An app platform that connects healthcare professionals with hospital shift work. An AR gaming and training experience for golfing. A platform connecting renters with housing grants for home purchases. These are just a few of the startups accepted into FAU Tech Runway’s Cohort 12.
FAU Tech Runway is a public-private partnership formed to incubate and accelerate early-stage technology-based companies. The Venture Program is a year-long program for startups that offers resources from FAU’s Innovation and Business Development pipeline, entrepreneurial instruction, structured team-based mentoring, networking, marketing and capital-raising assistance, co-working space, events, intern support, and other vital programs.
Companies accepted into the Venture Program align with FAU’s research focus areas, including drone technologies; educational technologies; environmental science; marine science; ocean engineering; neuroscience; healthy aging; big data analytics; artificial intelligence; machine learning; cyber security; sensing; and smart systems. Perhaps the most famous alum of the Tech Runway program is Jan Bednar of ShipMonk, a graduate of the inaugural class. Companies that have graduated from Tech Runway’s Venture Program more recently include Carbon Limit, Flo-Ops, DiaM. Guident and Neptunya.
Here are the 16 companies in Venture Class 12 (descriptions provided by Tech Runway):
- Clinical Fitness provides a safe environment where clients can be guided and educated by medical professionals in the proper use of gym equipment.
- DashOne is a developing wearable tech that empowers athletes to improve their form and performance in real time through reinforcement cues and in-depth analytics.
- DealHero is a web platform designed to connect military, veterans and first responders with businesses that support them by offering deals and discounts on their products and services.
- Glowby Lightbulbs are patent-pending, long-lasting, rechargeable lightbulbs for places where running wiring is impossible or impractical. Install lighting fixtures anywhere and have easy, instant light that can last years before requiring a recharge.
- Housing Nonprofit is a platform connecting renters with housing grants to purchase a home. Their technology analyzes the requirements for all incentives to buy a house and allow users to check eligibility for all programs via a single form.
- HUMM STAFFING is an app platform that connects healthcare professionals with hospital shift work.
- Integral Vista Solutions is a company that provides innovative technological solutions to improve the efficiency and profitability of residential service companies.
- Kastaco connects talent such as models, actors, voice-over artists, singers and musicians with valuable opportunities.
- MM COMMUNICA is a digital public relations firm dedicated to helping small businesses and personal brands improve their reputation and authority online.
- Printed Patio uses concrete 3D printing to generate bespoke landscape and architectural features.
- Puttrax 360 is golf’s first AR gaming and training experience for putting, where computer vision technology automatically tracks and scores every putt.
- RideGuide is an app that provides a highly customized library to educate drivers on the proper use and operation of features and technology in their cars using videos, searchable manuals and how-to guides.
- SecureTec ID is a software mobile application that uses biometric data gathered from contactless fingerprints for the community and policing. It also provides identification and additional intel, utilizing numerous databases, to promote and encourage safety.
- Telly College empowers students to maximize their college experience, by use of daily on- and off-campus events with voting and attendance stats.
- Therapy in a Click aims to establish a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that uplifts mental health care accessibility by offering free virtual therapy sessions with licensed mental health professionals to high school students within Palm Beach County.
- Wisp Energy LLC (WE) will employ a proprietary Dual Axis Wind Turbine (DAWT) using advanced AI and ML to improve wind turbine performance, adding variables to the wind interaction and yielding improvements of more than 30 percent in efficiency and/or ROI.
For more information, visit techrunway.fau.edu.
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