Myers Motors

Seed Round in 2009
Myers Motors exists to help you get what you want. What you, and millions like you, want is to change the world for the better by shedding their dependence on oil and putting on a more energy efficient future with electric vehicles that everyone can afford to buy.
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