Slater Technology Fund

The Slater Technology Fund is an independently chartered economic development fund that operates in accord with best practices of venture capital investing, backing new ventures committed to basing and building businesses in Rhode Island. Leveraging state and federal funding, Slater focuses its resources on the support of entrepreneurs who have the vision, leadership and commitment to build substantial commercial enterprises. Slater typically invests at the inception stage in the development of a new venture, often based upon ideas and technologies originating in academic institutions and/or government research laboratories located within the region. In most cases, investments are premised upon the possibility of raising substantial follow-on financing, from venture capital investors or from strategic partners, with a view toward accelerating the generation of significant numbers of high-value, high-wage jobs over the intermediate to longer-term.

Bob Chatham

Director

Ferdinand Engel

Member of Advisory Board

Lou Guercia

Venture Partner

Thorne Sparkman

MD

Jeffrey Vogel

Member of Advisory Board

97 past transactions

Tivorsan Pharmaceuticals, Inc develops protein therapeutics for the treatment of neuromuscular disorders, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy and Becker muscular dystrophy. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Alektrona

Venture Round in 2010
Alektrona Corporation offers hardware and software solutions for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand side management, and other energy-related applications. The company offers Z-Aperture, an energy network appliance that unites smart grid open standards and enterprise-class management for demand response, energy efficiency, and advanced metering systems, as well as provides access to thermostats, meters, displays, load controllers, plug-in electric vehicles, and other devices. Alektrona also provides a broadband energy management system that connects smart electric, gas, and water meters, as well as energy management devices and plug-in vehicles to utilities and other energy service providers for residential and commercial environments. The company's customers include smart grid infrastructure companies, such as utilities, energy services companies, municipalities, and energy solutions providers. Alektrona Corporation was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Myomics, Inc.

Myomics, Inc. develops drugs to treat neuromuscular disease indications, such as muscle atrophy in the elderly and muscle wasting in chronic illness, including cancer and muscular dystrophy disorders. It has discovery programs based on its two proprietary technology platforms: tissue-engineered muscle, which can be generated in vitro from human and animal models of normal and diseased muscle; and opto-mechanical systems to monitor the ability of candidate compounds to increase the contractile strength of tissue-engineered muscle. The company is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
VoltServer Inc. manufactures and supplies electrical power distribution products for telecommunications, data centers, renewable energy, and electric vehicles. It offers power transmitters and receivers; and develops a technology for digitization and management of electrical power in discrete packets. The company’s solutions include wireless densification, intelligent building, and indoor agriculture. It serves customers through its industry partners. VoltServer Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom.
SonicWorks Inc. develops acoustic positioning systems for underwater security and inspection. The company’s product, Acoustic Positioning and Navigation System (APNS), is used for underwater archaeology and inspection, environmental survey, bathymetric mapping, and measurement of equipment location and placement. SonicWorks was founded in 1997 and is based in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

WaveSyndicate

WaveSyndicate, a digital media analysis and syndication company, develops software that helps bloggers and Web-site creators to improve their audience targeting through content integration. Its software embeds links to other information, such as product pages in the video and audio material users post on their Web sites. The company is based in providence, Rhode Island.

Dynadec

Series A in 2010
Dynadec solutions drive operational excellence by optimizing the decisions and processes that are critical to your success. Cometâ„¢, there hybrid optimization platform, accelerates the development of high-value solutions for vehicle routing, workforce management and resource scheduling. there patent-pending, dynamic stochastic optimization technology extends the power of Comet by incorporating uncertainty and probabilistic data into real-time decision making.

Drive Time Metrics

Seed Round in 2016
Drive Time Metrics, Inc. develops a cloud-based platform for accessing, displaying, and reporting data of the connected cars. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

ProThera Biologics

Venture Round in 2012
ProThera Biologics was established in the state of Rhode Island in 2001 by Yow-Pin Lim, MD/PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown Medical School and Douglas C. Hixson, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Pathology/ Laboratory Medicine, Brown Medical School. Both co-founders are actively engaged in the biomedical research in the Carcinogenesis Laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital, where Dr. Hixson is the longstanding Research Director and Dr. Lim is a Research Oncologist.
Aquanis' mission is to reduce the cost of wind energy by improving the aerodynamic performance of wind turbines. Our blade-mounted plasma actuators extend the turbine's service life and enable the design of larger, more efficient turbines, by countering unsteady aerodynamic forces.

VoltServer

Seed Round in 2012
VoltServer Inc. manufactures and supplies electrical power distribution products for telecommunications, data centers, renewable energy, and electric vehicles. It offers power transmitters and receivers; and develops a technology for digitization and management of electrical power in discrete packets. The company’s solutions include wireless densification, intelligent building, and indoor agriculture. It serves customers through its industry partners. VoltServer Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

MindImmune Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2016
MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapeutic drugs that target the immune system to treat diseases of the central nervous system. Its products are used to treat Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s, pain, and psychiatric disorders. MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Kingston, Rhode Island.

Alektrona Corporation

Alektrona Corporation offers hardware and software solutions for advanced metering infrastructure, demand side management, and other energy-related applications. The company specializes in unifying open-standards products within energy management systems. It offers Energy Management Platform that includes the Energy Management Hub, which monitors and controls energy devices at the customer premise; and the Energy Management Web Service that simplifies how provider smart grid applications interact with devices in scale deployments. The company also provides Z-Aperture energy management hub that allows energy solution providers to build metering systems, demand response programs, and energy management systems. Its platform enables applications, such as energy efficiency, consumer monitoring and control, demand side management, and advanced metering. It serves smart grid infrastructure companies, such as energy management solution providers, energy device manufacturers, utilities, and application developers. Alektrona Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
WeatherPredict Consulting, Inc. provides science-driven analysis. The company focuses on offering intelligence on atmospheric perils to a range of entities with an interest in anticipating the occurrence and outcome of weather events. Its products include agricultural weather solutions, and remote sensing analysis of surface wetness and temperature; forecasting services for energy traders and electricity load forecasters; operational forecasts of ocean currents, analysis of environmental hazards for offshore installations, and oceanographic research; and tropical cyclone forecasting and risk analysis, tropical cyclone wind field analysis, synthetic hurricane history, and climate and hurricane activity. It serves agriculture, offshore oil and natural gas, hurricanes, and energy markets. WeatherPredict Consulting, Inc. was formerly known as Weather Predict, Inc. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. WeatherPredict Consulting Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Rentech U.S. Holdings Inc.

Tizra

Series A in 2008
Tizra, Inc. provides digital publishing software for content owners to promote, sell, and deliver their digital content direct to readers. It enables clients to offer digital content direct to their audience from within their own website; control what they sell, how they sell it, for how much, and to whom; and make their content easy to find, share, purchase, and consume. The company serves customers ranging from educational, professional, and scholarly to consumer publishers. Tizra, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Solaris Nanosciences Corporation develops and manufactures nanomaterials for devices that harvest light for various applications. It offers rechargeable dye sensitized solar cells used in applications, such as solar energy, displays, vision, and chemical and biological sensing. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. Solaris Nanosciences Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Spectra Systems Corporation.

EpiVax

Seed Round in 1998
EpiVax is an immunology company and has developed comprehensive analytical capabilities in the field of computational immunology.

Bionica

Seed Round in 2007
Bionica Corp. develops personal communication systems for the hearing-impaired.
Advanced Image Enhancement's (AIE) core technology evolved from proprietary United States Navy signal and image processing research utilized for the detection, classification and localization of undersea mines. The Company utilized this technology as the baseline and further developed innovative image processing algorithms for enhancing subtle lesions in digital mammograms as its first product. AIE aims to provide physicians with every possible advantage in the screening and diagnosis of breast cancer.

GoPeer

Seed Round in 2019
GoPeer is a platform that connects K-12 students with vetted college undergraduates for in-person and online tutoring lessons. The company develops a personalized tutoring platform designed to provide convenient, affordable, and highly effective education to all students. It aims to improve the quality and lower the cost of education. This is why GoPeer offers high-quality 1-to-1 tutoring at 1/3 the national average cost of professional tutoring. GoPeer was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Genome

Seed Round in 2007
Genome Corp. engages in developing and commercializing the DNA sequencing technology. It offers proprietary technologies, massively-parallel sanger sequencing, for sequencing and analyzing the genomes of individuals. The company serves researchers and clinicians. Genome Corp. was founded in 2007 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
We are the leader in providing solar-based auxiliary power systems exclusively for the transportation industry. eNow's proprietary solar products supply auxiliary power to refrigeration units, cab climate control systems, lift gates, tools, electronics, and safety and emergency lighting. eNow systems are designed for medium and heavy duty trucks, buses and military vehicles.

Sentient Bioscience, Inc.

Sentient Bioscience, Inc. is a biotechnology company. The company develops technology for embolization therapy and site-specific drug delivery to treat cancer and other diseases. Sentient Bioscience, Inc. was formerly known as Sentient Technology Inc. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

VCharge

Convertible Note in 2013
VCharge, Inc. develops intelligent infrastructure for transactive electric loads for energy management in Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. The company offers VNet, a power management platform that coordinates the activities of distributed transactive load assets; SmartBricks and SmartHydro that are asset controllers for electric thermal storage heating systems to handle loads of electric car charging stations and compressed air systems; and VConsole, a Web-based user interface that offers information and control for end users, utilities, and maintenance personnel. The company also serves customers in Germany, North America, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. VCharge, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of February 9, 2017, VCharge, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OVO Energy Limited.

Alcinous Pharmaceuticals

Private Placement in 2020
Alcinous Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in designing and developing therapeutics for cancers. The company develops protein-based therapeutics related to oncology and other pathologies. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Rumford, Rhode Island.

Alcinous Pharmaceuticals

Seed Round in 2020
Alcinous Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in designing and developing therapeutics for cancers. The company develops protein-based therapeutics related to oncology and other pathologies. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Rumford, Rhode Island.
Vitrimark, Inc. operates as an imaging company. It specializes in nanoscale cryoimaging to identify structural biomarkers for the early detection of disease, and exploit their utility and integration in the drug development process. The company discovers structural biomarkers utilizing nanoscale cryoimaging. Vitrimark, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
For industries where service is a large part of a company’s business, a great deal of associate on-boarding, training, and process improvement investments are made to ensure the company delivers the optimal service delivery experience to their customer. As a result, executives and key stakeholders expect a high level of satisfaction and loyalty from the customer to their people, brand and business.

MoFuse

Seed Round in 2008
Mofuse offers a web based platform to build and manage mobile web sites. They provide a monthly subscription service to help businesses deliver mobile media. MoFuse Premium gives publishers a platform to publish, promote, monetize and analyze their mobile properties.
Concordia Manufacturing, LLC, doing business as Concordia Fibers, LLC, designs and manufacture yarns for apparel, industrial fabric, and advanced composite companies in the United States and internationally. It offers engineered yarns, such as engineered polyester yarns for airbags in cars; conductive yarn and fabric products for clean room applications; conductive anti-static yarns for tread mill belts; reinforcing yarns for power transmission belts and timing belts; combination PTFE and PET yarns for greaseless bushings; nylon yarns for use in parachute cords; and fine denier rayon for couture fashion fabrics. The company also provides composite fibers for use in composite materials, filtration media, power transmission belts, air bags, and other applications. Concordia Manufacturing, LLC was founded in 1920 and is based in Coventry, Rhode Island.

VCharge

Seed Round in 2011
VCharge, Inc. develops intelligent infrastructure for transactive electric loads for energy management in Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. The company offers VNet, a power management platform that coordinates the activities of distributed transactive load assets; SmartBricks and SmartHydro that are asset controllers for electric thermal storage heating systems to handle loads of electric car charging stations and compressed air systems; and VConsole, a Web-based user interface that offers information and control for end users, utilities, and maintenance personnel. The company also serves customers in Germany, North America, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. VCharge, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of February 9, 2017, VCharge, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OVO Energy Limited.
HMSolution, Inc., a water technology company, develops water treatment systems that remove arsenic and other toxic contaminants from drinking water. It offers its systems for various drinking water applications, such as community water systems, beverage companies, agricultural companies, and households relying on wells that need a point-of-entry or point-of-use system. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Medley Genomics provide database and analytical tools to laboratories and medical centers for the diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases. The company primarily focuses on oncology. The company use analytics to assess the genomic heterogeneity in biological samples and support targeted therapies. Medley Genomics is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
IlluminOss Medical, Inc. is a commercial-stage medical device company offering a unique, minimally invasive technology for fracture repair and stabilization. The Company utilizes a light-curable polymer contained within an expandable balloon to create a patient-conforming intramedullary implant for bone stabilization. The revolutionary, minimally invasive technology is particularly applicable for repair and treatment of patients with osteoporotic and compromised bone. The IlluminOss system is CE-marked and FDA-cleared for a variety of anatomical sites, with further indications pending.

Tizra

Pre Seed Round in 2007
Tizra, Inc. provides digital publishing software for content owners to promote, sell, and deliver their digital content direct to readers. It enables clients to offer digital content direct to their audience from within their own website; control what they sell, how they sell it, for how much, and to whom; and make their content easy to find, share, purchase, and consume. The company serves customers ranging from educational, professional, and scholarly to consumer publishers. Tizra, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Medrobotics is a medical robotics company developing and commercializing the Flex Robotic System. It manufactures and markets the Flex Robotic System, the first robotic surgical platform with a steerable and shapeable robotic scope. Its platform offers surgeons the unique ability to navigate complex anatomy through a single, small entry point while operating in hard-to-reach anatomical locations that might otherwise be inaccessible with straight, rigid surgical tools.

Datarista

Seed Round in 2016
Datarista is reinventing how third-party sales & marketing data providers deliver data to their customers. The Datarista platform provides real time, relevant third party data delivery, integration and update services for both enhancement and prospecting inside of the most popular CRM and Marketing Automation platforms. Datarista is a service extension for the data providers to enable their sales teams to sell an end-to-end solution. Datarista is PaaS for your DaaS!
Datarista is reinventing how third-party sales & marketing data providers deliver data to their customers. The Datarista platform provides real time, relevant third party data delivery, integration and update services for both enhancement and prospecting inside of the most popular CRM and Marketing Automation platforms. Datarista is a service extension for the data providers to enable their sales teams to sell an end-to-end solution. Datarista is PaaS for your DaaS!
Panoptic Development is a software engineering firm solely focused on consulting its clients. Its team has a breadth of skills in software architecture, system architecture, web development, mobile application development, computer languages, databases, user interface design, and quality assurance. Panoptic Development was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Providence, R.I.
Drive Time Metrics, Inc. develops a cloud-based platform for accessing, displaying, and reporting data of the connected cars. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

VCharge

Seed Round in 2011
VCharge, Inc. develops intelligent infrastructure for transactive electric loads for energy management in Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. The company offers VNet, a power management platform that coordinates the activities of distributed transactive load assets; SmartBricks and SmartHydro that are asset controllers for electric thermal storage heating systems to handle loads of electric car charging stations and compressed air systems; and VConsole, a Web-based user interface that offers information and control for end users, utilities, and maintenance personnel. The company also serves customers in Germany, North America, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. VCharge, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of February 9, 2017, VCharge, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OVO Energy Limited.

HappyNest

Seed Round in 2019
HappyNest is transforming a repetitive domestic chore and a traditional existing industry with a technology platform that makes on-demand home laundry an easy, economical, and efficient experience for time-starved consumers. The HappyNest model creates a slick product for both consumers and laundromat owners.

eNow

Series A in 2016
We are the leader in providing solar-based auxiliary power systems exclusively for the transportation industry. eNow's proprietary solar products supply auxiliary power to refrigeration units, cab climate control systems, lift gates, tools, electronics, and safety and emergency lighting. eNow systems are designed for medium and heavy duty trucks, buses and military vehicles.

Lucidux, LLC

Lucidux, LLC develops three-dimensional surgical imaging equipment. Lucidux, LLC was founded in 2011 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
SubChem Systems, Inc. develops and provides submersible chemical analyzers for water quality monitoring. It offers SubChemPak Analyzer, a submersible reagent delivery module and optical detectors for in situ spectrophometric or fluorometric measurements of nutrients, trace metals, and other chemicals in aquatic waters; XZ-Profiler, a light weight towed instrumentation package configured for real time 2D mapping of chemical distributions and plumes in coastal waters; APL WAVES, a set of data display and analysis tools for ocean surface wave spectra. The company also offers trace metals and other chemicals, environmental consulting services, and technical support for water quality monitoring projects in fresh, estuarine, coastal, and oceanic waters. It serves environmental and oceanographic markets worldwide. SubChem Systems was founded in 1996 and is based in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Cadent Therapeutics is a precision neuroscience company developing novel medicines that tune and modulate brain rhythms to restore cognitive and motor function in patients with serious neurological disease. The company leverages its precision neuroscience approach combining target specificity, patient selection, drug design and optimization, and novel quantitative endpoints to create first-in-class molecules to treat movement and cognitive disorders. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dynamic Decision Technologies, Inc., doing business as Dynadec, develops and licenses hybrid business decision optimization solutions that enable enterprises to solve complex operational problems. The company offers hosted and on-site hosted predictive and responsive logistics, multi-modal transportation, dynamic resource planning and scheduling, and field service planning and scheduling solutions, as well as SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, C++, JAVA, XML, ODBC, and proprietary environment embedded solutions for enterprise resource planning. It also provides hybrid and parallel optimization, linear and integer programming, constraint programming, constraint-based local search, and dynamic stochastic optimization solutions. The company’s hybrid optimization solutions for workforce planning and scheduling, production planning and scheduling, and supply chain optimization are based on COMET, a software platform that solves complex combinatorial optimization problems. Its COMET platform enabled solutions serve enterprises in retail, transportation, aerospace and defense, healthcare, and energy industries worldwide. Dynamic Decision Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island with a location in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
MarketHound, Inc. provides an online multichannel campaign and marketing management platform to marketers and businesses. Its platform enables users to design, launch, monitor, and analyze B-to-C and B-to-B marketing programs. The company’s platform provides marketers with tools for customer segmentation, campaign execution, campaign creative design, and demand generation through multiple communication channels including email, direct mail and social media. In addition, it offers campaign workflow that gives marketers scheduling and insight into various on-line and off-line marketing activities; and analytics that enables customers leverage their campaign data to make real-time decisions for campaign optimization across inbound and outbound marketing channels. Further, the company provides markethound, online marketing software. MarketHound, Inc. is based in Providence, Rhode Islands.

Gila Therapeutics

Series A in 2016
Gila Therapeutics, Inc. is a privately-held Corporation operating in the state of Florida since January 2014, founded by Dr. Andres Acosta and Dr. Sergei Zolotukhin to develop a new therapy for obesity. Gila Therapeutics Inc. uses the discoveries achieved by the company founders to target a new pathway to treat obesity by increasing fullness, decreasing caloric intake and producing weight loss.
ProThera Biologics was established in the state of Rhode Island in 2001 by Yow-Pin Lim, MD/PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown Medical School and Douglas C. Hixson, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Pathology/ Laboratory Medicine, Brown Medical School. Both co-founders are actively engaged in the biomedical research in the Carcinogenesis Laboratory at Rhode Island Hospital, where Dr. Hixson is the longstanding Research Director and Dr. Lim is a Research Oncologist.

RightPath Payments

Venture Round in 2006
RightPath Payments, Inc. develops Business Payment Connection (BPC) Internet-based business-to-business payment solutions for small and mid-size businesses, and financial institutions to manage short term cash flow. Its BPC connects buyers, sellers, and their banks on the Internet for making electronic payments, as well as serves business financial institutions. The company was formerly known as Collaborative Financial Concepts, LLC and changed its name to RightPath Payments, Inc. in May 2006. RightPath Payments, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

HappyNest

Private Placement in 2019
HappyNest is transforming a repetitive domestic chore and a traditional existing industry with a technology platform that makes on-demand home laundry an easy, economical, and efficient experience for time-starved consumers. The HappyNest model creates a slick product for both consumers and laundromat owners.

WaveSyndicate

Seed Round in 2008
WaveSyndicate is a digital media analysis and syndication company, develops software that helps bloggers and Web-site creators to improve their audience targeting through content integration. Its software embeds links to other information, such as product pages in the video and audio material users post on their Web sites. The company is based in providence, Rhode Island.

Lenoss Medical

Venture Round in 2021
Lenoss Medical engages in providing solutions that support the natural osseous healing process.

Gemini Storage Corporation

Gemini Storage Corporation offers development and marketing services for data protection technologies and products. The company is based in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes therapeutic drugs that target the immune system to treat diseases of the central nervous system. Its products are used to treat Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s, pain, and psychiatric disorders. MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is headquartered in Kingston, Rhode Island.

Andera

Venture Round in 2008
Andera is the leader in integrated online customer acquisition solutions for retail financial institutions. Dedicated to helping banks and credit unions use the Web to drive growth, its suite of products and services includes solutions for marketing, customer acquisition, account opening, funding, and cross-selling. Andera is headquartered in Providence, R.I

Cryowave Advanced Technology, Inc.

Cryowave Advanced Technology, Inc. produces gaseous wave energy conversion technology, for natural gas conditioning systems. The company is based in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Lucidux

Seed Round in 2012
Providence, R.I.-based Lucidux LLC, a startup that makes 3-D imaging technology for surgery and other medical applications. Lucidux, founded in 2011, is developing its technology with corporate partner, Photon-X Inc. of Huntsville, Ala. The real-time, three-dimensional imaging of internal organs and tissues uses software-enhanced presentation and can be used by surgeons during procedures such as laparoscopy and arthroscopy. The company says it can highlight diseased tissue, allowing surgeons to remove it without damaging healthy tissue nearby.
Nabsys develops semiconductor-based tools for genomic analysis. The company has pioneered the technology of electronic high-definition mapping which is capable of analyzing entire genomes, in very large fragments (100,000 bp and higher) traveling at high velocity (greater than 1 million base pairs per second). Nabsys was the first company to receive a “1000 Genome” award from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health for an electronic approach to DNA analysis. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.
MTI Film is a full service post production facility providing high quality post finishing, world-class software applications, and critically acclaimed digital film restoration services. We pride ourselves on delivering pristine quality work for features, television, and commercial projects in HD and 4K to studios and libraries that need to stay on time and on budget. In addition, MTI Film produces world class applications, CORTEX and DRS™NOVA, for use in production, post production and film restoration.
FarSounder, Inc. develops and manufactures advanced 3D sonar systems for marine navigation, obstacle avoidance, and security applications. The company offers navigation sonar products, which include FS-3, a commercial 3D sonar product for surface ship navigation, whale detection, and obstacle avoidance; and FS-3DT, a next generation sonar system for longer range obstacle detection for commercial and passenger vessels, yachts, environmental, and security and defense applications. FarSounder, Inc. was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Enhanced Energy Group is an energy technology startup commercializing technologies developed and patented by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. The company is developing semi-closed cycle generators which capture carbon dioxide generated during the production process for sequestration or productive re-use.

Aquanis

Seed Round in 2016
Aquanis' mission is to reduce the cost of wind energy by improving the aerodynamic performance of wind turbines. Our blade-mounted plasma actuators extend the turbine's service life and enable the design of larger, more efficient turbines, by countering unsteady aerodynamic forces.

Alektrona

Seed Round in 2012
Alektrona Corporation offers hardware and software solutions for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), demand side management, and other energy-related applications. The company offers Z-Aperture, an energy network appliance that unites smart grid open standards and enterprise-class management for demand response, energy efficiency, and advanced metering systems, as well as provides access to thermostats, meters, displays, load controllers, plug-in electric vehicles, and other devices. Alektrona also provides a broadband energy management system that connects smart electric, gas, and water meters, as well as energy management devices and plug-in vehicles to utilities and other energy service providers for residential and commercial environments. The company's customers include smart grid infrastructure companies, such as utilities, energy services companies, municipalities, and energy solutions providers. Alektrona Corporation was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
HappyNest is transforming a repetitive domestic chore and a traditional existing industry with a technology platform that makes on-demand home laundry an easy, economical, and efficient experience for time-starved consumers. The HappyNest model creates a slick product for both consumers and laundromat owners.

RxVantage

Seed Round in 2009
RxVantage, Inc. develops web-based digital platform that connects healthcare providers to educational resources and experts from life science companies. Its platform solutions include virtual meetings, offsite events, who benefits, sunshine act, and for providers; and video conferencing, mobile app, speaker programs, and for enterprises. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in El Segundo, California.

Luc Therapeutics

Series A in 2012
Cadent Therapeutics is a precision neuroscience company developing novel medicines that tune and modulate brain rhythms to restore cognitive and motor function in patients with serious neurological disease. The company leverages its precision neuroscience approach combining target specificity, patient selection, drug design and optimization, and novel quantitative endpoints to create first-in-class molecules to treat movement and cognitive disorders. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Ions are everywhere in nature and ions are responsible for diverse phenomena from the Earth's ionosphere to the luminescence of the Sun. Ions can be chemically or non-chemically prepared using various ion sources generally involving high voltage or high temperature. These ions are used in a multitude of devices such as water ionizers, mass spectrometers, optical emission spectrometers, particle accelerators, ion implanters, and ion engines. As reactive charged particles, they are also used in air purification by disrupting microbes, and in household items such as smoke detectors and water purifiers. We are in process of developing breakthrough technology to apply ion measuring technology to obtain a signature no measure a variety of things. This technology will have a wide range of commercial applications in many of the world’s multi-billion dollar industries.

Medrobotics

Series A in 2009
Medrobotics is a medical robotics company developing and commercializing the Flex Robotic System. It manufactures and markets the Flex Robotic System, the first robotic surgical platform with a steerable and shapeable robotic scope. Its platform offers surgeons the unique ability to navigate complex anatomy through a single, small entry point while operating in hard-to-reach anatomical locations that might otherwise be inaccessible with straight, rigid surgical tools.

CytoSolv

Seed Round in 2010
CytoSolv Inc. engages in the development of a technology for the cure of diabetic ulcers. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Tiverton, Rhode Island.
Care Thread provides secure mobile messaging and patient-centered collaboration solutions that empower healthcare providers to deliver more efficient patient care, improve patient safety, and shorten time to discharge. Founded by a management team with extensive healthcare and IT experience, Care Thread delivers a HIPAA-compliant mobile messaging solution that provides every member of the care team with real-time information detailing a patient’s status and treatment. Care Thread’s suite of collaboration tools foster best practices through hand-off summaries for care transitions and task lists that can be shared with a patient’s care team, and help promote improved teamwork, care coordination and patient safety while reducing time to discharge.
Sound View Systems, Inc. offers software for target detection and visualization of objects in reflected acoustic signals. It offers AccuPing, a software application that improves detection and range measurement accuracy of underwater objects; and MosaicWare-IPS, a client service that improves the clarity of underwater images captured by either acoustic or optical cameras. The company also offers consulting services. Its products are used in defense, homeland security, commercial navigation, oil and natural gas exploration, and medical imaging. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Alcinous Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in designing and developing therapeutics for cancers. The company develops protein-based therapeutics related to oncology and other pathologies. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Rumford, Rhode Island.

Absolute Commerce Inc.

Absolute Commerce Inc. develops software based procurement solutions which integrates supplier’s product catalogs with buyer’s enterprise resource management systems enabling companies to control costs, and minimize risk. The company is based in Bristol, Rhode Island.

HMSolution Inc.

Seed Round in 2016
HMSolution, Inc., a water technology company, develops water treatment systems that remove arsenic and other toxic contaminants from drinking water. It offers its systems for various drinking water applications, such as community water systems, beverage companies, agricultural companies, and households relying on wells that need a point-of-entry or point-of-use system. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
Traction Software Inc. set out to eliminate the frustrating and costly inefficiencies in team communications and information management by creating a revolutionary web-based hypertext Journal. Traction TeamPage was first released in 1999 and, after commercial launch in July 2002, became the first blog and wiki product for enterprise use. TeamPage is used worldwide by major pharma, finance, manufacturing, healthcare and other enterprises, universities, and branches of the U.S. Government. Traction draws heavily on pioneering techniques and visions from the work of Doug Engelbart, Ted Nelson, Andy van Dam, and Vannevar Bush. The Traction Journal was directly inspired by Doug Engelbart's 1992 paper Toward High-Performance Organizations: A Strategic Role for Groupware and Vannevar Bush's Memex concept from his 1945 Atlantic Monthly article, As We May Think. Engelbart's hypertext Journal (part of NLS for oN Line System) first demonstrated in 1968 served as a model and starting point for Traction TeamPage development.

MoFuse

Venture Round in 2012
Mofuse offers a web based platform to build and manage mobile web sites. They provide a monthly subscription service to help businesses deliver mobile media. MoFuse Premium gives publishers a platform to publish, promote, monetize and analyze their mobile properties.

Datarista

Seed Round in 2017
Datarista is reinventing how third-party sales & marketing data providers deliver data to their customers. The Datarista platform provides real time, relevant third party data delivery, integration and update services for both enhancement and prospecting inside of the most popular CRM and Marketing Automation platforms. Datarista is a service extension for the data providers to enable their sales teams to sell an end-to-end solution. Datarista is PaaS for your DaaS!

Swyx

Venture Round in 2018
Swyx develops communication software specifically tailored for small to medium sized companies (SMEs). SwyxWare is installed on a Microsoft ® Windows ® Server and brings together the complete communication needs of a company, in a single user interface. The classic telephone system is now redundant - all required communication functions run over your existing IP network, which offers all the advantages of integrated, unified communications (UC) in addition to traditional telephone services. This software approach and the easy expandability of SwyxWare, means that users are prepared for today, but also for the future.

Luc Therapeutics

Seed Round in 2010
Cadent Therapeutics is a precision neuroscience company developing novel medicines that tune and modulate brain rhythms to restore cognitive and motor function in patients with serious neurological disease. The company leverages its precision neuroscience approach combining target specificity, patient selection, drug design and optimization, and novel quantitative endpoints to create first-in-class molecules to treat movement and cognitive disorders. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Andera

Series B in 2010
Andera is the leader in integrated online customer acquisition solutions for retail financial institutions. Dedicated to helping banks and credit unions use the Web to drive growth, its suite of products and services includes solutions for marketing, customer acquisition, account opening, funding, and cross-selling. Andera is headquartered in Providence, R.I

Vitae Industries

Venture Round in 2017
Vitae Industries, Inc. develops pharmacy compounding automation products. It provides AutoCompounder that manufactures tablets or gummies, verifies the dose, and cleans up. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

IlluminOss Medical

Series C in 2012
IlluminOss Medical, Inc. is a commercial-stage medical device company offering a unique, minimally invasive technology for fracture repair and stabilization. The Company utilizes a light-curable polymer contained within an expandable balloon to create a patient-conforming intramedullary implant for bone stabilization. The revolutionary, minimally invasive technology is particularly applicable for repair and treatment of patients with osteoporotic and compromised bone. The IlluminOss system is CE-marked and FDA-cleared for a variety of anatomical sites, with further indications pending.

VCharge

Seed Round in 2012
VCharge, Inc. develops intelligent infrastructure for transactive electric loads for energy management in Maine, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. The company offers VNet, a power management platform that coordinates the activities of distributed transactive load assets; SmartBricks and SmartHydro that are asset controllers for electric thermal storage heating systems to handle loads of electric car charging stations and compressed air systems; and VConsole, a Web-based user interface that offers information and control for end users, utilities, and maintenance personnel. The company also serves customers in Germany, North America, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. VCharge, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island. As of February 9, 2017, VCharge, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OVO Energy Limited.

Absolute Commerce

Seed Round in 2014
Absolute Commerce works with Global 5000 organizations to improve the operational effectiveness and efficiency of their purchase-to-pay activities. Absolute Commerce combines an ultra-modern data acquisition platform, world class pricing and procurement optimization expertise, and proven ERP integration to solve the limitations of traditional electronic procurement platforms. The solution brings a simple, secure, and streamlined approach to the previously complex world of procurement catalog integration by providing a real time, consumer-like shopping experience within our customers’ existing ERP systems, requiring zero customization at a cost that is easy to justify. The Absolute Commerce leadership team has a long track record of creating innovative solution to long-standing problems in the procure-to-pay arena
RxVantage, Inc. develops web-based digital platform that connects healthcare providers to educational resources and experts from life science companies. Its platform solutions include virtual meetings, offsite events, who benefits, sunshine act, and for providers; and video conferencing, mobile app, speaker programs, and for enterprises. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in El Segundo, California.

VoltServer

Series A in 2013
VoltServer Inc. manufactures and supplies electrical power distribution products for telecommunications, data centers, renewable energy, and electric vehicles. It offers power transmitters and receivers; and develops a technology for digitization and management of electrical power in discrete packets. The company’s solutions include wireless densification, intelligent building, and indoor agriculture. It serves customers through its industry partners. VoltServer Inc. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in East Greenwich, Rhode Island with an additional office in Basingstoke, United Kingdom.

Concordia Fibers

Venture Round in 2007
Concordia’s core competency is processing synthetic filaments and fibers to enable the production of innovative fabric structures. The company engineers and manufactures a wide range of synthetic continuous filament yarns for high value applications. They use traditional twisting, winding, texturing, and serving capabilities, but for Their most unique opportunities, such as carbon twisting and commingling for advanced composites, They design and build Their own machines.
Vitae Industries, Inc. develops pharmacy compounding automation products. It provides AutoCompounder that manufactures tablets or gummies, verifies the dose, and cleans up. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Nabsys

Series A in 2009
Nabsys develops semiconductor-based tools for genomic analysis. The company has pioneered the technology of electronic high-definition mapping which is capable of analyzing entire genomes, in very large fragments (100,000 bp and higher) traveling at high velocity (greater than 1 million base pairs per second). Nabsys was the first company to receive a “1000 Genome” award from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health for an electronic approach to DNA analysis. It was founded in 2004 and headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island.
SquadLocker, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells athletic apparel for sports teams in the United States and Canada. It offers team apparel, uniforms, T-shirts, shorts, sweats, hoodies, equipment, and fan gear. The company serves to the league administrators, coaches, players, parents, athletic directors, and league management platforms. The company sells its products online. SquadLocker, Inc. was formerly known as CTM, LLC. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Warwick, Rhode Island.

CarbonPoint Solutions

Seed Round in 2013
Enhanced Energy Group is an energy technology startup commercializing technologies developed and patented by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. The company is developing semi-closed cycle generators which capture carbon dioxide generated during the production process for sequestration or productive re-use.

BioProcess Technologies, Ltd.

BioProcess Technologies, Ltd. provides wastewater treatment systems. The company offers pretreatment systems for soft drink, seafood, and meat processing plants, as well as dairy operations; systems that turns waste to dispose of into a commodity and fertilizer; municipal sewage plants, as well as package treatment facilities for individual, subdivision, or regional developments; and on-site treatment of sanitary waste for businesses, and reduction of nutrients/BOD in industrial wastewater streams. It also provides treatability analysis, design and engineering, construction, monitoring/analytical, project management, and operation and maintenance services. The company serves food and beverage, agriculture and aquaculture, municipal/residential, and commercial/industrial sectors. The company is based in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
Tizra, Inc. provides digital publishing software for content owners to promote, sell, and deliver their digital content direct to readers. It enables clients to offer digital content direct to their audience from within their own website; control what they sell, how they sell it, for how much, and to whom; and make their content easy to find, share, purchase, and consume. The company serves customers ranging from educational, professional, and scholarly to consumer publishers. Tizra, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.
EpiVax is an immunology company and has developed comprehensive analytical capabilities in the field of computational immunology.

NeighborhoodScout

Series A in 2008
NeighborhooodScout® is owned and operated by Location Inc®, a Rhode Island-based company borne of university research, specializing in nationwide relocation software, retail site selection, and real estate investment advising. Location Inc developed NeighborhoodScout by coupling new technologies with PhD-level geographic expertise to serve the location selection needs of employees, families, and businesses. NeighborhoodScout is set to change the way consumers select residential real estate and make relocation decisions.