Incubator Clients and Graduates

Keep an eye on these companies. They’re going places.

The TechColumbus Incubator is home to more than 25 pre-seed or early stage technology companies.

Here are our current companies, listed by primary domain areas:  information technology, bioscience, and advanced materials.

Information Technology

3X Systems (formerly Boxicom)
3X Systems will offer the only data backup solution with the ease, performance, and peace of mind that small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) expect from modern backup solutions without the high, recurring costs of an online service provider.  Further, as a dedicated, all-in-one appliance, 3X customers leverage the strong relationship between their business and IT provider, confident that their data is in the hands of a trusted partner rather than a faceless web provider.

Ipinion
Ipinion is the most sophisticated survey app ever built for smart phones. With Ipinion, you are no more restricted to running only short, simple polls on mobile devices. You can run full-sized research surveys that you are used to in online surveys.

LifeCubby.me
LifeCubby.me is a web application launched in 2011 with tools and mobile apps for parents and teachers to store and organize children’s data, photos and videos.  Child care centers use LifeCubby.me to create online “cubbies” for their students.  Mobile apps enable teachers easy and quick uploading of classroom photos and documentation.  Parents use LifeCubby.me to create online “cubbies” for their children, and can use those cubbies to organize data, such as medical records and growth charts; do goal setting; and organize and store photos & videos.

MaxID
MaxID Corp is a leading provider of identity and security solutions. It designs, manufactures and sells identity management solutions for a mobile environment.

nChannel
nChannel provides an easy-to-use, cloud-based platform that enables retailers to cost effectively synchronize and exchange sales, customer, and product data from transactions that occur at the register, in the warehouse, or via a web-store.

Planet One Networks
Planet One is a business class, carrier-grade service delivered over a Tier-1 backbone, and engineered to provide the highest level of clarity, reliability and redundancy.

Platform Lab
Provides non-profit IT testing and training

ProcureSafe
ProcureSafe has developed a patent-pending online supplier management tool called myGateKeeper®.  Built in the cloud, myGateKeeper® is a subscription-based application designed to help mid-market companies manage supplier intelligence. More than ever, businesses are inundated with hundreds of unsolicited sales calls which they attempt to manage, along with information associated with their existing suppliers.  Large businesses are spending millions of dollars to implement companywide systems that automate supplier intelligence and organize information to help their buyers make smarter decisions, faster. 

Energy

Plugsmart
Plug Smart helps consumers save money on energy by extending the Smart Grid into the home and electric vehicles. Plug Smart’s ecosystem of products and services empower consumers and energy companies to build a green future, together.

Venturi
Venturi North America is a niche car builder and engineering services company providing technical design for Electric Vehicle, Hybrid Electric Vehicle and electrification of various types of transportation including motorcycles, three-wheeled contrivances, cargo and postal carriers and personal automobiles.  We can provide battery management systems as well as motor design for EV/HEV’s.  We participate in and technically sponsor the OSU-CAR speed record vehicles such as the Venturi Buckeye Bullet electric speed record car.

Venturi North America is the wholly owned subsidiary of Venturi Automobiles, based in Monaco.  The company was founded in 2001, to build pure electric vehicles.  Today it assembles postal electric vehicles for the French government (the Berlingo) in a new, state-of-the-art assembly plant opened in Sablé-sur-Sarthe, France on September 17, 2010.  

Bioscience

BioOhio
Accelerates bioscience industry, research, and education in Ohio.

CellSignals, Inc.
CellSignals applies its proprietary technology in chiral synthesis to develop lipid mediators pertinent to intracellular signal transduction and cancer biology. Currently CellSignals’ product line has grown to more than 40 chemicals covering a variety of inositol polyphosphates and phosphatidylinositol polyphosphates.  CellSignals is actively developing small-molecules, orally bio-available therapeutics for the treatments of breast, skin cancers, and leukemia. 

Clevex
Develops and sells skin biopsy, closure and repair solutions that markedly improve patient outcomes and enhance practice economics for dermatology, cosmetic surgery.  The technology was developed by surgeons at The Cleveland Clinic and is fully owned by CleveX.

Cytolutions
Cytolutions is a biotech services company, focusing on rare cell detection using fluorescence and magnetic techniques

DIRAmed LLC
Developers of a painless, non-invasive glucose monitor using proprietary analysis techniques to overcome obstacles of spectroscopic based non-invasive instruments.  A recipient of $125,000 in First Fifty funds with additional funding from individual angel investors.  The company is eligible for Ohio’s Technology Investment Tax Credit (TITC) program.

InVasc Therapeutics
Specializes in target-specific drug discovery with several potential drug therapies at the pre-clinical stage.  The company has developed a proprietary approach to drug discovery that uses molecular structures and an application-based platform that dramatically decreases the time and expense of current large-scale “mining” discovery techniques.  The InVasc process is the result of university-based research at Emory University and The Ohio State University.

Traycer Diagnostic Systems
Representing novel applications of microwave and terahertz imaging technologies for medical applications.

Minimally Invasive Devices(MID)
Minimally Invasive Devices LLC (MID) was founded by a laparoscopic surgeon to develop surgical tools that facilitate and enable the performance of Minimally Invasive Surgery. MID's patent portfolio includes technology to improve visualization during laparoscopic surgery, two technologies that facilitate laparoscopic suturing, and a device that simplifies the removal of ureteral stones.

Pocared Diagnostics
Provides an innovative solution for real-time, reagent less In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) and offers a universal and robust system which is automatic, rapid, compact, user-friendly, environmental-friendly and safe.
 
EXCMR

Develops and markets devices which enable the powerful combination of treadmill exercise stress testing and cardiac MRI to provide a safer and more accurate method of detecting heart disease. The primary product is a completely nonferromagnetic treadmill, which is able to be located directly next to an MRI machine to allow images of the heart to be captured at peak stress.

IR Diagnostyx, Inc.
Developing a minimally invasive, accurate, serum based diagnostic test that significantly shortens the time and reduces the cost to confirmatory diagnosis for medically challenged functional diseases like Interstitial Cystitis/Painful Bladder Syndrome (IC/PBS), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS),Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS).

Joint Vue
Developed a state-of-the-art imaging tool that couples traditional ultrasound with a proprietary acoustic technology.

MaxID
As a global leader in integrated mobile identity management solutions, MaxID is ready to provide you with an end-to-end solution for validating identities and credentials, managing access to your secure location and controlling your perimeter.

Nanofiber
Uses patented technologies that provide researchers with more biologically realistic, sophisticated tools allowing biomedical and clinical advances.

SyberMed
Develops a tapeless securement device that lowers the # of intravenous restarts.


Advanced Materials

Entrotech
Develops film base advanced material solutions for a variety of high-tech industries.  Products are currently utilized in products manufactured or sold by: Avery Dennison, CP Films div. of Solutia, Medline, Hewlett Packard, Western Digital, Dell, Microsoft, Donaldson Filtration, WH Brady, W.L. Gore, Gillette, Schering Plough, Delphi, Jaguar, Daimler Benz and Honda.

Global Seven
Producers of specialty chemicals for personal care and household products; custom-designed products and finished formulations to suit customer needs.  Product line are a wide range of specialty surfactants, emulsifiers, thickeners, amines, amides and esters.

MetaMateria Technologies
Develops innovative nanomaterial synthesis technology, and novel, industry-specific manufacturing and consolidation techniques for the application of advanced materials such as nano-sized ceramics for a wide range of industries, including fuel cells, environmental, biomedical and defense sectors.

PHMatter
The core competency of PH Matter, LLC includes development of high surface area nano-structured materials and scalable processes for production of these materials.  The company is focused on the commercialization of these materials for emerging applications such as electrodes for acidic environments, novel catalysts and catalytic processes, advanced composites, and electrochemical sensors.

Syscom Advanced Materials, Inc.

Syscom Advanced Materials, Inc. was founded in 2005 to produce, market and distribute a new electrically conductive polymer/metal hybrid yarn, AmberStrand® fiber.

NanoStatics

NanoStatics provides solutions to the development of high performance materials in a broad scope of product applications through the applications on nanofibers in a manufacturing environment.

 

TechStart Graduates:
We’re proud of what they’ve accomplished.

100+ tech-enabled companies have graduated from the program into the Central Ohio community.  

Of those, 75% have realized sales or commercialization success. Meet the graduates of the TechColumbus Incubator program:

Adler Consultants
Advanced Analytics [Labs Inc.]
Aetion
American LED-gible
Apothetech International
Applied Organics
Aqualinks
Athenor
Attia Applied Sciences (TAASI)
Aurum  (Sophisticated Systems)
Automatiq Measurement System
Avantec
Bavoy
BioIntegration, Inc.
BioLoc

Boundaryless Brands
BULX
Cabot Corp (TOSOH)
Calfacior
Call Copy
Computerized Ind. Measurement
Computerized Technology Group
Consumer Products Innovation
Coordes Engineering
DataPull
Docosa Foods
DP Project Masters
Eggers & Associates
Environmental Energy
Excera (BFD)
Fizmo
Forescore
FourthChannel (SPS Commerce)
Go Big
Got Cast
HealthSafe USA
HTP
Huntsman Chemical
HyperTech
IAM Technologies
InfraRed Imaging Systems Inc.
InsightETE
Iosil
Kinaform (Chartwell)
Laboratory Solutions
Lambda [Bioremediation Systems, Inc]
Leadscope
LeasePower
Lyntek
McCoy Avionics
Metget
Michael Ulery/CPA
Micrys, Inc.
Morgenix
Morton Coatings
NanoMaterials Innovation
Neoprobe
NetEnabled.com
O2 Insights
Oncolmmune
Optimum Therapeutics
OxyNet, Inc.
Oztech Corporation
Palestra
Paraspinal Diagnostics
Percipia, Inc.
Phycotransgenics
Phylogeny
PhytoLife Sciences
Plannet Group
Princeton BioMolecules
Qualitek (VIB Systems)
Rank By Search
Reclaims
Rubicon
Sable Lion
Scan tech
Secure Interiors
Senplex Sensors
SensirOx
SMS
SpeakerSite
Spectrotech, Inc.
Stellarwind
STI
Team Dynamix
Technical Management
TopoGen
Transmap
Triangle Cable, [H Z S Inc]
Visual Genomics (Labbook)
WCL Corporation
Ziad
Zivena

 

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