Acceleprise, the top ranked SaaS accelerator with locations in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto is proud to invite you to a first look at our Winter 2021 graduating companies. These companies are currently raising capital, and have not been out before.
Sandbox is a universal adapter for banks and credit unions. It empowers financial institutions to quickly and safely connect new fintech software to existing systems. They found that collaborating with new fintech vendors is difficult for financial institutions due to data security and system integration problems. These issues decrease the ROI and speed-to-market of most projects. Sandbox enables complex banking integrations to be performed without writing code.
Autonomous robots that improve lives. Robotic control is expensive to develop, operates only in precise environments, and is unreliable in the real world. Thoughtforge see's a better way! A world where robots are Cheap, Adapt to their environment, and are Truly Autonomous.
Parse AI provides a B2B SaaS solution that leverages machine learning to rapidly accelerate the complex title research process critical for underwriting transactions in the oil & gas, renewables, and real estate industries. Our team combines 50 years of domain expertise and an incredibly capable engineering team led by an ML Ph.D. Leveraging a substantial amount of courthouse data we've already acquired, we're initially targeting the $1B oil & gas market before expanding to service renewables, utilities, and the broader real estate market.
Blanka is a platform that helps anyone start a makeup or skincare line by automating the process of branding products. Blanka gives merchants access to cruelty-free products manufactured in Canada, with no minimum order quantity - all through an app that works with any ecommerce store. Traditionally, if someone wanted to start their own product line, they would spend hours vetting suppliers, they would have to make a large upfront investment in inventory to meet minimum order requirements, and they would have to manage the logistics related to shipping products to their end customer. With Blanka, merchants no longer have to deal with these headaches.
Vambora is a fintech-enabled marketplace, building a global system for financial identity where people can move internationally and bring their financial history to access services. The Vambora Global Credit Profile aggregates global credit and financial data from leading bureaus and financial institutions in the origin countries. We standardize data from overseas such as payments, inquiries, and bank account balances, to a single format so lenders in destination countries can consistently underwrite immigrants, no matter where they come from. The ascension of open financial data sources globally has created the perfect opportunity to build an integrated and more inclusive credit system.
Mipatient is a Prescriber to Patient digital health tech platform that monitors patients who have been prescribed an array of prescription medicines and specifically identifies and closely monitors patients on opioids who are exhibiting addiction. Using machine learning, the patient mobile platform will observe and score the patient multiple health readings, activity, mental health and drug compliance. The ML algorithm will provide the clinician the means to swiftly respond and prevent the needless risk of addiction by stopping the medication, implementing alternative options and introducing social prescribing.
Aicon helps construction & development companies minimize delays and lower failure costs, with the end goal to work towards more sustainable building. They use smart cameras on construction sites in order to help report progress from construction site, map this to the planning & help to detect issues before they turn into failure costs. They provide automated safety & security notifications when incidents are detected, provide weekly updates on progress & have a site diary module.
Inventing and creating value for the businesses, the environment and the society is the passion that fuels our operational excellence. Our Inventions have demonstrated the potential to reverse climate change, made millions for the enterprises and serviced communities at grand scale. We view problems through the lens of cutting edge scientific computing and leverage our deep expertise in these areas to deliver impact.
Suburban Health empowers vulnerable members of society by encouraging them to track their mental, social and medical health at home. This data is sent to local primary care doctors, social workers or nursing teams. The aim is to focus on prevention and early intervention.
Stroll is a conidiation journey tool that allows you to bring all content in one place, videos, slides, forms, documents to walk your customer through your process.
Attune is a software platform that provides a radically better way for contact centre agents to adjust their own schedules without compromising your customers' wait times. Existing attempts to offer flexible scheduling - shift swaps, shift bidding etc. don't provide employees with the flexibility needed to fit work into their lives. Attune empowers agents to adjust their shifts in real-time without lengthy and restrictive approval processes.
The future is mostly unknown. But one thing we know for sure is that the world of tomorrow will be more convenient than today. That's why we're focused on building the most convenient car wash service: one that operates while our customers are asleep. At Rideshine, we're disrupting a $15B industry by turning taking care of the chore of car washes without our customers ever lifting a finger.
70% of all test cases are executed manually by QA teams in 2022. This problem is due to a lack of engineers to write automated test code. Current tech solutions to the problem have huge overhead, with big implementations, and complex, expensive test overheads moving forward. testRigors' AI test automation tool Manual testers automate tests 15X faster, spending 99.5% less time on maintenance, allowing mid market and enterprise's to run more tests, better tests, even more cost effectively.
Deskree no code infrastructure allows software developers to create a new back end for an application or microservice in minutes. Targeting the 1.5M freelancer developers and 20,000+ development agencies, Deskree’s no code platform gives developers the ability to deliver a fully featured back end for MVPs and production level apps without configuration, senior engineers, or devops, saving tens of hours, and thousands of dollars.
Kiira’s virtual healthcare solution solves the health needs of the underserved $40B women's health care market. Focused on addressing the needs of young multicultural women, Kiira offers culture-centered 24/7 telehealth first gynecology, primary care, mental health and other wellness services. Kiira’s unique distribution model acquires young women early on in life, and gives them repeatable ARR revenue via distribution deals with colleges nationwide.
Neuroute helps biotech companies bring clinical products to market 5x faster. By mining real-world patient data, Neuroute reduces clinical trial delays, saving companies upwards of $500k per trial and getting critical medication to patients sooner.
Dataships gives companies everything they need to be compliant with data privacy regulations across a multitude of jurisdictions. Dataships turns a cost center into a competitive advantage, by providing best in class privacy features that can be embedded seamlessly into any product.
Parrot's SMS check-out API helps DTC brands improve conversion rates by 20% and maximize lifetime value. Unlike other checkout platforms, Parrot lets consumers pay instantly by replying "yes" via text to offers and upsells.
Busie is building the next-generation OS for transportation companies. Busie helps transportation companies quickly launch e-commerce, digitize inventory and pricing, making it as simple as launching a Shopify store.
Brief’s B2B Dispute Resolution as Service helps FinTechs and businesses resolve financial disputes. Delivering more than 10x time and cost improvements, Brief reduces claim durations from 410 days to 45 and costs from $18k to $600/claim.
Hydrus is an end-to-end ESG solution that simplifies sustainability data management. By streamlining ESG data collection, reporting, and auditing process, Hydrus makes it easy for companies to be more sustainable without the hassle.
Blindnet makes it easy for companies to implement privacy protocols in minutes and give their customers full control of personal information. Blindnet’s privacy portal provides the infrastructure to record and track individual data consents and automate the processing of incoming privacy requests.
IrisCX transforms the customer experience for companies in the home building, furnishings, appliances and others in the $700B+ in-home category. The platform removes the pain and costs of field calls, call centers and service windows, by providing customers with immersive, personalized AR and video support, yielding better outcomes with less friction. With AI enriched data, companies not only get candid insights on CX, but dramatically reduce operating costs and churn, while increasing customer loyalty - and revenue.
Participant is a community based platform that makes it easy for companies to operationalize corporate responsibility initiatives. Brands like REI, The Milwaukee Bucks and Aflac use Participant to streamline the planning process for impact initiatives, unlock efficacy data, and easily report back on outcomes.
Built by the former leaders of Intel’s AI and enterprise DevOps teams, Neural Lab’s patent-pending products utilize any webcam to translate hand and body motion into mouse, keyboard, or controller inputs for application, on any device. Use cases include critically sterile environments, shared public devices, mixed reality immersion for gaming or training, and improving the limitations of the traditional mouse, keyboard, controller combination - a truly disruptive take on computing interfaces.
Komplyd makes it easy for cannabis companies to establish and maintain compliance. With a single integration, Komplyd’s API-first CaaS platform enables seamless compliance across multiple jurisdictions. Built for scalability and security, Komplyd ensures cannabis businesses are working within regulatory guidelines as they enter new markets and scale.
Inspired by CEO Matt’s grandmother who suffered a severe stroke, Frenalytics is a patented web app that makes learning fun and engaging for patients & students with cognitive impairments (e.g., stroke, dementia, TBI, autism, and Down syndrome). By leveraging datasets provided by families, clinicians, and teachers, Frenalytics offers highly personalized learning sessions and detailed analytics to help caregivers make informed decisions, and patients and students lead more independent lives.
With Deskree, developers can deploy a complete back-end infrastructure including DB, Rest & GraphQL APIs, AUTH, Storage, Integrations, and more, within minutes and without a single line of code.
Renewable electricity for all - simple, convenient and affordable. tem is bringing buyers and sellers of renewable electricity closer together, increasing value and service quality for all people and businesses.
Journey Health enables doctors to build, brand & grow their own virtual clinic in less than a week. Doctors can get their existing clinic online or build their own from scratch, and automate how they acquire, retain and cross-sell patients.
Spair helps businesses attract and retain top talent with student loan repayment employee benefits. Spair automates the entire process from loan verification to disbursement of payments. The majority of the 43.2 million student loan borrowers are more concerned with paying off their loans than contributing to a 401k. Through stipulations in the CARES Act, businesses can now deduct up to $5,250 per year in payroll tax for qualifying employees participating in their repayment program.
Paisa leverages the over $100 billion in remittances received in cash in Latam as the gateway to broader financial security. Paisa's MVP is a remittance-backed loan via a frictionless WhatsApp bot distributed through the remittance agent touchpoint, thus providing the most accessible onramp to digital financial services for the nearly 90% cash-based remittance receivers in Latin America, starting in Mexico.
The Alvin App is a smart money manager app that provides users with a personalized roadmap toward their financial goals along with daily support to spend responsibly in accordance with their goals. We're making Alvin's most dynamic features (e.g. gamified savings, location-triggered notifications, powerful insights, etc.) available to banks as well to plug into their existing retail apps to drive better customer engagement across their client bases.
Satellite helps sales teams build cost effective remote teams that outperform. Satellite provides Go-To-Market teams with new talent that has been trained in both the skills they need and the environment they will be working in to start contributing quickly, and effectively. The training platform uses a proprietary skills based bootcamp, top sourcing from secondary US markets, and ongoing coaching to continue upskilling.
By 2040, 80M older adults will need access to critical social services in order to age in the comfort of their own homes. Blooming Health is building the next generation engagement platform to seamlessly connect older adults with social care providers in the $575B aging-in-place market. Their solution helps older adults live longer, healthier, and happier while bringing more operational efficiencies to aging-in-place providers.
FundStory streamlines each stage of the non-dilutive funding process for founders: prior to, during, and post-funding. FundStory is an all-in-one solution that replaces the disconnected tools founders typically use to analyze KPIs, forecast cost of capital, automate pre-qualifications, store deposits, and more.
Busie gives travel providers the tools to launch e-commerce and digitize the entire end-to-end group transportation booking experience. Today, Busie is a white-label e-commerce booking solution that embeds directly into any group travel company’s website and a Fintech platform that gives providers embedded payments, provider revenue sharing, quoting and invoicing, as well as other financial offerings.
maskedMED is a platform that connects patients with medical professionals, allowing patients to get quick, accurate answers to medical questions, and empowering medical professionals to earn additional income by answering questions.
Lincode helps manufacturers detect defects using AI, improving accuracy and detection rates. The platform works with any off-the-shelf camera and integrates with factory systems via their ready-to-plug API for robots, conveyors and software.
Debtle’s cloud-based software utilizes intelligent automation to streamline bad debt collections, enabling organizations to bring collections in-house and avoid sending customers to aggressive third-party agencies. Every year, 93% of all businesses encounter a customer that is unable to pay an invoice. Debtle’s solution, currently being implemented at health care organizations, enables clients to capture more in payments while paying less in fees, saving employee time and maintaining customer relationships.
Over 200,000 ecommerce brands that do $1M+ in sales have no idea which product photos sell the most. Bloom is building tiktok’s engagement algorithm for ecommerce, combining photo optimization with generative AI to display content that drives more sales. Bloom’s generative AI will create new images from scratch and feed them into Bloom’s optimization engine, which then shows the right photo to the right user based on performance.
Centerpiece is a technology company dedicated to the Foodservice Equipment and Supplies industry (FES). FES refers to any item for a commercial kitchen that is not food or beverages. While this is an under-the-radar industry, it is large (> $30 billion of ecosystem revenue) and touches all our lives as it impacts the costs, food quality and dining experience at every restaurant and hospitality operator we visit. Our initial products provide FES distributors with automation tools and better insights to turbocharge their sales and estimation teams to win more, more easily.
Third party data is the linchpin of industries like eCommerce, sales enablement, and digital advertising, however vendors are facing extinction with data privacy legislation, the removal of browser tracking cookies, and the elimination of mobile app tracking. Fathom is the only API that uses the consumer's right to data portability to replace 3rd party data with 1st party data that's richer, fresher, and more ethical than before.
Compliance is existential to any Cannabis company. Komplyd APIs allow integrations between technologies enabling cannabis companies to have a unified view of data across their business and quickly achieve multi-state compliance. The platform simplifies and automates complex rules and regulations, enabling businesses to rapidly expand into new markets, while redirecting scarce developer resources to their core business.
Prexto embedded credit API allows companies to access dedicated pools of capital and proprietary underwriting models and lend money to their partners and users at scale. Prexto focuses on a lower cost of capital and better underwriting allowing companies with existing demand and distribution to become lenders without the infrastructure or risk.
Accountstory collects user generated and automated data to give B2B sellers account-specific context on procurement, decision makers, internal approvals, and more. Just as Glassdoor exposes the employee experience, Accountstory is exposing the enterprise sales process, making it easier, faster and more likely to make an Enterprise sale.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data reporting is quickly becoming mandatory and companies are not prepared. Hydrus.ai’s sustainability reporting platform is a single source of truth to store, forecast, and ensure ESG data is enabling companies to meet reporting mandates and increase financial stakeholder confidence.
The future of legal services is rapidly changing and law firms need to innovate to win new markets and survive. Legal Karma is transforming the delivery of legal services by providing a fully automated white-label client portal that outlines the legal process, collects information, productizes routine services and sets client expectations -- keeping lawyers relevant and profitable.
PROSPERiA’s AI-based solution allows for early detection of visual complications through risk assessment calculators, non-invasive fundus cameras, retinal image analysis and personalized recommendations.
Rabot’s team of ex-Apple robotics engineers and logistics experts are building the future of operational excellence in logistics while advancing the shift to full automation. Rabot accelerates the speed, quality, and growth of e-commerce warehouses by using computer vision & AI to track orders and catch issues, with customers reporting 10X productivity gains.
Theme’s platform aggregates customer data from every source and channel in order to predict the next best action for customer facing teams (sales, marketing, customer success). By allowing unseen data to be collected and delivered with context, meaning, and action, Theme’s AI enables better retention and growth while saving time.
The Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry is one of the largest professional communities in the world with $1 trillion in annual payment flows in the US alone. Vergo is the first online community bank designed exclusively for their unique financial needs.
Goji’s Clinician Interaction Cloud lets doctors and other healthcare providers use simple voice commands and touchless gestures for routine actions such as data entry, selection, and other administrative tasks – giving them back 30% of their time. Built on top of existing Electronic Health Record Systems, Goji transforms current healthcare environments without disrupting existing systems or workflows.
At companies, teams need custom apps, dashboards, admin panels and other internal tools to run their critical operations. Rather than to build from scratch any employee can use the HelloTool to build powerful tools by dragging and dropping UI elements.
We believe that in this new remote fast changing work environment, there is no time to hire, train and ask developers to build simple custom made software for companies. In the future, we will have No Code Squads where non technical employees will build their own software solutions!
Lafia is a platform for hospitals, health systems, medical groups and health plan providers to offer a better patient experience by putting personal health data in the hands of the patient. Lafia is an integrated, secured API that uses real-time data to provide patients with intuitive provider search, scheduling, health plan integration and data management capabilities, making it easier to find and get the treatment that they need, while empowering providers to reach more patients.
Climate concerns, labour shortages, and affordability are forcing the $600B residential construction industry to change, and a new product-based business model is quickly replacing the old project based model. Multipliciti’s procurement platform allows builders, contractors and designers to easily find, order, ship and receive products for the sustainable and modular / pre-fab buildings that are the future.
Neural Lab’s patent pending product is a hardware agnostic touchless user interface that utilizes any camera to turn motion into inputs for any software application, on any device. The team is led by two technology leaders from Intel, one of whom launched Intel's global AIOps program, who jointly hold 20 patents. Use cases include critically sterile environments, mixed reality immersion for gaming or training, improving the limitations of the traditional mouse/keyboard combination, and many more.
REES leverages decades of research to deliver a platform for reporting of sexual harassment, misconduct and assault that can be adapted for use across any sector or industry. REES enables campuses, communities and workplaces to gather critical data and insights that can be used to prevent sexual violence and create safer spaces by identying repeat offenders and providing victim focused solutions.
Early Growth, the leading provider of finance & accounting, tax, and equity management services to venture-backed startups at all stages, also represents startup investment funds like yours. Early Growth has helped the Acceleprise cohort companies, and they can help your fund and portfolio companies too.