NMotion

NMotion is a mentor-driven, education-focused, startup accelerator based in Lincoln, Nebraska. We focus on high-growth software and technology-based businesses in targeted industries of agriculture, healthcare, education, finance/insurance, retail, and sports technologies.

Brian Ardinger

Founder

56 past transactions

Job Share Connect

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Job Sharing is a solution to the global talent crisis businesses are facing. It benefits employees, businesses, and society. Job sharing accesses untapped talent pools and provides the multi-generational workforce with the flexibility needed to integrate work and life. The match is crucial. Our proprietary matching process ensures success.

Papertale

Seed Round in 2013
Papertale develops a document authentication software for tracking, authenticating, and telling the story of documents.

Crop Tech Solutions

Seed Round in 2019
Provide unmatched service and value to Thier customers, enabling them to stay at the forefront of agricultural technology trends in a progressive and cost effective manner. Meanwhile, building long lasting relationships based on ethics, trust and solution–driven decision making.

Spectator Sports, Inc.

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Spectator Sports, Inc. offers a tool for booster clubs to streamline the membership process and accept online donations. It was founded in March 2014 and is based in Oklahoma, United States.

Fanstreamm

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Fanstreamm provides online group ticketing services for sports and entertainment venues. The company is based in the United States.

Corral Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
Corral Technologies provides a virtual fencing system for ranchers to track, move, and create cross fences for their cattle. Corral is a system of cattle wearables proven to be safe and effective. The company's collar and tag system will help ranchers become more profitable while saving time, materials, and money.

Tiiga

Seed Round in 2019
Tiiga offers a powdered beverage mix that promotes a healthy microbiome and improved overall health. Tiiga's plant-based products are made from the Baobab fruit. Consumers add Tiiga’s natural hydration enhancer to water for a performance sports beverage.

BugEater Foods

Seed Round in 2015
Bugeater Foods Inc. produces food products from edible insects. The company's products include Jump, a cricket-based protein shake; and cricket-based pasta products. It sells its product online through its website. Bugeater Foods Inc. was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Nobl

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Nobl improves patient satisfaction by making the process of hourly rounding in hospitals more efficient, meaningful, and effective. The company focused on helping healthcare providers capture real-time feedback from patients and staff through the Nobl Rounding Platform. It provides healthcare organizations with the tools necessary to stand out among their peers and retain optimal reimbursement from Medicare. Nobl applications combine evidence-based hourly and leader rounding practices with real-time technologies to improve clinical outcomes, enhance the patient experience, and revolutionize the way quality assurance is communicated in healthcare.

Canary Sound Design

Seed Round in 2019
Canary Sound Design develops a solution, linking patient vital signs with music volumes to improve the OR team's focus and patient safety. The company's product, the CanaryBox®, is designed for the operating room to automatically reduce or silence music at appropriate times.

LeverageRx

Seed Round in 2016
LeverageRx, LLC owns and operates a digital lending and insurance marketplace for doctors, dentists, and other medical professionals. It offers a platform that compares rates on financial services including student loan refinancing, personal loans, long term disability insurance, life insurance, and exclusive mortgage programs for doctors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Fantasizr

Seed Round in 2016
Fantasizr is a web-based platform that enables its users to create fantasy leagues. It has incorporated a draft system and stat monitoring system that models what is currently done for football and other sports. The platform hosts leagues where users can create leagues using its stats. Fantasizr was launched in March 2012.

MusicSpoke

Seed Round in 2014
MusicSpoke develops online music publishing platform for composers, conductors, and performers to connect and share as well as sell new music for chorus and ensemble. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Feya Candles

Seed Round in 2019
Feya Candles designs and manufactures handmade candles and soap. With every product sold, the company will provide food and services to people in need.

DigiWidgets

Grant in 2014
DigiWidgets enables businesses, big or small, to capitalize on the creation of digital graphic assets from any device at any time. Our tools can be embedded into any website. we take care of the cloud storage of the creations and give you the granular control to decide what features and tools your customers get to use.

DivviMap

Seed Round in 2016
DivviMap is use to Easily upload and share drone maps with your customers so they can view them on their mobile device. DivviMap gives a precise location reference to every conversation, making it easy for all involved to understand what the conversation is about. DivviMap has an easy to use interface, which is where the action happens. Dropping a pin brings the power of geolocation to any conversation, cutting out the back-and-forth of trying to help others understand what you’re talking about.

Quantified Ag

Grant in 2014
Quantified Ag is a technology company that offers cloud-based sensors and a data platform for the cattle industry. The company's technology helps dramatically reduce costs by lowering re-treatment rate and death loss and getting animals back to peak performance faster. It provides state of the art sensors and software subscription to livestock producers throughout the concentrated feeding industries. Quantified Ag was founded in June 2014 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Fanstreamm

Grant in 2014
Fanstreamm provides online group ticketing services for sports and entertainment venues. The company is based in the United States.

Mowdo

Seed Round in 2014
Mowdo matches local mowers and lawn care professionals with neighbors who request lawn care through our app or website. 1/3 homeowners uses a contractor to mow their lawn, nearly $74B was spent on lawn care last year in the US alone.

fyiio

Pre Seed Round in 2017
fyiio inc. develops an online training platform for businesses. The company’s platform offers services, such as creating videos, writing guides, and publishing the videos. fyiio inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska.

Alumni Labs

Seed Round in 2013
We provide unbiased information and timely reminders of deadlines for scholarships and applications.

SubGuru

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SubGuru provides fitness studio's looking for a way to organize their instructors with a reliable management solution. The company relieves the common burden of finding substitute instructors for classes. Whether clients need to find a sub-2-weeks or 3 hours before a class, Sub Guru will match every class with the appropriate instructor.

MusicSpoke

Grant in 2014
MusicSpoke develops online music publishing platform for composers, conductors, and performers to connect and share as well as sell new music for chorus and ensemble. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Ensign Beverage

Seed Round in 2019
Ensign Beverage brews, cans, and distributes a line of low sugar and no sugar non-alcoholic beverages. Ensign currently produces seven varieties of kombucha ranging from Hopped Up Green to Black Stone Fruit.

Gear Supply Co.

Seed Round in 2016
Gear Supply Co. provides subscription boxes for guitar strings and music goods. The company offers guitar cables, strings, picks, and straps on a subscription-based model where the product is delivered at a fixed date every month for a subscription fee, enabling users to save time and money on the purchase of guitar accessories.

TextyPitch

Seed Round in 2019
TextyPitch is an SMS content delivery platform for sales teams to help them acquire leads. It delivers targeted, multimedia experiences to engage and nurture leads at trade shows, large group presentations, and one-on-one.

RealmFive

Seed Round in 2015
RealmFive is changing the way customers interact with agricultural technology in areas including agronomy, inventory, irrigation, livestock, and machinery. Using highly improved long-range radio technology and easy-to-deploy devices RealmFive’s Connectivity Platform enables remote monitoring, control, and data-driven decision-making. The RealmFive Connection Platform is modular and flexible, allowing for simple third-party integration into the platform and a robust API to other digital farming platforms. With an expanding portfolio of applications including soil moisture, weather, irrigation monitoring, and state monitoring, RealmFive is bringing sensor-to-cloud solutions to agriculture.

Adolade

Seed Round in 2014
Mobile advertising is broken. We fixed it. Adolade's hosted moments-based reward platform helps developers and brands meaningfully engage with customers through rewards. Adolade accomplishes this by focusing on “moments” in applications – like setting a new personal best, completing a task, or leveling up in a game. With just a few lines of code, developers can capture and easily sell these moments to brands through Adolade's moments marketplace. Brands finally have a way to effectively advertise on mobile, developers finally have a way to retain, engage, and monetize users without annoying or interrupting them, and users finally have a way to be acknowledged in moments of achievement from brands they love.

The Modern Ferret

Seed Round in 2019
The Modern Ferret curates content and creates resources and products for ferrets.

Commissioner

Grant in 2014
Commissioner is a platform to track and communicate player skill development. Using Commissioner’s mobile platform, coaches evaluate players on the field during or after training sessions and matches, to provide real-time feedback to players and keep parents informed about their athlete’s development. We are producing better athletes in more engaged communities.

Yumaroo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Yumaroo operates an online platform that provides personalized restaurant meal suggestions. Its platform helps people and restaurants to discover various food categories by recommending meals to their audiences based on the taste preferences, dietary restrictions, and reviews they submit. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Quantified Ag

Seed Round in 2014
Quantified Ag is a technology company that offers cloud-based sensors and a data platform for the cattle industry. The company's technology helps dramatically reduce costs by lowering re-treatment rate and death loss and getting animals back to peak performance faster. It provides state of the art sensors and software subscription to livestock producers throughout the concentrated feeding industries. Quantified Ag was founded in June 2014 and is based in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

PlugSports

Seed Round in 2021
PlugSports provides tools to help college athletic programs find athletes who have been overlooked in the traditional recruiting process. Athletes on Plug can expose their greatness while being recruited without any financial barriers.

DigiWidgets

Seed Round in 2014
DigiWidgets enables businesses, big or small, to capitalize on the creation of digital graphic assets from any device at any time. Our tools can be embedded into any website. we take care of the cloud storage of the creations and give you the granular control to decide what features and tools your customers get to use.

Pawlytics

Private Placement in 2018
Pawlytics provides a software application to animal welfare organizations. The company offers an analytical and data management software for animal welfare organizations that enables internal and external communication, predict adoption probability, organize transport, manage incoming, current, and past pets, and build custom volunteer forms. It also offers a volunteer portal where volunteers can register and get notifications of any pet event nearby. Pawlytics is based in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Seamster.io

Seed Round in 2015
Seamster.io is an adaptive content-marketing platform that helps companies create, manage, and execute content strategies across multiple channels. Businesses can use Seamster.io to deliver personalized content based on the time, device, platform, and location of their audience. They can maximize reach with an API to deliver content on websites, apps, kiosks, digital signage, and more. Seamster.io was launched in 2014 and is operated from Nebraska, United States.

Mowdo

Grant in 2014
Mowdo matches local mowers and lawn care professionals with neighbors who request lawn care through our app or website. 1/3 homeowners uses a contractor to mow their lawn, nearly $74B was spent on lawn care last year in the US alone.

LiveBy

Seed Round in 2015
LiveBy is a neighborhood discovery company that engages homebuyers through neighborhood matching and hyper-local content. They provide real estate professionals tools to educate clients, while helping consumers to make quicker, informed decisions on location. Their technology gives real estate professionals a new way to connect with homebuyers through local content. LiveBy also pairs hyperlocal data with targeted marketing to boost website engagement and nurture leads on a local level. It allows professional websites to have a dynamic search experience and sell homes faster. LiveBy was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

Sapahn

Seed Round in 2019
Sapahn, Thai for bridge, is a purpose driven company that partners with highly skilled female artisans in rural Thailand to bring their products to a market that would otherwise be inaccessible to them and you. We know you want to invest in people and companies who not only make high quality, well-designed products that look good, but do good We make that easy for you!

Build A Pint

Seed Round in 2019
Build A Pint is a modular pint glass that allows users to collect rings from microbreweries, sporting events, vacations, and so much more.

Hip Pocket

Seed Round in 2013
Hip Pocket engages its users mobile and website visitors by using social influence and personalized consultation to generate mortgage and retirement leads. It helps banks and credit unions provide an engaging user experience that connects the emotional and logical purchase decisions. Hip Pocket is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2013 by Mark Zmarzly.

Cinnamon Social

Pre Seed Round in 2014
Software for automated and intelligent social media content curation.

Commissioner

Seed Round in 2014
Commissioner is a platform to track and communicate player skill development. Using Commissioner’s mobile platform, coaches evaluate players on the field during or after training sessions and matches, to provide real-time feedback to players and keep parents informed about their athlete’s development. We are producing better athletes in more engaged communities.

BlocVision

Seed Round in 2019
BlocVision develops sensors that offer users a substitute for time-consuming agricultural inspections.

Grabicon

Seed Round in 2015
Grabicon makes it fast and easy to get high-quality favicons from any web site, in the size you want, instantly - even if that site doesn't provide an icon of its own. It can take several seconds to a retrieve a domain's favicon from scratch. They do the hard work in advance, so you get a high quality PNG image in milliseconds.

Poll Sports

Seed Round in 2019
Poll Sports is a platform where fantasy sports fans can create and cast polls for advice to help them win. Users can create a poll and a community of fantasy football players will instantly vote on who to start or whether or not to accept a trade. Every member of Poll Sports that offers advice is scored for accuracy each week.

VIZN Stats

Seed Round in 2021
VIZN Stats is an app for baseball coaches to evaluate and analyze their players. VIZN Stats helps high-performing teams record, manage, and understand their most important practice data.

Liberty

Seed Round in 2016
Liberty is a provider of rural transportation logistics services.
Grow with the Flow Aquaponic Horticulture develops an indoor hydroponic farming system that allows anyone to grow fresh vegetables in the comfort of their home. The company's proprietary system provides plants adequate water, nutrients, and access to light for maximum harvest in as little as two weeks.

Comp’d

Seed Round in 2015
Gain access to unlimited shows in lincoln and omaha - from a growing list of participating venues and promoters - for only $25/month.

Cinnamon Social

Seed Round in 2013
Software for automated and intelligent social media content curation.