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Astarte Medical is a clinical intelligence company using software and predictive analytics to improve outcomes for children with medical complexity. Astarte Medical supports standardized care protocols, care planning and decision-making in acute, complex care settings with a suite of digital tools and diagnostics designed to optimize care and outcomes for vulnerable patient populations when there is great opportunity to impact long-term health.

Augment Therapy is an interactive software that uses the medium of AR to provide virtual pediatric rehab and remote patient monitoring. The company is designed by a pediatric physical therapist, Augment Therapy is an all-in-one solution to engage, motivate, and monitor kids needing therapeutic exercise.

Pomp and Whimsy is a winery company that specializes in manufacturing, distribution, and sales of wines and spirits. It features a lightly sweetened and infused spirit that was easier on the palate than the dry gin.

PerformLive is a purpose-driven community for Creators & Sellers to monetize their talent and products via interactive live stream. It combines the power of live interaction, augmented reality, social selling & live commerce, all in one platform.

Funding U is a merit-based student lender for career-focused college students. It offers an alternative to old FICO and cosigner-based bank loan models, and offers loans on the basis of student's academic performance, career trajectory, and earning potential, thus enabling students to apply for loans with fixed interest rates and avoid dropping out of college. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lindy Biosciences is a development-stage protein therapeutic formulations company. Our core technology produces spherical, dense, stable particles of a therapeutic protein. These protein particles are ideal for long-term storage, or for non-standard formulations such as suspension formulations (for high-concentration delivery of antibodies), encapsulation (for sustained/controlled release), or dry powder pulmonary delivery.​

Pomp and Whimsy is a winery company that specializes in manufacturing, distribution, and sales of wines and spirits. It features a lightly sweetened and infused spirit that was easier on the palate than the dry gin.

Joylux is a health and wellness company that specializes in women's health and wellness. The company is committed to finding scientific solutions that are noninvasive, effective, and affordable to help improve all aspects of a woman’s intimate life. The company was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Time Study offers a time intelligence platform that uses machine intelligence to activate and transform enterprise time data into real-time insights on how time is spent and its impact on workforce effectiveness, operational efficiency and compliance. The team is led by 3x entrepreneur and computer scientist Kishau Rogers; she is joined by an experienced team bringing many years of collective experience growing & building enterprise software solutions. Many of the top US hospitals have selected Time Study as their cloud application for studying how time is spent (at work).

Astarte Medical is a clinical intelligence company using software and predictive analytics to improve outcomes for children with medical complexity. Astarte Medical supports standardized care protocols, care planning and decision-making in acute, complex care settings with a suite of digital tools and diagnostics designed to optimize care and outcomes for vulnerable patient populations when there is great opportunity to impact long-term health.

Cocomama is a women-owned business that manufactures delicious baking and hot cocoa mixes. It crafts organic cocoa products, cocoa powders, baking mixes, and brownie thins are used to produce cakes, pastries, and cookies with ingredients sourced from countries like the Dominican Republic, Madagascar, and Indonesia, providing customers with tasty chocolate products.