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7signal
7signal has developed the Sapphire wireless LAN performance optimization solution. The Cleveland-based company's innovative solution correlates wireless user performance experience directly and immediately to the source of each network problem.…
Able
Able's (formerly EmployStream) onboarding and candidate engagement platform removes the typical pain of the employment process with modern, easy-to-use, mobile-friendly software. Built for the staffing industry by staffing industry experts,…
ABS Materials, Inc.
ABS Materials offers a line of molecularly engineered organosilica materials that have the unique property of being able to "catch and release" chemicals. The unique properties of this sorbent material…
Alviere
Alviere’s mission is to enable every company to be part of the Fintech Revolution to realize increased revenue per customer, higher retention, and deeper customer relationship and insights. Alviere partners…
Amplifund
Founded in 2008 by StreamLink Software, our key vision is to provide the tools and resources to take on complex — and often tedious — grant management processes. AmpliFund's efficient,…
AnalizaDX, LLC
AnalizaDx, LLC is a cancer diagnostics company that has developed and is presently commercializing a proprietary platform technology to improve cancer detection, diagnosis, progression and prognosis. A spin-off company from…
Anderson Aerospace
Anderson Aerospace LLC develops and produces advanced aircraft satellite antenna systems for the aviation industry. The company's products are used to provide broadband internet, communications, and satellite television to aircraft in…
Anexsis
Anexsis is a company that builds systems to improve community. The first development is the Peerro application which combines mentoring, gaming, social media and incentives to improve student engagement and…
Augment Therapy
Augment Therapy is an interactive software that uses the medium of augmented reality to engage kids to exercise. Using depth-sensing camera technology, Augment Therapy functions as a motivational tool, exercise…
Aware
Aware’s flagship Risk Management suite offers AI-infused governance, compliance and monitoring for enterprise organizations deploying today’s leading collaboration and messaging platforms, including Workplace by Facebook, Microsoft Teams and Yammer. Aware…
Axuall
Axuall is a digital network for verifying identity, credentials and authenticity in real-time. The companies solutions address a multibillion-dollar need to eliminate waste, prevent fraud, manage risk, and meet the…
Banyan Technology
Banyan Technology has developed a unique web-based solution that creates and maintains direct and instantaneous connections between manufacturers and distributors and their freight carriers. The company's focus is to enable…
Beanstalk Payment Technologies
Beanstalk is a financial technology company that provides a platform enabling merchant organizations to integrate emerging payment routing technologies into their payments stack in order to lower transaction costs and…
Bezlio
Established in 2016, Bezlio provides a no-code/low-code development platform with a mobile app that gives mobile workers, like sales, field techs, and shop floor users, access to any on-premise or…
Big River
Big River is a cloud-based fundraising platform which enables nonprofits to present more targeted appeals and develop more meaningful relationships with constituents via the web, email and social media. This…
BioMendics
BioMendics has developed wound-healing formulations that blend liquid crystals with natural products to produce a cutting-edge accelerated healing product for wound care. Their lead product, TegSure™, targets all phases of…
BlendED
BlendEd is a course authoring platform that connects professors with curated digital learning materials based on their course learning objectives. BlendED automatically adds content and technology to your existing syllabus,…
BoxCast
The BoxCast video-sharing broadcast box fits in the palm of the hand and allows anyone with a video camera to conveniently stream live video through websites, email, Twitter and Facebook.…
CardioInsight
CardioInsight Technologies is commercializing a breakthrough technology designed to improve the diagnosis and treatment of electrical disorders of the heart. The company's non-invasive electrocardiographic mapping platform, the ECVue system, gathers…
Career Town Network
Career Town is a HR recruitment online application service provider that assists employers to find qualified candidates and job seekers to connect with employers. The company helps employment professionals find…
Casentric
Casentric, LLC is offering CaseXpert™, a SaaS/cloud application that saves time and money for personal injury claims. Insurance carriers remain unsuccessful in reducing the $150 billion spent yearly on such…
Catacel
Catacel Corporation creates high-performance, low cost catalytic heat exchange and reactor solutions. Catacel's expertise is in combining catalytic and heat transfer functions thus creating customizable solutions used in fuel reforming,…
Checkpoint Surgical
The mission of Checkpoint Surgical is to provide physicians with medical devices to locate, evaluate and protect nerves and muscles in surgical procedures for better patient outcomes. The Company’s flagship…
Cleveland Diagnostics
Cleveland Diagnostics is developing technology to evaluate the changes to the structureof the protein biomarker. These structural changes directly relate to cancer mutations. In contrast to looking at gene mutations…
Color Coded Labs
Color Coded Labs finds, trains, and sets people of color up at companies ready to innovate at a greater scale. The 16-week tech & coding boot camp removes barriers for…
Complion
Complion (fka Regulatory Binder) is a Cleveland-based, early stage SaaS company that enables hospitals to increase compliance and efficiency in clinical trials through its Complion regulatory e-system. This service is…
Convelo Therapeutics, Inc.
Convelo Therapeutics is committed to developing medicines to regenerate myelin around nerve cells and restoring function to patients with neurological disorders. The company was founded in 2016 by Case Western…
CoupAd
CoupAd offers in-store merchandising services and programs for urban consumers and retailers, enabling manufacturers to generate incremental sales. CoupAd is a JumpStart portfolio company. Investment came from the JumpStart Evergreen…
CoverMyMeds
CoverMyMeds LLC helps physicians and pharmacists complete Prior Authorization and other insurance coverage determination forms for any drug and almost all drug plans. The company has developed online and phone-based…
Cryothermic Systems, Inc.
Cryothermic Systems, Inc. is a medical device company committed to improving patient outcomes. The company has developed a novel approach to selectively cooling the brain to induce mild therapeutic hypothermia…
Cureo
Secure file sharing, business collaboration and much more ... Cureo is your business in the cloud, bringing employees, customers and everyone else together under your brand to advance commerce and…
Drive My Way
Drive My Way is making trucking personal again. The company matches truck drivers with the right job, and carriers with qualified drivers. Drive My Way is a JumpStart portfolio company.…
Echogen Power Systems
Echogen Power Systems, Inc. is commercializing waste heat to power with a proprietary system. The company's breakthrough power generation cycle called the Thermafficient® Waste Heat Recovery Engine uses a modified…
Embrace Pet Insurance
Embrace Pet Insurance is an e-commerce, specialist insurance company selling pet insurance directly to pet owners. With core expertise in internet marketing and insurance product design and pricing, Embrace combines…
Emvitals
Emvitals is a proactive emotional health platform. The company partners with employers to create emotionally vital workplaces through the power of culture, proactive outreach, and connection to personalized, high-quality care…
Endotronix
Endotronix, Inc. is a medical device company dedicated to wireless health monitoring for congestive heart failure (CHF) patients. The company is developing miniaturized, wireless pressure sensors that are implanted as…
enosiX
enosiX is a Cincinnati-based software developer that has created a cloud application that streamlines the integration of mobile-frontend applications with complex database backend systems. The enosiX Framework has already helped over 100…
GenomOncology
Battling cancer, one genome at a time. An emerging player in the field of genomics, GenomOncology’s proprietary software and analytical tools can rapidly and interactively analyze and interpret sequenced genomic…
Heureka
Heureka software provides organizations with vital surveillance over the increasing amount of dark data that is prevalent in the workplace. This unstructured data includes emails, presentations, spreadsheets, word processing documents…
Home Team
The Home Team conveniently connects customers with local, energetic, and trustworthy individuals interested in providing labor help in and around their communities. Whether its loading or unloading a Uhaul truck,…
Inphlu
Inphlu is an Ohio-based social media automation platform, with offices in Dayton and Cincinnati, that uses AI to help businesses and professionals automate content creation, written captions and posting, as…
Inspherion
Knowledge Sphere (dba Inspherion) is a business intelligence software company that uses search and analytical tools to help R&D intensive companies enhance their strategic planning processes. Inspherion is a JumpStart…
Inspiron Logistics
Inspiron Logistics develops and sells a proprietary Wireless Emergency Notification System ("WENS"). WENS provides educational institutions, governments and corporations with the ability to send high priority, high speed and high…
Intelligent Mobile Support
Intelligent Mobile Support offers cloud-computing technology that connects mobile employees to experts and information. The platform provides just-in-time access to subject matter experts and delivers mission-critical information, including documents, video…
Juventas Therapeutics
Juventas Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing a pipeline of regenerative therapies to treat life-threatening diseases. The company's lead product, Stromal-cell Derived Factor 1 (SDF-1), has been shown to protect…
Knotice
Knotice (pronounced "notice") maximizes the ROI of direct digital marketing – interactive marketing communications that can be addressed to a specific individual – through process automation, increased relevance and improved…
LISNR
LISNR is a Cincinnati-based firm developing an ultra-high frequency audio-tone communication protocol for a range of proximity-based applications including a range of consumer/audience messaging applications, access & security, broadcast & second…
MavenView
MavenView is a software company founded in 2017 to advance basic research from the lab and into commercialization more quickly and efficiently by mapping science and technology-related IP to potential…
MedCity Media
MedCity Media creates content for people who care about healthcare. The company serves the everyone's-a-publisher world of modern media through three primary products: content services, which delivers made-to-order healthcare content…
MedPilot
MedPilot is a Cleveland software company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to transform patient billing. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, the company’s software develops personalized communication methods…
MesoCoat
MesoCoat, Inc. is an advanced coating/cladding technology company that combines its patented nanocomposite microstructured materials with its high energy density fusion cladding process to provide high value, environmentally friendly metal…
Milo Biotechnology
Milo Biotechnology is a Cleveland-based company dedicated to improving the lives of patients with neuromuscular diseases. Milo’s early clinical stage follistatin program, exclusively licensed from Nationwide Children's Hospital, is designed to…
Monarch Teaching Technologies
Monarch Teaching Technologies is the creator of Vizzle, a special education software for teachers, school administrators, speech-language pathologists and parents. Vizzle was created in collaboration with special education experts at…
MuReva Phototherapy
MuReva Phototherapy is a new photobiomodulation therapy to prevent and treat radiation and chemotherapy-induced mucositis. MuReva has developed a technology that harnesses Photobiomodulation to overcome the barriers which have limited…
Neuros Medical
Neuros Medical is focused on developing neurostimulation therapies for unmet needs to patients worldwide. The company's patented platform technology, Electrical Nerve Block, is focused on the elimination of chronic pain…
OnShift
OnShift is the only company to provide web-based staff scheduling software that is focused entirely on the long-term care and senior living industry. Its intuitive, web-based application combines staff scheduling,…
PopCom
Columbus-based PopCom is an automated retail technology company that provides software solutions for kiosks and intelligent vending. The company’s solutions can easily integrate into new vending machines and existing machines…
PreEmptive
PreEmptive is the leader in smart application protection, providing a premium app shielding and hardening solution that provides a great time to value and first class support. PreEmptive was acquired…
Proformex
Proformex is transforming the way the life insurance community sells and manages life insurance policies. Proformex enables the life insurance community to take a proactive approach to inforce management whereby…
Projitech
Projitech’s flagship product, OnStation, is a mobile productivity app for frontline road workers providing simple, streamlined tools for locating, visualizing and communicating work on roadway projects. Founder & CTO Jake…
Renalis
Renalis is a digital health company creating platforms to improve experiences and outcomes for people with pelvic health conditions. Designed to tackle the biggest challenges in pelvic health management, Renalis…
Rhove Real Estate
Rhove was founded on the belief that our democracy is strongest when everyone has ownership. That’s why the company is on a mission to expand access and opportunity for everyone…
S4 Medical
Founded in 2017 by biomedical industry veterans William Fuller and Dr. Emile Daoud, Cleveland-based S4 Medical is a medical device company focused on innovative solutions for cardiac procedures to treat atrial fibrillation.…
ScriptDrop
Established in 2016, Columbus-based ScriptDrop provides medication delivery to patients through its technology-enabled delivery network. COVID-19 propelled the growth of the company; they saw a 220 percent increase in revenue…
Securus Medical Group
Securus Medical Group is developing clinical tools to monitor core body temperature within body cavities. Its technology will provide clinicians with a simple to use, real-time, noncontact, thermal map of body…
Segmint
Segmint is a technology company committed to facilitating online delivery of pertinent and compelling offers to customers of financial institutions through identification of customer spending patterns and Key Lifestyle Indicators…
SHARE
SHARE is a mobility company that helps organizations and cities solve big transportation problems with mobility-as-a-service. People schedule and share rides, it costs organizations less, SHARE's software makes it run,…
SironRX Therapeutics
SironRX Therapeutics is developing novel therapies that promote dermal wound repair and reduce scarring. The company's therapeutic platform is based on the delivery of Stromal cell-Derived Factor 1 (SDF-1), which…
SNO Bio
SNO Bio is an Ohio-based, early-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics targeting enzymes associated with S-nitrosylation, a post-translational protein modification operating as a fundamental biological mechanism controlling cell signaling
SoLo Funds
This Cincinnati-based startup has created a mobile peer to peer lending exchange that provides affordable access to loans up to $1,000, allowing users to lend to or borrow from anyone…
SPR Therapeutics
SPR™ Therapeutics is commercializing a novel therapy for severe pain with its patented peripheral nerve stimulation products. The company's pipeline of neurostimulation pain therapies will exploit the same physiologic mechanism…
STACK Media
STACK Media is the nation's leading producer and distributor of sports performance, training and lifestyle content for high school athletes and the high school sports community. STACK Media has the…
Strongsuit
Strongsuit is a smart, scalable, household-chief-of-staff that relieves the mental load and helps busy professionals manage life outside of the office. The company's solution is your detail-oriented, deep thinking, execution…
Synapse Biomedical, Inc
Synapse Biomedical is focused on the development and commercialization of minimally invasive neurostimulation technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative impairments. Compared to traditional surgeries and devices, the company's…
Talmetrix
Talmetrix, a Cincinnati-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, turns HR metrics into actionable data to boost business results. Talmetrix helps employers measure and improve the employee experience, and then integrates workforce insights…
Thermalin Diabetes, LLC
Thermalin Diabetes is developing clinically superior, second-generation insulin analogs for the rapidly growing $12 billion insulin market. Thermalin's patent-pending compounds include rapid-, intermediate- and long-acting analogs. With patents expiring on…
Thrivable
Thrivable is the health care industry's only on-demand market research platform for teams that want to ensure the voice of the patient drives everyday business decisions.
TPA Stream
TPA Stream was founded in 2014 to make health benefits easier for employees and administrators. After years of experience at various software and healthcare related companies, the three founders of…
Unific
Unific (formerly Revenue Conduit) is helping retailers grow by attracting, converting and retaining customers.
Unify Jobs
Unify Jobs is an integrated technology solution that transforms the hiring experience for employers and job seekers. It is designed for diversity, equity and inclusion at its core for employers…
Vaultz Inc.
The goal of Vaultz Inc. is to be the personal mobile payroll department for the independent worker, giving freelancers and the self-employed an experience where their withholdings and tax payments…
Vitalxchange
The Vitalxchange app is a health network, ensuring that no one ever feels alone or isolated. Whether its a peer or a professional, vitalxchange wants to connect you to everything…
Vlipsy
Vlipsy is the video clip soundboard - use it to quickly find and reference clips from your favorite internet videos. Vlipsy's content is made to help you communicate better everywhere…
Vox Mobile
Vox Mobile is a Cleveland-based provider of complete enterprise mobility and IoT services for domestic and international organizations. Founded in 2006, the company addresses every aspect of mobile technology planning, management…
Wireless Environment
Wireless Environment designs light-emitting diode (LED) lighting products that improve the convenience and energy efficiency of current lighting solutions. The company makes LED lights with controls such as motion sensors,…
Wisr
Founded in 2016 by three EdTech and SaaS veterans, Cleveland-based Wisr has developed higher education’s leading knowledge-sharing community. Partnering with select universities, the company delivers a software platform that helps…
Zuga Medical
Zuga Medical is a medical device company developing a series of proprietary products, accessories and programs to make dental implants simpler and more cost-effective. The company’s FDA-approved Zuga® implant system…