Clients

Aetion Technologies LLC
Aetion’s patent-pending software enables users to identify the best choice when faced with an impossibly large number of options. Each alternative is rated on several criteria of merit, using large-scale simulation where necessary, while the user navigates the tradeoffs between the best options. The technology is employed to solve problems in military situation awareness and planning, financial decision making, and reducing manufacturing costs. Aetion grew out of the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research at The Ohio State University, and its founders include some of the world’s most respected names in the field of applied computer power for decision support.

Aqualinks
Aqualinks Technologies develops specialized coastal prediction systems for the water, power and oil industries. Its integrated software toolkit preidcts water levels, wave heights, water temperature, currents and contaminant transport for oceans and lakes. This information can be used to protect critical marine infrastructures, assist search and rescue operations, facilitate emergency planning, and enhance navigation safety.

Avantec
Avantec manufactures and sells antimicrobial and sanitation products based on dry-media chlorine dioxide technology. The company’s proprietary devices deliver precise quantities of chlorine dioxide for applications in the food, water purification, health care, consumer products and indoor air quality industries. Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) is the most versatile biocide compound available today for destroying pathogens commonly found in the environment today. The First Fifty Fund is an investor in Avantec.

Boxicom
Boxicom is developing a patent pending backup appliance which is designed to displace the existing tape solutions typically found in small to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The solution is designed to back up large amounts of data to an off-site location over common Internet broadband connections such as DSL and cable. The technology is designed to create extremely efficient backup images by transferring the actual changes in data at block or byte level over the Internet. Our solution also automatically moves the data offsite and achieves one of the principal requirements of a sound disaster recovery plan.

CallCopy, Inc.
Do you tell your customers “Your call may be recorded?” If you do, then you need CallCopy! CallCopy offers a feature rich contact center recording system including telephony recording, desktop screen capture, customized recording schedules, and call logging. The application is used by contact centers in assurance and training programs, as well as compliance with federal regulations. Our modular design ensures stability of the recorder while enabling the system to be customized for a variety of technical environments. Engineered by industry veterans and tested in a live contact center, CallCopy has entered the market with our toes to the line of industry standards and a strong foundation for scalable growth.

CellSignals, Inc.
The mission of CellSignals is to design and synthesize new therapeutic agents for the treatments of catastrophic diseases such as malaria, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. The company's is using proprietary bio-organic chiral technologies to develop biologically active compounds with signaling function in proliferation, apoptosis, and survival of human cells.

Clevex
CleveX develops and sells skin biopsy, closure and repair solutions that markedly improve patient outcomes and enhance practice economics for dermatology, cosmetic surgery and primary care physicians. The company’s flagship product, the ExiClip, eliminates the tedious and time-consuming surgery and suture approach currently used by medical professionals to remove skin lesions and significantly improves patient outcomes. The technology was developed by surgeons at The Cleveland Clinic and is fully owned by CleveX.

DIRAmed LLC
DIRAmed LLC is developing an innovative platform technology in the medical diagnostic industry. With DIRAmed’s technology a device that performs totally non-invasive assays of blood chemistries appears feasible. Using proprietary analysis techniques we expect to overcome obstacles to previous attempts at developing spectroscopic based non-invasive instruments. We have established a Non-Invasive Development Laboratory.

entrotech
entrotech was formed in November of 1999 funded by private investment to be a cutting-edge, creative and proactive technological leader in developing film base advanced material solutions for a variety of high-tech industries. These films can share one or more of the following properties: adhesive, viscoelastic damping, rate controlling, breathable, gas generating, barrier, thermally conductive, electrically conductive, absorptive, and releasable. In five years, the compay has grown to $10 million in sales, providing unique applications, using the latest technologies in polymer science.

entrotech 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.

Go Big Media, LLC
The Go Big Network is an online service that allows business professionals to connect and interact with one another. Users are represented on the site with personal profiles. You choose the information in your profile and therefore control what can be seen by other users. The Go Big Network must collect certain pieces of information in the normal course of its business and Go Big Media retains the ownership rights to this information.

Global Seven
Global Seven is a unique producer of specialty chemicals for personal care and household products. The company has the flexibility to custom-design products and finished formulations to suit customer needs. Included in the Global Seven product line are a wide range of specialty surfactants, emulsifiers, thickeners, amines, amides and esters.

HyperTech Research
HyperTech Research, Inc. is a world leader in researching, developing, and manufacturing magnesium diboride (MgB2) superconducting wire. While always seeking the best price performance, our objective is to produce superconducting wires, coils, and systems that will serve a broad range of electrical component and system needs for commercial medical and energy applications.

InsightETE
InsightETE provides solutions that measure and troubleshoot IT system performance by monitoring the flow of information to and from IT users. By measuring both availability and response time across all platforms and systems in near real time, the company helps its clients track service levels, reduce outages, and improve customer satisfaction. InsightETE also measures business efficiency by monitoring the performance of all steps in any business process.

InVasc Therapeutics
InVasc Therapeutics, Inc. is dedicated to reducing Cardiovascular Disease through the proprietary synthesis and commercial development of novel anti-atherosclerosis compounds with simultaneous applicability in atherosclerosis-associated conditions such as hypertension, metabolic syndrome, thrombosis and aging. InVasc is seeking to establish itself as an innovative niche company focusing on anti-atherosclerosis pharmaceutical agents. Our focus as a company is on conventional small molecule pharmaceuticals with its implications for ease of production and scale-up technology without risk. InVasc has selected the atherosclerosis/metabolic syndrome pathway in view of the worldwide market and a significant unmet need. We intend to pursue a well-defined and carefully rehearsed product development strategy based on the founders' prior crystallized collective experiences in drug development.

MID - Miminally Invasive Devices
Minimally Invasive Devices (MID) is developing a suite of innovative disposable tools for improving the efficiency and the quality of minimally invasive surgical procedures. MID’s premier device, Clear-Vu, prevents fog from forming on a laparoscope during surgery. Clear-Vu radically improves visibility during surgery as it eliminates the need for repeatedly removing and reinserting instruments.

MetaMateria Partners
MetaMateria Partners (MMP) develops new ways to make and apply advanced materials that are critical for enhancing the performance of components, devices and engineered systems. MMP acquires and enhances new technologies from universities. The technology is then further developed for commercial applications by MMP's manufacturing partners. Several platform technologies are used, including near-net shape reaction fabrication, powder synthesis, shape forming, geopolymer synthesis, and novel coating technologies. Applications include fuel cells, nanotechnology, gas sensors, electronic components, biomaterials and structural ceramic applications. The company is is the recipient of Third Frontier Action Fund grants and multiple SBIR grants.

Molecules for Health

Morgenix, LLC
Morgenix, LLC was founded in 2005 as a result of the acquisition of the Senplex™ materials technology for non-automotive applications from DuPont Corporation. Senplex™ is a metal-oxide technology that is utilized in the construction of sensors that are capable of suppporting multiple analytes and under severe operating conditions. Markets for the Senplex™ technology include industrial, military and homeland security applications. Morgenix, LLC also works as a development partner with other companies that have licensed the Senplex™ technology for automotive applications from DuPont.

NanoStatics
NanoStatics LLC is a new company started in November, 2005. The NanoStatics business is based around two core technologies. First, is the development of high throughput electrohydrodynamic spinning systems, or electrospinning to produce nanofibers at very high production rates. These nanofibers can be electrospun directly on to a surface or can be spun into a mat or membrane. Our second core is the development of engineered nanofibers using low environmental impact chemistry. We call this Green Spinning™.

We have created enabling technologies that will significantly lower the cost and environmental impact of making nanomaterials. NanoStatics designs and builds electrospinning systems, develops innovative nanofiber materials technology and has pilot scale prototyping capability.

OncoImmune
OncoImmune, Ltd. is developing novel therapeutics for cancer and multiple sclerosis through research in functional genomics, immunology and oncology. This biotechnology company focuses on developing innovative concepts from a strong portfolio of proprietary research by its four founders, Drs. Yang Liu, Pan Zheng, Kunliang Guan and Ming You, prominent scientists from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. The BTC will provide OncoImmune with an incubation environment throughout its current research phase and its product development and pilot manufacturing phases.

Palestra Group
The Mobile Content Netwrok Company does business as The Palestra. The Palestra is an advanced media company that is riding a new wave of communications technology. The Palestra isn't television or broadcast or print media... we're taking all of the it together and delivering it on the internet to people across the globe in a student run media company. The content of the company is based on college sports, music and university news.

Phylogeny
Phylogeny accelerates the discovery of new drugs by enabling scientists to achieve excellence in functional genomic research. Scientists come to Phylogeny for help in determining the function of various genes involved in diseases such as cancer, arthritis, and Alzheimer’s disease. Phylogeny provides a state-of-the-art experimental service called in- situ hybridization that is customized to the needs of each client. In addition to providing research services, Phylogeny is launching a new product-based business unit that is selling arrays, which can be used by researchers to screen a large number of patient samples simultaneously for expression of a particular gene or protein. The company’s products and services are dedicated to supporting streamlined, accurate, and clinically relevant research that will improve the quality of medical care.

Plannet
Plannet is a software and services company focused on providing network security and performance solutions that protect data, systems and information according to industry best practices and procedures. Its approach to problem solving is based on a combined philosophy of solid fundamentals and principles as it relates to information protection, sharing and management. What makes Plannet unique is the way in which its products and services integrate. The company's software works in tandem with its management services to make event correlation and notification seamless, effective and efficient. Plannet's monitoring facilities are strategically located in Cleveland and Columbus.

SensIrOx
SensIrOx offers unique electrochemical sensors to meet significant unaddressed needs in the laboratory, industrial process control, and medical device markets. Its technology, developed by The Ohio State University, is based on a proprietary process for growing an iridium oxide film via the oxidation of an iridium wire in a carbonate melt. The resulting sensor exhibits superior stability when compared to today’s commercially available devices. The company’s first product is a pH electrode able to outperform other products on the market. Following the successful commercialization of the initial sensor, the company will introduce derivative products with integrated sensors to measure carbon dioxide, urea, glucose, and other analytes. The First Fifty Fund is an investor in the company.

Strategic Thinking Industries (STI)
Strategic Thinking Industries (STI) is an innovative leader in Custom Applications and Business Intelligence solutions. Specializing in Labor and Delivery systems within the Healthcare Information Technology Industry, STI provides the technical expertise to enable users of Labor and Delivery Applications to turn data into usable information. This market segment continues to grow as more hospitals convert from paper-based systems to electronic charting systems.
STI currently markets three products for the Labor and Delivery segment: STI Standard Reporting – a value added reporting solution for existing systems, STI Interface Engine – a data migration tool interfacing Labor and Delivery data with other hospital systems, and STI Perinatal Database - an enterprise perinatal database consolidating multiple Labor and Delivery Systems.

TeamDynamix
TeamDynamix produces advanced enterprise project management and professional services automation solutions for domestic and international clients ranging from small enterprises to Fortune 25 companies. Its solutions are focused on helping executives, managers and project team members work more effectively. TeamDynamix V4.0 Project Suite is the latest edition of its acclaimed Project Management, Reporting and Project Collaboration server. The suite enables executives to accurately assess the financial and timeline health of resources and project portfolios. Project managers have all of the tools necessary to monitor team progress, identify and resolve potential problems and to communicate with project teams while project team members have instant access to all relevant project information. The system tells them exactly where their time should be focused each day. TeamDynamix solutions are easy to implement, easy to use and attractively priced. TeamDynamix also produces several OEM vertical market solutions in insurance and healthcare private labeled for business partners.