Behold the Founders Live Hall of Fame. The startup companies below are all past winners of Founders Live Winners of our Pitch events in their cities. We update this page each month with the new companies.
Feb 2020
San Francisco: MedReportGuard – MedReportGuard develops and maintains internet based medical reporting forms designed for Health Care Providers (HCP) to be used in hospitals and clinics.
Moscow: Yalos Innovation Company – The technology for distributing and reproducing sounds in the auditoriums of YALOS STREAM is designed to reproduce the so-called “close” sounds that, according to the plot of a movie or other audiovisual work, occur in the immediate surroundings of the viewer (for example, a gust of wind, the rustle of leaves, the splashing of sea waves, the screams of animals, flight bullets, travel cars, etc.)
NYC: Hoppin– Breaking Barriers Through Job Shadowing
Hoppin is an award winning solution to tackling employee engagement by providing employees with the ultimate learning experiences.
Bogotá: Tribu Tech – Tech Tribe Security for your bike, Peace of Mind for You
Enter and be part of the Tribe!
Seattle: Floop – Meaningful feedback, faster. Floop is a web app that saves teachers time and helps students see the value in feedback.
Boston: SoShe – Soshe is an app-based, digital health membership empowering new and expecting moms with better information, real-time problem solving, and expert support.
Mexico City: Vech – We provide financial services for gig workers in LatAm, starting with loans to couriers and drivers in Mexico.
Lagos: www.investovilla.com –
London: Bippit – financial clarity, for the whole office. Bippit is a revolutionary wellbeing service. We provide access to financial advisors as an employee benefit for just £10 a month
Dallas: OgreSpace – Fast, Easy, Cool! OgreSpace is The Commercial Real Estate Universe. Search, Research and Trade Property Listings like NEVER BEFORE!
Denver: Simple Switch – everything you buy with Simple Switch has a quantifiable positive impact on our world and the people in it. You’ll get on Simple Switch, fill your shopping cart with items you actually need or want, like toilet paper or a dress for that wedding you have next month. Upon check out you’ll have reduced the likelihood of a child dying from preventable disease, provided employment for a woman recently freed from sexual slavery, or helped a company use innovative techniques to reduce waste and pollution. It’s that easy.
Long Beach: SmileMail – Greeting cards with your voice, made from an app and sent in the mail.
Minneapolis: Voyager Campervans – Voyager Campervans allows travelers to easily access the outdoors in comfort.
Portland: Guardian Mobile Monitoring – We, at Guardian Mobile Monitoring, are dedicated to providing the best alcohol monitoring service as well as holistic solutions to the impaired driving problem.
South Sound: The Pod Works -Tacoma’s first kid-friendly co-working + event space, empowering community and supporting small businesses! We’ve created a physical home base for the mompreneurial balance of work and play in the Pacific Northwest.
Jan 2020
Minneapolis: Croptomize – Through the use of big data and modern technology, Croptomize brings the financial and marketing tools previously reserved for big corporations to the modern-day farmer. These tools will enable farmers to make better financial decisions in the hope of building a sustainable and profitable farming operation for generations to come.
Portland: Cascadia Carbon Inc. – We build tech-enabled climate change solutions
Denver: PlasticScore – Zero-waste rating app for restaurants
NYC: WordyToys – Quality Hands-On Bilingual Toys
Seattle: Every.1 – Every.1 Matters When You’re Changing The Stats To Ensure Women Of Color In STEM Thrive. We imagine a world where every little girl and woman of color can pursue her wildest dreams and change the world through STEM.
Boston: Arielle For Africa – a Social Enterprise driven by the insatiable zeal of empowering young adults in Africa. Our aim is to create 113,000 jobs in Africa by 2030 through successful entrepreneurship.
SF: Cafe Conex – Cafe Conex connects the coffee supply chain with tools that support the production, management, and trade of fully traceable coffees.
Dallas: Alto -It’s time to expect more from ridesharing. Safe rides in clean cars called to your door in minutes.
Phoenix: BioSyntagma – Eliminating Trial-and-Error Cancer Treatments. We enable personalized medicine through predictive analytics and biomarker discovery
Dec 2019
Madrid: Wesound App – JukeBox reborn
Buenos Aires: ChicasTecno – We show you the technology in a simple and fun way. We can all be Tecno!
Toronto: Argentum – we develop building management software, multi-sensors, and DC (direct current) power distribution technologies for smart buildings that create energy savings of greater than 20%.
Bogota: Escappy Travel – HAVE YOU TRAVELED TO A SURPRISE DESTINY?
Cordoba: Alpha G – Education, Exponential Technology, Insured Work.
Bariloche: About Pina – Design of timeless illustrated garments, where each garment is thought not as a simple consumer product but as a creative expression.
Portland: Gabbi – Help make women the experts on their bodies
Nov 2019
Bariloche: Axi App
Harare: Chikafu – Chikafu is local food directory that connects residents to food producers in their communities.
Denver: Nepal Tea – Nepal Tea is a social enterprise that distributes the finest high mountain organic teas from the foothills of Mt. Kanchanjangha, the third highest mountain in the world. Not only do we empower our farmers economically by providing them better revenues, but also uplift them socially by providing free housing, free education to their children and distributing cows for additional income.
NYC: See Thru – a digitally native, outspoken beauty company leveraging tech, content, and commerce to empower the next-gen, intellectual consumer.
Long Beach: Viveka – Viveka is the world’s largest platform for professional development and personal growth with over 1,200 members across the globe. We aggregate coaches, connect these to companies and individuals (B2B & B2C), and provide them with integrated software solutions to manage business functions.
DC: Mariner Credential Service – Mariner Credential Service was founded in 2019 with a single mission: to protect and promote the livelihood of the men and women who transport America’s goods and people by sea.
Boston: Tapple – The first real-world conversion platform built to drive higher engagement through instant access to mobile experiences.
Austin: MamaLingua – we help parents raise bilingual kids. Wherever you are on your language learning journey, you’ll find the content, tools and community you need to learn and teach Spanish to your child.
Phoenix: BirdieScope – Improve your golf game with overhead 4K drone video of each hole.
Seattle: conDati RevenueLift™ – an AI-driven SaaS offering built to increase revenue generated from digital marketing campaigns, it includes features to Measure, Visualize, Predict and Optimize cross-channel performance, to make campaign decisioning easy for marketers.
SF: Thapos – SportsPlus, our sports platform will make your sports life fun and easy.
Lagos: Edsofta – EdSofta publishes past questions and study materials to secure offline apps that helps users prepare for major exams like JAMB UTME, WAEC SSCE, Post UTME, ICAN, Law School etc.
Minneapolis: Wonderly Software Solutions – Wonderly builds Bella Scena, a unified calendar, to do list, and meeting management application.
London: Scouty – Scouty makes location scouting easy, fun and free. Unearth free hidden gems (e.g. beach spots) and book unusual private spaces (e.g. warehouses) through an easy to use mobile app
Guadalajara: Singular Law Group – The evolution of legal services
Oct 2019
Quito: Chagrillo – On the way to recover the Chagrillo, the mixture, the color, the roots …
Guadalajara: El Rey David – Collaborative gift, the best way to surprise a person who turns years.
San Diego tie: Nsiight -A little Nsiight can go a long way. Change the way you find local services and products.
San Diego tie: The Atlas – Join the free online community of local government officials & staff to share success stories, learn what’s working in other cities and build relationships with partners
Minneapolis: Molly fuller Design – Molly Fuller Design provides sensory friendly clothing for teens with #autism.
Mexico City: Nutrify – We modernize the way of working of the Nutriologas and the diets of the patients
Bariloche Patagonia: Axi – Travel Safe, Easy, Efficient and Fun. We know that your time is important, thinking about you we develop an app that allows you to search for the taxi closest to your location. Order an Axi quickly, the app will notify you when the driver is waiting.
Portland: HQ Demand – HQ Demand is an e-commerce marketplace building business relationship between buyers, sellers, and transporters while providing a means for virtual verification of products before purchase.
Denver: Incredible Design Studio – Beautiful things from ocean plastic.
NYC: videosocials.net – Videosocials is like Toastmasters for video blogging, w/ video branding & social media automation.
Boston: Toast! Supplements – Toast! is on a mission to give back time, starting with Before You Drink gummies that not only keep drinkers healthy, but prevent hangovers too.
Seattle: Adventure Tripr – Discover the best outdoor adventures. Get early access to verified trips, curated just for you
Dallas (Tie): Sell4Bids – A Next-Gen AI-Driven Marketplace
Dallas (Tie): Roboamp – With just *ONE* line of code, we make any website to load in one second or less on mobile.
Phoenix: Dovly – Transforming the $11B credit repair industry with a transparent and fully automated online solution that enables companies to monetize subprime customers while giving these customers a faster, more effective pathway to consumer credit.
SF: Sparrow Marketing – At Sparrow Marketing, we build reporting tools to help social media agencies share performance metrics back to their clients.
San Antonio: Tekus – Simplify corporate communications worldwide.
Lagos: The Market Women
Buenos Aires: Saún – is a collaborative ecosystem that guides, connects and empowers those who have the initiative to change the life of ONE person or family in a situation of vulnerability.
Bogota: Booklick – READ, SHARE AND LEARN. Thousands of books, magazines, and content for everyone
London: Pinga – Think it. Get it. You can get pretty much anything you need from trusted Pinga partners in your neighbourhood. So the next time you need a bottle opener or a bottle of wine, press Pinga.
Sep 2019
Minneapolis: Runerra – Runerra connects you with people you trust, going to places you love. The things you need now brought to you by friends and neighbors.
Harare: Earthbank Investments – a construction company focusing on plant hiring, transport and logistics, and machine monitoring.
Lagos: Pallymate – Pallymate leverages on tech and provides series of financial solutions to its users
Portland: Rewire Neuroscience – Rewire Neuroscience improved the quality, reproducibility, and speed of biomedical analyses through our innovative artificial intelligence platform.
Long Beach (Tie): PeriDeals – PeriDeals is an app made to save college students money on animal products at the grocery store. The Groupon of grocery store shopping.
Long Beach (Tie): Alexander Isinhue – A convertible high heel that folds from 3 inches to 1 inch.
San Francisco: Celerative – Celerative combines data analytics with a network of vetted software engineers to build best-in-class software in record speed.
Boston: Tunnel.money – Send Money To Anyone, Anywhere In The World, Instantly & With No Transaction Fees.
Denver: Huck Adventures -The best outdoor app for finding adventure partners. Connect with others at your level, find events, learn new skills, and help your outdoor community thrive.
Bogotá: Arma Tu Vaca – Do you need to collect money in a group? For the walk, the roast, the party, the birthdays, the farewell, a wedding gift, ArmaTuVaca
Seattle: Qknow – Automate employee training by sending questions designed to teach answers in seconds.
NYC: MeetHook – A socially responsible platform that unites skilled professionals with their fans and followers directly via paid one on one live video calls.
Dallas Tie: Instahap – your locally focused real-time happy hour app from coffee to things to do to food and drinks!
Dallas Tie: FolioGrow – a cannabis cultivation management platform (CCMP) that pulls together all of the cultivation data to help cannabis and hemp farmers make better decisions.
London: Say It Now – Europe’s Leading Voice Skills & Chatbot Developer For Amazon, Google & Facebook
Phoenix: Botco.ai – A conversational AI platform that helps businesses close deals faster by being always on & always available to answer questions from prospective customers.
Aug 2019
Honolulu (tie): Iwahai -YOUR PERSONAL MAP RECORDER. Leave markers anywhere from wherever you are. Share them or keep them private. It’s up to you.. Recommendations for friends. Tour information. Geographic secrets! Personal Yelp and Trip Advisor for voice!
Honolulu (tie): Alohapay – Shop Local in Hawaiʻi. Get Rewards. Aloha Pays.
DC: Organized Q – We are a growing team of Military Spouses & Veterans dedicated to providing Quality Virtual Executive Assistant Services to Small Business Owners, Executives, and Entrepreneurs.
Portland: MentorS¢hip – connects students with scholarship opportunities through an educational mobile application.
Toronto: QuikLee – Karate for your Mind. QuikLee is a mobile game that challenges your general knowledge and cognitive skills. The game may ask you to solve a problem, complete a task, or answer an interesting trivia question. You earn points when you answer a question or complete the task before time runs out.
San Antonio: Buzu Trading Cards – The creation and customized re-creation of educational trading card that interconnect with other value-based platforms (as a behavior management system and trading card game).
London: Healthy Virtuoso – With the right motivation you will find that being rewarded for staying healthy is easier than you think!
Seattle: YouScript – Shown in multiple studies to improve care and reduce costs, YouScript synthesizes all evidence impacting drug response, including pharmacogenetic testing, to support faster, more proactive personalized medication management.
San Diego: Hydrostasis – Hydrostasis is developing a personalized hydration monitoring system that provides athletes the freedom to sustain and evolve their bodies and minds.
San Diego: Eventhi.io – Explore a New World of Events
Dallas: Rent My Wardrobe – Peer to peer marketplace for fashion rental
Denver: Laeren.io – Laeren.io is a market intelligence platform that provides data driven ratings and essential insights into the cryptocurrency market.
Boston: QuicWit – a 24/7 365 trivia gaming experience and digital marketing platform. We ask users up to four questions randomly throughout the day and the first user(s) to answer wins our premium prize, no strings attached!
Guadalajara: Subastaway – Start well with your next preowned car
Houston: Clever Box Company -Introducing Simplified Smart Lockers
Personal. Custom. & Socially Inspired. We create technology that streamlines processes, optimizes workflows, and turns the last-mile into a branding experience.
July 2019
Portland: WombPdx.com – A postpartum gift registry that offers carefully curated practitioners that aid physical and emotional recovery.
Guadalajara: Easylex – EasyLex is the first web platform that allows entrepreneurs to incorporate their company online and personalize any kind of legal agreements.
SF: Fairytrail – Enjoy dating wholesome people outside your bubble on safe and exciting journeys. Get matched on small group adventures. Talk with your match before booking.
Austin: Vinder – Online farmer market app, where neighbors feed neighbors.
Toronto: Satellite Farms – Satellite Farms builds and operates completely automated vertical farms that produce leafy greens and herbs year-round and distributes them directly to restaurants and retailers locally the same day they are harvested.
Harare: PST Tickets -Your best ticketing partner
Boston: ELETE Styles – FINALLY, A COMPANY THAT FOCUSES ON WHAT ATHLETES WEAR OFF THE FIELD. ATTIRE FOR YOUR ATHLETE BUILD & LIFESTYLE
Denver: Adhance – SaaS platform that automated online marketing
LA (Tie): kindra.life – Find Your Kindred Spirit. EXPRESS YOURSELF WITHOUT LIMITS.
To tell your story, the Kindra app guides you to create a profile with photos, text, audio, video, and emojis.
LA (Tie): 3D Room space – Curious to see how your favorite items will look in your space? Check out our FREE 3D room designer. Now, you can furnish, decorate and visualize your home.
London: Beam – Winner, Europe’s Hottest Tech for Good, 2019, Beam lets you help a homeless person for the long-term by crowdfunding their employment training.
Dallas: Just Drive – Just Drive is an app that rewards undistracted driving.
San Antonio: Checkups – Checkups is an app paired with a case management platform where defendants can chat and check-in with their officers.
Seattle: Tulu Systems – Tulu Systems builds IoT systems that reduce the cost and headache of owning and managing a building.
Buenos Aires: Cobralas – a platform designed for companies that waste a lot of time managing their collections. Our tool allows you to update the collections as soon as your customers pay in the means of payment enabled. The value proposition we bring you is that in a single platform you can have reconciled all your charges and that integrating to a new means of payment is a simple task.
June 2019
Houston: Clever Box Company – Grow Your Business with Simplified Smart Lockers. Clever Box creates efficiency solutions that optimize your workflow and makes your customers happier with a convenient experience.
Boston: Superfrau – Inspired by our Alpine roots, we upcycle surplus whey from yogurt and cheese makers to bring you a refreshing, gut-healthful beverage
Minneapolis: Little Acorn Shave Co – Stop Shaving Like A Man!
Dallas: SimiDigi – focused on developing innovative learning solutions for organizations in industries.
Seattle: Flexible Power – Flexible Power is a flexible, patented, stretchable, wearable, wireless power system capable of transmitting biometric data via Bluetooth technology.
Denver: Kamana – An agency-neutral platform helping travel nurses succeed.
Phoenix: Blinte – We are changing what it means to dine out for the better, and this is happening right on your mobile phone.
San Francisco: GrinFluent – a platform to learn, track and share your environmental impact.
San Diego (Tie): Craitor – Craitor isn’t just a machine that allows you to manufacture almost anything, but it is a machine that is designed to function in the harshest environments.
San Diego (Tie): Zone Health from Vardas Solutions – PERSONALIZED STRESS MANAGEMENT ANYTIME, ANYWHERE. Sync your breathing, heart rate and blood pressure to optimize biometrics of stress
Washington DC: Badges United – Enhancing the Overall Wellness of First Responders and their Spouses.
Buenos Aires: Curselo – We want more and more people to be successful with their educational business. Manage your courses successfully, gain clients and expand your business.
Portland: Buzhop! – A better search engine for events and activities.
Bozeman: Montana Craft Malt – a collective of growers, scientists, brewers, and beer lovers dedicated to helping brewmasters reach their loftiest expectations for taste, quality, and pure drinkability. With unique access to one of the world’s best barley-growing regions and the state’s top independent growers, we produce an extraordinarily diverse selection of classic and artisanal malts.
May 2019
San Francisco: Aeroasis – a food autonomy startup building the worlds most user-friendly smart garden for home and culinary use.
Seattle: Nomena – We bring actionable insight and automation into business risk analysis, management, and mitigation.
Phoenix: BrightGuest – Personalized microsites + text messaging for nonprofits
Boston: VeriCurious – Total pediatric solution for autism, ADHD and similar challenges. We believe children with autism, ADHD and similar challenges can reach their potential, and have a happy, healthy, productive lives.
Lagos: Healthcare.ng – We provide quality Managed Healthcare services backed by first class customer care and delivered with warmth to build life long relationships!
Dallas: Sitterneeded – Dallas’ only on-demand sitter service staffed by local nursing students which provides the most trusted and professional care option for families.
Austin: Moolah U – PREPARING KIDS for SUCCESS in BUSINESS AND in LIFE.
Guadalajara: Yapsi – A Platform to transfer, pay and save money.
Denver: Event Integrity – At Event Integrity, we help people organize events with confidence.
San Diego: Kaizen Rentals – We increase property owners and investors cash flow by turning their properties into a short term rental.
Portland: Phoneshake – Explore your spot and connect instantly
Apr 2019
Long Beach: Bumpin Blends – A delicious way to push your pregnancy and postpartum symptoms aside and get the nutrients you and your baby need. Delivered. Feel Good. Stay Healthy.
Austin: Captain Experiences – Airbnb for outdoor sports.
Nairobi: WayaWaya – One Account combining your bank, mobile wallet, savings & payments services through Apps, Social platforms and APIs.
San Francisco: BOLDLY – the first platform of its kind, putting career decisions and resources into the hands of the career owners!
Seattle: Geoship – Geoship is a material science and construction technology cooperative. Geoship bioceramic domes are for lovers of the Earth to build thriving communities and dwell in harmony with the land.
Dallas: Moments By Design – Making life easier with custom curated parties in a box!
San Diego: Akazi – a platform that empowers, educates, and employs women. Ethical. Handcrafted. Powered by women.
Portland: Grads 529 – An app helping families afford the colleges their kids deserve.
Mar 2019
Boston: Ntroduced – formerly The Sales Club, is a SaaS job platform that introduces candidates to hiring managers. Sign up for intros today!
New Jersey: Eatree – a plant-based fast-casual burger chain that focuses on providing simple meals to people In order to increase the accountability of health food, the environment, and promote animal welfare.
Austin: iWinsome – The CRM for the gig economy. Customer loyalty, More referrals, On-going Marketing, and Relentless gratitude.
San Francisco: GuoBlue – Carpooling for companies.
Harare: BeeZoo – Beezoo Incorporated is an internet solutions entity that aims to empower every person and organization to achieve more through providing digital platforms for sharing and distributing ideas in the form of text and audio. Its main component, the Beezoo Digital Library provides a cloud-based platform where users access or submit reading materials for educational, research and personal purposes among others.
Long Beach: Dogdrop – a female-founded startup modernizing dog daycare with multiple locations, membership model, and community activation.
Seattle: Tribute – Tribute is a modern mentorship app that connects employees together through shared life experiences and stories. We exist to accelerate women in the workplace but are inclusive for all.
Boise: Good Wok – Asian Fusion Restaurant.
Buenos Aires: eStylar – Helping your customers find the right fit the first time around. By matching shoppers with the right size, eStylar helps retailers lower the rate of returns and increase sales by implementing innovation.
Phoenix: Kegelbell -Most women suffer the symptoms of weak pelvic muscles, diapers-surgery-pills are among the dangerous and ineffective solutions offered, until now, Kegelbell is the most powerful kegel exercise weight set on the market and it works to accelerate results with less work for busy women; this is real women’s health, finally.
Feb 2019
Dallas: Akute Health – Complete referrals faster. Get more revenue. Make it super simple for referring providers to send you new patients. Stop wasting time faxing, calling, and mailing.
Austin: Kikupal – An Online Platform to Gift Practical Services. Gift helpful services by purchasing KikuPoints, which can be redeemed for meals, house cleaning, and more. Encourage others to participate, because more points mean continued support.
Boston: Incluvie – Incluvie is the imdb for diversity in film, giving you the power to rate the racism out of Hollywood!
Portland: Walker Tracker -Walker Tracker is a b2b SaaS platform that empowers companies and organizations to build wellness into their culture.
Seattle: MyPeopleNow – Do What You Love. Let Others Help You With The Rest.
San Francisco: RWB Canine Inc. – Advanced Canine Wearable w/ Real-Time Physiology for Pet Lovers, DHS and DOD.
Long Beach: Nicolette – Nicolette is a health tech company that empowers patients with visual data, curated education, and engagement tools.
Jan 2019
New York: idk tonight – idk tonight creates decision making technology for couples to live their best lives together.
Portland: Text A Lawyer – Our innovative apps help people looking for quick answers to legal questions; $20 hires a nearly-instant lawyer for a text-style chat.
Seattle: CoffeeBreak – CoffeeBreak is a mobile app where we use your professional goals and give you recommendations of the people who can and want to help you reach them.
Dallas: Choose Your Reader – The storytelling app for the modern family. Choose Your Reader allows parents, grandparents, or anyone who loves a child to record a story in their own voice. With Choose Your Reader, you’ll never miss the magic of reading a bedtime story with a child you love.
Harare: The Housing Hub – Accommodation Companion for tertiary level students in Zimbabwe. Housing made EASY. Click or Call WE’LL DO IT for you…
Boise: ButterFace – Let’s it, movie popcorn is better with Real Butter! ButterFace Real Butter comes from a farm, not a factory. Join us in an about- on all things artificial by elevating your popcorn experience with ButterFace, the Way Better Butter.
Boston: Nextiles – Nextiles is developing wearable technologies by engineering new textile materials that have electrical properties to create next-generation fabric-based sensors.
Nov 2018
Portland: Cocacao – Cocacao is a dark chocolate and coconut experience!
Dallas: CityMixr – A millennial-based social network rewarding groups for trying new local entertainment experiences.
Boise: Free To Feed – Science-based content and products for allergen-free breastfeeding.
Austin: Kikupal – KIKUPAL™ helps you send basic need services to your loved ones when they need them most.
Seattle: EarShot – Earshot empowers productive conversations for learning using AI and voice analysis.
San Francisco: Fincast: We partner with local fly fishing shops and professional fishing guides to share their years of knowledge and experience around fishing locations and river forecast/conditions with our mobile app subscribers.
Long Beach: BioPower Enterprises (ANDI) – ANDI helps you divert household food and pet waste from landfills.
Chicago (Tie): GroundBreaker – Real estate investment management software for the 21st century.
Chicago (tie): The Q – Event based application for following a list of events from an individual.
Oct 2018
Harare, Zimbabwe: YouFarm – YouFarm provides alternative funding for small scale and commercial farmers in Zimbabwe through the YouFarm Crowd Farming Platform. The YouFarm Crowd Farming Platform enables anyone to participate in the agricultural value chain by investing in crop or livestock and sharing the profits with the farmer when the produce goes to market.
Buenos Aires: Academia Camarada – The first Latin American academy created to professionalize the esports scene, generating new players and the space for them to compete.
Portland: SUTUREGARD – Close more wounds with SUTUREGARD, a bioengineered wound closure device that extends the surgeons’ ability to expand and close difficult skin wounds.
Dallas: Arcade – Arcade motivates your employees to exceed expectations. Arcade is a proven workforce engagement solution that will increase your team’s output with games, recognition, rewards, and more.
Spokane: Share Farm – Share Farm is a slow food sharing economy essentially a digital farmers market built around a dual sided ecommerce platform.
Minneapolis (Tie): ClutchSOS – Get Quick Help From Your Clutch Crew. THIS S.O.S. SAFETY APP LETS YOUR CREW HELP YOU IN TOUGH SITUATIONS.
Minneapolis (Tie): Mobility4All – Providing High Quality, Cost Effective Transportation for People with Disabilities and Seniors.
New Jersey: GiveTide – GiveTide is an iOS app that lets you round up electronic spare change, and donate that money to any nonprofit in the US with a tap.
Phoenix: GOALS – GetOnALifeStyle produces templated bullet journals which provide monthly trackers, quotes and questions that allow our users to find their identity and use it to create a corresponding lifestyle.
Long Beach: Elixir – Next gen botanicals that can be used for general health and smoking harm reduction, tripling the efficacy of herbal supplements by leveraging the personal vaporizer.
Boston: Sixpence – The first roundup crowdfunding platform. Support the causes you care about with the roundups on your daily purchases.
Boise: Oma & Popies Marinades & More – Oma & Popies provides an unparalleled selection of the very best handcrafted quality marinades and spice blends inspiring anyone to cook a healthier gourmet meal at home.
San Francisco: Impct Coffee – IMPCT is a global social enterprise dedicated to transforming low income and urban slum communities through education. We directly source products from these communities and invest the profits back into local women to run our Playcare preschools.
Seattle: Intentionalist – YOUR GUIDE TO INTENTIONAL SPENDING. Support small businesses and diverse local communities one… purchase at a time
Sep 2018
Dallas: Mirror Maddness – Mirror Maddness is an organization that helps develop students ages 3 to 18 enhance their inner entrepreneurial mind. With this enhancement, we plan to help end American poverty.
San Francisco: Playout – Join games nearby and get to know awesome people!
Boston: Tech Connection – a recruitment platform that supports the professional development of untapped technical talent. We offer individualized career planning and job placement to candidates. We believe that introspective leadership coupled with proper planning is the key to career success.
New York: POPiN – Fitness marketplace where users are micro-billed by the minute to access premium health clubs and gyms.
Austin: Gardenio – GROW YOUR OWN FOOD. Everything you need to grow organic, delivered to your door.
Phoenix – Hashback.io – Hashback makes it simple to use AI to manage help desk tickets. By utilizing the recent advances in machine learning, Hashback provides an accurate analysis of your customer feedback whether your team receives 10 or 10,000 emails a day.
Minneapolis: SalesReach – SalesReach provides your business development team an intuitive system to deliver marketing approved, stage appropriate assets to facilitate a sales experience your prospects will remember.
Seattle: Vita Inclinata – VITA INCLINATA TECHNOLOGIES IS THE LEADING DEVELOPER OF CHAOTIC MOTION CONTROL SYSTEMS. WE PROVIDE UNIQUE COUNTER SWING SYSTEMS TO MILITARY AGENCIES, PRIVATE CONTRACTORS, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS TO HELP MAKE THEIR MISSIONS SAFER AND MORE EFFECTIVE.
Portland: Melaknow – Melaknow is an app that uses a patent pending machine learning algorithm to help you determine if a patient has a melanoma.
Long Beach: The Gravity Ball – An entirely new way of doing resistance exercise for people with grip strength limitations.
Aug 2018
Seattle: Audley – Audley is on a mission to fight food waste by turning farmers’ excess harvest into nutritious upcycled whole plant snacks.
Salt Lake City: CleanFare – Earn social points for using public transportation and tracking how much you save on carbon footprint, and local businesses give discounts at their stores for your many points earned.
Austin: Singlebox – Defeat Clutter and Chaos. Store A Box of Your Stuff With Singlebox.
Minneapolis: Solupal – THE NEW NORM FOR SHOPPING BAGS
Dallas: Almaty Health – Blockchain Based Healthcare. Decentralized Healthcare For Everyone.
July 2018
Dallas: Zenu – Zenu is the easy time saving way to find and book venues right on your mobile device.
Portland: Vino Voyage – Our mission at Vino Voyage is to unite wine fans from around the world, creating a community of openness and enthusiasm. We never rest on our laurels, and are always looking to improve and expand our Wine Fan Site offerings.
Seattle: Supirb Events – Where the Event is just the beginning. Great connections & opportunities shouldn’t end when the Event does.
Boston: Eleis Farm – Eleis Farm is a family social enterprise. We produce, package and market sustainable red palm oil on the north coast of Guinea. Our mission is to become an economic engine that works in harmony with the environment and the empowerment of women and smallholder farmers in West Africa with a supply chain which is a transparent as our oil.
San Fransico: (Tie) Nomad – Wherever you roam, park with NOMAD.
San Fransico: (Tie) uBridge – the social network for college entrepreneurs.
Austin: Think and Zoom – Hands Free Visual Magnification Powered by the Human Mind
Salt Lake City: 4th Wall – 4th Wall is recreating historic events and places in VR.
Chicago: Menu3 – We make augmented reality restaurant menus.
June 2018
Los Angeles: The Share App – Share Your Photos With People Nearby. Gone are the days of fumbling multiple smartphones so that everyone can have the same picture on their phone! With Share you just take a picture once, and with the click of a button everyone around you gets the picture and can Save it to their phone.
Seattle: Everly – Wedding Planning Disrupted. All the personalized support of a wedding planner for a fraction of the price.
Dallas: Biztrack.io – Step-by-step guided instructions plus helpful information, estimated costs, resources, tools and recommended business partners to help entrepreneurs succeed.
Austin: The Pulse of Austin – Built by the Austin Center for Design as a platform for Austinites to voice their feelings on civic topics, which then empowers their voices through a collective display of the city’s voices.
May 2018
Seattle: Cluck – Be safer on Craigslist. Cluck gives Craigslist users a way to warn each other about scams and trade information about listings, just like they do on Amazon, Yelp, or Google through reviews.
Dallas: Yumlish – Yumlish creates highly engaging and valuable mini recipe videos. Mini recipe videos are used as tutorials to make recipes, as a marketing tool by restaurants to convey their brand value, and by franchisors to deliver consistent training to franchisees.
Phoenix: Symba – Internship programs matter. We’re here to help. Our comprehensive, easy-to-use internship management platform optimizes your internship program to create the best possible experiences for you and your interns.
Austin: Right Here Right Now – an online platform that allows victims of a natural disaster (hurricane, flood, tornado, etc.) to share who they are, their story and a needs list as well as a gift registry. That way, those who are called to be of service can do so with ease.
Chicago: Interpreter Tap – BREAKING DOWN WALLS FOR LANGUAGE BARRIERS! Interpreter Tap is a mobile App that connects you to a live interpreter.
Portland: Tali – Hands-free time tracking. No more interruptions to your flow – let Tali log all your activities effortlessly with voice.
Apr 2018
Vancouver: BuzzIt – Start live group chats with other users at your location without sharing contact information.
Los Angeles: Story Bikes – Pick some wheels, give some wheels. Sleek & affordable electric bikes that are giving back. Story Electric Bikes are the only companion for your on-the-go lifestyle that gets you to where you need to go, while being eco-friendly, ultra chic and affordable.
Seattle: HeyThrivy – HeyThrivy is a customized personal assistant service. HeyThrivy handles the errands and the urgent so you can focus on the important things in life.
Chicago: Cheff – New economy for cooks to have a platform to connect to and serve the growing market of consumers who lack the skills, time or inclination to cook.
Phoenix: GoCode -Learn Code Anywhere! Lessons designed for students of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience. Bite-sized topics allow for quick learning on a busy schedule.
Mar 2018
Seattle: PartnerTap – The new way B2B partnerships drive growth and get results. Sales, alliances, and referral partnerships harness the power of relationships and continuous engagement to boost pipelines and empower partnerships for incredible performances.
Phoenix: Trainial – The Easiest Way To Build A How-To Guide For Your Business. Get your business out of your brain today!
Austin: OpenCurrents – Get paid for doing good. The digital currency that anyone can earn by volunteering. Give time, create Currents.
Denver: Tripcents – Travel, automated and personalized from savings to bookings.
Los Angeles: Interviewologist – Interviewologist is a personal trainer for careers. A mobile matching service that pairs advice-seekers with experts and leaders in their field for an hourly charge.
Chicago: ProxyPics – ProxyPics is the first-of-its kind on-demand system for getting the location-specific media you need from wherever you are.
Feb 2018
New York: CariClub – The professional network for social impact. Whether you’re a rookie or an experienced philanthropist, CariClub can help you find your passion and make a difference.
Portland: AllGo – AllGo is a review site where fat people rate the comfort and accessibility of places so others can know what it’s like. Our platform gets people the information they want to go out more, without discomfort. We design with size in mind because we believe that all bodies are magnificent and deserve to be comfortable.
Denver: Cusa Tea – Cusa Tea is the worlds first premium instant tea. Made from organic ingredients with no additives, fillers, or sugar, it’s incredible tea that can be made hot or cold, in 30 seconds or less.
Seattle: Bridgecare Finance – A new kind of finance. Built for families. Built for you. BridgeCare offers unique, payment plans designed for pre-kindergarten learning and childcare needs. It is the only solution of its kind to help families just like yours.
Austin: GrubTubs – GrubTubs Inc. is dedicated to reconnecting communities with local family farms. Our job is to repurpose the food waste coming from restaurants and grocery stores into nutrient-rich animal feed that is affordable for the local farmer.
Chicago: Xenesis – The first company to successfully commercialize Space based optical communications…as well as interplanetary optical comms.
Jan 2018
Los Angeles: LazRfit – Lazer Tag As A Cardio Workout.
Seattle: Cure – A licensed, vetted therapist will be matched to your needs at a clinic or spa within your vicinity.
Chicago: Air – Get LIVE answers to your questions and see what friends think about you
Austin: Sips by – Sips by brings you teas you love from brands around the world, personalized for you.
Phoenix: Abeja Solutions – A boutique agency that delivers extraordinary solutions in marketing, communications, and fundraising. They help nonprofits create professional donor mail.
Nov 2017
Atlanta (tie): One Week Website – We build custom WordPress websites in just one week. Websites that work.
Atlanta (tie): RaceIQ – We help enhance performance, safety and passion of every automobile for every owner. Whether you are a car enthusiast looking to get the most out of your vehicle or you’re a multi-national corporation looking to solve some of the industries toughest challenges, RaceIQ has the experts and resources that will help you succeed.
Los Angeles: Cravingz – The Tinder for Food.
Seattle: Shaum – Access authentic homemade meals in your area, prepared by people passionate about food. Chefs are vetted and meals are on-demand. Eat local, Eat Fresh, and see what happens when underground Chefs take over the food scene!
Chicago: Huddle.care – Anxiety and stress are the most common psychological concerns in the world and also the most treatable. Huddle.care is an online platform for group and individual cognitive-behavioral anxiety treatment.
Denver: Parkit – The future of event parking is here.
Austin: Squarecap – Squarecap is the easiest way to track attendance, give quizzes, and stimulate discussion in class.
Oct 2017
Seattle: PNTHR – PNTHR® offers Cleaner Tech™ solutions to stop 99.99% of E. coli & MRSA growth on AntiViral™ cases engineered with recycled materials!
Dallas: KeyPiece – Keypiece is interactive online drawing. They allow you to draw your own adventure, build your stories, and play with your friends. Check them out!
Chicago: Trusted Herd – A Do It Yourself, First of Its Kind, Web-based, Staffing and Event Management Platform. Take Back Your Industry, Right Now.
Boulder: Boogaloo Beds. Better Rest For A Brighter Life, Boogaloo Beds is a smart bed for people with sensory issues. Check them out!
Seattle: Beta Hatch : We grow insects for food, feed, and fertilizer. We farm high-protein insects for chickens and create balanced and natural fertilizer for plants. The immune-boosting benefits of our products mean fewer antibiotics in poultry and less pesticide on our fruits and veggies.
Sep 2017
Denver: Apt App – empowering + enhancing the resident experience
Chicago: Charge Running – Join and compete with others from around the world during LIVE and On-Demand running classes, all while getting coached and motivated from LIVE, world-class trainers.
Boulder: Futsolo – Futsolo is the ultimate individual soccer training experience allowing players to train realistic ball receiving with every body part.
Aug 2017
Seattle: WEconnect – The WEconnect platform enhances and supports your individual recovery through 24/7 tracking of mind, body, and spiritual activities
Portland: CartHook – Products built to make your ecommerce business more successful.
Portland: Cooladata – CoolaData gives you instant insight into how users interact with your product, to improve engagement, growth and monetization
Boulder: Makeena – a free, easy to download mobile application that earns you money when you purchase healthy & sustainable products at any retailer.
July 2017
Seattle: Beyond Broker – With the perfect agent, selling a home doesn’t suck. We help find your perfect agent in 24 hours: no calls, no emails, no hassle
June 2017
Seattle: Silene Biotech – Save and use your stem cells for personalized medicine.
Boulder: Hippo Health – Hippo Health provides Coloradans with direct, immediate access to expert medical care.
Portland: ScoutSavvy – a job finding app that helps talented professionals like you discover your next move with our inclusive career matching technology.
May 2017
Seattle: Unearth – Unearth provides interactive aerial maps of construction projects, secure storage for your build history, and simple collaboration for your entire team.
Portland: Rainy Day Fuel – On Demand Fueling. Gas Station To You, Simple and worry free.
Apr. 2017
Seattle: NASTEA & Co. – NASTEA & Co.’s mission is to deliver authentic, high quality bottled drinks, starting with Dirty Chai Tea.
Mar. 2017
Seattle: The Riveter – Inspired spaces for women, work, and wellbeing
Feb. 2017
Seattle: Give Inkind – Give InKind makes it easy to support loved ones during times of crisis or need.
Jan. 2017
Seattle: Prints.ly – Surround yourself with art you love.
Nov. 2016
Seattle: Tred – Where trusted car buyers and sellers connect.
Oct. 2016
Seattle: Joy – Everything about your wedding in one place.
Sep. 2016
Seattle: Atlas Informatics – Instantly search across your devices, apps, emails and more.
Jul. 2016
Seattle: 8Stem – Music, Remixed By You.
Jun. 2016
Seattle: Venture Kits – Nurture kids’ entrepreneurial spirit through play.
May 2016
Seattle: Validated – An app for the urban explorer. Validated connects you to shops and restaurants that help pay for your transportation. It’s like free shipping for yourself.
Apr. 2016
Seattle: Fathom – Creating management reports and dashboards has never been easier!
Mar. 2016
Seattle: Slope – Slope makes it easy for teams to plan, manage, and collaborate on visual content.
Feb. 2016
Seattle: Oak Labs – WE ARE TRANSFORMING THE IN-STORE EXPERIENCE.
Jan. 2016
Seattle: PlanBeyond – Resources to help older adults start planning for their final days and the time after they’re gone.
Nov. 2015
Seattle: GiveSafe – enables a cashless, effective contribution the moment you see a need on the street.
Oct. 2015
Seattle: Matcherino – Crowdfund eSports and streamers.
Sep. 2015
Seattle: Stuffhopper – Changing the way the world sells their stuff.
May. 2015
Seattle: Joule – On Demand Car Share
Apr. 2015
Seattle: FoodCircles – Buy One, Feed One.
Mar. 2015
Seattle: Yottio – the first real-time video community that connects fans and viewers live video directly with media makers so they can be seen and heard.
Feb. 2015
Seattle: Canary – Canary is a the first legal recreational marijuana delivery service. Order marijuana on-demand with our mobile app.
Jan. 2015
Seattle: MovingWorlds – Volunteer Your Skills Abroad, Live Free.
Nov. 2014
Seattle: Drift – A peer to peer energy marketplace.
Oct. 2014
Seattle: Pawzii – Online Cat and Dog Licensing.
Jul. 2014
Seattle: Nufabrx – Get Rid of Facial Blemishes While You Sleep
Jun. 2014
Seattle: Shippable – DevOps automation simplified
May 2014
Seattle: FastBar – High Speed Payments For Events
Apr. 2014
Seattle: Grow Plastics – We create sandwich panel structures in bioplastics. This engineered structure allows us to use 30-50% less material than comparable technologies.
Mar. 2014 (First winner)
Seattle: Freak’n Genius – Connecting Books, Games, and Toys to the Internet.
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