Descriptions of TechArb Portfolio Companies (from Session Seven)
Software Portfolio:
EasLang | Website | Email: A web service that provides automated personalized instruction and tutoring to language learners.
Fetchnotes | Website | Email: A note-taking application that helps get your to do’s, ideas, grocery lists and anything you need to remember out of your brain and into your workflow.
MyFinSite | Website | Email: Connects individuals and small businesses seeking to take control of their financial situation with sophisticated, vetted financial advisors. Company is creating a web-based platform that connects these user groups and promotes the development of long-lasting relationships. The platform will include the functionality to ask personal, complex questions and receive tailored, intelligent responses. Over time, users will form relationships with advisors they trust and form a long-term relationship, benefiting both parties.
iHeartArt | Email: A web platform that provides greater access to art work in digital format.
SecureHealing | Website | Email: A cloud-based healthcare privacy auditing software for patient and employee privacy protection and breach notification that compiles and analyzes the audit logs created by numerous software applications used in healthcare facilities. This software provides investigative and auditing capability for HIPAA/HITECH compliance, enabling healthcare providers to quickly and accurately monitor for breaches that include illegal access of personal health information.
Snap Social Sports | Website | Email: A sports social networking website and application that allows people to locate and participate in sporting pickup games ranging from basketball, touch football, and softball to partner games such as golf, tennis, and squash.
Fantasy Fitness League | Website | Email: Web and mobile platform that allows dieters to maintain motivation and accountability in their weight loss goals
This Fits | Website | Email: An improved search experience based on dimensions to help users find furniture or appliances to fit a particular space.
Thrively | Website | Email: A web app to improve the processes of employee feedback and self-development for small organizations.
YouTrivia | Website | Email: Online trivia platform that allows anyone to create and share media rich trivia games
Healthcare Portfolio
Brio Device, LLC | Website | Email: Introducing airway management instruments for emergency medical personnel to improve the efficacy and safety of opening patient airways in emergency situations.
Centricyle | Website | Email: A social venture working to change the dynamic of diagnostic capability in rural India through the implementation of an affordable, sustainable, manual centrifuge made almost entirely out of bicycle parts.
DIIME | Website | Email: Working to improve infant and maternal health disparities in the developing world through the design and development of appropriate, high-quality, low-cost, healthcare technologies
MWrap | Website | Email: Aims to provide warmth during recreation in the developed world and to further the goal of providing warmth to preterm infants born in developing nations.
SynapTech | Website | Email: High-tech consulting and IP company specializing in design, fabrication, and development of moveable microelectrode arrays for neural interfaces to restore vision, movement, and treat neurological disorders.
CleanTech Portfolio
EVStation | Website | Email: Working on addressing “range anxiety” experienced by electric vehicle owners by using an on-line platform to increase access to charging stations for plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle owners.
Torch Hybrid Marine Systems | Website | Email: Making recreational boating cleaner, more accessible, and more sustainable by developing hybrid electric marine propulsion systems for the recreational boating market in order to ensure that future generations will be able to enjoy boating as much as they do today.
Other Portfolio:
Educatrium | Website | Email: A prep school in China teaching English, standardized tests, and college application consulting. The company is also partnering with various linguistics and e-learning technologies to enhance its teaching and learning experiences.
Giveh Footwear | Email: Giveh shoes are traditional footwear that have been worn by Middle Easterners for over 1,000 years. Giveh Footwear aims to adapt this product and bring it to western markets. We plan on employing Afghani women from shelters to fabricate the footwear and for us to distribute it via small boutiques and an internet website here in the U.S. We are a for-profit organization that aims to better the lives of Afghani women and provide a superiorly crafted eco-friendly shoe to the middle- to high-end customers in a $13.3B eco-fashion market segment.