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A new $250,000 investment from economic development group JumpStart is part of an ongoing Series A that dental device startup Zuga Medical is raising to support an initial roll out its dental implant system this summer. Read More ...

Freedom Meditech, Inc., a medical device company commercializing non-invasive ophthalmic technologies for the detection of disease and management of patient health, today announced the appointment of Paul M. Karpecki, OD, FAAO, to the Scientific Advisory Board. Read More ...

The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded $6 million to two teams led by Case Western Reserve University that are developing new medical technology, as well as more than $1 million in other awards meant to support high-tech projects and internships in Northeast Ohio. Read More ...

A Cleveland company that has developed a new system for installing dental implants has received a $250,000 investment from JumpStart Inc. Read More ...

Two privately-held real estate transaction services companies based in Cleveland have formed a strategic partnership.
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Wrist-worn activity monitors abound these days, from Nike’s FuelBand to Jawbone’s UP system and Fitbit’s activity products. Newcomer to the space, MOVABLE, just got fueled up to compete, taking $1.9 million in seed funding. Read More ...

Neuros Medical, Inc., a medical device company, announced significant results today from their long term pilot study. Read More ...

Based on its recent analysis of the learning collaboration platforms market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes AMVONET with the 2013 North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation. Read More ...

Life events, such as getting married, having a baby, buying a house or retiring, can impact the financial decisions individuals make. Read More ...

Steady growth for the Alliance-based e-Learning Management & Software firm Amvonet is strengthened by the announcement of two new hires. Read More ...

When you start a new media company, there's no intellectual property. There's nothing to patent, so I was obsessed with getting as many readers as possible so we could try to grow fast in our niche market. Read More ...

End-of-life planning startup eFuneral has received a $250,000 investment to help people find resources online for funeral planning including funeral home reviews, estate planning, and cemetery information. Read More ...

CardioInsight Technologies, Inc., a leading developer of non-invasive electrocardiographic mapping technology, announced today that it will host a symposium during the Heart Rhythm Society's upcoming 34th Annual Scientific Sessions from May 8 11, 2013 in Denver, Colorado. Read More ...

A Cleveland startup that has created a website designed to help people plan funerals has received a $250,000 investment from JumpStart Inc. of Cleveland. Read More ...

It sounds like there's plenty of activity at Movable, the Brecksville company that produces an increasingly popular worn activity monitor called the MOVband. Read More ...

Dealing with death is difficult, but dealing with the cost of burying a loved one can be even harder. Mike Belsito, co-founder of eFuneral, said, "It's overwhelming; it's painful." Read More ...

A unique new infographic is now available from Alliance-based Amvonet. The infographic brilliantly showcases The Future of E-Learning. Read More ...

MesoCoat Inc.’s recently opened pipe-coating facility in Euclid, Ohio, is developing CermaClad technology that could unlock oil and gas projects in corrosive environments now held back by a dearth of clad pipe, executives say. Read More ...

Meet Nicole Zmij, founder of Amplified Wind Solutions, an innovative take on amplifying wind speed for renewable energy.
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You could say that Amplified Wind Solutions CEO Niki Zmij has had a pretty good year. After taking second place in the student business idea competition at the 2012 Northeast Ohio Entrepreneur Expo, her cleantech company—whose technology was developed out of Cleveland State University, where she is an MBA student—won the Ohio Clean Energy Challenge (and $10,000) and competed in the regional competition in Chicago. Read More ...

Chris Armenio and Art Geigel like having everything they need right at their fingertips. Pairing smart phones with tinkering on a hobbyist level, the two came up with iOTOS, a way to control everything from the garage door opener to the coffee maker through smart phones and tablets. Read More ...

Ryan O’Donnell has created a way to add a personal touch to online gifting. The founder and CEO of Sociagram has created an online cloud-based platform to create customized personal video messages. Read More ...

CoverMyMeds, LLC announced today that Theodore W. Frank has been named chief financial officer (CFO), responsible for long run strategic financial positioning. Read More ...

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation has forged a new relationship with Knotice to better connect with its prospects and customers across a variety of digital touchpoints, providing the legendary brand with data management technology and integrated cross-channel messaging. Read More ...

Energy companies are expected to lay thousands of miles of pipe in the coming years as they tap remote shale rock and mine oil sands and even drill beneath ancient ocean salt beds. Read More ...

In this video, Rahul Aras, Ph.D., President & Chief Executive Officer of Juventas Therapeutics gives a company presentation at RegenMed Investor Day in New York City. Read More ...

Cleveland based Sociagram, partners with Honeymoon Pixie to leverage cloud based video technology to personalize honeymoon registries. Registrants can now personalize their honeymoon gift registry by recording a welcome video to be viewed by wedding guests. Read More ...

SironRX is pleased to announce the completion of enrollment in Cohort 1 of its clinical trial to test its lead compound, JVS-100, in wound healing. Cohort 2 is being actively enrolled. Read More ...

AMVONET today released “A Guide to Selecting a Learning Content Management Solution,” a free resource for K-12 school systems, colleges, universities, health care organizations and companies looking for the best eLearning solutions. Read More ...

Surface engineering company MesoCoat this year will launch large-scale commercial production of clad pipe that involves a manufacturing process that company officials say is faster, more efficient and can meet the growing demand for clad pipe in the global oil and gas industry. Read More ...

AAA estimates that as a nation, we spend just about $4.8 billion each year repairing our cars due to the obscene amount of damage caused by potholes. Read More ...

Alliance, Ohio-based AMVONET has been selected by East Liverpool, Ohio-based Chesterton Group in a partnership to provide a southeastern Ohio high school with online college preparatory courses. Read More ...

Just a year out of the gate and with less than $1 million in funding, Milo Biotechnology LLC already has an FDA-sanctioned investigational new drug (IND) application and is in human trials with follistatin, a protein that increases muscle strength and prevents atrophy. Read More ...

Kevin Latchford makes no bones about it: He loves the website search engine developed by a tiny Cleveland startup called Queryly LLC. Read More ...

The same type of wind turbine that was on Progressive Field could be placed on cell phone towers to power your phone calls. It's an idea and business plan that has won a statewide competition and will be competing in the regional portion of the Clean Energy Challenge on April 4. Read More ...

JumpStart Inc., the nonprofit venture development organization in Cleveland, has committed to invest $250,000 in a medical device company that just moved to Akron from Kentucky. Read More ...

A medical device company with a new way to help surgeons gauge the success of spinal fusion surgeries has just arrived in Northeast Ohio, and investors in the area have welcomed it with $1.1 million in fresh capital. Read More ...

McGreevy, who will be responsible for growing the company and engaging customers, was previously the Division Director of Consulting Services for Robert Half Technology—subsidiary of Robert Half—a company providing professional staffing services in the tech industry. Read More ...

In an effort to "go green," the city is testing three alternative pothole filling substances this spring: One, a silly-putty substance, two, a vegetable oil-based binder, and three, a 100 percent recyclable substance. Read More ...

Casentric, which builds intelligent software solutions that create competitive advantages for property casualty insurance claim operations, has retained CLM Advisors to assist in the market expansion of CaseXpert™, an innovative solution for the Property and Casualty industry. Read More ...

DecisionDesk takes the application and selection process into the cloud, promising to make the lives of administrators a lot less stressful. And it just raised $1.75 million in new funding to keep innovating. Read More ...

Taking those electroluminescent wires to a whole new level, a company called Darkside Scientific has created a sprayable paint called LumiLor that casts a uniform fluorescent glow whenever a current is applied. Read More ...

CoverMyMeds, a web-based prior authorization (PA) service for pharmacies and physician offices, is reporting record growth since receiving a $250,000 investment from JumpStart in 2010. Read More ...

Ryan O'Donnell wants to make online shopping more personal, and his Lakewood-based company, Sociagram, has received a $250,000 investment from JumpStart Inc., to help consumers have a better online experience. Read More ...

Thanks to a new three-year, $1 million grant, a group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University are continuing to develop and test a form of glucose-responsive insulin that may someday be able to reduce the risk of dangerous hypoglycemic episodes in people with type 1 diabetes. Read More ...

JumpStart recently invested $250,000 in Casentric, a Shaker Heights developer of a cloud-based software-as-a-service application to help insurance companies resolve property and injury claims quickly and fairly. Read More ...

The US Department of Energy awarded a total of $27.2 mln ($3.0 mln in the first phase and $24.2 mln in a second phase) to a consortium led by alternative energy developer Phycal Inc. Read More ...

Electroluminescence is a technology that’s been around for decades and that currently shows up in items used every day, such as night-lights and billboards, car dashboards and watches. Read More ...

Pharmacy-automation system maker PDX has made a deal with CoverMyMeds to help pharmacies using PDX's system to expedite the submission of prior-authorization forms to health insurance plans, PDX said. Read More ...

Casentric, LLC, a provider of intelligent decision-making software for property & casualty claims, announces the launch of CaseXpert, a software-as-a-service application that helps adjusters investigate, evaluate and negotiate the damage and liability components of claims. Read More ...

A Cleveland company that has been turning scrap tires, plastics and medical waste into crude oil in its Akron plant for the past few years is planning a large-scale expansion on the cusp of a residential area on Cleveland's East Side. Read More ...

A US start-up commercialising electronic shelf label (ESL) technology and systems is close to finalising its first demonstrator to show to grocery chains. Read More ...

Neuros Medical Inc. may have the cure for phantom limb pain. By zapping a bundle of damaged nerves with quick bursts of electricity, the Willoughby company can eliminate all or most of the pain that remains long after someone loses a limb, according to results from two clinical trials. Read More ...

CaseXpert™ enables claim handlers to organize and analyze liability and loss information, and all related evidence for each issue, in order to create a more accurate claim value. Read More ...

As part of its program to promote beneficial reuse of carbon dioxide, the Department of Energy awarded a total of $27.2 million to a consortium led by alternative energy developer Phycal, Inc. Read More ...

Accupoint Software, today announced that it has signed a exclusive distribution agreement with SFJH Consulting Services, to provide the company’s InterLink LT solution in Pakistan. Read More ...

Moodle Pty Ltd, producers of an open source course management system for educators, welcomed AMVONET as the newest partner in its Moodle Certified Service Provider program in Russia. Read More ...

Do you know your trashcan probably contains materials that can be converted into crude oil? Or that a couple of trailblazing companies in Northeast Ohio are creating energy from discarded plastics and old rubber tires? Read More ...

For the second year in a row, Amplified Wind Solutions competed in the Ohio Clean Energy Challenge. This year the company won $10,000 and a trip to Chicago for a chance to win $100,000 in the Midwest competition. Read More ...

Surgical Theater, LLC™, has received Food and Drug Administration clearance of their Selman Surgery Rehearsal Platform™(SRP), making it the only patented and FDA cleared platform for cerebral and spine pre-surgery rehearsal in the marketplace. Read More ...

OnShift, the leader in web-based staff scheduling and shift management software for the healthcare industry, today announced OnShift Mobile, a new application delivering top-down analysis into staffing and labor management for on-the-go executives in the senior care industry Read More ...

Catacel Corp. will display its compact, heat-exchanging catalyst technology at two upcoming major world energy forums. At each event, Catacel will display and discuss its thin foil substrate technology and its various applications in fuel reforming, syngas production, gas separation and tailgas combustion reactions. Read More ...

For the second year in a row, Amplified Wind Solutions competed in the Ohio Clean Energy Challenge. This year the company won $10,000 and a trip to Chicago for a chance to win $100,000 in the Midwest competition. Read More ...

OnShift is proud to announce that it has earned an 'Elite Supplier' distinction for the 9th Annual LTC & Senior Living LINK Conference. Read More ...

Freedom Meditech, Inc., developer of non-invasive ophthalmic products for the detection of disease and management of patient health, today announced it has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market and sell its first product, the ClearPath DS-120 Lens Fluorescence Biomicroscope. Read More ...

GE Marine has signed an agreement with Echogen Power Systems, Akron, Ohio, U.S.A., to be the exclusive provider of Echogen’s heat-to-power system for use on commercial and military marine vessels worldwide. Read More ...

MesoCoat Inc. has hired its first chief operating officer. Richard J. Burns, a former PolyOne Corp. executive, will oversee the internal operations of the young Euclid company, which is preparing to open a plant that will use a new metal cladding process intended to make it faster and cheaper to protect pipes from corrosion. Read More ...

SafeCare, which provides continuous monitoring and background checks of employees in the healthcare industry, received a $25,000 grant in November from the Innovation Fund. Read More ...

Data analysis software developer Segmint Inc. of Akron has raised about $3.3 million from a group of 50 investors, according to a Jan. 30 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Read More ...

Nonprofit venture development organization JumpStart Inc. has committed $250,000 to Shaker Heights-based Casentric, LLC, which has developed a cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application that helps evaluate and resolve property and injury cases faster and more accurately. Read More ...

Nonprofit venture development organization JumpStart has awarded $250,000 to Guided Interventions, a medical startup that will call the Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise (GLIDE) in Elyria home. Read More ...

Juventas Therapeutics, a company developing regenerative therapies for treating cardiovascular disease, said Dr. Paul Resnick has joined the company as vice president of business development. Read More ...

European regulators have given the Highland Heights company the go-ahead to begin selling the Smartpatch nerve stimulation system for use in patients with chronic shoulder pain. Read More ...

Lindsay Sims made Cleveland Magazine’s Most Interesting People list this year because she’s helping local landlords and rental agencies learn how to use social media to attract new customers. Read More ...

We’ve all seen the oily rainbow sheen in parking lot puddles after a storm. But it’s easy to forget what happens next: That oil finds its way to a storm drainage system, where it’s likely to be flushed untreated into local waterways, and could carry with it pesticides, household chemicals, PCBs, and nutrients that cause algae blooms. Read More ...

ABSMaterials is partnering with the College of Wooster on a plan that aims to turn the campus into a zero stormwater discharge campus, and a model for the rest of the country. Read More ...

Success didn’t come in a blinding “aha” moment, but Andy Zsinko ultimately met a challenge from a buddy to create a unique, long-lasting motorcycle paint job. Read More ...

JumpStart recently invested $250,000 in Guided Interventions, a startup company that has developed technology to assess coronary artery blockages. Read More ...

MesoCoat Inc. is almost finished setting up a $6.3 million plant intended to show the oil and gas industry there's a faster, cheaper way to protect pipes from corrosion. Read More ...

Medical device company Neuros Medical Inc. of Willoughby said it has completed development of its implantable generator for use in chronic pain treatments. Read More ...

Cleveland-based medical device company SPR Therapeutics has upped its series A yet again and raised an additional $2.8 million, which brings its total to $5 million from NDI Healthcare Fund, Public Square Partners and individual investors. Read More ...

Drawing on a background in the performing arts, Vadim Eelen and his son, Nikita, are creating a powerful new way to teach (and learn) online. Read More ...

The College of Wooster and a Wayne County company are investigating a new way to clean campus stormwater. The plan is based on constructing stormwater gardens that contain ABSMaterials Inc.’s patented swelling glass, Osorb, to capture and treat contaminants in the stormwater. Read More ...

A company called Darkside Scientific is blowing minds coast to coast with their new electroluminescent paint they call LumiLor. They’re electrifying everything from walls to guitars to motorcycles, and the sky is the limit for what Lumilor’s future capabilities could be. Read More ...

Milo Biotechnology, a BioEnterprise startup created to find therapies for neuromuscular diseases, received FDA orphan drug designation for its AAV1-FS344, a drug that increases muscle strength. Read More ...

Cryothermic Systems, Inc., a medical device company developing and marketing novel products in the field of cerebral cooling, has received three additional patents for its product, the Excel® Cryo Cooling System. Chairman and Co-Founder of Cryothermic Systems, Dr. Aqeel Sandhu, was the primary inventor for the latest three patents. Read More ...