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Mingo

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Mingo?

Mingo, The Manufacturing Productivity Platform, provides visibility into the factory floor by automatically collecting data from machines, devices, and people and puts it all into context. Mingo is revolutionizing manufacturing by offering a complete solution from sensors to data collection to analytics that provides real-time insights into the productivity of the factory. Those insights give a manufacturer the ability to reduce costs, ensure customer on-time delivery, and improve quality.

Mingo enables companies to start small, think big, move fast and easily grow from a single machine at one plant to thousands of machines across the globe with manufacturing analytics.

Company Leadership

Bryan Sapot

CEO

Bryan has extensive experience in the startup space, starting his first company in 1997. He also has conceived of and developed many software products.

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Accelerate Wind

Origin: The Netherlands | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Accelerate Wind?

Accelerate Wind creates a novel rooftop wind energy solution- one that operates quieter, cheaper, and more aesthetically pleasing than current solutions.

Company Leadership

Erika Boeing

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Erika has worked previously as a Systems Engineer at DRS Technologies, studied the interrelations between technology, society, and sustainability as a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, and worked as a Research Fellow at Project Drawdown. She holds an M.A in European Studies on Society, Science, and Technology, and a B.S. In Mechanical Engineering.

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Kathy Mulders-Vredeveldt

Co-Founder and Head of Business Operations

Kathy has been a co-founder of two successful companies in the gaming and health technology industries, as well as director of the Launch Incubator in Maastricht, Netherlands. She is particularly passionate about starting companies which have both aspects of profit and social good. She holds an M.S. in Health Food Innovation and Management, and is currently completing her Executive MBA.

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Riley’s Premium Pet Products

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Riley’s Premium Pet Products?

Riley’s Organics is a provider of organic dog food products. Their line of products are made in the U.S. with USDA Certified Organic ingredients, and their packaging is 100% recyclable.

Company Leadership

Grant Weber

Founder

Grant has extensive experience founding and managing rapid growth in early stage businesses. He also holds an MBA and a degree in Economics and History. Riley’s® Organics is a trusted line of human grade USDA-certified organic dog treats with proven acceptance and growing national footprint.

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Molly Weber

Director of Marketing

Molly is a veteran in the marketing and communications industry. She is passionate about brand building and a champion for consumer insights. Her strategic guidance has led to successful product launches on four different continents, and stewardship of over 30 CPG Brands from multiple Fortune 500 companies. Her pet industry knowledge was honed over many years working on Brands for Mars, Inc Petfood. She was a VP, Director of Account Management at D’Arcy Worldwide in the US and in Europe.

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Noonlight

Origin: CA | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Noonlight?

Noonlight is an online personal safety application designed to connect users to local police in unsafe situations. The company’s online personal safety application offers protection with the help of precise location detection and sends the location status directly to the police; enabling users to proactively protect themselves without the heavy commitment of calling 911.

Company Leadership

Zach Winkler

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Zach has experience in product development at Intuit, as a software engineer, and previously founded an iPhone application company.

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Brittany Dameron

Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer

Brittany has extensive experience as an interaction designer and art director, working for companies such as Intuit and Digitaria. She holds a degree in Communications and Art Direction.

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Magnatone

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Magnatone?

Magnatone makes high-end vintage style guitar amplifiers with all American made parts that are sold worldwide. Magnatone amps are played by Billy Gibbons (ZZ TOP), Neil Young, Jeff Beck, and other high profile artists.

Company Leadership

Ted Kornblum

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Ted has extensive experience in the music industry, working with Modulus Guitars, On The Road Marketing, St. Louis Music Supply. He also holds an MBA.

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Tom Townsend

Director of Marketing

Tom has extensive experience in advertising and marketing as well as starting businesses. He co-founded Rodgers Townsend Advertising, which was acquired by DDB/Omnicom, served as a Senior Vice President at DMB&B Advertising, and founded the nonprofits Pianos for People, St. Louis, and A-Town Get Down Art and Music Festival, Savannah, GA.

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OfCourse Scheduling

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is OfCourse Scheduling?

OfCourse Scheduling is the developer of software that creates course schedules for schools. The technology allows administrators to create schedules in a fraction of the time compared to traditional processes.

Company Leadership

Henry Biggs

Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel

Henry served as a Professor, Chair and Dean at Houghton College and Washington University in St. Louis. During that time he worked extensively coordinating student and faculty schedules. Henry earned his B.A. in Latin from Harvard and his PhD in Romance Linguistics from UCLA, serving on alumni boards for both schools. Henry also earned an MBA and LLM from Washington University, a JD from Saint Louis University and an LLM from the University of Paris – Dauphine.

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Troy DeArmitt

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Troy is a web design and development professional with over 20 years of experience. Troy has an accomplished background as the founding Technology Director of an empirical research center at Washington University in St. Louis, where he spent ten years developing that department and also where the ofCourse scheduler was born. While there he taught courses in design and technology.

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Matthew Feldt

Co-Founder and Coo

Matthew is an experienced computer programmer, systems engineer and executive with over 25 years experience. Matthew was a Fortune 100 executive and is the original founder of the St. Louis Unix Users Group–Linux SIG. He has extensive experience as a software developer for US Bank, Blue Cross Blue Shield, AT&T and Overstock.

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Helper Helper

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Helper Helper?

Helper Helper is the developer of a collaborative community application designed to connect students to meaningful volunteer experiences. The company’s community service application coordinates and tracks student volunteer hours and simplifies the organization efforts for volunteer coordinators.

Company Leadership

Krista Clement

President and Founder

Krista has a B.S. from University of Michigan and a Masters of Educational Leadership and Masters of Business Administration from Saint Louis University. She previously worked as a teacher in St. Louis Public Schools through Teach For America. Krista was the Saint Louis University Business Plan Competition Winner in 2013.

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Thunderfoot

Origin: NY | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Thunderfoot?

Thunderfoot provides business writing services and editorial news teams to transform company blogs into successful and influential marketing channels.

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Cooper Pickett

Chief Executive Officer

Cooper has a B.A. in Philosophy from Columbia University in New York.

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Geneoscopy

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2016 | Status: Active

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What is Geneoscopy?

Geneoscopy is the developer of next-generation diagnostics designed to treat digestive diseases and offer cancer screening. The company’s diagnostics help in consistently extracting stool-derived eukaryotic RNA (seRNA) transcripts and detecting changes in gene expression, enabling doctors to better prevent, detect, and guide treatment for gastrointestinal disease.

Company Leadership

Erica Barnell

Chief Scientific Officer

Geneoscopy co-founder, Erica Barnell graduated from Cornell University with a dual degree in Biological Sciences and Applied Economics & Management. Erica is an MD/PhD candidate at the Washington University School of Medicine. In 2019, Erica completed her PhD at the McDonnell Genome Institute. Her thesis work surrounded the development of bioinformatic tools to alleviate the analysis bottleneck within precision oncology. Erica has published 19 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 11 abstracts with 4 platform presentations, and two book chapters within the oncology space. Erica conducted the original research to validate Geneoscopy’s stool extraction method and managed all feasibility studies for Geneoscopy’s colorectal cancer (CRC) screening test. Erica was responsible for existing engagement with the FDA, which includes holding three presubmission meetings and obtaining Breakthrough Device Designation for the lead CRC screening test. Erica is the lead inventor on all patents pertaining to Geneoscopy’s technology and is currently the site investigator on two IRB-approved protocols.

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Andrew Barnell

Chief executive Officer

Co-founder of Geneoscopy, Andrew graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Economics & Management and a specialization in Finance. He received an MBA in Health Care Management and Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School. Andrew began his career as a financial analyst in J.P. Morgan’s healthcare investment banking group, working primarily on M&A and capital markets transactions. Andrew also worked as an associate at Lindsay Goldberg, a middle-market private equity firm focused on partnering with family-owned businesses.

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