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2018  Accelerator  companies

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Brandefy helps beauty enthusiasts find the best beauty products for their needs - all while saving them money. We compare expensive, prestige products to their drugstore counterparts or "dupes." Our experienced group of testers rate products side-by-side according to feel, wear-time, function, and more. We also report on cruelty-free status and ingredients. Download for iPhone.
Codemoji offers online coding curriculum and courses, using an automated adaptive learning model, to teach 1st-8th grade children the fundamentals of coding. This allows educators and parents of all backgrounds to feel confident while helping children learn to code. Codemoji lets children be creative while building apps, games, animation, and more.
EdConnective helps schools and districts get more 1-1 feedback for teachers by pairing teachers with master educators to provide additional instructional coaching. Teachers record themselves teaching and get live feedback via video chat with a master educator. In doing so, they help teachers move from good to great and help ensure a highly effective teacher in every classroom.
EnrichHER Funding is a debt-based investment platform that uses machine learning techniques to unite Founders and Funders who share a vision for sustainable women-led ventures. The platform includes an artificial intelligence based scoring algorithm that assess traditional business information collected by financial institutions, as well as the entrepreneur’s digital footprint.
Quinncia is an AI-based tool for employers to evaluate the soft skills of applicants pursuing entry-level positions by analyzing their resumes and tailored virtual interviews. Applicants can use Quinncia to fine-tune their resumes and practice interviews before applying. Once applied, Quinncia analyzes and presents the results to employers, improving the quality and diversity of applicants.
Tablee provides a modern solution for the hospitality industry that digitally captures and communicates guests’ needs. Their goal is to make dining happier, where guests are always heard. Tablee believes that by allowing guests to request service the easiest way possible: Guests are happier, businesses thrive.
Radify Labs prepares college students for modern careers. Through 8-week online fellowships, students develop their technical, creative, and professional skills through portfolio projects and work experience. Students also get paired with personal coaches who work in industry. Their goal is to get students full-time jobs or summer internships they'll love.

2017  ACCELERATOR  COMPANIES

AnswersNow addresses autism challenges through technology by pairing a parent with a certified expert, connecting them to known interventions that can help them 24/7 and putting all of that in their pocket in the form of an easy-to-use mobile app. 
MeshImpact provides a Subjective AI engine to efficiently harness the power of human intelligence.  The engine can process any amount of subjective human insights and turn them into actionable solutions.  The solutions can include key human behavior attributes and predictive models that power artificial intelligence algorithms
Blueswipe is a subscription-based (SaaS) credit card processing service designed for small businesses performing more than $150,000 in annual credit card sales. Through machine learning, Blueswipe's proprietary "statement comparison" offers perspective customers immediate access to the right plan and savings insight within 15 seconds.
Pay Your Tuition (PYT) Funds is helping families obtain access to capital to pay higher education costs. We focus on the last-mile loan that is needed to ensure the student will cross the finish line and obtain a degree. ​Through the process of assessing alternative data with social vouching and cash, we are able to work with the lender to leverage a lender loan approval. 
Ivy Oaks Analytics is a public health control company which specializes in tick, mosquito and poison ivy control at large commercial properties including summer camps, golf courses, campgrounds, etc. ​
RoundTrip is the single touch-point for hospitals, health plans, and healthcare facilities to book and coordinate all non-emergency medical transportation. Trips ranging from Medical Sedans, Wheelchair Vans, Ambulances, and Lyft rides can be booked through the HIPAA-compliant RoundTrip Booking app servicing patients on Medicaid, Medicare, Commercial Insurance, or patient paid trips. ​

2016  ACCELERATOR  COMPANIES

FENRIS DIGITAL accelerates the digital transformation of insurance. It provides software and predictive analytics to carriers which drives out inefficiencies across their value chain. Its white label approach reinvents the consumer experience into a relationship of trust and transparency. 
GOGO BAND provides a bio-metric wearable solution leveraging big data and machine learning to predicatively cure pediatric enuresis, better known as bed-wetting, the leading chronic health condition in children worldwide. 
GLASS SMITH ​believes your phone is mobile so your repair should be too! Glass Smith trains and certifies a network of independent technicians that can repair your phone in around 20 minutes at a location that's convenient for you. They currently have technicians, or Smiths as they're called, across the country repairing phones.
 SPIRA grows spirulina, an ancient super food that doubles daily, and sells it in the form of a delicious drink. Spirulina is 60% protein-by-weight with most of the micro-nutrients a person needs to get a clean source of correct nutrition. 
SKRAACH is an automated, online interior design site that offers its clients a highly curated e-commerce experience centered around its proprietary shape-based DesignDNA quiz and unique crowd-sourcing model.
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TRILOGY MENTORS ​is developing a synchronous e-learning platform to deliver one-on-one tutoring to students who have never had the means to afford it before. It does this through a frictionless business model that helps nonprofits secure education-based grants to pay for its tutoring platform. 
MAP MY CUSTOMERS is a sales visualization tool that allows sales people to map, filter and route to their customers in one simple app. Through route optimization and our simple CRM, its tool saves its users 30% in time and money weekly. They are happily serving over 10,000 users across the world and plan on continuing their focus on scale in the coming months. 

2015  accelerator  companies

MAJOR CLARITY ​lets students quickly and easily try out careers through one-of-a-kind activity and video content; then based on their chosen pathway aligns students to easily customizable academic plans of study (setup by the counselors / school) that keep them on track throughout secondary and post-secondary education.  
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ZOOZIL ​brings together leaders in literacy, education and technology and pairs them with children’s book authors to create e-books serving the K-12 market that allow to you to Change The Story™ — not just in our books, but in your classroom and home as well.
OCCASION GENIUS is the premier site for planners to find unexpected local ideas for any occasion whether it be group fun, venue spaces, corporate team outings, kids parties, dining events, date nights and bachelor/bachelorette parties.​ For merchants, it is the most effective and affordable marketing solution for their event ideas to be discovered, shared, and reviewed.
PAINLESS 1099 helps independent contractors (think: freelance designers and real estate agents) save for tax season. Through a smart bank account, Painless1099 automatically withholds taxes based on user information and then deposits what is safe to spend directly to a user’s personal checking account.
UPCHURCH CHOCOLATE
​While others just manipulate chocolate, it makes it. It takes cocoa beans from farms around the world and highlight their unique and complex flavors through its small batch, bean to bar process. Think Willy Wonka, but hip and local.
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RESEARCH UNLIMITED focuses on raising community awareness about the importance of participating in research. We help our clients turn their ideas into successful research projects. 

2014  ACCELERATOR  COMPANIES

NUDGE COACH streamlines client accountability everywhere fitness happens for better relationships, retention and results. The Nudge app allows fitness clubs to build healthier habits with their customers, provide support anytime, and have their customers interact with their brand every day.

HOURWISE is a platform that helps contractors (painters, plumbers, electricians, etc.) run a more efficient and successful business. It goes a step beyond software and offers an on demand concierge service for its users. Certain tasks are difficult to do in the field. They''ll produce documents, maintain schedules, track expenses, and handle back office demands. You focus on your craft!
KICKUP partners with K-12 organizations to coordinate professional learning efforts, improve decision-making and ensure that great ideas translate into demonstrable outcomes in the classroom. KickUp lets K-12 organizations take the guesswork out of instructional support by visualizing shared data between school sites and district support staff.
KYNDI address critical needs of government institutions and commercial companies through machine understanding. Its mapping technology automatically learns the make-up of any language and how it's used in a given field. The technology stores maps as graphs to remember how things are related to each other.
BLUE OCEAN BRAIN is designed to elevate employee performance and boost brain health. Employees dive right into the critical thinking exercises. And companies love offering a daily development tool that inspires while teaching big-picture thinking to their people.
TENANT TURNER is the smartest way for property managers to find tenants. Its tenant lead scheduling software comes with call center and electronic lockboxes at a predictable, affordable price. 

2013  ACCELERATOR  COMPANIES

2015  VCU   PRE   ACCELERAtor  companies