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Bizdom, Detroit

This Company is a startup accelerator that helps entrepreneurs launch, fund and grow innovative web and tech-based startups. Its startups receive seed funding, intense mentoring and access to expertise from its extensive network, a dynamic workspace, potential introductions to outside investors, and more. During the three-month accelerator, each startup has ongoing meetings with our business model advisors and industry specific mentors to strategize their model and build, test and measure their business. Each team is given workspace, wireless access, tech support, office supplies, and conference rooms, making it the perfect place to work on your business in a cool, collaborative space in the downtown urban cores of Detroit and Cleveland. This Company maintains a minority share of ownership in each business, using its share of the proceeds to fund future startups and their businesses, thereby creating jobs and growth for the cities of Detroit and Cleveland.

NaturAll Club, Cleveland ( Fellow Founded)

This Company is a subscription service that delivers fresh hair products. Subscribers log on to the website, select their hair treatment area of choice (dry hair, dull hair, damaged hair). Select the duration of their treatment (1 month to one year). Then, each month they receive a This Company box customized to meet their hair needs - complete with everything for a spa-night at home. It's that easy!

Detroit Labs, Detroit

This Company is a team of thinkers, doers, and makers. We dream up and ship beautiful, intuitive apps. We can do it for you. Let's get down to business.

AdMobilize, Miami

This Company is a technology company that has created the first ever "Plug and Measure" analytics platform for physical spaces. From Out of home advertising to Retail Analytics, our AdBeacon technology can provide data and metrics for your business to succeed, all in real time.

Farmeron, Columbus

This Company is a technology company that is specialized in the development of integrated IT solutions for the management of farms (food and feed production). Our purpose is to integrate management practices and move farmers a step further beyond pure herd management. Our core values lie in the thorough approach to the activities, resources, costs and effects in agriculture as well as in multi-dimensional production views available to the user, regardless of a farm's location, legal form of business, or type of agr production. This Company allows producers to define their targets as well as to enter, monitor, control and benchmark every activity based on resources consumed and the effect derived along the production cycle.

GoSun Stove, Cincinnati

This Company is a versatile and powerful solar oven that can cook a meal in only 20 minutes and safely sizzle up to 550°F, all without the use of fuel. Designed for simplicity, durability, and mobility, the This Company offers a convenient, user-friendly package for our fast paced lives. This Company is as simple in principle as it is powerful, effectively retaining 90% of all sunlight that is caught in its footprint.

BioMotiv, Cleveland

This Company is advancing a portfolio of discoveries into new medicines through an innovative model that efficiently aligns capital and collaborations for the benefit of inventors and investors, and ultimately physicians and patients.The company's focus is accelerating breakthrough discoveries from research institutions into therapeutics for patients.

ImageIQ, Cleveland

This Company is an ICRO (Imaging Contract Research Organization) that houses experts in all facets of imaging for clinical trials. They work to optimize imaging analytics effectiveness for researchers, while simultaneously cutting costs, reducing processing time, and ensuring reproducibility of results. By doing so, This Company offers to give more scientists the tools they need to proliferate revolutionary devices and treatments!

Fast Forward, Baltimore

This Company is an accelerator at Johns Hopkins that serves as a catalyst for the advancement and commercialization of an array of innovations that are derived both at the University and elsewhere. The goal of This Company is to help early ventures increase the probability of realizing their potential and bring innovation and life-changing technologies to market.

Tuck, Miami (Fellow Founded)

This Company is an e-commerce startup designed to provide affordable, convenient, and comfortable memory foam mattresses shipped directly to your door. By eliminating the middle man, we're able to offer the same mattress that retails for $2,200 in stores for $500 on our site. Our mattresses ship in a small box and arrive at your door in 1-4 business days. The best part is, we offer a 75 night free trial. So if you don't love your mattress, we'll provide a full refund and work with you to donate your bed to a local charity.

Alabama Power, Birmingham-Alabama

This Company is an electric utility company that provides the valuable combination of competitive prices, reliable electricity supply, and unparalleled service to 1.4 million homes, businesses, and industries in the southern two-thirds of Alabama. It is one of four U.S. utilities operated by Southern Company and one of the nation's largest producers of electricity.This Company's Innovation Hub was launched in 2015 to identify and pilot growth opportunities for the company. The team evaluates ideas, determines market opportunities, strategizes optimal positioning, and brings prototypes, which can include products, programs, data services, or brand new business models, to market.

Venture Hive, Miami

This Company is an entrepreneurship education company with multiple approaches. The company offers an accelerator program that gives budding startups office space, mentorship, and a non-equity grant to get off the ground. This Company also offers turnkey solutions to governments and institutions. Lastly, This Company provides educational programs for colleges and universities, as well as K-12 to garner more exposure to entrepreneurship.

Everything But The House, Cincinnati

This Company is an online estate and consignment sale company born out of a passion for antiques, a desire to change the way that they're discovered, and a commitment to providing sellers with a better alternative for selling their property. By combining the personal touch of a local business with the convenience and reach of a global e-commerce company, our online auction-style platform connects buyers to unique pieces from estate sales across the country in a trusted environment. Meanwhile, our knowledgeable sales experts provide a full service experience for the sale - from sorting and cataloging, to marketing, shipping and more.

LOVELAND , Detroit

This Company is based in Detroit, Michigan and the San Francisco Bay Area with a growing team dedicated to putting America online parcel by parcel. We work with governments, developers, neighborhood groups, and passionate individuals to gather and present information about property in clear, actionable ways. In Detroit, our community missions include arming people with information to battle a plague of tax foreclosures and running an ongoing survey of property conditions to help fight blight.

NextEnergy, Detroit

This Company is one of the nation's leading green energy and transportation technology accelerators. We support a wide range of university spin-outs, start-ups, and large companies, through business consulting, market research, access to funding, and other value-added services. Our campus, located in Midtown Detroit's Innovation District, also serves as a living laboratory for green energy and transportation technology development and demonstrations.

The City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland

This Company is one the nation's great free speech forums. A product of the Progressive Era, we were founded in 1912 and are the nation's oldest continuous independent free speech forum, renowned for our tradition of debate and discussion. For more than a hundred years, all of our speakers, from sitting presidents to community activists, have answered unfiltered, unrehearsed questions directly from the audience.

dPOP, Detroit

This Company is passionate about creating experiences that inspire both creativity and productivity within the workplace. From expressive design, to space planning, to infusing offices with culture and panache, This Company is the start-to-finish workspace design solution.

Roadtrippers, Cincinnati

This Company is revolutionizing the road travel industry by creating a beautiful platform that inspires travelers to hit the road and allows them to discover unique places, while providing a map-based interface to navigate to these destinations.

In-House Realty, Detroit

This Company is the affiliated real estate company of Quicken Loans, the nation's #1 online mortgage lender. Headquartered in Detroit, Michigan with 50+ team members, over 7,000 real estate agents in its nationwide network and Quicken Loans as its mortgage partner, This Company has succeeded with its plan. The company has grown to be the only real estate solutions resource of its kind. This Company delivers the ultimate real estate transaction experience.

Banza, Detroit (Fellow Founded)

This Company is the first pasta made from chickpeas. While regular pasta lacks nutritional value, Banza has 13g of protein and 7g of fiber. And it's delicious. We believe that Banza is the next generation of pasta, similar to how Greek Yogurt was the next generation of yogurt.

CrossChx, Columbus

This Company is the only global solution to the healthcare identity crisis. Our proprietary identity resolution system instantly verifies a patient's identity.

Endeavor, Detroit

This Company is the only non-profit that supports high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. This Company, Detroit is the second This Company office in the United States, and is dedicated to catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs in Michigan. "The best anti-poverty program of all." -Thomas Friedman

Rock Ventures LLC, Detroit

This Company is the umbrella entity that provides operational coordination, guidance and integration of Quicken Loans Founder Dan Gilbert's portfolio of companies, investments and real estate purchases. This Company is engaged in economic and real estate development, marketing and communications, philanthropy.

Kare Intellex, Columbus

This Company is transforming home healthcare by seamlessly connecting patients to caregivers through its mobile platform. With This Company, in-home care is more accessible, efficient, and secure for patients and caregivers.

SPLT, Detroit

This Company is transforming the way people meet and move in every major city worldwide. SPLT provides a social, economical and environmental layer to the transportation system. In short, we strive to help our people save money, meet people and help the environment.

Yodel, Miami

This Company makes messaging more like talking face-to-face. On this Company's app, you can send videos, photos, and gifs to your friends, and the app records their authentic reaction whenever they watch and respond.

North Coast Angel Fund, Cleveland

This Company mission is to accelerate technology start-up success and improve the state of early-stage funding in Ohio. By bringing increased discipline, structure and effectiveness to the region's angel investing community, This Company expects to create a more accessible and flexible capital environment in which the region's best and brightest entrepreneurs can prosper.

Kairos', Miami

This Company mission is to empower the world through facial recognition technology. Aware of the increasing demands for identification and verification in today's world, This Company works to revolutionize current systems of identity management to create a world without fraud.

Pixelligent, Baltimore

This Company produces high-quality nanocrystal dispersions and polymer nanocomposites for demanding applications in the electronics, industrial, and military markets. They work closely with leading-edge technology firms and Fortune 1000 companies to create highly customized solutions that dramatically improve their products.

Eyemaginations, Baltimore

This Company provides software that helps doctors easily communicate about complex medical topics with their patients, creating better experiences for patients and providers alike. Find out more here.

Bookwork, Cleveland

This Company provides universities with a modern career services platform that actually works. Bookwork focuses on engaging students from day one, providing data and insights to universities about their job placements and finding the right match for each student.

Büro Miami, Miami

This Company provides you with vibrant coworking spaces in Miami's best neighborhoods. Our modern and flexible work environments are designed to meet the everyday needs of your growing business. We take care of everything - from the fresh brewed coffee to the fiber connectivity - so you can just focus on doing what you do best. We want to bring together smart and talented people from diverse industries to form a powerful and inspiring community. Upgrade your work amenities and connect with hundreds of local entrepreneurs and talented professionals.

Conspire, Denver

This Company tells you exactly how to get the best introduction to whoever you want to meet — a customer, employer or investor. By analyzing email data, we understand who knows each other and how well. We score each relationship to recognize the difference between a close colleague and someone you met at a conference for five minutes. With this understanding, This Company finds the strongest path of connections in your extended network to any person or company you're interested in.

Pegged Software, Baltimore

This Company uncovers the best talent in your applicant pool to find the best fit - for your company, your job, and your team. Today, the team serves a broad set of healthcare organizations, applying modern technology and data tools to workforce construction and talent identification

Class Tracks, Baltimore

This Company uses a gamified platform to help students master the fundamentals of learning language efficiently so teachers can spend their time facilitating speaking, listening, reading and writing in the target language instead of drilling. Teachers can also use the platform to analyze their classroom and discover where their students are succeeding and where they are falling behind.

The Indigo Project, Denver

This Company uses sophisticated data and original curriculum to help schools deliver individually customized educations to their students with the goal of radically transforming the national education industry.

Fontinalis Partners, Detroit

This Company was established to invest in and scale next-gen mobility companies. This Company's mission is to draw upon its team's extensive industry experience and deep networks in the transportation industry and adjacent markets to grow innovative companies. This Company takes a value-added approach to helping scale its portfolio companies by combining its resources and assuming an active, hands-on role.

Be Well Nutrition, NOLA

This Company was founded for one simple reason - to create healthy products that taste good. After growing weary of beverage options that were touted as healthy, but packed full of sugar, calories, and artificial ingredients, This Company decided to create their own brand of healthy. This Company has partnered with an elite team of Nutritionists to develop its first product, ICONIC - an all-natural healthy lifestyle beverage.

CotingaSoft, NOLA

Better known as "those guys down the hall who gave out twelve pounds of candy last Halloween," we are This Company, and we thrive in the realm of software engineering excellence. Our company vision is to help actualize a world where everyone has the best technology tools for their goals, and our method is to construct it, brick by brick, building these tools for our diverse clientele. Our core values when creating software are tightly bound in developing strong relationships — our way of learning how to help best.

Beam, Columbus

Brushing your teeth is one of the first, last and most boring things you do each day. We think we can change that. This Company is a bluetooth connected toothbrush that makes brushing fun and rewarding.

Castle, Detroit (Fellow Founded)

This Company's mission is to rationalize the rental process. Taking property rental—an experience that's near universal, yet near-universally unpleasant—and redesigning it from the ground up to be simpler, smoother, and more efficient. Using software and on-demand labor, This Company automates the work of property management, empowering independent landlords to run their businesses professionally.

Allovue, Baltimore

Helps K-12 schools and districts connect spending to student success with data-informed decision-making. Their user-friendly software applications allow district officials, principals, and other school administrators to visualize, analyze, and optimize the impact of spending on outcomes in education.

Azoti, Columbus

This Company, derived from the Italian word meaning "nitrogen," is a software solution that creates food hubs which enable small farmers to supply their products to individuals and bulk buyers by leveraging the existing local food supply chain infrastructure and the latest Internet technologies.

Avhana Health, Baltimore

Helps doctors and nurses parse and navigate the ever-evolving medical landscape with adaptive checklists at the point of care. This adaptive checklist seamlessly integrates evidence-based medical guidelines into the physician's workflow. Working as an intermediary, the adaptive checklist will be key as the healthcare rapidly shifts from fee-for-service to outcome-based reimbursement since it helps doctors and hospitals provide standardized care to large groups of patients and improve overall outcomes while curbing costs. With Company, hospitals can provide both better quality and consistency of care and increase their quality incentive payments.

PathSensors, Baltimore

This company is Identifying Pathogens at the Speed of Light. Through its BioFlash-E® Biological Identifier, an integrated biological aerosol collector and identification system that is available for rapid, sensitive detection and identification of biological threat agents, non-expert users can detect pathogens and toxins in seconds.

Baltimore Collegiate School, Baltimore

This company is a charter school that aims to prepare every student for success in college. Rather than accepting the discipline-based models of many charter schools, BCSB hopes to prove that nurturing the curiosity of each student and providing a rigorous academic experience can be as effective in Baltimore as it is in Andover or Exeter.

The Business Backer, Cincinnati

This Company has re-invented relationship-based lending for the 21st century. We have provided more than $150 million in financing to help thousands of small businesses across the U.S. grow, and we have saved our customers more than $15 million compared to our customers' previous funding sources. The impact of this kind of capital for small businesses is enormous. It allows many business owners to expand to a second location and hire more employees. It enables others to get the equipment they need to expand their assembly lines and double their output. And sometimes it makes the difference between repairing their business and shutting down entirely. It is truly humbling to advance a mission as impactful as helping small businesses grow.

SocialProof , Detroit

This Company helps businesses harness the power of a friend's recommendation. We collect authentic customer stories and turn them into powerful marketing materials. Our end-to-end word-of-mouth marketing platform is used by sales organizations, marketing departments, and creative agencies to drive sales, increase engagement, and build customer trust.

Rev1 Ventures, Columbus

This Company helps entrepreneurs build great companies. With the capital of a VC and the connections of an accelerator, This Company supports start-ups through the first phases of growth to increase their probability of success. Our team of experts leads an ongoing, data-driven process that ensures entrepreneurs develop products people want, and companies people need. This Company manages a continuum of investment funds made possible by the participation of Ohio Third Frontier and other strategic partners.

Protenus, Baltimore

This Company helps hospitals protect patient privacy in electronic medical records by detecting privacy breaches in real-time. Our solution is a lightweight analytical tool focused on protecting against insider threats.

Rokk3r Labs, Miami

This Company invests in great ideas and teams to build products that transform how people and businesses interact. By rolling up its sleeves and working directly with entrepreneurs, This Company helps these individuals design, build, fund, grow, launch, manage, and support their companies.

Quicken Loan, Detroit

This Company is America's #1 Online Home Loan Lender with 27 years lending experience and 94% client satisfaction rating. Our This Company's Fellows are hired to work on special projects focused on revitalizing the Detroit community.

Deal Cloud, Charlotte

This Company is SaaS company facing the financial services industry. It provides CRM software specifically tailored to players in the "deal-making" process, and it's mission is to bring efficiency to M&A through their sophisticated technology.

TicketFire, Columbus

This Company is a Columbus-based startup that is becoming a player in the ticketing industry. This Company solves many of the pain points in the industry by allowing anyone with a smartphone to digitize a ticket and transfer it to anyone else with a smart phone.

Are You a Human, Detroit

This Company is a Detroit-based Internet technology startup that is building the next generation human authentication platform. The company has developed PlayThru, which contains short, simple, and fun games that prove users on the Internet are human. PlayThru is fun and intuitive for people but difficult for bots to complete. PlayThru is a replacement for the twisted, distorted text challenges known as CAPTCHA. Founded in 2011, the company seeks to allow brands and advertisers the opportunity to create their own branded games to run on This Company native advertising platform.

The Empowerment Plan , Detroit

This Company is a Detroit-based nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the homeless community. Our goal is to help build a better life for those that have become trapped in the cycle of homelessness. We mostly hire homeless parents from local shelters to become full time seamstresses so that they can earn a stable income, find secure housing, and gain back their independence for themselves and for their families.

Astrohaus, Detroit

This Company is a Detroit-based product design company founded by Adam Leeb and Patrick Paul. It launched its inaugural product, a smart typewriter for distraction free writing, in January 2015 via a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised $342,000 from more than a thousand backers. The newly renamed Freewrite product provides a focused environment for writers with seamless backups to the cloud. It features a full-size mechanical keyboard, E Ink screen, and 4+ weeks of battery life with regular usage.

SkySpecs, Detroit

This Company is a UAS software development company that focuses on enabling enterprises to deploy fleets of UAS for industrial applications. This Company's core technology, Guardian, is a collision detection and avoidance software that allows small, multirotor UAS to be flown within two meters of a structure or asset while carrying a 4k camera or similar payload.

EMH , NOLA

This Company is a boutique management consulting firm specializing in strategic finance, organizational planning, and growth strategy. We will guide your organization through the ever-changing business environment by employing rigorous methodologies and data-driven analysis. As you approach your most pressing organizational challenges, This Company will be your trusted adviser. From idea to execution, we bring innovative solutions by working collaboratively with your team to develop specialized recommendations for your organization which address your most pressing needs.

Rhinegeist Brewery, Cincinnati

This Company is a brewery built within the skeleton of the old Moerlein bottling plant (built in 1895). Within these unique and historic walls, we brew 20bbl batches of beer that sings with flavor and delights us. The yin/yang of our brewing philosophy is hoppy/sessionable and we aim to brew beers where "the first sip calls for the third."

Invest Detroit, Detroit

This Company is a certified Community Development Financial Institution and a leading source of private sector financing which utilizes a variety of funding tools through managed for-profit and non-profit targeted funds to support economic and community development in underserved communities primarily in the City of Detroit.

DecisionDesk, Cleveland

This Company is a cloud-based application manager that enables clients to process high volumes of applications, including multi-media materials, by automating their submission and review workflow. Every applicant through This Company becomes part of a global network of talent, with the ability to apply to any ThisCompany-driven opportunity with one click.

4.0 Schools, NOLA

This Company is a community of passionate people building the future of school, one piece at a time. Based in New Orleans and New York, we invest in people who know that school needs to change and are ready to start building real solutions to real problems.

Green Coast Enterprises, NOLA

This Company is a community resilience company. They build stronger, better-connected, healthier, and wealthier communities in the US Gulf Coast. While much of their work focuses on real estate development services, they are not a development company in the traditional sense. They saw the 2005 hurricane season as a clarion call for innovation in the building industry, and innovate around creating better buildings and a better development.

Print Syndicate, Columbus

This Company is a design, marketing and technology company that functions in e-commerce. Its business is focused on creating timely, well-designed content that is easily promoted and shared via social media.

Buena Vista Digital Partners, Miami

This Company is a digital marketing company. Whether your brand needs a boost in 1 specific area to put you ahead of the competition or needs full scale marketing support from the ground up, This Company is ready be your creative force. We are innovators.

Ash & Anvil, Detroit (Fellow Funded)

This Company is a fashion company for guys 5'8″ and under. Our customers can finally wear clothes that fit off the rack and no longer have to tailor everything they buy. We're starting with casual button downs and plan to offer a full wardrobe of everyday clothes.

BoxCast, Cleveland

This Company is a fast-growing HD video streaming company. It has created a TV station in a box that enables anyone with a camera and internet link to broadcast live video to anyone, anywhere - laptop, tablet or smartphone.

Floyd, Detroit

This Company is a full-stack furniture brand: designing, manufacturing and selling products direct-to-consumer. Its products are designed for city living around the parameters of simple shipping, ease of assembly and ability to adapt to smaller living spaces. This Company is working to shift the culture of furniture consumption through a commitment to transparency in manufacturing, building amazing customer experiences and designing long-lasting products.

Cirle, Miami

This Company is a growing medical technology incubator based in Miami, Florida. We are focused on creating transformative medical technologies that will truly move the needle in healthcare delivery. This Company has a relationship with the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, which is the #1 ranked eye surgery hospital in the United States according to the US News and World Report. In addition, the Company has a partnership with a globally recognized, premier pharmaceutical and medical device company.

SYNEK, Denver

This Company is a home draft system that pressurizes and refrigerates beer through a flexible, layered bag, which fits neatly into a sleek tap unit for use on your kitchen countertop, or pretty much anywhere else. But, beyond that, we're making drinking quality beer easier for beer lovers, and helping brewers sell more of their delicious beer.

Larky, Detroit

This Company is a mobile discount and loyalty platform that drives interchange revenue, wallet share, user acquisition and retention. We negotiate compelling discounts at local and national merchants in your backyard and then send location-based mobile alerts to your users when they are physically near a merchant discount. Every alert is branded for your bank or credit union and can include other messages to drive car loans, mortgages, and other financial products.

U3 Advisors, Detroit

This Company is a nationally recognized boutique consulting practice that provides real estate and economic development solutions to the institutions that anchor our communities.

JumpStart, Cleveland

This Company is a nationally recognized non-profit accelerating the success of entrepreneurs, their high growth companies, and the ecosystems supporting them.

Yield Crowd, Miami

This Company is a peer-to-peer lending platform for Asset based products. This Company targets unconventional asset classes, such as real estate notes, structured settlements, and others with quality underlying credit characteristics and attractive risk adjusted returns. This Company's marketplace connects investors looking for yield with owners of asset based products looking for liquidity. Investors can leverage our team's decades of experience and participate in investments that were formerly reserved for large private equity firms and hedge funds.

Project X, Detroit

This Company is a people-based search engine for large organizations that allows users to find the right people for them based on any combination of interests, skills, characteristics and locations. This Company is a Detroit venture-backed startup inspiring a better connected world.

People's Liberty, Cincinnati

This Company is a philanthropic lab that brings together civic-minded talent to address challenges and uncover opportunities to accelerate the positive transformation of Greater Cincinnati. This Company invests directly in individuals through funding and mentorship, creating a new, replicable model for grantmakers in other cities. This Company is supported by the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile/U.S. Bank Foundation and The Johnson Foundation.

TEDCO, Baltimore

This Company is a public-private partnership that administers a wide variety of programs to bolster the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem, from grants that fund commercializable research in labs and universities, to seed-stage investments in startups, to mentoring and loaned executive programs. This Company has invested in over 300 companies since its establishment in 1998.

Astronomer, Cincinnati

This Company is a real-time data collection platform that helps companies securely warehouse and share their data, making it accessible to custom applications and third party BI tools. This Company can scale massively, run within a demarcated VPC, and operate at 1/10th the cost of legacy systems.

Mason, Detroit

This Company is a recent hardware startup spun out of Nexlink Communications, a leading wireless device distributor and remanufacturer based in Michigan with offices in Minnesota, Texas, and Shenzhen, China. We build custom mobile solutions for enterprise and consumer application and have a diverse portfolio of hardware products supporting Android and Windows Phone, coupled with domestic after-market support and wireless data plans. Our mission is to build an American design house for next-generation smartphones, tablets, and wearable devices, tailored for our customers. We believe in Detroit as a hub for manufacturing and distributing technology that makes the world smarter, one device at a time.

Fleetio, Birmingham-Alabama

This Company is a refreshing, web-based fleet management platform that makes it easy to manage vehicles and equipment from anywhere.

BoostUp, Detroit

This Company is a savings platform that helps consumers reach their down payment goals for big life purchases. Users can save their own money toward their goals, and be rewarded with dollar-for-dollar boosts from friends, family, and helpful brands. It's free to use, and helps you reach your dreams faster!

Dinner Lab, NOLA

This Company is a social dining experiment that unites undiscovered chefs with adventurous diners. Our events bring together groups of interesting strangers around a common table to share cuisine crafted by up-and-coming chefs from all over the world. We give our chefs a platform to tell a story through their menus - recipes that speak to their background or heritage, ingredients they are passionate about, or completely new dishes they've been experimenting with.

R-Squared Macro, Birmingham-Alabama

Founded by two Princeton alumni - a former Bridgewater trader and a policy analyst - This Company is an institutional global macroeconomic investment management firm focused on delivering uncorrelated absolute returns by investing across broad, liquid asset classes in developed and emerging markets. We challenge convention within the industry by leveraging innovative technologies, questioning assumptions, generating superior research, and advocating a global perspective.

Vorbeck, Baltimore

Founded in 2006, This Company is the worldwide leader in graphene enabled products and solutions. Today we are bringing breakthrough graphene enabled products to market today in partnership with some of the most well recognized companies in the world.

Craftsy, Denver

Launched in 2011, This Company is an online platform to support hobbyists. From quilting to cooking and painting, This Company offers high quality online classes and materials for just about any hobby.

Baltimore Angels, Baltimore

The Company is an angel investor group based in Baltimore, MD. Founded in 2009, its mission is to invest profitably in the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem and advance early stage innovators to the next stage of capital formation. Its vision is to be the most trusted resource for angel capital investment and entrepreneurial mentorship in the Greater Baltimore region

BikesORO, Cincinnati

The Company makes beautiful bikes for socially conscious consumers. Purchases directly support the distribution of bikes to people in need.

VersaMe

The number of words babies hear has consistently been shown to be the greatest determinant of their IQ, academic performance, and emotional intelligence later in life. This Company is leveraging this research by building a wearable education device for babies that helps caretakers track and improve the number of words that they speak to their babies. Parents care about what goes into their babies' bodies, why not care about what goes into their minds?

Brighton Technologies Group, Cincinnati

This Company has helped companies large and small find the data they need, applying cutting edge data and helping you reduce costs, failure rates, and rework.

PawedIn, Cincinnati

This COmpany is a revolutionary platform that allows pet owners (pet parents) to connect with service providers (pet pros). At its core, the platform is a two-sided marketplace. The advanced location and social elements makes This Company a breakthrough in helping pet parents find the best care in their area. On the supply side, This Company makes it easy for pet pros to market to in-the-market parents in their area. A proprietary analytics dashboard tracks the ROI of the platform and premium offerings for each pro.

Slope, Detroit (Fellow Founded)

This Company a is visual content collaboration and workflow platform for marketing and creative teams.

LevelEleven, Detroit

This Company builds easy-to-use software applications to help sales managers keep their salespeople focused on the right things. Our lead product, Contest Builder, is a Salesforce.com app that creates competitions to motivate teams to make more calls, book more meetings, clean up data, or create and close more deals.

SmartLogic, Baltimore

This Company builds, tests, deploys, and maintains custom software applications. Be it mobile apps, web apps or applications for wearables, we're always perfecting our development process, which leads to smarter software and a low-stress experience.

Pack Health, Birmingham-Alabama

This Company connects patients diagnosed with a chronic condition with a dedicated Health Advisor who acts as a coach, educator and cheerleader. Health advisors use a simple, well-organized toolkit, or "pack," that allows a patient to learn, engage, and be held accountable to their health in between clinical visits. Data is collected for outcomes reporting and clinical care teams are integrated into the process to support proactive management of each patient's health. Pack Health's programs are designed to trigger patients to follow their clinician's recommended care and ultimately live healthier more manageable lives

iRule , Detroit

This Company converts your mobile device into the best universal remote control in the world.

SafeWhite, Columbus

This Company developed after 4 years of research by leading protein chemists based upon how nature provides color and adheres in wet environments. This Company combines the adhesion and fluorescent lighting power of marine life to create a patented combination that whitens teeth by coating them, not by bleaching and etching them as is more commonly seen with the leading teeth whiteners. What that means is no harmful peroxide touching your gums or your teeth. Instead, a veneer of white that shines white in a manner similar to how your teeth typically fluoresce sits in a microscopic layer on the surface of your teeth, undetectable to touch and tasteless.

ZeroFOX, Baltimore

This Company enables organizations to identify, manage, and mitigate the information security risks associated with employee and corporate social media usage. From targeted social-based cyber attacks to fraud, phishing, social engineering, and executive impersonations, This Company provides real-time risk management, threat intelligence and security analytics.

GenomOncology, Cleveland

This Company enables precision medicine by translating next generation sequencing data into actionable information for clinicians and researchers. As the bottleneck of cancer molecular diagnostics has moved from data acquisition to data interpretation, This Company has developed a proprietary technology platform that captures critical findings for the cancer researcher or clinical oncologist and produces a robust, actionable report in less than a day.

Kapture, Cincinnati

This Company gives you the audio-recording wristband that allows you to save and share what was just said. Talk. Tap. Share.