Refraction
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Refraction provides a white-label eCommerce marketplace for auto dealers powered by DealerTrack that integrates with existing dealer websites to enable online vehicle sales. The platform supports a rapid setup, allowing dealers to start selling quickly, and helps future-proof businesses as car buyers increasingly shop online. By delivering a streamlined online buying experience, Refraction helps convert shoppers into customers and extend dealership reach into digital channels.
Nudge Money
Seed Round in 2024
Nudge Money is a fintech company that uses AI and behavioral economics to provide personalized financial advice through automated marketing channels. It partners with community financial institutions and fintechs, enhancing customer engagement and loyalty.
Caretech Human
Seed Round in 2024
CareTech Human specializes in remote patient health monitoring, offering a unique, toilet-integrated device designed to detect early signs of urological diseases. This automated solution analyzes urine and stool samples using sensors and artificial intelligence, providing users with real-time health insights and enabling proactive disease prevention.
Edenesque
Venture Round in 2024
Edenesque is a company that specializes in the production of plant-based milk and non-dairy products. Utilizing natural ingredients such as almonds, cashews, and hemp, Edenesque aims to offer healthy alternatives to traditional dairy. In addition to its range of non-dairy beverages, the company also provides customized cold-pressed juices, allowing consumers to select drinks that align with their specific dietary preferences. Through its focus on natural ingredients and customization, Edenesque caters to the growing demand for healthier and plant-based dietary options.
sayhii
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Sayhii is a technology company that specializes in employee engagement. It offers a platform that fosters daily interaction among team members, providing personalized insights and behavioral analytics to enhance connectivity and improve overall satisfaction. The platform is designed to help leaders understand and address employee sentiment in real-time, promoting a positive work culture, increased productivity, and reduced turnover.
Telesafety
Seed Round in 2024
TeleSafety is a mobile app that provides real-time access to workplace safety experts by helping with important questions or professional advice.
Diadem Capital
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Diadem Capital, founded in 2022 and based in New York, is a funding and data platform that connects private companies with institutional capital. The platform serves a curated list of venture-backed startups, facilitating access to venture capital and venture debt from Seed through Pre-IPO stages. Investors have the autonomy to select founders they wish to engage with directly. Additionally, Diadem Capital assists Series B+ startups in exploring exit opportunities through partnerships with investment banking firms. The platform operates across various sectors, collaborating with a diverse network of investors, including venture capitalists, corporate venture capitalists, and family offices, who are active in areas such as B2B SaaS, Fintech, ClimateTech, and consumer packaged goods.
Dimensional Energy
Series A in 2023
Dimensional Energy is a chemistry company specializing in artificial photosynthesis. It aims to produce eco-friendly polymers and chemical intermediaries by efficiently harnessing sunlight using scalable reactors and innovative catalysts.
SelectFI Lending Solutions
Pre Seed Round in 2023
SelectFI leverages proprietary Predictive Lending™ analysis to prequalify customers for financing using an auto dealership's existing lenders. The platform uses soft pull technology and lender guidelines to prequalify a customer for their vehicle of choice, and give dealerships fast, accurate quotes from each of its lenders without impacting the customer's credit score. The software reduces dealership expenses for hard credit pulls, greatly improves efficiency for their internal F&I teams, and helps dealerships remain compliant with FTC regulations for fair lending.
AvantGuard
Seed Round in 2023
AvantGuard creats innovative solutions that manage surfaces and provide long-term protection against viruses, bacteria, and fungi/mold, in a variety of applications.
MemoryFox
Seed Round in 2022
MemoryFox is a SaaS marketing platform designed for nonprofits. It helps these organizations gather and share engaging content from their communities, streamlining the process from capture to presentation on various platforms.
Arbol
Convertible Note in 2022
Arbol is a company that operates a climate risk assessment and insurance platform aimed at helping businesses mitigate financial losses from extreme weather events. It connects weather-exposed agricultural entities with capital providers, such as insurers and asset managers, through its innovative insurance marketplace. By utilizing big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology, Arbol enhances transparency and efficiency in managing climate risks. The platform offers parametric insurance solutions that eliminate information asymmetry and lower administrative costs by using objective data from satellites and weather stations. This enables automated pricing and instant payouts based on predefined data triggers, allowing businesses across various sectors to access capital from non-insurance sources and effectively manage their climate-related financial challenges.
Jeca Energy Bars
Seed Round in 2022
Jeca Bar produces vegan-friendly energy bars crafted from all-natural, plant-based superfoods. Their products are free from preservatives and artificial additives, offering wholesome nutrition for busy lifestyles.
EMPEQ develops a SaaS platform that uses computer vision to identify and analyze mechanical and electronic equipment. It provides insights such as age, remaining useful life, origin, and authenticity, supporting maintenance and sustainability efforts in critical infrastructure systems.
Ognomy is a health technology company that provides a telemedicine platform for the diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea, allowing patients to manage their care entirely from home. The company leverages its proprietary, cloud-based platform to deliver virtual-home testing and integrate electronic health records with intelligent workflows and automation. This technology facilitates seamless care coordination between patients and sleep specialists, enabling access to home testing options and treatment providers. Ognomy's services aim to enhance the overall patient experience by streamlining the process of obtaining comprehensive care for sleep apnea.
812 Inventions
Venture Round in 2022
812 Inventions is an IP consultation firm that provides advice, guidance and counsel in matters relating to patents, trademarks, publishing, copyrights, licensing, royalties, contracts, entity formation, marketing campaigns, and ecclesiastical affairs.
AireXpert
Seed Round in 2022
AireXpert operates a SaaS platform designed for technical stakeholders across aerospace and aviation supply chains. Its airline operation control platform optimizes aircraft maintenance systems, offering real-time collaboration and event-driven data to reduce repair times, delays, and costs while mitigating compliance risks.
Patient Pattern
Seed Round in 2022
Patient Pattern is a developer of geriatric medical software that focuses on identifying, stratifying, and communicating patient risk across various healthcare facilities and settings. The company provides a clinically validated solution for frailty and medication risk stratification, enabling healthcare providers to accurately code patient conditions and create deficit-driven care plans. This software offers clinical decision support, summarizing each patient's current situation and providing recommendations that facilitate efficient treatment of elderly patients. By improving care management, Patient Pattern aims to enhance patient outcomes while reducing overall utilization costs in healthcare.
SunDensity
Venture Round in 2021
SunDensity Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in the research, design, and development of innovative Photonic Smart Coating (PSC™) technology. Established in 2016, the company focuses on enhancing efficiencies in photonics through the up and down conversion of light wavelengths, addressing various inefficiencies in the field. SunDensity's PSC™ technology is designed to lower electricity costs generated by solar photovoltaic applications, optimize the thermal and optical properties of architectural glass, and improve the quantum efficiency of optoelectronic instruments. The company also maintains an office in Rochester, New York, where it continues to advance its groundbreaking technologies.
Azuna Fresh
Seed Round in 2021
Azuna specializes in the production of air purifiers that harness the antimicrobial properties of Australian tea tree oil to eliminate odors. The company offers an all-natural, hand-crafted gel that releases the essential oil into the air, utilizing the natural airflow within a room. This approach provides an effective and safe alternative for maintaining a clean and fresh environment, particularly appealing to parents and pet owners who seek to avoid harmful chemicals in their homes. Azuna's products are designed to enhance indoor air quality while promoting a healthier living space.
Dimien
Venture Round in 2021
Dimien is a manufacturing company based in Buffalo, New York, established in 2013. It specializes in ceramics and inorganic materials, particularly for use as additives in various applications. The company has developed a patented material for electric vehicle batteries, focusing on novel cathodes that are high-energy, low-cost, and safe. These cathodes are applicable in multiple sectors, including optical devices, automotive adhesives, and plastic composites. Dimien aims to provide clients with battery solutions that balance performance and cost, specifically tailored for electrified vehicles.
Re-Nuble
Seed Round in 2021
Re-Nuble is an agricultural technology company that transforms unrecoverable vegetative food byproducts into organic liquid fertilizers for hydroponic growers. Its products stimulate microbial activity in plants' root zones and are available through stores and online in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
Well Connected
Seed Round in 2021
SaaS company that builds technology to bring communities closer together for improves access and equity.
Circuit Clinical
Series C in 2021
Circuit Clinical is an integrated research organization that has emerged from the experience of a physician engaged in clinical research within a private practice. Established in 2015, the company aims to enhance the way clinical research is conducted by emphasizing physician and participant engagement. Circuit Clinical leverages a network of over 1 million patients, utilizing direct HIPAA/FDA-compliant Electronic Medical Record reviews to identify motivated participants. The organization provides research services that facilitate access to clinical research, guiding both experienced and novice community physicians and their patients through each step of the clinical research process. Through its technology products and focus on participant and physician experience, Circuit Clinical seeks to improve research site quality and patient safety, creating a more efficient pathway for clinical research.
Breezi.io
Seed Round in 2021
Breezi.io, Inc. specializes in developing and manufacturing wireless devices designed to monitor and detect issues within heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. One of its key products, AirPulse, enables users to assess the condition of air filters and other HVAC components, allowing for proactive maintenance. The company serves both residential and commercial customers, helping them to identify potential problems before they escalate. Founded in 2016, Breezi.io is headquartered in Pittsboro, North Carolina, and aims to enhance the functionality of smart homes through innovative technology.
SunDensity
Series A in 2021
SunDensity Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in the research, design, and development of innovative Photonic Smart Coating (PSC™) technology. Established in 2016, the company focuses on enhancing efficiencies in photonics through the up and down conversion of light wavelengths, addressing various inefficiencies in the field. SunDensity's PSC™ technology is designed to lower electricity costs generated by solar photovoltaic applications, optimize the thermal and optical properties of architectural glass, and improve the quantum efficiency of optoelectronic instruments. The company also maintains an office in Rochester, New York, where it continues to advance its groundbreaking technologies.
TheirStory
Convertible Note in 2021
TheirStory is a web-based platform that empowers communities to collect, preserve, and share their members' audiovisual stories. It offers tools and services to create living digital archives, fostering deeper connections through heartfelt storytelling.
ZIZO Technologies
Convertible Note in 2021
ZIZO Technologies Inc. specializes in developing subscription-based software that focuses on workforce management and gamification. Its platform is designed to simplify management activities and enhance productivity across various sectors, including call centers, sales, insurance, and collections. By integrating data software with a gamified environment, ZIZO engages employees, allowing them to work towards goals while earning rewards in a customized game-like setting. This approach not only motivates teams but also provides managers and business owners with access to valuable data through dashboards, facilitating effective front-line management and unlocking the potential of the workforce.
Ramba
Convertible Note in 2021
Ramba is an innovative company that provides an alternative to traditional dental insurance by leveraging self-funding models. It offers employers a straightforward, flexible, and cost-effective way to deliver dental benefits to their employees. Ramba's technology platform utilizes blockchain for claims processing and smart contracts to enhance transparency, predictability, and prompt payment. This approach allows companies to bypass the need for expensive third-party benefits administrators, thereby streamlining enrollment, coverage management, and reimbursement processes.
EagleHawk
Seed Round in 2021
EagleHawk is a technology company that uses drone-powered data to help manage large-scale physical assets. It specializes in inspecting buildings, roofs, solar panels, and district heating systems, enabling clients to reduce maintenance costs, energy consumption, and risks.
Iryss
Convertible Note in 2021
Iryss is a developer of a personal finance platform aimed at assisting families dealing with high-cost medical conditions. The company focuses on automating medical payments and guiding patients toward cost-saving programs. By utilizing disease-specific tools and predictive analytics, Iryss helps users minimize out-of-pocket expenses and safeguard long-term financial security. This approach is designed to alleviate the financial stress experienced by chronically ill patients and their families, enabling them to navigate the complexities of medical payments more effectively.
AGAPÉ is a relationship wellness platform designed to spark meaningful conversations and help couples feel and show love. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, the platform prompts daily questions to initiate dialogue and offers personalized guidance to improve relationships. By providing a simple, regular cadence of prompts, AGAPÉ supports couples in building stronger communication and emotional connection.
HELIXintel
Convertible Note in 2021
HELIXintel is a technology company based in Hamburg, New York, incorporated in 2019, that develops a computerized maintenance management system and an inventory and task management platform to track the condition, maintenance history, and lifecycle of equipment and property. The platform enables businesses to monitor equipment condition, organize maintenance workflows, and request service and parts, while also serving as a B2B marketplace that connects equipment operators with original equipment manufacturers and their authorized service networks. By centralizing maintenance data and workflows, HELIXintel aims to extend equipment life, improve uptime, and reduce environmental footprint, while saving cash, staff time, and energy for asset-intensive organizations.
Combined Energies
Seed Round in 2021
Combined Energies is an early-stage startup focused on commercializing innovative power electronic and fuel cell technologies for residential applications. The company specializes in designing and producing specialized power electronics tailored for renewable energy generation, energy storage, and electric vehicle markets, which are collectively valued at approximately $5.6 billion. Its flagship products include bi-directional universal power converters (UPCs) that efficiently manage and enhance multiple low-voltage input streams. These UPCs are passively cooled and characterized by high operating efficiencies, allowing clients to optimize renewable energy technologies even as input voltage decreases. Through its advancements in power electronics, Combined Energies aims to contribute to the growth and efficiency of the renewable energy sector.
Verivend
Convertible Note in 2021
Verivend is a technology company that streamlines capital raising and deployment processes. Its platform enables instant, secure, and paperless transactions for capital calls and distributions, enhancing efficiency and reducing risks.
Anaghe Atelier
Convertible Note in 2021
Anaghe Atelier specializes in the production of luxury designer sweatshirts and sportswear, distinguished by a couture aesthetic.
AvantGuard
Convertible Note in 2021
AvantGuard creats innovative solutions that manage surfaces and provide long-term protection against viruses, bacteria, and fungi/mold, in a variety of applications.
ZIZO Technologies
Convertible Note in 2021
ZIZO Technologies Inc. specializes in developing subscription-based software that focuses on workforce management and gamification. Its platform is designed to simplify management activities and enhance productivity across various sectors, including call centers, sales, insurance, and collections. By integrating data software with a gamified environment, ZIZO engages employees, allowing them to work towards goals while earning rewards in a customized game-like setting. This approach not only motivates teams but also provides managers and business owners with access to valuable data through dashboards, facilitating effective front-line management and unlocking the potential of the workforce.
braidbabes
Seed Round in 2021
Braidbabes is a mobile hair-styling service that focuses on providing custom braiding, particularly boho-style braids, for various events and bridal parties. The company operates on-demand, traveling to customers' locations to deliver personalized hair braiding services. Braidbabes caters to individuals seeking stylish hair options for special occasions such as weddings and social gatherings, allowing clients to achieve their desired look conveniently and professionally.
braidbabes
Convertible Note in 2021
Braidbabes is a mobile hair-styling service that focuses on providing custom braiding, particularly boho-style braids, for various events and bridal parties. The company operates on-demand, traveling to customers' locations to deliver personalized hair braiding services. Braidbabes caters to individuals seeking stylish hair options for special occasions such as weddings and social gatherings, allowing clients to achieve their desired look conveniently and professionally.
Circuit Clinical
Series B in 2021
Circuit Clinical is an integrated research organization that has emerged from the experience of a physician engaged in clinical research within a private practice. Established in 2015, the company aims to enhance the way clinical research is conducted by emphasizing physician and participant engagement. Circuit Clinical leverages a network of over 1 million patients, utilizing direct HIPAA/FDA-compliant Electronic Medical Record reviews to identify motivated participants. The organization provides research services that facilitate access to clinical research, guiding both experienced and novice community physicians and their patients through each step of the clinical research process. Through its technology products and focus on participant and physician experience, Circuit Clinical seeks to improve research site quality and patient safety, creating a more efficient pathway for clinical research.
Patient Pattern
Seed Round in 2021
Patient Pattern is a developer of geriatric medical software that focuses on identifying, stratifying, and communicating patient risk across various healthcare facilities and settings. The company provides a clinically validated solution for frailty and medication risk stratification, enabling healthcare providers to accurately code patient conditions and create deficit-driven care plans. This software offers clinical decision support, summarizing each patient's current situation and providing recommendations that facilitate efficient treatment of elderly patients. By improving care management, Patient Pattern aims to enhance patient outcomes while reducing overall utilization costs in healthcare.
Azuna Fresh
Seed Round in 2021
Azuna specializes in the production of air purifiers that harness the antimicrobial properties of Australian tea tree oil to eliminate odors. The company offers an all-natural, hand-crafted gel that releases the essential oil into the air, utilizing the natural airflow within a room. This approach provides an effective and safe alternative for maintaining a clean and fresh environment, particularly appealing to parents and pet owners who seek to avoid harmful chemicals in their homes. Azuna's products are designed to enhance indoor air quality while promoting a healthier living space.
Mentore.ai
Seed Round in 2021
Iterate Labs is a developer of a smart wearable device used to track relevant hand and wrist actions for workplace safety. Its device is a smart glove that collects and analyzes biomechanics data to alert workers and managers of injury risk and fatigue that enable health and safety officers to monitor and prevent workplace injuries through sensors and data analytics.
CYRISMA
Seed Round in 2021
CYRISMA, developed by Data Spotlite, offers a comprehensive cybersecurity software solution focused on managing cyber risk effectively. Unlike traditional methods that rely on a collection of disparate and costly tools, CYRISMA provides a unified interface that allows organizations to identify, report, summarize, and manage their cyber risks efficiently. The software is designed to protect critical data by enabling users to track mitigation progress and assign accountability without taxing their resources or personnel. This approach addresses the challenges many organizations face in achieving compliance and effectively managing cyber threats.
Prolivio
Seed Round in 2021
Prolivio is a hyper-cooling headband that uses specialized electronic plates to create a nearly-instant cool surface.
Patient Pattern
Convertible Note in 2021
Patient Pattern is a developer of geriatric medical software that focuses on identifying, stratifying, and communicating patient risk across various healthcare facilities and settings. The company provides a clinically validated solution for frailty and medication risk stratification, enabling healthcare providers to accurately code patient conditions and create deficit-driven care plans. This software offers clinical decision support, summarizing each patient's current situation and providing recommendations that facilitate efficient treatment of elderly patients. By improving care management, Patient Pattern aims to enhance patient outcomes while reducing overall utilization costs in healthcare.
Prolivio
Convertible Note in 2020
Prolivio is a hyper-cooling headband that uses specialized electronic plates to create a nearly-instant cool surface.
ShrubBucket
Venture Round in 2020
ShrubBucket, LLC is an online retailer based in Cayuga, New York, specializing in the sale of a wide variety of plants. The company offers an extensive selection that includes perennials, shrubs, trees, evergreens, fruit trees, small fruits, ornamental grasses, herbs, vines, ferns, annuals, roses, and groundcovers. By delivering plants directly from growers to customers' homes, ShrubBucket provides a convenient solution for gardening enthusiasts looking to cultivate their own plants. The company aims to support individuals in their gardening endeavors by supplying a diverse range of horticultural products.
Dimensional Energy
Convertible Note in 2020
Dimensional Energy is a chemistry company specializing in artificial photosynthesis. It aims to produce eco-friendly polymers and chemical intermediaries by efficiently harnessing sunlight using scalable reactors and innovative catalysts.
Founded in 2018, Aurie is a medical device company specializing in reusable urinary catheterization systems. Its flagship product is a portable, battery-operated case that washes, dries, and stores catheters, enabling individuals with mobility or neurological conditions to perform safe and independent urinary care.
Coastal Innovations
Convertible Note in 2020
Coastal Innovations LLC is a provider of erosion control and flood protection solutions, established to tackle the challenges of coastal, riverbed, and land asset erosion and flooding. The company specializes in the manufacturing of advanced products designed to innovate throughout the value chain. Its offerings include form-fitting, reinforced mats and rapidly deployable, reusable dams, which help clients effectively safeguard against the impacts of erosion and flooding. By providing these innovative solutions, Coastal Innovations enables its customers to better resist natural forces and harsh weather conditions.
SunDensity
Seed Round in 2020
SunDensity Inc. is a Boston-based company that specializes in the research, design, and development of innovative Photonic Smart Coating (PSC™) technology. Established in 2016, the company focuses on enhancing efficiencies in photonics through the up and down conversion of light wavelengths, addressing various inefficiencies in the field. SunDensity's PSC™ technology is designed to lower electricity costs generated by solar photovoltaic applications, optimize the thermal and optical properties of architectural glass, and improve the quantum efficiency of optoelectronic instruments. The company also maintains an office in Rochester, New York, where it continues to advance its groundbreaking technologies.
Jeca Energy Bars
Convertible Note in 2020
Jeca Bar produces vegan-friendly energy bars crafted from all-natural, plant-based superfoods. Their products are free from preservatives and artificial additives, offering wholesome nutrition for busy lifestyles.
Jeca Energy Bars
Seed Round in 2020
Jeca Bar produces vegan-friendly energy bars crafted from all-natural, plant-based superfoods. Their products are free from preservatives and artificial additives, offering wholesome nutrition for busy lifestyles.
Ramba
Convertible Note in 2020
Ramba is an innovative company that provides an alternative to traditional dental insurance by leveraging self-funding models. It offers employers a straightforward, flexible, and cost-effective way to deliver dental benefits to their employees. Ramba's technology platform utilizes blockchain for claims processing and smart contracts to enhance transparency, predictability, and prompt payment. This approach allows companies to bypass the need for expensive third-party benefits administrators, thereby streamlining enrollment, coverage management, and reimbursement processes.
HELIXintel
Convertible Note in 2020
HELIXintel is a technology company based in Hamburg, New York, incorporated in 2019, that develops a computerized maintenance management system and an inventory and task management platform to track the condition, maintenance history, and lifecycle of equipment and property. The platform enables businesses to monitor equipment condition, organize maintenance workflows, and request service and parts, while also serving as a B2B marketplace that connects equipment operators with original equipment manufacturers and their authorized service networks. By centralizing maintenance data and workflows, HELIXintel aims to extend equipment life, improve uptime, and reduce environmental footprint, while saving cash, staff time, and energy for asset-intensive organizations.
CYRISMA
Seed Round in 2020
CYRISMA, developed by Data Spotlite, offers a comprehensive cybersecurity software solution focused on managing cyber risk effectively. Unlike traditional methods that rely on a collection of disparate and costly tools, CYRISMA provides a unified interface that allows organizations to identify, report, summarize, and manage their cyber risks efficiently. The software is designed to protect critical data by enabling users to track mitigation progress and assign accountability without taxing their resources or personnel. This approach addresses the challenges many organizations face in achieving compliance and effectively managing cyber threats.
Verivend
Seed Round in 2020
Verivend is a technology company that streamlines capital raising and deployment processes. Its platform enables instant, secure, and paperless transactions for capital calls and distributions, enhancing efficiency and reducing risks.
Casana, officially known as Heart Health Intelligence Inc., is a healthcare technology company based in Rochester, New York, founded in 2018. It specializes in developing innovative solutions for heart health monitoring, primarily through its flagship product, the Heart Seat. This smart toilet seat is designed to facilitate effortless and continuous in-home health monitoring by capturing essential clinical measurements such as heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac output, ECG, and blood oxygenation. The Heart Seat integrates advanced sensors, including a single-lead ECG, embedded photoplethysmogram LEDs, and sensitive weight sensors, to monitor cardiac activity. By offering a cloud-connected platform, Casana enables healthcare practitioners to track patients' cardiac health beyond traditional clinical settings, thereby enhancing the management of chronic conditions and improving patient outcomes through reliable and consistent vital signs analysis.
Exostellar
Convertible Note in 2020
Exostellar is a technology company that specializes in cloud resource management and optimization, focusing on enhancing cost efficiency in cloud computing. Founded in 2018 and based in Ithaca, New York, the company leverages exclusive license agreements for patent-pending technologies developed at Cornell University, integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into its solutions. Exostellar offers tools such as X-Spot, which dynamically relocates containers between spot and regular instances, and X-Consolidate, which optimizes container usage based on workload fluctuations. The platform combines application containers and virtual machines, allowing for portable architecture and live migration of stateful workloads, ultimately helping enterprises to significantly reduce cloud computing expenses while improving reliability and performance.
Paradigm of New York
Convertible Note in 2020
Paradigm of New York designs and manufactures pollution control devices for diesel and gasoline engines. Paradigm's customers save money on diesel fuel and engine maintenance and improve their productivity.
Paradigm was founded to provide unique pollution control devices for the diesel engine industry. Diesel engines are used worldwide as the workhorse of transportation, construction, mining, industry, marine, and agriculture. While diesel engines provide the ultimate in performance and longevity, they are inherently dirty engines resulting in two sets of problems. First, their exhaust gases contain hazardous pollutants such as CO, NOx, and carbon particulate matter (PM) or soot which are associated with childhood asthma, respiratory disease, cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular disease. Secondly, complicated pollution control systems and devices are required by the EPA to control these hazardous pollutants. These systems and devices are expensive to operate and maintain and they use more diesel fuel.
Paradigm technology reduces PM soot in the exhaust. As a result, Paradigm's customers can use their engines with reduced pollution while saving money on maintenance, saving money on diesel fuel, and improving their engine productivity.
3AM Innovations
Series A in 2020
3AM Innovations develops emergency response software, including a mobile command platform called Florian that provides incident pre-planning, on-scene awareness of personnel and tactics, and comprehensive records for after-action review and training, all on a single adaptive screen. It also offers a firefighter tracking system that locates and tracks responders inside buildings in real time to enhance situational awareness and safety for first responders.
Eat Me Ice Cream
Convertible Note in 2020
Eat Me is an American artisanal ice cream company based in Rochester. Founded by Amber Odhner, a pastry artist, and Catelyn Augustine, they specialize in unique, plant-based, and dairy-free flavors, catering to diverse tastes and dietary preferences.
Eat Me Ice Cream
Seed Round in 2020
Eat Me is an American artisanal ice cream company based in Rochester. Founded by Amber Odhner, a pastry artist, and Catelyn Augustine, they specialize in unique, plant-based, and dairy-free flavors, catering to diverse tastes and dietary preferences.
Ramba
Convertible Note in 2020
Ramba is an innovative company that provides an alternative to traditional dental insurance by leveraging self-funding models. It offers employers a straightforward, flexible, and cost-effective way to deliver dental benefits to their employees. Ramba's technology platform utilizes blockchain for claims processing and smart contracts to enhance transparency, predictability, and prompt payment. This approach allows companies to bypass the need for expensive third-party benefits administrators, thereby streamlining enrollment, coverage management, and reimbursement processes.
EagleHawk
Convertible Note in 2020
EagleHawk is a technology company that uses drone-powered data to help manage large-scale physical assets. It specializes in inspecting buildings, roofs, solar panels, and district heating systems, enabling clients to reduce maintenance costs, energy consumption, and risks.
Ramba
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Ramba is an innovative company that provides an alternative to traditional dental insurance by leveraging self-funding models. It offers employers a straightforward, flexible, and cost-effective way to deliver dental benefits to their employees. Ramba's technology platform utilizes blockchain for claims processing and smart contracts to enhance transparency, predictability, and prompt payment. This approach allows companies to bypass the need for expensive third-party benefits administrators, thereby streamlining enrollment, coverage management, and reimbursement processes.
Castle Campus
Convertible Note in 2020
Castle Campus provide produce to economically distressed zones with food insecurity concerns.Growing micro greens, baby greens, leafy greens, and herbs.
Selling to consumers, restaurants, institutions, food distributors, and grocery stores.
Ellicottville Greens
Convertible Note in 2020
Ellicottville Greens is an indoor vertical farm management company that operates a distributed network of facilities focused on the cultivation of leafy greens, herbs, mushrooms, and microgreens. The company employs sustainable methods to grow these products in controlled indoor environments, ensuring the delivery of local and healthy food to communities. By managing these indoor vertical farms, Ellicottville Greens aims to provide fresh produce while promoting sustainable agricultural practices.
BetterMynd
Seed Round in 2020
BetterMynd is an online therapy platform specifically designed for college students, focusing on enhancing access to mental health services and addressing the stigma surrounding mental illness among young adults. The platform facilitates scheduling and conducting counseling sessions, allowing students to connect with campus counselors through both in-person and video-based formats. By leveraging a network of mental health providers and the convenience of teletherapy, BetterMynd enables students to engage in private and secure counseling sessions from any location using a laptop or smartphone. This approach aims to improve the overall mental health and well-being of students navigating the challenges of college life.
BetterMynd
Convertible Note in 2020
BetterMynd is an online therapy platform specifically designed for college students, focusing on enhancing access to mental health services and addressing the stigma surrounding mental illness among young adults. The platform facilitates scheduling and conducting counseling sessions, allowing students to connect with campus counselors through both in-person and video-based formats. By leveraging a network of mental health providers and the convenience of teletherapy, BetterMynd enables students to engage in private and secure counseling sessions from any location using a laptop or smartphone. This approach aims to improve the overall mental health and well-being of students navigating the challenges of college life.
Castle Campus
Convertible Note in 2020
Castle Campus provide produce to economically distressed zones with food insecurity concerns.Growing micro greens, baby greens, leafy greens, and herbs.
Selling to consumers, restaurants, institutions, food distributors, and grocery stores.
The Perfect Granola
Convertible Note in 2020
The Perfect Granola is a producer of healthy food products, specializing in granola-based snacks. The company focuses on creating gluten-free and vegan options made from organic ingredients, emphasizing clean eating principles. Their offerings include granola bars and recipes that are rich in superfood ingredients, without the inclusion of refined sugars, corn syrups, chemicals, or preservatives. By providing these nutritious snacks, The Perfect Granola aims to cater to health-conscious consumers who seek convenient and wholesome food options. Their products are available through an online retail store, making them accessible to a wider audience.
Casana, officially known as Heart Health Intelligence Inc., is a healthcare technology company based in Rochester, New York, founded in 2018. It specializes in developing innovative solutions for heart health monitoring, primarily through its flagship product, the Heart Seat. This smart toilet seat is designed to facilitate effortless and continuous in-home health monitoring by capturing essential clinical measurements such as heart rate, blood pressure, cardiac output, ECG, and blood oxygenation. The Heart Seat integrates advanced sensors, including a single-lead ECG, embedded photoplethysmogram LEDs, and sensitive weight sensors, to monitor cardiac activity. By offering a cloud-connected platform, Casana enables healthcare practitioners to track patients' cardiac health beyond traditional clinical settings, thereby enhancing the management of chronic conditions and improving patient outcomes through reliable and consistent vital signs analysis.
Mentore.ai
Convertible Note in 2020
Iterate Labs is a developer of a smart wearable device used to track relevant hand and wrist actions for workplace safety. Its device is a smart glove that collects and analyzes biomechanics data to alert workers and managers of injury risk and fatigue that enable health and safety officers to monitor and prevent workplace injuries through sensors and data analytics.
Graspie
Convertible Note in 2020
Graspie Inc., established in 2015, is a B2B SaaS company specializing in employee engagement, training, and development. Its flagship product, GRASPIE™, is a mobile-first platform designed to facilitate faster and more cost-effective onboarding of employees by leveraging dynamic content and innovative technologies. The platform aims to enhance job-specific and compliance content delivery methods and improve retention rates for the modern connected workforce.
Gclip Row
Convertible Note in 2020
Gclip Row is a Rowing Shoe system that would allow feet to be splayed, allowing greater comfort to enhance the rowing experience.
MemoryFox
Convertible Note in 2020
MemoryFox is a SaaS marketing platform designed for nonprofits. It helps these organizations gather and share engaging content from their communities, streamlining the process from capture to presentation on various platforms.
Ecolectro
Convertible Note in 2020
Ecolectro develops scalable, low-cost clean hydrogen energy solutions. Its patented polymer membranes enable efficient hydrogen production using electrolyzers, without the need for precious metals like platinum.
AGAPÉ
Convertible Note in 2020
AGAPÉ is a relationship wellness platform designed to spark meaningful conversations and help couples feel and show love. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, the platform prompts daily questions to initiate dialogue and offers personalized guidance to improve relationships. By providing a simple, regular cadence of prompts, AGAPÉ supports couples in building stronger communication and emotional connection.
Walkabout Workplace
Convertible Note in 2020
Walkabout Workplace is an innovative developer of a three-dimensional online work platform designed to enhance remote team collaboration. Unlike traditional collaboration tools, Walkabout's platform creates a virtual environment where users can interact as if they are physically present with their colleagues and clients. Featuring a real-time, 3D heads-up display, the platform allows users to see who is in the virtual office and their availability, facilitating spontaneous connections through high-quality video, voice, chat, and screen sharing. Custom-designed offices and functional areas enable users to integrate their everyday work tools seamlessly. As a revenue-generating early-stage company with a commercially viable product, Walkabout Workplace aims to improve engagement, decision-making speed, and overall productivity for remote teams, while also reducing software expenses. The company has received recognition for its contributions to unified communications, highlighting its impact in the market.
Material Exchange
Convertible Note in 2020
Material Exchange is an intuitive online platform that allows manufacturers to sell what they don’t need, so that other manufacturers can buy it at lower costs, better quantities and shorter lead times. We develop solutions that help bolster the efficiency of manufacturing enterprises while reducing environmentally harmful waste at the same time. Our company is committed to helping manufacturers retain their edge in a competitive industry by enhancing supply chain mechanisms through high-end proprietary technology.
VPG Medical
Seed Round in 2020
VPG Medical Inc. is a digital health service company based in Rochester, New York, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing innovative monitoring solutions that utilize video-based sensors embedded in smart devices and personal computers. Its flagship product, CardioGuard, provides cardiac monitoring technology aimed at diagnosing and treating various health conditions, including congestive heart failure, diabetes, atrial fibrillation, hypertension, sleep apnea, obesity, and stroke. By enabling continuous health status monitoring during daily activities, VPG Medical enhances the ability for patients to stay informed about their cardiac health, ultimately contributing to improved diagnoses and therapeutic strategies.
Circuit Clinical
Seed Round in 2020
Circuit Clinical is an integrated research organization that has emerged from the experience of a physician engaged in clinical research within a private practice. Established in 2015, the company aims to enhance the way clinical research is conducted by emphasizing physician and participant engagement. Circuit Clinical leverages a network of over 1 million patients, utilizing direct HIPAA/FDA-compliant Electronic Medical Record reviews to identify motivated participants. The organization provides research services that facilitate access to clinical research, guiding both experienced and novice community physicians and their patients through each step of the clinical research process. Through its technology products and focus on participant and physician experience, Circuit Clinical seeks to improve research site quality and patient safety, creating a more efficient pathway for clinical research.
Gian Health
Seed Round in 2020
Gian Health is a developer of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates collaboration among healthcare providers, vendors, and individuals to enhance nutritional decision-making. The platform serves as a virtual nutritionist, offering tailored solutions based on individual health conditions and needs. By integrating real-time grocery recommendations with dietary guidelines, Gian Health leverages data from various systems and wearable devices to promote healthy habits. This innovative approach aims to improve patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs, reflecting Gian Health's commitment to enhancing lives through informed nutrition choices.
Gian Health
Convertible Note in 2020
Gian Health is a developer of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that facilitates collaboration among healthcare providers, vendors, and individuals to enhance nutritional decision-making. The platform serves as a virtual nutritionist, offering tailored solutions based on individual health conditions and needs. By integrating real-time grocery recommendations with dietary guidelines, Gian Health leverages data from various systems and wearable devices to promote healthy habits. This innovative approach aims to improve patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs, reflecting Gian Health's commitment to enhancing lives through informed nutrition choices.
Ru's Pierogi
Convertible Note in 2020
Ru's Pierogi is a food manufacturing company based in Buffalo, New York, established in 2013. The company specializes in producing and distributing a variety of dumplings, known for their plump, doughy texture and unique, modern flavor profiles. Ru’s Pierogi offers a versatile range of products, including apple pierogi, banana pepper cheese pierogi, and Asian pork pierogi, all crafted from fresh ingredients. These dumplings cater to different meal occasions, making them suitable for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert. By focusing on quality and creativity, Ru's Pierogi provides customers with innovative menu options that can be enjoyed at any time of day.
AireXpert
Seed Round in 2019
AireXpert operates a SaaS platform designed for technical stakeholders across aerospace and aviation supply chains. Its airline operation control platform optimizes aircraft maintenance systems, offering real-time collaboration and event-driven data to reduce repair times, delays, and costs while mitigating compliance risks.
ShrubBucket
Convertible Note in 2019
ShrubBucket, LLC is an online retailer based in Cayuga, New York, specializing in the sale of a wide variety of plants. The company offers an extensive selection that includes perennials, shrubs, trees, evergreens, fruit trees, small fruits, ornamental grasses, herbs, vines, ferns, annuals, roses, and groundcovers. By delivering plants directly from growers to customers' homes, ShrubBucket provides a convenient solution for gardening enthusiasts looking to cultivate their own plants. The company aims to support individuals in their gardening endeavors by supplying a diverse range of horticultural products.
The Perfect Granola
Convertible Note in 2019
The Perfect Granola is a producer of healthy food products, specializing in granola-based snacks. The company focuses on creating gluten-free and vegan options made from organic ingredients, emphasizing clean eating principles. Their offerings include granola bars and recipes that are rich in superfood ingredients, without the inclusion of refined sugars, corn syrups, chemicals, or preservatives. By providing these nutritious snacks, The Perfect Granola aims to cater to health-conscious consumers who seek convenient and wholesome food options. Their products are available through an online retail store, making them accessible to a wider audience.
AvantGuard
Seed Round in 2019
AvantGuard creats innovative solutions that manage surfaces and provide long-term protection against viruses, bacteria, and fungi/mold, in a variety of applications.