Inclusively

Origin: VA | Grant Awarded: 2020 | Status: Active

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What is Inclusively?

Inclusively increases employee productivity and retention by allowing large organizations to treat all employees as individuals. Our AI platform works seamlessly with a company’s existing accommodations workflow to help their employees find and request the success enablers they need as well as attract skilled, untapped talent. A few of Inclusively’s valued clients include: Delta, Lyft, Edward Jones, Accenture, Applied Systems, New York Life, Delta, UL Solutions, Applied Systems, Accesso, RAPP, WellLife Network, and more.

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Charlotte Dales

CO-FOUNDER & ceo

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Sarah bernard

co-founder & COO

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Well Principled

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2020 | Status: Active

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What is Well Principled?

Well Principled’s S&OP software optimizes promo calendars, ad spend budgets and demand plans for consumer durables brands by merging academic business research into A.I. that truly understands consumer behavior. We have the world’s most sophisticated model for understanding “multi-generation consumer durables,” as in, if I run a promo on the mid-range toaster, what will happen to sales of the low and high-end…on Black Friday, if we move 20% of Facebook to Radio, and Wal-Mart is stocked out, all at the same time? Our software allows enterprise brands to know which promos and ad spends to plan and organizes those plans in collaborative S&OP forecasting software.

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Ryan Richt

Co-Founder

Ryan has galvanized teams with bold vision and disruptive, patented innovations since 2003. Ryan transformed distributed analytics across an academic lab, his first bootstrap startup and computational biology and cloud teams at Monsanto. He grew VC-backed CiBO from 7 to 70 engineers and data scientists. Ryan holds an MBA and BA prob/stats from Olin and WashU.

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Joe Wingbermuehle

Co-Founder & Principal Platform engineer& prin

Joe has spent 15 years building foundational platforms, from middleware at AT&T, to startups across FPGA-accelerated high-frequency trading, accelerated ETL, machine learning based network security (acquired by Cisco) and hybrid AI/physical models of global-scale crop simulation. Joe holds a BS in Applied Math and a PhD in Computer Science from WashU.

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Chris Shafer

Co-Founder and Principal Engagement Engineer

Chronically the first customer-facing engineer, Chris has delighted customers with deep-data applications from corn germplasm catalogs to global satellite data and environment simulations. Marshalling his broad expertise from cloud architecture to data visualization, Chris delivers outcomes customers love and leads solutions teams to productize them.

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Kwema

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2020 | Status: Active

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What is Kwema?

Each workday, 7,000 U.S. employees experience an emergency at work and unfortunately some of them result in a loss of life. The time it takes for them to notify they are in danger and for them to get the right help is the biggest factor in these life threatening situations. Kwema bridges this gap and saves lives.

Kwema promotes employee safety using the world’s first smart badge reel to reduce reaction time when an employee is at risk saving companies 100s of thousands of dollars yearly. Kwema focuses on buying time within two main use cases:

1. Quick location based emergency alerts to the right emergency personnel in life-threatening situations where time can de-escalate if not prevent the incident from occurring.

2. Automating roll call and location of where employees are during mass evacuations optimizing evacuation staff’s focus on the employees that are yet to evacuate.

Kwema’s technology is designed to avoid adoption hurdles and training costs by being placed in something 100 MN working Americans already wear, a badge reel.

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Ali Al-jabry

ceo

Ali Al-Jabry is Kwemas CEO. He co-founded an Ed Tech Startup that has grown to 5 countries in 3 years and has been building teams for the last decade. Ali speaks 5 languages and has experience in Business Development/Relationship Building/Project Management/Operations and manufacturing. Ali’s biggest asset is his capacity to delegate and build in people.

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joel ibaceta

cto

Joel Ibaceta is Kwemas CTO, he has won Facebook Developer Challenges twice consecutively against over 5000 developers competing. Joel has co-founded a startup in the past and worked for Latin American Unicorn Mercado Libre as a Tech Leader. His full stack capabilities and experience allows him to undertake any software related needs Kwema has.

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ServiceTarget

ServiceTarget

Origin: MT | Grant Awarded: 2020 | Status: Active

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What is ServiceTarget?

ServiceTarget helps teams quickly create self-service applications designed to make customers more self-sufficient. We combine search, knowledge, flows, and automation to improve customer experiences and reduce customer support costs.

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David Hayden

CEO

Recognized as one of the most knowledgeable product management professionals in the CRM industry, David co-founded ServiceTarget in 2016. Prior to ServiceTarget, David led corporate development for RightNow Technologies and product management for the Oracle Service Cloud. Prior to RightNow, David worked at Alex Brown and Citigroup in investment banking. David has 4 boys, ages 6, 8, 10 and 12.

victoria sivaeva

vp Operations

Victoria is VP of Operations at ServiceTarget and has a deep background in business operations, marketing, client success, and delivery. Prior to ServiceTarget, Victoria worked for RightNow Technologies and received her Masters from Montana State University.

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Neer

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2020 | Status: Active

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What is Neer?

NEER offers comprehensive integrated real time water management platform that leverages Machine Learning to model and assess the risk condition of water, sewer and stormwater infrastructure systems.

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Elango Thevar

Founder & CEO

Mr. Thevar is a Founder & CEO of NEER. He spent more than 15 years of experience on hydrology and hydraulic modeling, water quality modeling, LID BMP sizing, floodplain mapping, water resources system design, asset management and project management. His experience has ranged from working on watershed master plan, sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) and combined sewer overflow (CSO) studies to strategic asset management for water, sewer and stormwater infrastructure.

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raj mani

cto

Mr. Mani has more than 10 years of experience in developing high scale healthcare applications.

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FastDemocracy

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2019 | Status: Active

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What is FastDemocracy?

FastDemocracy is a federal, state, and local legislative analytics platform that provides users with a way to follow politics and take action. We’ve streamlined the legislative process nationwide into a one-stop, easy to use platform, that combines data-driven analytics with collaborative communications tools and enables political newcomers and professionals alike to be more informed and effective while advocating for policy change. FastDemocracy’s platform: 1. Replaces political punditry with machine learning and data science. 2. Offers distinctive collaborative, communications and workflow tools. 3. Creates an intuitive, user-friendly platform with comprehensive bill tracking capabilities.

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grant campbell

CEO

From growing a non-profit from 3 to 200 people to serving in the White House, Grant’s career has taken him many places. With experience building organizations from the ground up, multiple presidential campaigns, and top level government operations know-how, Grant leads the team on strategy, operations, and fundraising.

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Anatolij Gelimson

CTO

As a Doctor of Theoretical Physics, Anatolij brings hard science to the world of politics. He believes that data-driven analytics can revolutionize legislative advocacy and offer FastDemocracy’s clients unprecedented insights that will shape a more informed strategy. Anatolij earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Oxford University.

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Sara Baker

Chief Innovation Officer

As a state legislative director for a large national non-profit, Sara knows all too well how the right tools can make or break a legislative strategy. Her expertise in policy, advocacy, coalition building has shaped FastDemocracy’s platform, making the legislative process accessible and transparent to all. Sara has a master’s degree in international affairs from Washington University in St. Louis.

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PenPath

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2019 | Status: Active

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What is PenPath?

PenPath is reinventing how marketers make data-driven decisions. It first allows marketers to connect to all their marketing, sales, and user platforms. Next, PenPath stores, cleans and models that data before visualizing it in a single source of truth dashboard. PenPath’s solution eliminates outdated manual reporting processes and provides real-time actionable insights that were previously difficult to access. PenPath’s customers are able to discover opportunities to minimize wasteful spending and maximize revenue. Enhancing data with its proprietary Prediction and Attribution models gives PenPath an advantage to competitors in the market.

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Alex Cruz

CEO

Alex is passionate about the intersection of marketing and data visualization. With over 9 years of industry experience, Alex has worked with businesses of all sizes from growing startups to agencies and Fortune 500 companies. His background gives him a unique perspective in the dynamic and fast-changing worlds of digital marketing, marketing analytics, attribution modeling, and data visualization.

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Customily

Origin: Uruguay | Grant Awarded: 2019 | Status: Active

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What is Customily?

Customily is a SaaS that helps eCommerces maximize their personalized product sales while reducing their production costs and time. Our software provides online stores with tools so they can give their customers live previews of their personalization, increasing sales by reducing customers uncertainty and returns. It then translates that personalization into ready to print files, reducing fulfillment times and costs.

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Alejandro Lozdziejski

CEO

Alejandro is a Software Engineer and a 2-time founder, from Uruguay, with more than 15 years of experience designing and implementing information technology projects. He’s a pioneer when it comes to personalization and 3D printing, and has been recognized for his works in the field as an MIT innovator under 35. His road in entrepreneurship started in 2013, and Customily is his second profitable startup.

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Martina Möring

COO

Martina is an Architect and Designer from Uruguay. She is a 2-time founder, with years of experience in product and graphic design. She has led and worked with teams in projects as challenging as building a stadium, and as detailed as launching a jewelry line. She’s been an entrepreneur since 2015 and Customily is her second profitable startup.

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Clockwork

Origin: IL | Grant Awarded: 2019 | Status: Active

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What is Clockwork?

Clockwork uses real-time information to automatically build out projections and cash flow forecasts by integrating with QuickBooks Online and Xero. Small businesses can collaborate and create “what if” scenarios without having to fumble through Excel or Google Sheets.

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Fady Hawatmeh

Founder and CEO

Fady grew up in a small business family with his parents owning restaurants, which is where he learned the fundamentals of what it takes to run a successful business. He is a proven entrepreneur starting his first company at the age of 12 and running the family business through college, before starting his professional career at a Fortune 30 company working on the world’s largest and most significant airplane programs. Most recently, Fady has started and grown his own outsourced CFO / COO consulting firm to service over 50 companies over the span of 3 years. With Finance and Accounting degrees, a Six Sigma Black Belt, and a certificate in Strategic Decision and Risk Management from Stanford University, his experience across various industries has set him up with the optimal skill set to identify and address the most recurring pain points with small business.

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