MYMA.io

Origin: United Kingdom | Grant Awarded: 2018 | Status: Active

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What is MYMA.io?

myma has developed a market leading Internet of things platform. We partner with companies to provide bespoke B2B solutions for their needs and we design all our own software and hardware in-house. Our open RESTful API means you can connect your IoT devices in a matter of minutes, not months. Circular as the product benefits everyone involved. The OEM gets a better understanding of their machines usage and programme settings (cycle, temp, heat, pump, wash, can all be detected) and can reduce R&D, customer service and engineer call out costs (currently at £800M per year). The end user gets an extended 12 months warranty and a better understanding of their usage and real time interactions with their machines. By using it’s own classification engine in the cloud with predictive maintenance AI and Preventative maintenance, Myma can extend the lifetime of the machine by up to 3 years or 2,000 cycles. They charge a simple SaaS model, have several verticals and take a cut of the D2C sales. They understandably, have a huge, untapped total addressable market of 10Bn appliances globally, of which, none of them are connected to the manufacturer and their user (yet). Electrolux & Bosch ship 120M appliances per year and have a remit and urgency to get millions of their machines connected. Team Myma are ahead in more ways than one; they have been in the IoT space for over 6 years (with WIFIPLUG) and they have several unique IP plays that give them the market leader advantage, offering their customers a full turn-key solution, ready to scale.

Company Leadership

Leon Doyle

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Leon the CEO is a seasoned Entrepreneur, he has had 3 Technology startups and has been in the space since 2005 with stints on the BBC Apprentice and Dragons Den. If you have heard of Techstars, here is the Demo Day pitch it’s 7 minutes so only watch if you like what you see in the deck. The team (of 7) have so far, signed contracts with two of the Worlds largest, competing OEM’s (Electrolux & Bosch / Siemens). Using their custom IoT platform they can make your washer, drier or dishwasher smart, which is the exact remit of these corporates right now. Myma understands customer usage and feeds it back to the manufacturer via a dashboard giving detailed analysis and insight to up sell D2C.

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Parlor

Origin: MA | Grant Awarded: 2018 | Status: Active

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What is Parlor?

Parlor is a Customer Collaboration Platform which transforms the way digital product teams proactively engage their customers in order to build better products. Parlor works by adding a ‘relationship layer’ to a company’s live software product, letting them engage their most valuable users in highly specialized ways to refine their products, validate their efforts, and dramatically de-risk the cost of new feature development. In a nutshell, Parlor turns a company’s users into collaborators & their product into a dynamic collaboration laboratory – all without impeding those customers or disrupting their in-app user experience.

Company Leadership

Keith Frankel

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

I’m a startup product exec, community builder, and award-winning speaker based in Boston. Formerly the Creative Director at HubSpot (IPO), Chief Digital Officer at Tablelist (VC backed), and Chief Product Officer at Firecracker (acquired), I’m now the co-founder of Parlay. In my spare time, I’m the host of CreativeMornings Boston, an advisory board member for the American Institute of Graphic Artists, a Techstars mentor, a co-creator of the Boston Tech Guide, and a voracious Netflix watcher.

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Jason Zopf

Co-Founder & CTO

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IncentiLock

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2018 | Status: Active

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What is IncentiLock?

Software that fully automates the calculation of tax credit and incentive benefits and measures DEI in hiring.

Company Leadership

Jane Vancil

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Founder of tech company, committed to providing tools for increasing efficiency, accuracy, and accountability in economic development incentive compliance. Jane served as a non-profit (ITEN) tech company mentor and EIR with more than 25 years of combined Fortune 500 and tech start-up experience.

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Balto

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2018 | Status: Active

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What is Balto?

Balto helps sales, service, and accounts receivable reps win as much revenue as possible from every phone call. Sales, service, and accounts receivable teams use Balto’s artificial intelligence software to analyze phone calls in real time – live while the call is still happening – and instantly provides reps recommendations on how to communicate as effectively as possible before it’s too late. Balto automatically guides reps to use the communication strategies managers wish they would implement on every call – the strategies that consistently produce revenue and prevent expensive compliance mistakes.

Company Leadership

Marc Bernstein

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Marc Bernstein graduated from Washington University in 2015, majoring in Entrepreneurship and Marketing and minoring in Psychology. As a high school senior, Marc founded his first company, DoorStep Fitness, a direct-to-home personal training service. As DoorStep Fitness’s marketing strategy developed, Marc was responsible for generating an average of 52 inbound leads per year at cost of just over $150 per lead. DoorStep Fitness grew to a team of five trainers and a network of more than 100 clients. After DoorStep Fitness, Marc joined two St. Louis startups, PFITR and TopOPPS. At PFITR, as a sales development representative, Marc produced 70 sales qualified leads in his first month and was soon promoted to Director of Business Development. At TopOPPS, as an account executive, Marc was named the 2016 Sales Contributor of the Year and also TopOPPS’s Clutch Player of the Year.

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Chris Kontes

Co-Founder

Chris Kontes, as a junior at Franklin Marshall College, launched and sold carcrunch.com, a website that generates high-quality leads for major automotive retailers, most notably edmunds.com. After graduating, he joined Venture for America, a nonprofit that places entrepreneurial college graduates in growing startup ecosystems. Venture for America introduced Chris to TopOPPS, an enterprise SaaS company in Saint Louis. During his tenure there, he was quickly promoted from sales development representative into Head of Sales Development, where he increased lead production by over 500% and produced over $1.2M qualified sales pipeline per quarter. Chris was named TopOPPS Manager of the Year in 2016.

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Davidson Girard

Co-Founder

Davidson Girard began developing software at the age of 12. By 16, he launched Girard Web Design, serving dozens of clients with services ranging from legacy CRM maintenance to custom web applications and web design. In high school, Davidson split time between two prominent Washington, D.C internships, EFXMedia, and Interface Media, producing client-facing web design and graphic design deliverables. Before he had graduated high school, Davidson was working full-time at RioRey, the foremost leader in DDOS cybersecurity technology, building the backend of their flagship control panel. Upon graduating with his Computer Science degree, Davidson started work for the Department of Forensic Sciences developing an ETL and web dashboard architecture to integrate LIMS systems for directors and managers at the organization. The software has since been deployed to numerous law enforcement agencies nationwide. Davidson also worked as a primary engineer on the image and video web service used for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) MEDIFOR project

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Strayos

Origin: MO | Grant Awarded: 2017 | Status: Active

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What is Strayos?

Strayos has developed a image processing platform that turns images captured by drones into highly accurate 2D and 3D models of any physical site. Strayos machine learning analytics on 2D/3D models provides real time analytics to increase mining company ROIs, by automating tasks, directly reducing overhead and enabling enterprises to make actionable decisions from drone data.

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Ravi Sahu

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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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Appbase

Origin: India | Grant Awarded: 2015 | Status: Active

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What is Appbase?

appbase.io is a streaming database service for search and analytics queries. Businesses use appbase.io for a managed real-time database infrastructure so they can focus on building their product.

Company Leadership

Siddharth Kothari

CEO and Founder

Siddharth earned his degree in Computer Science from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology in 2013. Before joining Appbase, Siddharth worked with Google and Carnegie Mellon University and has traveled the US speaking at various tech conferences.

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Tallyfy

Origin: England | Grant Awarded: 2014 | Status: Active

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What is Tallyfy?

Tallyfy is the developer of workflow and business process management software that enables organizations to prevent human error and streamline business processes.

Company Leadership

Pravina Pindoria

Co-Founder & Head of operations

Pravina earned her degree from the City University London in 2004. Pravina has co-founded other online companies and has a background in policy making and process improvement. Before joining Tallyfy, Pravina worked with Momento Services and NHS.

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Amit Kothari

Ceo & co-Founder

Amit earned his degree in Computer Science from University of Bath in 2004. Hailing from the UK, Amit is a dedicated entrepreneur. In addition to Tallyfy, he has founded several other companies and has a background in technical consulting. He currently also serves as the Founder and MD at Blue Sheen, and brings previous work experience with Amiweb Partners to his position with Tallyfy.

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simMachines

Origin: Costa Rica | Grant Awarded: 2012 | Status: Acquired

What is simMachines?

simMachines is a machine learning software company that provides “the Why” for every business prediction. Their technology then groups predictions into dynamic predictive segments to enable business users to take insight-driven action with great precision and speed.

simMachines was acquired by InRule Technology in 2021

Company Leadership

Arnoldo Müller-Molina

Chief Technology Officer

Originally from Costa Rica, Arnoldo earned his degree in Computer Science from Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica in 2001, and holds both a Masters in Computer Science and a PhD in Pattern Recognition from Kyushu Institute of Technology. Arnoldo brings experience working with Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine and Intel to his position with simMachines.

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Robert Zieserl

Chief Executive Officer

Robert earned his degree in Political Science and Economics from Marquette University, and holds an Masters in Business and Industrial Relations from the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University in Chicago. Robert currently serves as the Chairman at Vital Sensors, Inc. and as a Board Member of both NuCurrent Inc and Verax Biomedical, Inc.

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