LiteraSeed is a digital health company that has created a clinically validated platform aimed at enhancing communication between patients and healthcare providers. This platform is specifically designed to assist low health literate patient populations, which includes individuals who may face language barriers or have difficulty articulating their health concerns. By facilitating accurate and remote self-reporting of symptoms, LiteraSeed's technology seeks to prevent misdiagnoses, adverse health events, and unnecessary emergency room visits. The company's focus on improving access to care is particularly beneficial for public health providers serving diverse communities, ensuring that disadvantaged patients receive the attention and resources they need for effective healthcare management.
Makefully is a media company committed to creating meaningful, purposeful, and influential learning environments and educational media. The company's headquarters are in Kansas City, Missouri.
Capti Voice is an accessible reading platform dedicated to supporting struggling readers in enhancing their comprehension and reading skills. Founded in 2006 and based in Stony Brook, New York, the company offers a personalized reading support tool that harnesses machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing. This innovative platform provides features such as adaptive vocabulary games, contextual translation, and language detection, allowing users to engage with text in an interactive and inclusive manner. Capti Voice aims to make reading more accessible for individuals facing learning disabilities, ultimately fostering improved literacy outcomes.
Chibitronics
Grant in 2021
Chibitronics is a company that specializes in the creation of circuit stickers, which integrate technology and art through an innovative approach to electronics. Founded from Jie Qi's PhD research at the MIT Media Lab, Chibitronics produces peel-and-stick electronics that allow users to engage in circuit building and programming in a creative manner. The company offers toolkits that combine conductive circuit stickers, coin cell batteries, and adhesive copper tape, enabling artists, crafters, tinkerers, and students to design their own expressive electronics. Through its products, Chibitronics aims to democratize technology creation, making it accessible and enjoyable for individuals interested in exploring the intersection of art and circuitry.
Intellerce is a San Diego-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in developing a video streaming platform aimed at significantly lowering the costs associated with streaming video-on-demand content. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to minimize the reliance on data centers and Content Distribution Networks, resulting in reduced streaming expenses and decreased energy consumption. This innovative approach not only enhances the efficiency of video delivery but also contributes to lowering the carbon footprint of cloud computing infrastructures. By focusing on cost-effective and sustainable solutions, Intellerce enables video companies to provide an exceptional streaming experience to their users.
Additive Manufacturing Innovations
Grant in 2021
Additive Manufacturing Innovations develops multiscale structural analysis models for advanced industrial applications and leverages digital image processing techniques to enhance the capabilities of optical imaging, enabling small and medium manufacturing companies to get access to additive manufacturing technologies in a simplified way.
LiteraSeed is a digital health company that has created a clinically validated platform aimed at enhancing communication between patients and healthcare providers. This platform is specifically designed to assist low health literate patient populations, which includes individuals who may face language barriers or have difficulty articulating their health concerns. By facilitating accurate and remote self-reporting of symptoms, LiteraSeed's technology seeks to prevent misdiagnoses, adverse health events, and unnecessary emergency room visits. The company's focus on improving access to care is particularly beneficial for public health providers serving diverse communities, ensuring that disadvantaged patients receive the attention and resources they need for effective healthcare management.
Grapevine Health
Grant in 2021
Grapevine Health is a data-driven health media company focused on delivering health information to underserved communities. By utilizing technical expertise and trusted messengers, the company aims to democratize health information and empower patients through empathetic storytelling. Grapevine Health also offers health literacy services that assist health systems, insurers, and medical providers in enhancing community outreach and engagement. Their strategies include designing and delivering culturally appropriate communications and marketing materials, enabling clients to provide health information that is relatable and easily understandable. Through these efforts, Grapevine Health seeks to promote health literacy and sustain healthy behaviors within the communities it serves.
Steg AI specializes in media protection and authentication through its AI-driven tools. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the company provides solutions that empower clients to identify and manage images and videos uploaded to their platforms, even when these media have been captured from broadcasts using smartphones. This capability surpasses the limitations of traditional content attribution tools. Steg AI's technology enables social media platforms to comply with copyright laws, safeguard proprietary content, and generate new revenue streams. Additionally, the company helps media distributors understand content provenance, manage synthetic media responsibly, and combat the spread of misinformation, thereby fostering user trust in their platforms.
Oscillo Biosciences
Grant in 2020
Oscillo Biosciences is a company focused on developing innovative pharmacological treatments for Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The firm combines a prescription medical device with digital therapeutic solutions aimed at restoring healthy brain function in individuals suffering from mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Their approach is rooted in the understanding that disruptions in brain rhythms affect memory and cognition in these patients. Additionally, Oscillo Biosciences creates human-centered technologies that rehabilitate patients with language, cognitive, and motor impairments by simulating the brain's synchronization to sounds and coordinating rhythmic behaviors like speech and movement. Through real-time perceptual analysis of music and various applications, their therapies offer a comprehensive method to enhance cognitive function and improve the quality of life for affected individuals.
NeuroFlow, Inc. is a digital health company that develops a cloud-based platform designed to enhance access to behavioral health and engage patients throughout the continuum of mental healthcare. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, NeuroFlow provides healthcare providers with tools for remote patient monitoring and integration of behavioral health across various care settings, including psychology, primary care, and pain management. The platform employs evidence-based practices to track, assess, and engage patients, promoting overall wellness and improving compliance with treatment. By utilizing patient-generated questionnaires and journaling, NeuroFlow enables individuals to monitor their mental health outcomes and achieve tangible progress. The company has established strategic partnerships with organizations like Smart Health Innovation Lab and Mental Health America to further its mission of improving mental health support and outcomes.
Iterex is dedicated to revolutionizing at-home care of chronic illnesses through early, cost effective, personalized mobile digital health applications.
eBibelot specializes in digital media where education meets entertainment, empowered by AR and AI technologies.
Muzology makes music learning fun, engaging, and effective.
Games and Learning
Grant in 2019
Games and Learning is a digital distribution platform that expands access through web-based games. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in New York.
Chef Koochooloo
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Chef Koochooloo is an educational company that offers a unique platform designed to enhance children's learning through cooking. Its enrichment program integrates cooking and culinary activities with academic subjects such as math, science, and global competency, aligning with educational standards like Common Core and New Generation Science Standards. The company provides various resources, including a cooking application, after-school programs, and private lessons, to support active learning and improve children's health and education. Notable projects include a TV show, a kid-friendly educational cookbook, and interactive lessons that allow students to explore recipes while learning essential concepts. The team comprises nutritionists, chefs, curriculum designers, educators, and game designers who collaborate to create engaging, interdisciplinary educational experiences. Chef Koochooloo aims to inspire both children and educators to discover the world through healthy cooking, with plans to expand its offerings to other areas that emphasize STEM education.
Makefully is a media company committed to creating meaningful, purposeful, and influential learning environments and educational media. The company's headquarters are in Kansas City, Missouri.
ReadAskChat is a research-based early learning system that fosters school-readiness through interactive family reading and conversation. The system is based on a beautifully illustrated digital library enhanced with supports parents and caregivers in cultivating their children’s thinking, creativity, and observation skills. Embedded conversation starters and projects spur meaningful child-adult verbal exchanges at three developmental levels ranging from 6 months to 5 years. The system includes train-the-trainer modules and guides for teachers and service professionals to help families engage in the tried-and-true method of reading to their children and responding to their ideas.
ReadAskChat is the recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation Small Business Research Innovation (NSF-SBIR) award and was a finalist in the 2016 University of Chicago Booth School of Business John Edwardson '72 Social New Venture Challenge.
Iterex is dedicated to revolutionizing at-home care of chronic illnesses through early, cost effective, personalized mobile digital health applications.
NeuroFlow, Inc. is a digital health company that develops a cloud-based platform designed to enhance access to behavioral health and engage patients throughout the continuum of mental healthcare. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, NeuroFlow provides healthcare providers with tools for remote patient monitoring and integration of behavioral health across various care settings, including psychology, primary care, and pain management. The platform employs evidence-based practices to track, assess, and engage patients, promoting overall wellness and improving compliance with treatment. By utilizing patient-generated questionnaires and journaling, NeuroFlow enables individuals to monitor their mental health outcomes and achieve tangible progress. The company has established strategic partnerships with organizations like Smart Health Innovation Lab and Mental Health America to further its mission of improving mental health support and outcomes.
eBibelot specializes in digital media where education meets entertainment, empowered by AR and AI technologies.
Muzology makes music learning fun, engaging, and effective.
MusiQuest develops an educational music application that inspires users, particularly children, to discover and cultivate their musical passion. The platform offers a comprehensive curriculum, teaching essential music concepts through creative, interactive units, while also integrating elements of literacy, math, history, and science.
BrainChild Technologies
Grant in 2017
BrainChild Technologies is a company based in Atlanta, Georgia, focused on enhancing parent-infant communication through innovative digital applications. The company has developed a smart pacifier designed to facilitate the early identification of hearing loss in infants. This device monitors an infant's sucking behavior in response to various stimuli, such as images or sounds, allowing for interactive engagement between parents and their children. By measuring behavioral data, BrainChild Technologies aims to support parents in recognizing potential hearing issues early, enabling timely interventions that can significantly improve outcomes for infants. The integration of educational games and applications further enriches the developmental experience for both parents and their children.
Triseum LLC is an educational technology company based in Bryan, Texas, founded in 2014. It specializes in creating immersive learning video games that empower players to learn through engaging experiences. The company's offerings include ARTe Mecenas, a game that illustrates the interconnectedness of local and international economies during the Renaissance in Italy. Triseum focuses on game-based learning, aiming to enhance engagement and success among high school and higher education students. By employing standard industry game development practices and learning design methodologies, Triseum develops high-quality, entertaining educational games that address challenges in traditional learning environments.
MidSchoolMath
Grant in 2017
MidSchoolMath is an educational service provider focused on enhancing mathematics learning through a digital curriculum. The company offers a range of resources, including implementation guides, sample questions, and engaging games designed to facilitate a more interactive learning experience. By prioritizing student engagement, MidSchoolMath aims to improve comprehension and retention in mathematics. Their approach has shown positive results, with improvements in student performance metrics, such as MAPS results, indicating a successful adaptation to their innovative teaching methods.
BenchFly is a science video production platform that enables researchers and organizations to communicate scientific information through video. It offers open access and private solutions for laboratories and companies worldwide.
eBeam Film develops and sells electron beam technology and high-performance image processing systems that enable ultra high-resolution exposure of traditional film and advanced materials. Its solutions support high-quality scanning, digital-to-microfilm preservation, and applications in microfilm, cinema, and satellite photography film recorders, helping clients access precision imaging capabilities. The company also provides a full-service microfilm laboratory equipped with film processors and duplicators to handle a range of microfilm projects.
DuKorp Studio
Grant in 2017
DuKode Studio is a creative computing firm that focuses on forward-facing data transpositions to many forms, including software, animation, print, electronic machines, and physical objects for arts + culture, science, research, and nonprofit organizations.
Chef Koochooloo
Grant in 2017
Chef Koochooloo is an educational company that offers a unique platform designed to enhance children's learning through cooking. Its enrichment program integrates cooking and culinary activities with academic subjects such as math, science, and global competency, aligning with educational standards like Common Core and New Generation Science Standards. The company provides various resources, including a cooking application, after-school programs, and private lessons, to support active learning and improve children's health and education. Notable projects include a TV show, a kid-friendly educational cookbook, and interactive lessons that allow students to explore recipes while learning essential concepts. The team comprises nutritionists, chefs, curriculum designers, educators, and game designers who collaborate to create engaging, interdisciplinary educational experiences. Chef Koochooloo aims to inspire both children and educators to discover the world through healthy cooking, with plans to expand its offerings to other areas that emphasize STEM education.
Misapplied Sciences
Grant in 2017
Misapplied Sciences specializes in parallel reality technology. It develops displays that allow multiple viewers to simultaneously perceive different digital content, personalizing public spaces like airports or stadiums for each individual.
Solchroma Technologies, Inc. is a manufacturer of innovative digital display screens designed specifically for advertising applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, the company specializes in non-LED displays that utilize sunlight-reflective properties and high-quality color capabilities. Their proprietary technology employs electroactive polymer actuators, functioning as hydraulic pumps, to move colored ink into separate filter chambers, allowing for full-color images using ambient light. This approach enables the creation of low-power, high-performance digital signage that complies with zoning regulations where traditional light-emitting technologies are restricted. Solchroma's products are particularly suited for outdoor advertising and on-premise signage, contributing to the development of smart cities while minimizing light pollution.
MusiQuest develops an educational music application that inspires users, particularly children, to discover and cultivate their musical passion. The platform offers a comprehensive curriculum, teaching essential music concepts through creative, interactive units, while also integrating elements of literacy, math, history, and science.
Diamond Tree
Grant in 2016
Diamond Tree is a consulting firm that specializes in strategy, leadership, and technology services tailored for nonprofit organizations. The company offers a range of services that encompass technology projects, including the development of websites, mobile applications, simulations, and videos. In addition, Diamond Tree provides training teams and creates interactive content, allowing users to engage with and track their progress through extensive content catalogues. By managing design and development projects, Diamond Tree enables clients to effectively oversee various initiatives and maintain their technology platforms.
Media Health Technologies
Grant in 2016
Media Health Technologies provides research and development of web and mobile health and wellness content tools.
ReadAskChat is a research-based early learning system that fosters school-readiness through interactive family reading and conversation. The system is based on a beautifully illustrated digital library enhanced with supports parents and caregivers in cultivating their children’s thinking, creativity, and observation skills. Embedded conversation starters and projects spur meaningful child-adult verbal exchanges at three developmental levels ranging from 6 months to 5 years. The system includes train-the-trainer modules and guides for teachers and service professionals to help families engage in the tried-and-true method of reading to their children and responding to their ideas.
ReadAskChat is the recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation Small Business Research Innovation (NSF-SBIR) award and was a finalist in the 2016 University of Chicago Booth School of Business John Edwardson '72 Social New Venture Challenge.
MidSchoolMath
Grant in 2016
MidSchoolMath is an educational service provider focused on enhancing mathematics learning through a digital curriculum. The company offers a range of resources, including implementation guides, sample questions, and engaging games designed to facilitate a more interactive learning experience. By prioritizing student engagement, MidSchoolMath aims to improve comprehension and retention in mathematics. Their approach has shown positive results, with improvements in student performance metrics, such as MAPS results, indicating a successful adaptation to their innovative teaching methods.
BenchFly is a science video production platform that enables researchers and organizations to communicate scientific information through video. It offers open access and private solutions for laboratories and companies worldwide.
Misapplied Sciences
Grant in 2015
Misapplied Sciences specializes in parallel reality technology. It develops displays that allow multiple viewers to simultaneously perceive different digital content, personalizing public spaces like airports or stadiums for each individual.
Solchroma Technologies, Inc. is a manufacturer of innovative digital display screens designed specifically for advertising applications. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, the company specializes in non-LED displays that utilize sunlight-reflective properties and high-quality color capabilities. Their proprietary technology employs electroactive polymer actuators, functioning as hydraulic pumps, to move colored ink into separate filter chambers, allowing for full-color images using ambient light. This approach enables the creation of low-power, high-performance digital signage that complies with zoning regulations where traditional light-emitting technologies are restricted. Solchroma's products are particularly suited for outdoor advertising and on-premise signage, contributing to the development of smart cities while minimizing light pollution.
MusiQuest develops an educational music application that inspires users, particularly children, to discover and cultivate their musical passion. The platform offers a comprehensive curriculum, teaching essential music concepts through creative, interactive units, while also integrating elements of literacy, math, history, and science.
StarWalk Kids Media
Grant in 2015
StarWalk Kids Media is a content platform that publishes and distributes e-books to children. It was founded in 2011 by Seymor Simon, Liz Nealon, and John Benfield. It was acquired by Isabella Products in 2016.
Actively Learn
Grant in 2015
Actively Learn Inc. is a digital e-reading platform that enhances the reading and writing experience for students and educators. Founded in 2012 and based in Seattle, Washington, the platform addresses common challenges in reading comprehension by allowing teachers to customize instructional materials and provide real-time feedback. It offers a diverse catalog of texts, enabling students to select relevant materials, including articles, Google Docs, and PDFs, while utilizing features such as chunking text and vocabulary look-ups for improved understanding. Actively Learn aims to engage students by promoting in-depth reading and critical thinking, ensuring they not only grasp content but also connect ideas and actively construct knowledge. The platform is accessible on various digital devices, allowing it to reach a wide audience of learners across different educational settings. As of October 2018, Actively Learn operates as a subsidiary of Achieve3000, Inc.
Triad Interactive Media
Grant in 2015
Triad Interactive Media is a media services company that builds interactive training and learning solutions and stellar promotional videos and multimedia. They design and develop learning, training, and promotional media, serious games, and interactive tools. They also serve corporations and government agencies in a variety of sectors. They also served corporations and government agencies in sectors including communications and retail.
Art & Science Productions
Grant in 2015
Art & Science Productions is an entertainment company that produces animated series in both English and Spanish. Marina Ratina, the company's founder, is an animation producer who is currently working on the animated series Masha and the Bear.
Pioneer Valley Books
Grant in 2015
Pioneer Valley Books provides educators with print and digital solutions that provide comprehensive and explicit literacy instruction to diverse learners. They engaging books, effective assessments, dynamic lesson plans, effective intervention, and other essential classroom resources increase teacher effectiveness and enable every student to become a lifelong reader and writer.
EduNova provides a middle school edition that includes two printed volumes, a workbook, an ebook CD, an audio book CD, and a template CD. They offer an eBook version of all printed materials, allowing to use this system on an electronic device.
Triad Interactive Media
Grant in 2014
Triad Interactive Media is a media services company that builds interactive training and learning solutions and stellar promotional videos and multimedia. They design and develop learning, training, and promotional media, serious games, and interactive tools. They also serve corporations and government agencies in a variety of sectors. They also served corporations and government agencies in sectors including communications and retail.
StarWalk Kids Media
Grant in 2014
StarWalk Kids Media is a content platform that publishes and distributes e-books to children. It was founded in 2011 by Seymor Simon, Liz Nealon, and John Benfield. It was acquired by Isabella Products in 2016.
Townsend Communications
Grant in 2014
Townsend Communications engages in two distinct markets for higher education marketing and visual and cinematic arts. They provide quality content and services to local communities.
eVideon specializes in enhancing patient care within hospitals by offering an interactive platform that engages, educates, and entertains patients via HD TV programming, video on-demand, and hospital information accessible across multiple devices. This platform integrates with various EMR systems and hospital applications to deliver personalized education videos, surveys, and streamlined workflows for staff. With installations ranging from large healthcare systems to small clinics, eVideon improves patient satisfaction, engagement, and outcomes while gathering valuable data through its analytics tools.
Nanopixel is a valued international company. With top-notch 3D visualizations in all forms, ground-breaking digital experiences, and solutions for real estate, business, and entertainment, they lead the market. Create 3D visuals and digital experiences by fusing technology and creativity.
Optimized Markets
Grant in 2013
We bring economic efficiency and ease to the process of advertising campaign creation, selling, pricing, inventory allocation, and scheduling for TV (linear and digital), streaming, Internet display, game, mobile, and cross-media advertising. We are a systems and technology provider for sellers of advertising. Our systems run in the cloud but can also run on-prem.
Our products truly optimize the selling of advertising campaigns and/or allocation of inventory to campaigns. Based on ground-breaking advances in optimization, they are the only products that can do this in a scalable way, taking into account unlimited targeting, unprecedented campaign controls and guarantees, and the entire planning horizon.
Optimized Markets, Inc. is a spinout from Carnegie Mellon University's Electronic Marketplaces Laboratory. It is based on $16M of R&D into optimization technology and market design for advertising sales and advertising inventory allocation. Our Founder and CEO is Dr. Tuomas Sandholm, an esteemed professor and serial entrepreneur. In the previous startup that he founded, he fielded 800 optimization-powered markets for sourcing, with a trading volume of $60 billion and savings to customers of over $6 billion.
Triad Interactive Media
Grant in 2013
Triad Interactive Media is a media services company that builds interactive training and learning solutions and stellar promotional videos and multimedia. They design and develop learning, training, and promotional media, serious games, and interactive tools. They also serve corporations and government agencies in a variety of sectors. They also served corporations and government agencies in sectors including communications and retail.
ArchieMD is a physician-led organization that specializes in creating health and science education products for a diverse audience, including students, consumers, and professionals. The company has developed a web-based medical learning platform that focuses on nursing education, utilizing 3D health animations and graphics to foster an immersive learning experience. This platform features an automated virtual patient capable of delivering case-based, non-linear clinical training scenarios that encompass a wide array of nursing skills. It effectively integrates physiologically accurate visualizations with an automated feedback module, allowing medical educators to present interactive visual models that enhance understanding of scientific processes. ArchieMD's offerings address key topics in life sciences and human anatomy, as well as the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of major medical conditions.
Actively Learn
Grant in 2013
Actively Learn Inc. is a digital e-reading platform that enhances the reading and writing experience for students and educators. Founded in 2012 and based in Seattle, Washington, the platform addresses common challenges in reading comprehension by allowing teachers to customize instructional materials and provide real-time feedback. It offers a diverse catalog of texts, enabling students to select relevant materials, including articles, Google Docs, and PDFs, while utilizing features such as chunking text and vocabulary look-ups for improved understanding. Actively Learn aims to engage students by promoting in-depth reading and critical thinking, ensuring they not only grasp content but also connect ideas and actively construct knowledge. The platform is accessible on various digital devices, allowing it to reach a wide audience of learners across different educational settings. As of October 2018, Actively Learn operates as a subsidiary of Achieve3000, Inc.
ArchieMD is a physician-led organization that specializes in creating health and science education products for a diverse audience, including students, consumers, and professionals. The company has developed a web-based medical learning platform that focuses on nursing education, utilizing 3D health animations and graphics to foster an immersive learning experience. This platform features an automated virtual patient capable of delivering case-based, non-linear clinical training scenarios that encompass a wide array of nursing skills. It effectively integrates physiologically accurate visualizations with an automated feedback module, allowing medical educators to present interactive visual models that enhance understanding of scientific processes. ArchieMD's offerings address key topics in life sciences and human anatomy, as well as the onset, diagnosis, and treatment of major medical conditions.
Triad Interactive Media
Grant in 2013
Triad Interactive Media is a media services company that builds interactive training and learning solutions and stellar promotional videos and multimedia. They design and develop learning, training, and promotional media, serious games, and interactive tools. They also serve corporations and government agencies in a variety of sectors. They also served corporations and government agencies in sectors including communications and retail.
Triad Interactive Media
Grant in 2013
Triad Interactive Media is a media services company that builds interactive training and learning solutions and stellar promotional videos and multimedia. They design and develop learning, training, and promotional media, serious games, and interactive tools. They also serve corporations and government agencies in a variety of sectors. They also served corporations and government agencies in sectors including communications and retail.
Townsend Communications
Grant in 2012
Townsend Communications engages in two distinct markets for higher education marketing and visual and cinematic arts. They provide quality content and services to local communities.
Second Avenue Learning
Grant in 2012
Second Avenue Learning is a company that specializes in custom software development and managed services for the education technology sector. Founded by educators and gamers, the company collaborates with prominent clients, including Pearson, McGraw-Hill, and W.W. Norton, to create interactive learning products that are both innovative and pedagogically sound. Second Avenue Learning focuses on developing engaging educational platforms, serious games, and customized learning environments that aim to empower learners and enhance the educational experience. The team comprises subject matter experts, programmers, artists, learning designers, quality analysts, and project managers, all working together to challenge traditional learning methods and create alternative paths for student engagement. Through its expertise and commitment to reimagining the learning process, Second Avenue Learning serves as a critical enabler in the education technology landscape.