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EduLender
Industry: Consumer Service
EduLender is a financial aid GPS for students and their families. Their app streamlines the process of finding money for college. The company offers the web's only unbiased, comprehensive search engine for private student loans. In an opaque lending market, EduLender's search engine empowers users to compare loans effectively. Students can save an average of 4.5% on their interest rate by shopping around for a student loan, and EduLender is the first and only comprehensive portal for student loan information. Because financial aid is fraught and confusing, some of the people who stand to benefit most from a college education put themselves in financial jeopardy to afford it. Each year, millions of students make the wrong decisions about financial aid, and these mistakes can prove costly. EduLender tracks rates, fees, and terms in real-time for over 600 student loans.
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Callibra, Inc. dba Disch...
Industry: Medical/Software
The Discharge 1-2-3 Composer, utilizing patent pending Multilingual Configurable Document Technology (MCDT), allows Emergency Physicians fast point and click creation of custom patient instructions in multiple languages. The efficiency of the product can reduce physician time on this mundane task as much as 1 ½ hours per physician, per shift, while breaking down language barriers between emergency departments and patients. Emergency Medicine clinicians need to create patient instructions on a "patient specific" basis as much as possible and previously there is no good way to accomplish this without time consuming typing. Furthermore, there has been no good way for clinicians to create customized foreign language documents in languages they cannot read or speak without even greater time losses. Patient Discharge Instructions inform the patient what their diagnoses were, educate them about their illness, provide clear guidelines for how to continue their care at home, and most important, when to seek further medical attention. The system is not a translator and does not translate what the clinician types. Such systems are extraordinarily risky and can provide misinformation that is not acceptable in a medical venue. This product was selected and licensed by Allscripts as the exclusive component for creation of patient Discharge Instructions in all Allscripts ED installations beginning in version 7.0 and going forward. Discharge 1-2-3 Composer builds on the success of the original Discharge 1-2-3 software product including many of the same features.
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Dotomi: Dotomi's AMBER A...
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Dotomi's AMBER Alert system interrupts banner space on devices within the area of an abducted child and replaces them with the AMBER Alert. This system notifies millions of people within milliseconds, spreads valuable information surrounding the abduction, and improves chances of bringing abducted children home safely. In its first month of use, Dotomi's AMBER Alert system reached 500,000 devices, and sent out 1.8 million AMBER alerts.
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Layer Saver, LLC
Industry: B2B Product
Layer Saver's patented double deck shipping frame allows producer to ship goods without crushing and maximizing cube utilization in a truck, railcar or ocean container thereby reducing number of trucks or railcars used. Shippers can pack their truck or railcar to the ceiling with guaranteed safety. The product is fork liftable so it becomes seamless while integrating into their current system. On average, one-third of a truck or railcar is empty because of damage to lower layers of product on a pallet. The only way to solve the problem was to increase stability of boxes or ship product only as high as crushing would allow. Producers often opt to send more trucks or railcars to alleviate the damage. Increased fuel costs and shipping costs ensue. A major OJ producer in Florida has been able to cancel the production of 200 new railcars since being able to utilize the Layer Saver frames.
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Food Desert Action/Fresh...
Industry: Civic/Community/Non-profit
The non-profit company Fresh Moves has created a mobile product market out of an unused CTA bus, that allows the community to access fresh produce 365 days a year. There are over 600,000 people in Chicago who live a food desert- an area that lacks grocery stores and access to fresh produce. The Fresh Moves Mobile Produce market improves the community by alleviating the need for residents to travel outside of their neighborhoods, making it easier and cheaper for them to eat healthy. By reaching the customers directly and providing cheaper produce than most grocery chains, the Fresh Moves bus provides the most cost effective way for individuals and families to get fresh produce.
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Allscripts Healthcare So...
Industry: Medical/Software
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions' Allscripts Mobile Homecare is a mobile application that allows clinicians gather data and update patients' clinical records effortlessly.
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Zenith Electronics LLC
Industry: B2B Technology
Zenith Electronics has developed ATSC Mobile DTV Standard in conjunction with LG Electronics and Harris Corp., which permits TV stations to transmit their programming to mobile phones, tablets, portables TVs and more by creating a more robust signal that transmits the data along the same lines as HDTV signals. Unlike failed attempts at mobile television, Zenith has received full support from the broadcast industry with more than 900 channels participating. 70 TV stations are broadcasting using Zenith's technology, and consumer electronic manufacturers are embracing the technology by installing proper receiving devices in goods.
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ITW Paslode
Industry: B2B Product
ITW Paslode has created the TetraGRIP© Subfloor Fastening System, which eliminates sub-floor squeaks in homes through a unique system that "drives like a nail and holds like a screw". The TetraGRIP© system creates a strong bond with the floor joist and subfloor that removes the subfloor nail squeak with unmatched speed that increases efficiency during construction. The primary cause of floor squeaks is the gap that exists between the subfloor panel and wood floor joist, so TetraGRIP's© one-step process removes the gap, and reduces warranty costs for the builders who are often called into new homes to make floor squeak repairs. This fastener uses ITW's WERCS© technology, which supports of the manufacture of the unique barb-threaded nail fastener that rotates as it penetrates the lumber, creating a strong bond. The TetraGRIP© Subfloor Fastening System has been installed in over 500 homes throughout the country without a single sub-floor squeak. The system also enables builders and contractors to save on installation costs through labor and material savings. The TetraGRIP© Subfloor Fastening system has been adopted by several regional divisions of Pulte Homes, the largest national home builder in the country. In addition, the superior performance of the TetraGRIP© subfloor nail is recognized by the International Code Council (ICC) under ESR 3071.
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Tap.Me
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Tap.Me has the first in-game, mobile advertising platform that connects gamers, games, and brands. Game developers gain an incremental revenue stream that also enhances the gameplay experience for the consumer, while encouraging them to extend play-time. The marketer can connect with consumers in a non-interrupted, consumer-controlled way that creates a value exchange that rewards players with an in-and-out-of game engagement. In this platform, game developers tag and classify their game content so that advertisers can be matched contextually with the relevant sponsorable content. As players achieve success and increase their connection with their chosen advertisers, they receive rewards--be it special discounts/offers, free product promotions/sampling, or additional content back in the game.
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Leo Burnett
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Leo Burnett and Facebook have teamed up to create Comment, Facebook's newest ad unit that allows consumers to spark conversations with and about brands, thus increasing consumer engagement and providing value to both consumers and brands. In August, 2010, Facebook invited ad agencies to submit ideas for a new Facebook experience that would better engage users. Leo Burnett Chicago's submission, Comment, was chosen for further development. Comment works by creating a Facebook ads when a brand posts an update to their page, thus allowing users to comment on the ads. The ads then appear on the users' news feed, increasing brand visibility to their networks--on average, 50 times greater than a brand's fan base. Comment is distinct in that it is the first ad unit not to be created in-house by Facebook, but rather by an advertising agency. It is also the first interactive ad unit of its kind that allows brand to create organic dialogue among consumers. Early data shows that brands using Comment have seen significant spikes in fans and more brand page comments. Brands like Samsung, General Motors, Allstate, Hallmark, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Sealy and the Ronald McDonald House Charities are participating in the pilot program.
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Britannica Digital Learn...
Industry: Education
Britannica Digital Learning/Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. has introduced Image Quest, a digital collection of more than two million high-quality photographs in order to provide students and educators with appropriate, relevant and rights-cleared photographs with ease. Students are often required to use additional images to support their work, and internet searches can be unreliable: they may be missing information for proper citations, provide poor-quality photographs, break copyright laws or just not be able to produce a relevant image. Image Quest provides students with accurate caption and citation information for their images, making it easy to cite sources. Image Quest is the only product of its kind with this unique combination of benefits, and with such an extensive gallery of images. It has become one of Encyclopedia Britannica's fastest growing and best selling products, and has received rave reviews from publications such as Library Journal.
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Advanced Diamond Technol...
Industry: B2B Technology
Advanced Diamond Technologies (a spin-off of Argonne) harnesses the properties of diamonds by turning natural gas into diamond in a highly controlled, reproducible process for a variety of industrial, electronic and medical applications. The company's latest product, Ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD®), is the first to capture the properties of diamonds in a film form that can be altered to have desired characteristics depending on the application needs.
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ClearTrial
Industry: Medical/Software
ClearTrial's 4th generation cloud-based SaaS application allows life science companies to bring life-improving treatments and medical devices to the public more quickly, at a lower operating risk and cost through expediting clinical trial organization and procedure in a cost-effective and easy-to-use way. First, the software provides a break-down of major tasks required to conduct a clinical trial (enrolling/monitoring patients, collecting data, setting trial sites). Second, it determine the rules, ratios and algorithms that drive level of effort for those tasks and their associated resources, for hundreds of treatments and with specific data for conducting trials in over 80 countries. Finally, this information comes together in the resulting SaaS application with a simple, intuitive graphical user interface that is easy to use by nontechnical, clinical trial professionals.This unique approach improves accuracy to 95-99%, increases speed from hours to minutes, provides efficiency, consistency, and reduces risk of failure. ClearTrial is profitable, with almost 1,000 users in the US, Europe, and Japan. ClearTrial has expanded from its Chicago base to open sales offices in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Munich. Current global customers include Abbott, Baxter, Merck, AstraZeneca, Roche, Sanofi, Allergan, Sandoz, Hospira, and Takeda.
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Molex: Helieon® lightin...
Industry: Energy/Sustainability
Molex and Brigelux have partnered to create the first LED lighting solution to drive rapid, mass-market adoption of LED lighting technology. The Helieon ® Sustainable Light Module combines effortless installation and interchangeability with a variety of lighting affects to appeal to laypersons and designers alike. The Helieon ® module emulates a traditional bulb and socket set-up, allowing commercial end-users and consumers to upgrade, interchange, and replace modules in order to alter and control their lighting environment as desired. As sustainability initiatives continue to gain momentum, the Helieon ® module is the only product provides consumers with both a cost-effective and simple method to use energy efficient LED lighting. In 2010, the Helieon ® Sustainable Light Module was awarded the prestigious LIGHTFAIR International (LFI) Most Innovative Product of the Year Award.
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World Bicycle Relief
Industry: Civic/Community/Non-profit
World Bicycle Relief is a social enterprise that designs, tests and locally builds specially designed bicycles and proper infrastructures to maintain these bikes in poverty-stricken African countries in order to help combat extreme poverty. WBR's bicycles are built to meet the specific needs of their end users--sturdy and weather-resistant hand brakes, and heavily reinforced frames and wheels to carry heavy loads. They also train mechanics in the areas to help maintain the bicycles and create micro-enterprises in rural Africa. WBR's bicycles help people gain access to water, food, education, healthcare and economic opportunities, allowing them to travel four times faster and carry loads five times heaver than when walking. WBR is unique from other key players because they provide either low-quality bicycles or ones that are not designed to meet the user's need.
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Beltone
Industry: Consumer Product
The Beltone True 63DW with Direct Line Accessories is ahearing instrument system component and is the smallest wireless Behind-The-Ear, Receiver-In- the-Ear instrument. The interchangeable, multiple power level receiver technology ensures that individuals with hearing loss ranging from mild to severe can use this product. Sound processing in seventeen adjustable channels provides fine tuned amplification based on personal hearing loss thresholds. Additional processing manages several aspects of hearing aid performance. A phase cancellation algorithm reduces feedback with minimal impact to sound quality and speech intelligibility. Directional microphone strategies improve hearing in noise. The hearing instrument system component provides excellent end-user benefits to improve hearing while the “industry first” proprietary digital wireless communication solution, operating at 2.4GHz, provides connectivity for the hearing impaired to the outside world.
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Chicago Tech Academy
Industry: Education
Chicago Tech Academy is using technology and entrepreneurship to change the lives of inner-city kids
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Beyond Design
Industry: Consumer Product
The Pakmat® is a comfortable, eco-friendly, and compact inflatable air mattress ideal for outdoor enthusiasts.
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Power2Switch
Industry: Energy/Sustainability
Power2Switch is an electricity cost and usage reduction portal for residential and small business consumers, dedicated to connecting consumers to their choice of electricity supplier. The online price comparison portal customer to search, switch and save on electricity prices from 13 eligible suppliers and access renewable energy. Our technology makes the switching process seamless for the consumer (cutting process time from weeks to hours), automated for the supplier (contract completion is easier online), and provides analytics to increase supplier efficiency in pricing. They bring awareness of deregulation and choice to consumers, create a competitive landscape for suppliers, and promote the use of alternative energy. The Power2Switch service is currently saving customers hundreds of thousands on electricity expenses and provides access to alternative energy. Power2Switch was selected to participate in the Clinton Global Initiative America as one of five start-ups aiding the growth of jobs and with promise in the U.S.
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Swingline: Swingline Sta...
Industry: Consumer Product
Swingline's Stack-and-Shred is an ultra-quiet compact shredder that shreds up to 100 sheets at once and requires no manual feeding so that executives, office workers, or individuals at home can shred in a timely manner and focus their time and energy on more pressing matters. Users simply place the stack of documents to be shredded in the paper tray, close the lid, and walk away. Along with features such as automatic jam clearance and the capability to shred paper clips and staples, the Stack-and-Shred's patented roller technology is an advancement in automatic shredding.
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ProOnGo LLC
Industry: B2B Service
ProOnGo LLC's ProOnGo Expense is a mobile application that allows small business employees to simply and easily file expense reports from their mobile devices to help the 25 million employees with underserved expense reporting needs. ProOnGo Expense allows users to take pictures of receipts, record reimbursable mileage with GPS and track billable time by importing calendar entries and call logs. Expense details can then be viewed or edited from the application or web portal, and formatted to fit Microsoft Excel, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Online Edition and more. ProOnGo Expense has been downloaded over 1 million times, had 350,000 registered users and is compatible with over 80% of today's smartphones. They have been featured in Crain's Chicago Business, Businessweek, Forbes, Chicago Tribune and PC Magazine.
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Molex: EXTreme Ten60Powe...
Industry: B2B Technology
Molex's EXTreme Ten60Power© high-current connector is by far the lowest profile / highest currency product in today's marketplace in power applications. The need for high-current power interconnect solutions in increasingly smaller spaces continues to rise rapidly. As demand grows for more power in smaller packages, solving the power equation on new architectures and system platforms can pose electrical and mechanical design challenges for OEM (original equipment manufacturer) system egineers. The EXTreme Ten60Power high current connector has an excellent combination of size, power and signal. The product's low-profile design enhances system airflow and minimizes airflow blockages. At 10mm tall off the board versus its nearest competitor at 12.5mm tall, it provides rates of 55 amps. Additionally, it can be customized with no tooling. The product's unique assembly allows modules to be arranged in any configuration and added to make larger circuit sizes. Since its introduction, nearly every major telecommunications OEM, along with over 100 customers from industries such as data communications, automotive/transportation, medical, military/aerospace and networking, have converted to the EXTreme Ten60Power.
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SAVO
Industry: B2B Software
SAVO recently launched SAVO mobile -- the mobile version of its industry-leading sales enablement solution. The new release provides customers with a series of applications for the iPad, iPhone, and Blackberry and helps to improve the sales execution of salespeople on the road by giving them access to their organizations' best information and intelligence for each sales opportunity -- anytime, anywhere. The IDC estimates that organizations invest $40,000 -- $70,000 per sales person a year to get them the right collateral for sales meetings. Despite this, nearly 70% of sales reps indicate that they still can't find the information in their company they need to be successful. SAVO directly addresses this problem -- enabling the organization to leverage the power of social networking with structured collaboration to improve company revenue performance. SAVO's award winning sales enablement solution is used by some of the biggest and most well-known sales organizations in the world.
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Redbox
Industry: Consumer Service
RedBox, who allows consumers to rent movies and video games from their many kiosks, has released a new Android application and an updated iPhone application to continue their commitment to making movie rental as simple and streamlined as possible for the consumer, helping them in their fast-paced lives. The free applications connect consumers to Redbox's more than 27,800 retail locations, providing real-time access to inventories and allowing consumers to reserve movies or games on the go. Redbox uniquely meets robotics and building technologies with movies and entertainment to recreate the industry and meet consumer needs. Redbox's applications have been downloaded more than 6.6 million times, and it has been lauded by CNN Tech as an "app to check out" and by Practical ecommerce as a mobile retail application that enhances consumer experience.
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GiveForward: Fundraising...
Industry: Civic/Community/Non-profit
GiveForward is a crowdfunding website where family and friends can contribute to loved ones during times of need. It targets individuals in need, as opposed to organizations as other services do, in order to aid them in medical expenses that can cost over thousands of dollars. It allows users to create fundraisers, set a goal for fundraising and spread the word using social media and e-mail to family and friends.
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Trustwave
Industry: B2B Software
Consumers around the globe are hyper-aware of the protection of their data, in part due to continuing news coverage of large-scale breaches of data from consumer products companies, banks, gaming companies, etc. What's clear is the need for security for businesses is at an all-time high. Delivered in the cloud, TrustKeeper provides a single view for businesses to validate compliance and layer on the necessary data security functions to lock-down their businesses and protect customer data. From scanning services and firewall management for the small merchant, to larger scale security management inclusive of data loss technology, encryption and more, TrustKeeper has the module for any type of data security need. TrustKeeper is unique in its delivery of value to customers in a single view for compliance and security. The nature of Managed Security Services (MSS) packaged to small merchants who need it most, combined with the ease of use and unique delivery mechanisms set it apart from other competitive industry players. TrustKeeper serves more than 900,000 subscribers, large and small, making it the industry's leading security and compliance portal. It has helped the payments industry work to roll even the smallest merchants into data security programs. Trustwave's online security designation, Trusted Commerce, is displayed by some of the largest e-commerce retailers in the world.
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Urban Prep Academy
Industry: Education
100% of Urban Prep’s graduates—all African-American males from mostly low-income families—have been admitted to 4-year colleges. This accomplishment is possible because of the innovative programs we have in place at Urban Prep.
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Adler Planetarium: Deep ...
Industry: Education
The Adler Planetarium's Deep Space Adventure is an immersive space adventure unlike any other in the world which takes place in the Clark Family Welcome Gallery, the Grainger Sky Theater and additional exhibitions, with the newly renovated Sky Theater as the centerpiece.
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Center for Neighborhood ...
Industry: Civic/Community/Non-profit
The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) has created a new Housing and Transportation Affordability Index, a model that quantifies transportation costs for individual households to better demonstrate how affordable it is to live in various regions and to better inform and empower policy makers and residents. The traditional affordability index is based solely on housing costs--when housing costs are under 30% of household income, it is considered affordable. CNT's index argues that transportation costs must also be accounted for--as they are the second largest housing expenditure--and that only houses where these combined costs are under 45% are affordable, thus showing that far less houses are affordable than previously thought. CNT's index is the first to consider and calculate transportation costs combined with housing costs. The index has had an impact across the nation in cities such as Los Angeles, El Paso, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Francisco and Washington D.C. In Chicago, it has been adopted by the Chicago Metropolitan Agency on Planning and the state of Illinois. Inspired by the index, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Department of Transportation and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have all began to reexamine the definition of household affordability.
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Noblivity
Industry: B2B Service
Noblivity connects specialty retailers with specialty manufacturers in order to introduce the 2 million small manufacturers and their 30 million products to the 1.8 million specialty retailers who are looking to sell unique products. Small manufacturers are looking for cost-effective go-to-market platforms, while specialty retailers are looking for the newest and most original items to sell. Noblivity acts as a gateway for specialty retailers, introducing them to 'what's new' with lower minimums and shorter lead times. It is the first complete solution allowing small manufacturers to reach specialty stores without geographical, and technology concerns, financial limitations or time constraints. Noblivity has over 200 small manufacturers in the Marketplace, and over 6,500 specialty retailers and growing.
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Red Frog Events: Active ...
Industry: Consumer Service
Red Frog Events creates fun and extraordinary events through innovation, creativity and top not-notch participant service, while laughing all the way. Boasting a uniquely bizarre work culture, Red Frog Events is pioneering the Active Entertainment industry. The company's non-traditional office culture has led to Warrior Dash, Great Urban Race and Beach Palooza, where participants can be found crawling under barbed wire and through mud pits, jumping over fire, exploring cities in fantastic costumes solving puzzles and wearing ridiculously cool pineapple hats. In the fall of 2007, Great Urban Race launched with eight events. By January 2011, theylaunched nearly 80 events across three different running series and expanded into Australia, Great Britain and Canada.
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Motorola Solutions
Industry: B2B Product
APX© 7000XE is Motorola's most advanced, rugged two-way radio for first responder communications, with features designed for personnel safety in extreme environments. The APX 7000XE radio meets the specific needs of firefighters and the high-stress situations they encounter every day, allowing them to excel in the toughest conditions and stay focused on their task, not the technology. Competing products today are designed for law enforcement -- not taking into account specialized needs of firefighters and other mission-critical users working in extreme conditions. Every aspect of the radio was designed keeping in mind high stress, gloved use, and impaired senses, giving its users the unique capabilities they need to communicate effectively on the noisy, often smoke-filled fireground. Product additions like T-grip, exaggerated controls, easy to locate push-to-talk (PTT) and emergency button, industry leading audio, large top display, angled volume knob, and submergibility are some of the key features that set this radio apart from its competitors. The APX 7000XE radio is also the fire industry's most ergonomically advanced, smallest and lightest multiband radio. The patent-pending radio has received significant press and various awards.
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Appolicious
Industry: Consumer Service
Appolicious is a search engine and discovery platform for mobile applications developed for the iPhone, iPad and Android devices.
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Liquidus: Multi-media vi...
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Liquidus is an video production automation platform that allows for the creation of massive volumes of customized product videos for distribution on websites, through rich media advertising, on mobile devices and digital cable video on-demand. The platform radically reduces the production and editing costs of traditional video, allowing companies to produce and update thousands of high-quality videos for entire product lines, and distribute them for massive reach via multiple media channels. The company is unique in its large scale, minimal costs, ability to customize, and ability to update videos in real-time. By looking at just the automotive industry as one vertical category, in 2011, Liquidus now produces almost 2 million videos for over 23,000 U.S. car dealers every month. Liquidus is now the largest-volume video-merchandising company in the world, extending its reach into overseas markets as well.
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Excelerate Labs
Industry: B2B Service
Excelerate Labs is an intensive summer accelerator for startups to connect companies with mentors from around the country. The 13-week summer program focuses on ten companies and helps them to build connections and their businesses, culminating in an Investor Demo Day on August 31st, a showcase for more than 200 angel and venture investors. Excelerate Labs helps to foster the entrepreneurial spirit of Chicago by encouraging companies to stay and grow in the city. It is unique from other incubator companies in that it focuses on Chicago companies and provides more instruction and mentoring than a shared technology space would. Their first ten companies raised $7.2 million in capital, creating 65 jobs within six months of completing the program. A year later, 9 out of 10 are still in business.
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Chicago Career Tech
Industry: Education
Chicago has approximately 124,000 unemployed residents, yet between April and July 2011, more than 131,000 job postings (especially in technology and healthcare) were often unfilled due to the lack of skilled workers. To close this gap, Chicago Career Tech works with local businesses to identify the competencies they need to fill current and future open positions. Chicago Career Tech is a non-profit that helps Chicago residents get the training necessary to obtain the available jobs in the City, enabling employers to hire trained Chicagoans for positions that may be open, but are not getting filled, and by helping companies grow jobs right here in Chicago. Leveraging public-private partnerships, Chicago Career Tech partners to create training programs tailored to those needs to help unemployed emerging- and middle-class Chicago residents acquire the skills they need to obtain and succeed in these high demand technology-based careers. Upon completion of the program, graduates have the skills necessary to transition to technology-based careers that are available now, and to market themselves in a competitive job market. Specifically, Chicago Career Tech was created to address the needs of the 30,000 unemployed Chicagoans who are part of the "forgotten middle"--those individuals who do not qualify for government job training or corporate outplacement programs, making it the only program of its kind in the nation that targets the middle class with reemployment. In a little over a year, Chicago Career Tech has welcomed three classes of 700 Chicagoans. Business partners have doubled from 30 for the pilot class in May 2010 to over 60 for its current class. More than 100 Chicago companies have hired Chicago Career Tech graduates to date; graduation rate is 90%.
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informedRx, Inc.
Industry: Medical/Software
informedRx, Inc.'s Controlled Drug Program is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) program that identifies at-risk plan members who are receiving multiple narcotic prescriptions from different prescribers in order to promote patient safety by identifying and addressing situations such as overlapping prescriptions from multiple prescribers, potential "doctor shopping" and other abuses. Pharmacy claims are processed at the point of sale, unlike the rest of the healthcare system, presenting a unique opportunity to identify health and safety issues in real time. Clinical pharmacists then analyze prescription claims data, intervening when appropriate. Comprehensive intervention packets are then sent out to the prescribers, fully informing the physicians and allowing them to make decisions in the best interest of the patient. informedRX promotes patient safety, enhances quality of life, decreases risk for on-the-job injuries due to misuse of narcotics, identifies cases for more intensive intervention, and enhances overall plan savings via reductions in medical services. Unlike other PBMs who have standard offerings, informedRX uses their adaptable technology and customized solutions to help consumers reach their business goals.
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Champion Medical Technol...
Industry: Medical/Software
Champion Medical Technologies has created the UDI Tracker ®, a device that helps track all types of operating room implant products in patients. For the first time, hospitals have an easy way to identify patients with recalled implanted items, and manage their inventory of expiring tissue grafts. This tracker is an Application Service Provider (ASP) program that has no software to install. All that is required is an Internet connected computer. Overall, the UDI Tracker® provides a cost effective solution to meet the challenges of inventory and recall management, while increasing operating room efficiency. In the last year, the UDI tracker ® added over 50 new hospital clients and the Hospital Corporation of America has selected Champion Medical Technologies to provide their tissue and implant tracking services
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Tripp Lite: SRCOOL12k Po...
Industry: B2B Product
Tripp Lite's SRCOOL12k Portable AC Unit provides 12,000 BTUs of cooling for data center and networking environments, server or wiring closets or any area with heat-sensitive equipment. The SRCOOL12k is currently the only portable AC unit in this size and class that features a built-in evaporator that expels condensate through the exhaust duct, so there is no need for a water collection pan or drain tube. Users don't have to worry about emptying a water tray every few hours or using the unit only in a room with a floor drain. Growth trends in the IT sector lead to higher equipment density (crowded racks) and increased consumption of electricity--conditions that generate more heat. Installations that were designed for an earlier generation of IT technology are beginning to experience heat-related problems. There are also locations within the larger IT environment, that lack floor drains, so traditional designs require the condensate to be collected in an internal tank that must be emptied several times per day and could damage IT equipment in the event of a leak. The SRCOOL12K solves this problem with a built-in evaporator that re-humidifies liquid condensate into the exhaust air stream, eliminating the need for a floor drain or collection tank.
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Blackburn Sampling
Industry: B2B Product
Hazardous material and waste needs to be constantly monitored. Historically, the industry has used glass tubes or steel tubes for sampling. However, glass can break (not good if you're dealing with hazardous material) and steel can hold a static charge (not good if working with flamable liquids). Blackburn Sampling has introduced a patented sampling device made of plastic - won't break or hold a static charge - that is safer, and more economical to use. The Blackburn Sampling Coliwasa has been gaining industry recognition for its safety, chemical compatability and affordability.
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Cummins-Allison Corporat...
Industry: B2B Product
JetScan iFX i100 is poised to revolutionize the industry by completely redefining the way deposits are processed. Because of its unique capabilities, no truly competitive products exist for this ground-breaking machine. It is the only scanner on the market today that offers highly advanced processing of both checks and currency. In addition to being the fastest desktop document scanner available with currency processing speeds of up to 1600 notes per minute, the i100 produces front and back images for check archive and remote deposit capture at 400 documents per minute and full note dual-sided images for currency identification and/or archive at 1000 notes per minute. JetScan iFX performs at industry benchmark-setting speeds - with better than 99.99% accuracy.
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Element Bars
Industry: Consumer Product
ElementBar brings together smaller niche markets in the energy bar industry by allowing consumers to build customized energy bars. Consumers can thus choose the ingredients that they enjoy most, while knowing that each is healthy and all-natural. ElementBar separates itself from competitors by providing a wider array of organic ingredients and energy bar consistencies, and with their quicker delivery times.
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Navman Wireless
Industry: B2B Technology
Navman Wireless has created a wireless GPS tracking system that monitors the activity and maintenance of construction vehicles. The Navman Wireless Qtanium 300 GPS Tracking System helps improve both sustainability and profitability for construction companies by identifying opportunities to reduce idling-related fuel waste and emissions, ensuring on-time preventive maintenance, increasing equipment productivity, and preventing vehicle theft. The Qtanium 300 system differs from other products on the market through its resilient construction that can withstand the harsh construction environment, compatibility with any vehicle make or model, anti-theft measures, and ability to manage both on-and off road vehicles from the same application.
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Uncommon LLC
Industry: Consumer Product
Uncommon LLC provides customers with an easy-to-navigate online experience to make customized mobile phone cases. Uncommon prints their cases with their proprietary process (3D TATTï) which allows them to print at a higher quality and with a much shorter turn around time than competitors, filling the consumer need for customized and unique products, and rapid gratification. Uncommon has the ability to print any quantity of cases at the same cost, allowing them to print bulk orders for retailers without minimum order quantities, and within just a few business days (as opposed to four to five months for competitors). Their only competitor in hard cases does not compare in quality or speed.
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Nalco: Nalco Crepe Analy...
Industry: B2B Software
Nalco's Crepe Analysis Toolbox (NCAT) is a combination imaging system and analysis software used for characterizing surface structures of tissue and towel paper products formed by the creping manufacturing process. This technology addresses a lack of standardization in measuring crepe bars per inch (CBI), which is vital to manufacturers because it alerts them to product quality and machine running conditions. NCAT provides fast, quantitative measurement of crepe structures; quality control feedback for the effect of creping blade age on crepe structure formation; is an effective troubleshooting tool; and gives quick feedback to improve product development and process optimization efforts. NCAT technology fills a gap that currently exists for tissue and towel manufacturers by providing a user-friendly instrument that quickly analyzes the sheet surface characteristics. There are no similar instruments commercially available, which is why plant operators have traditionally relied on manual processes. Alternative analysis methods use sophisticated commercial instrumentation, but not all plants have access to this type of instrumentation.
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NCSA Athletic Recruiting
Industry: Education
NCSA Athletic Recruiting has created a database of over 400,000 high school athletes for college coaches, allowing coaches to save time and money, as well as connect with athletes beyond their normal networks and contacts. Coaches can search through the database with various filters, allowing them to target players who meet their needs, all while keeping track of their contacts with their free contact management system. Athletes are also empowered to contact coaches because they can view coaches' preferences. Traditional recruiting methods are based off of contacts with certain high school coaches and lists of nationally identified recruits, creating a pool of maybe several hundred potential recruits. NCSA is the first to combine contact management with the ability to find athletes with their free system.
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Argonne National Laborat...
Industry: B2B Service
Building automotive hardware is slow and expensive. Traditional design paradigms in the automotive industry often delay control system design until late in the process -- in some cases requiring several costly hardware iterations. To reduce costs and improve time to market, it is imperative that greater emphasis be placed on modeling and simulation. This only becomes truer as time goes on because of increasing complexity of vehicles, a greater number of vehicle configurations, and larger numbers of people working on projects, which complicates design choices. To fully realize the benefits of math-based design, Argonne has developed a new tool, called Autonomie, to accelerate the development and introduction of advanced technologies through plug-and-play architecture. Autonomie has been designed to be used as a single tool throughout the different phases of a math-based visual tool for designing complext control systems in the Vehicle Development Process. The capability to sort technologies rapidly in a virtual design environment results in faster improvements in real-world fuel consumption by reducing the time necessary to develop and bring new technologies to fruition. Autonomie makes it easier and more economical for suppliers and automakers to work together, and has played a pivotal role in helping the automotive industry move toward adopting advanced vehicle technologies.
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Snaptivation.com - a div...
Industry: B2B Technology
Snaptivation applies an optical machine-readable code or RIFD tag on products to enhance a business workflow process and/or engage a consumer in a unique experience. By placing embedded codes and microchips into virtually any material, Snaptivision technology is able to collect real-time information on any product. The audience simply scans the code and retrieves the information they are looking for by being directed to a specific web application. Companies will save money by eliminating the use of brochures, books and other paper resources, instead using codes and microchip technology.
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Narrative Science: Autho...
Industry: B2B Service
Narrative Science's Authoring Engine is a content authoring technology platform that automatically generates high-quality, data-driven content from data sources, using its understanding of stories to identify the most important points and craft accurate and compelling narratives. Narrative Science is using its technology in an array of sectors, such as finance, real estate, sports and proprietary business, and can generate content in many formats--articles, headlines, Tweets, industry reports and presentations. Narrative Science solves the need for high-quality content produced at low costs, taking advantage of the dislocation of traditional media and the explosion of data creation and collection. Narrative Science has taken an approach to data analysis and content creation that has never been attempted before. The traditional approach to communicating insights from data involves charts and tables; there has never been a platform to create verbalizations of data.
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The Strive Group
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
The Strive Group, a merchandising supply chain company, has developed an entirely new approach in the retail merchandising space, called Multi-Vendor Packaging (MVP). MVPs feature several complementary, yet competitive products and brands, which come together under the same theme. For consumers, the benefit is being able to go to one-stop for everything they need for a specific occasion. For retailers, heightened customer experience results in increased sales. For Consumer Packaged Goods Companies (CPGs), the MVP program allows them to take advantage of different seasons and events for increased ROI for clients. The Strive Group is the first to deploy this type of merchandising system successfully, gaining the participation of major brands, including Kraft, Nabisco, Hershey, and Procter & Gamble. Strive's MVP program for Kraft won in the Shopper Marketing Expo, Design of the Times Award in 2010. The display that won the award brought together Hershey's Chocolate, Nabisco's Crackers and Kraft's marshmallows on a combined pallet to market S'mores and the underlying theme of summer and camping.
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Metropolitan Chicago Hea...
Industry: Medical/Software
The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council's "Wage Index Navigator" is a unique, dynamic web-based software that streamlines hospitals' wage index reporting, improving accuracy and reducing reporting costs, to achieve the best Medicare reimbursement outcomes. Developed by the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council and Crowe Horwath LLP, the Navigator is similar to TurboTax©, guiding users through pathways and decision trees to ensure the accurate capture of wage index information. This application includes built-in prompts, alerts, and checks and balances to make for an efficient and effective review process. This is the first and only software tool to address wage index reporting. The software was premiered during the 2010 reporting season. Fourteen hospitals in the Chicago area (20 percent of the market) used the Navigator during its inaugural year. Nationwide, there were 24 additional acute care hospitals in Indiana, Tennessee, Iowa, New York and Florida who signed on to use the Navigator.
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Eved, LLC: Eved Marketpl...
Industry: B2B Service
Eved Marketplace is an online meeting and event marketplace that connects all members of the event supply chain, allowing them to interact and transact online. Eved allows end-users to receive quotes with photographs and video links embedded, and easily comment, approve and pay online. Another option is to browse through a supplier's Gallery Store, and purchase products from there. The event industry currently uses little to no technology, relying instead on cumbersome and time-consuming faxes, emails and phone to communicate and send quotes and contracts. Eved's business model serves to eliminate the back-office inefficiencies that plague the industry, improving client acquisition costs, quality expectations and other issues which the industry faced. While other technologies may help one member of the supply chain or help to manage the event, Eved is the first and only global online meeting and event marketplace who focuses on transacting commerce between all members of the supply chain.
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CROSS-FIRE Soil Remediat...
Industry: Energy/Sustainability
CROSS-FIRE Remediation Technology cleans petroleum-contaminated soil with a portable unit at a cheaper cost and with less impact to the environment to benefit contaminated properties and the communities in which they are located. Usual processes require several dump trucks to locate the contamination. At one site this process replaced six dump trucks, a 20 mile trip to a disposal facility at which the tipping fee would have been $50 dollars per ton, replacement fill, gravel or soil, and the expense of hauling it to the site. It uses up to 50 times less fuel than larger alternatives.
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Voice Over Esentials
Industry: B2B Product
Voice Over Essential's Porta-Booth Pro® Audio Studio is a lightweight, stand-alone, collapsible and portable recording studio booth that is easily assembled in less than a minute so that musicians, voice over actors and broadcasters can record professional quality recordings in acoustically untreated rooms. The Porta-Booth Pro® can also function as a home studio and is an easy and affordable alternative to "pillow forts" and other DIY sound solutions, and to expensive home studios or remodeling of rooms. Mike Huckabee uses the Porta-Booth Pro® to record his daily radio show which is broadcast nationally.
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Tripp Lite: PS-415-HGULT...
Industry: B2B Product
Tripp Lite's PS-415-HGULTRA is the only medical-grade power strip on the market that is fully tested, certified and compliant with UL 60601-1 and UL 60950-1 -- standards that govern the use of electrical and IT-related equipment in medical environments. The PS-415-HGULTRA plugs into any standard wall outlet and provides full UL 60601-1 compliance for itself and all connected devices. This eliminates the need for costly, time-consuming upgrades of non-compliant wall outlets--a key consideration for healthcare facilities looking for a budget-friendly compliance solution. Most power strips with hospital-grade outlets and plugs are not compliant with UL 60601-1. Additionally, many existing wall outlets are not UL 60601-1 compliant. The PS-415-HGULTRA solves this problem in a cost-effective manner. Using the PS-415-HGULTRA to assure UL 60601-1 compliance is crucial because Medicare and Medicaid funding can be cut if facilities are found to be non-compliant. Additionally, it features a patented internal site-wiring fault protection that resets automatically, with no need for action by the user.
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Meridix Creative, Inc.: ...
Industry: Consumer Service
Meridix.com has introduced live video streaming on their website, an online platform for live coverage of local sporting events, used by a previously untapped segment of sports fans who want live coverage of local sports games. It is more customized for local teams than major networks and easy to use for consumers. It allows fans to watch high school or even college games live as opposed to highlights from the games at a later time. In the last year Meridix.com had 242,480,579 total hits and 607,279 unique visitors.
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Innovative Exams
Industry: Education
Innovative Exams provides testing services through self-service kiosks. Clients like Accenture, CompTIA and the State of Illinois use our self-service kiosk to administer high-stake exams. Candidates no longer have to travel to testing centers to take their exams. Our kiosks can be easily placed in public locations like libraries, schools and corporate offices. The main model for taking high-stake exams is to travel to a traditional testing-center. This model makes it extremely expensive and it disenfranchises people who live in remote parts of the country. In addition, traditional brick-and-mortar testing centers are extremely expensive to run. Innovative Exams is the only company that is offering high-stake testing using kiosks.
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Nalco: OxiPRO Deposit Co...
Industry: B2B Technology
OxiPRO Deposit Control Technology is a patented offering for enhanced control of microbial growth and deposit-formation in papermaking systems. Real-time monitoring instruments measure surface deposition, microbial activity, and process conditions to ensure maximum benefit from the deposit control program. Data can be accessed via the web and alarms can be used to alert operators to conditions that are outside a target range. Traditional monitoring techniques include standard plate counts used to monitor bacterial density and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) measurements used as an indicator of microbial activity. Standard plate counts require lengthy incubation periods ranging from 24-hours to 5-days or more. Therefore, the value of the information is primarily related to diagnosis of a problem after it has occurred. OxiPRO Deposit Control Technology is currently implemented on over 100 paper, tissue, and towel machines in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
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Storage By The Box
Industry: Consumer Service
Storage By The Box customers, many who do not even own a car, need a convenient and value-minded self-storage solution, and do not want the inconvenience of having to haul their stuff to a warehouse, nor do they want the high cost of a traditional storage unit, especially if they don't need all the space. Storage By The Box turns traditional storage on its head, eliminating the inconvenient, expensive, cookie cutter option available to consumers in the past. Once online a customer is able to place an order for the exact amount of storage they need. We then ship free boxes, packing material, and shipping labels. Once they have their boxes packed and ready for storage they login to our website to schedule their storage pickup right from their door. They are then able to login to our patent pending storage management system and upload pictures, titles and descriptions of every box they have in storage. This makes storage retrieval easy; they get exactly what they need, at the time they need it. Storage By The Box is the first of its kinds when it comes to providing so many flexible, and easy to use storage options to its customers all through an easy to use online interface. They have recently signed an agreement to expand StorageByTheBox into the UK starting at the end of September.
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The Council for Adult an...
Industry: Education
The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning has created LearningCounts.org, an online service that helps adults achieve their college degrees more efficiently by assessing skills learned outside of the classroom and evaluating them for college credit. Experiences such as job training, military service, and volunteering services can be documented and assessed using the Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) to receive credit in order to accelerate degree completion. 56% of PLA students earned a postsecondary degree within seven years, while only 21% of non-PLA students did so. 43 % of PLA students earned a bachelor's degree, compared to only 15 % of non-PLA students. 13 % of PLA students earned an associate's degree, compared to 6 % of non-PLA students.
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BenchPrep
Industry: Education
BenchPrep is a learning platform where students can study on any device (iPhone, iPad, Android, and web) in an interactive, personalized, social, and game-like way.
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ITW Deltar Fuel Systems
Industry: B2B Technology
The ITW (Illinois Tool Works) Deltar’s Capless Refueling System provides automatic sealing while eliminating the traditional Gas Cap on an automobile. . The benefits include: customer convenience, faster refueling , avoidance of getting soiled hands and/or gloves during refueling, an accessible design for elderly/arthritic, and no lost or uninstalled gas caps . The Mis-Fuel Inhibitor (MFI) function permits the proper nozzle by discriminating between Diesel and Gasoline nozzles, does not allow the customer to refuel with wrong fuel type, and enhances security by not allowing siphon tubes. The product deters spillage more than competitors, as well as meets global fuel system requirements while competitive products only meet regional requirements.
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Compliance11: Insider Tr...
Industry: B2B Service
Compliance11’s Insider Trading compares employee's trades against news events, press releases, and SEC form 8-Ks that may have triggered a market moving event. This is very beneficial, as it makes discovering employees who are trading on insider information much easier. It is Pure SaaS, which allows for information to be always up to date and the ability to run the employees trades against news events, press releases, and/or SEC form 8-K that may have triggered a market moving event.
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Midtronics, Inc.
Industry: B2B Product
Midtronics created the industry's first battery analyzer for hybrid vehicles, the HYB-1000 Hybrid Battery System Analyzer. This system wirelessly communicates to the vehicle on-board diagnostic system, which allows it to assess the overall battery state in order to note when the pack needs to be serviced or replaced to avoid deterioration and performance issues. The HYB-1000 has established Midtronics as a technology leader in the hybrid/EV battery diagnostic space, leading to additional significant opportunities to partner with Nissan, GM and other companies to help shape and grow the hybrid/EV service industry.
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WomenOnCall.org Foundati...
Industry: Civic/Community/Non-profit
The WomenOnCall.org Foundation's website is dedicated to connecting female volunteers willing to donate their various skills to non-profits in need in order to make it easier and more enjoyable for skilled professionals and non-profits to connect with one another. Volunteers register a profile detailing their interests and experience; non-profits create their own profiles to describe their work and needed skill sets. WomenOnCall.org is free for users, and, as one of the first sites to focus on skills-based volunteerism, stands apart from its competition by matching highly skilled women with short-term yet meaningful commitments (e.g., brochure design, providing feedback). The WomenOnCall.org network currently includes more than 2,200 volunteer members and nearly 900 nonprofit members from Chicago and cities throughout the US. Notable nonprofits served include the Girl Scouts of America and the American Red Cross. More than 400 projects have been submitted through the site and over 6,400 hours have been tracked.
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Chicago Clamp Company
Industry: B2B Product
The Chicago Clamp Company's Tube Framing Clamp System is an alternative to the expensive, time-consuming and dangerous practices of welding or cut-angle methods in order to frame a roof opening--required for a skylight or exhaust fan, e.g. Welding requires certified labor and specialized tools, and if done in a finished environment often requires the building be shut down to avoid fumes or fire hazards. The Chicago Clamp Company's technology is simple enough for a contracting team to bolt in place, saving building owners time and money, while still being durable enough to hold up to 4,000 pounds.
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Ifbyphone, Inc.
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
Ifbyphone is a first-of-its-kind voice-based marketing automation platform that runs on a software-as-a-service model. Pioneered by Ifbyphone, voice-based marketing automation is a rapidly growing technology category due to its ability to handle the challenges that traditional marketing automation has struggled with -- managing, measuring and automating voice interactions. 43 percent of all Internet search sales conversions happen over the phone. This means that even as consumers take their research online, nearly half still prefer to buy over the phone. While it is easy enough to track leads that come in via web forms, Ifbyphone recognized that companies couldn't track the lead source for a phone call. Ifbyphone enables business to understand the source of their inbound calls so they know whether the call originated from a billboard, a search marketing campaign, or a printed sell sheet. With this clarity, companies can better optimize their ad spend and understand the true ROI on their lead-generation investments. While specific point solutions around marketing automation and call tracking technologies exist, Ifbyphone is the first to develop a suite of cloud-based technologies that address the big picture: enabling marketers to be more efficient and effective in driving sales, reducing collection cycles, measuring marketing effectiveness and improving the customer experience.
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FeeFighters
Industry: B2B Service
FeeFighters is an online comparison tool where businesses can search for bids from credit card processors at the lowest prices in order to save smaller businesses from paying too much on credit card processing. FeeFighters creates a transparent and easy-to-use platform and eliminates the confusion abundant in the credit card processing industry. FeeFighters has served over 15,000 small businesses and traffic to their website has quadrupled since early 2011.
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ELKAY
Industry: B2B Product
ELKAY's EZH2O Bottle Filling Station provides a quick, clean, and green way to get drinking water on-the-go, while helping to eliminate bottled water waste. The EZH2O is available as a standalone unit or as a combination unit with a standard drinking fountain. It fills 3 times faster than a traditional fountain, has a hands-free sensor to distribute water, is made with Silver Ion Anti-microbial material, and helps the environment by eliminating disposable plastic bottles. These stations feature electronic counters that track how many bottles have been saved, with some single units having saved over 200,000 bottles each since installation.
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Touch Taste Technologies
Industry: B2B Software
Touch Taste Technologies' Campus TouchPoints posts events and flyers to interactive digital bulletin boards to address the environmental inefficiency of posting physical flyers around campuses. The software is targeted both to students who can receive the postings on their mobile phones and transfer event data seamlessly to their phones so that they can be updated on events around campus from wherever they may be, as well as administrators who can efficiently run a central communication system on campus. The software can be easily integrated into campus mobile applications and can serve as a platform for integrated marketing solutions. Current clients include DePaul University and the Hard Rock Hotel.
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Nexvu APM, LLC
Industry: B2B Technology
Nexvu delivers analytic solutions to the retail industry that optimizes, measures, and visualizes the ROI of in-store technology investments in real-time. As customers become more tech-savvy, businesses respond by deploying new technologies and applications (such as kiosks, self-service checkouts, etc) to reduce long check-out lines and improve operations overall. Consequently, the need to actively monitor, troubleshoot, and manage the performance of these applications has dramatically increased. Nexvu presents the best, and only, solution for the retail industry to instantly check the availability, usability and performance of these devices through an online system. Also, Nexvu's patented Store Performance Index technology delivers the performance report of the store's IT infrastructure in the context of its impact on the customers experience and revenues.
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Middleby Marshall
Industry: B2B Product
In 2004, the WOW! Conveyor Oven changed the pizza industry by introducing a fast bake, energy savings and unsurpassed safety to a pizza restaurant. The WOW! 2 is the newest model of the WOW! Oven which boasts a greater energy savings, thereby reducing total energy costs. Further, you reduce labor costs because there is no need for someone to tend the oven due to its conveyor system. The Wow! 2 is also safest oven in the industry. At no time is an employee's arms in contact with hot air or a hot surface. Lastly, with a conveyor oven replacing a deck, there is no more guesswork in if a pizza pie is over-baked or under-baked, operators get a perfect product every time. The WOW! Oven and WOW! 2 are patented technologies. No other conveyor company in the world has this technology to cook faster, be safer, save energy and labor costs.
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Signal
Industry: Marketing & Advertising
The Signal Cross-Channel Marketing Platform application enables marketers to manage their mobile, email, and social marketing efforts in one location, with a single, unified view of the customer. By providing true cross-channel solutions, the Signal platform enables users across all types of organizations to activate their marketing programs from a single interface, providing a unified view of the success of the programs. Over 200,000 campaigns have been launched using this platform, enabling over 400,000,000 customer interactions. The Signal platform is companies such as Sears, Redbox, Toms Shoes, Cars.com, Apartments.com, Orbitz, and more. It has been recognized by the Mobile Marketing Association, Mobile Marketer, and the Inc. 500|5000.
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Channel IQ
Industry: B2B Service
Channel Monitor is a service that provides Real-time pricing and inventory data, which allows manufacturers and retailers to better manage their business online. Retailers use it to monitor competitors product section and pricing. Manufacturers use it to monitor their retailers online to better manage their online channels. Most competitive retail pricing offerings must collect online data manually which introduces errors and stale data by the time it is all collected and reported. Their solution is fully automated and fully controlled by the client. For competitors that collect data automatically, it is generalized and shared amongst all their clients, not controlled by the individual client. ChannelIQ uniquely provides the most detailed data exactly when people what to acquire it. Clients include Sony, Olympus, Kodak, Dyson, LG, Hoover, Panasonic, Sennheiser, Burton, Harman Kardon, Logitech, Whirlpool, Maytag, ToysRUs and seventy others
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Cobra Electronics: Cobra...
Industry: Consumer Product
Cobra Electronics' Cobra iRadar is a radar system and smartphone application system that keeps drivers aware of their speed, location and a host of potential trouble spots in their path in order to make the roads a safer place to drive. Cobra iRadar communicates between its detector unit and the user's smartphone with Bluetooth technology, enabling users view radar alerts, control settings, log alert history and be warned of upcoming speed and red-light cameras. It includes a user-defined maximum speed setting for their automobile and audibly warns the driver if that speed is exceeded. Users can also take advantage of social networking by sharing information and safety alerts with others in the Cobra network with a simple touch of the screen. No other competitors offer detection systems that communicate with a smartphone app. The closest competitor, Trapster, merely allows users to share user-reported information, not information backed up by a detection system. The Cobra iRadar application has had 150,000 downloads, and has received such awards as the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) New Product Showcase Award, the CES Innovations Award honor from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), and a 2011 International Design Excellence Award (IDEA).
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