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Alleractive

AllerActive’s vision is to provide a digital network for the food allergy community through a mobile application and online community. AllerActive’s value proposition is to improve the quality of life and conveniencefor its users through community-based food allergy planning, reference, and news tools.

 


Bobolink Innovations

The CEU Connector is an application that simplifies the search & connects you with local providers of CEU classes based on your credentials.

 

Gameway

Gameway promotes a different breed of college sports

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Global Petals LLC

By leveraging expertise in niche markets, online marketing, and an innovative business model, Global Petals provides Ecuadorian flower farms with a platform used to increase their interanational exposure, build a unique individual brand, consultation on building diverse revenue streams, and overall international business develpment. Consumers now have full transparency into their purchase and a means to build a long term efficient relationship.

 


I.C.E. (aka Benecure)

A heart monitoring device that saves lives by saving time.

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Illini Prosthetic Technologies
Stage: Graduated

Illini Prosthetic Technologies is a non-profit organization that strives to re-enable amputees around the world through simple, innovative and affordable prosthetics.

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Illinois Green Business Association

The Illinois Green Business Association is a non-profit organization that offers a green business certification program, sustainability implementation services and community education of green business practices throughout Illinois.

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NiteMenu.com

Nitemenu is a social networking website centered around its users - college students - nightly activities. It eliminates the need to individually reach out to friends to uncover what they plan to do on any given night. It will be tailored to individual college campuses, and will streamline the process of formulating social plans - one aspect of college life that needs drastic improvement.

 

Study Cloud

StudyCloud is a next generation learning management system and collaboration platform. StudyCloud takes your class and brings it to life online. Not just the documents and the files, the entire classroom experience. Every interaction. Every Conversation..

Tabule

UI bio major Muhammed Fazeel and Illinois Tech CS major Neil Gupta make student-teacher interaction more fluid and effective with Tabule.

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TrakBill

TrakBill makes it simple for lobbyists to find and receive updates on the legislation important to them and their companies

Voicle

With so many forms of social media in the digital marketplace, face-to-face meetings are occurring less and less. UI Electrical Engineering (EE) major Daeho Kim noted this phenomenon and began developing Voicle, a smartphone app that helps its users connect in real life, with a team of five friends.

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WhatFitsMe

WhatFitsMe is a service that recommends clothes based on fit. Users indicate one or more garments that fit, and WhatFitsMe suggests new clothes with similar dimensions.

Zero Percent

ZeroPercent builds systems and technology to help businesses move out excess food via real-time deals and donations, instead of throwing it away.

 

 

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5Degrees (formerly GitBax)

5Degrees (formerly GitBax) is a mobile application that makes responding to people easy and fun. This relationship management tool focuses on keeping users connected to their networks.

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Aptello (Cygnas Corp.)

The Aptello team create an online service exchange platform initially focused on education services such as tutoring and professional development.

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Business Traveler Social

Business travelers know what it is like to be constantly on the move. Thanks to BTSocial, it is no longer necessary for them to jump from place to place online, too.

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Dining Dialog

All-in-one restaurant marketing software solution which helps restaurants increase revenue, acquire new customers and increase repeat visits



Easy Go Dispenser

New mothers, bodybuilders and U.S. servicemen don’t often find themselves in the same target audience; with the product launch of the Easy Go Dispenser, they may find that they have a few things in common.

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Effimax Solar

Effimax Solar is making major strides in the clean technology industry – and people are taking notice.

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GreenPurposeLLC

Green Purpose LLC
Stage: Graduated

Green Purpose LLC is an eco-minded enterprise that provides communities with innovative solutions for reducing solid waste.

 

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Merge.fm

Merge.fm lets fans share the creative process with their favorite music artists, and seeks to ease collaboration among musicians

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PrintEco
Stage: Graduated/On Going

PrintEco is a Microsoft plug-in that helps companies reduce their printing costs by up to 17%. This simple Microsoft plug-in enables employees to print in a more eco-friendly way with a single click.

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Regroup Therapy

Regroup combines the expertise of licensed therapists with the power of video support groups to help people feel better by coming together

 

SERIONIX
Stage: Technology Development

Serionix entered the job market with a good economy on its side – Dr. Economy, that is.

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SilverScreen aka MilkShield
Stage: Graduated

SilverScreen develops Milkshield, a platform technology that keeps milk fresh without refrigeration.

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Site Diagnostics

Site-Diagnostics (SD) is a biotechnology company focused on veterinary diagnostic applications that use a gel-drop biochip technology. Our first product is BMSiteTest, a rapid cow side diagnostic test to identify mastitis in dairy cows and the associated pathogen that is causing the infection. Global losses from BM approach $10 billion annually. Our initial target will be the large US dairy producer with 500 or more head and large co-ops.

 

SpotHero
Stage:

Driving and parking in Chicago can be a serious headache – and a serious money drain. See what SpotHero is doing to help.

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Tech.li

Tech.li team is currently working to expand its news coverage of startups outside of San Fransisco and to recruit writers in different cities.

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Tiesta Tea
Stage: Graduated

Tiesta Tea was founded with the goal of providing the highest quality custom-blended flavored teas in the world. Catering to a customer’s daily lifestyle needs, Tiesta Tea offers five lines of teas categorized by their effects on the customer, rather than by their type or origin. Each line of tea has a wide variety of flavors design to appeal to every beverage drinker. Tiesta Tea believes tea should be accessible to people of all ages. Tea should not only be an affordable luxury, but also a daily health necessity.

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travelperks.com

Travel-Perks.com
Stage: Graduated

Travel-Perks is an employer-administered platform that allows employees to plan, save, budget and pay for vacation in installments.

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Twit Club
Stage: Graduated

TwitClub is a service that connects twitter users with like interests so that they can follow and be followed. With very limited budget to market the site, Jason has built a large number of daily users and seems to have a unique service – his competition is made up of sites that offer the same service but do so in order to spam twitter users.

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UTicketIt

UTicketIt
Stage: Graduated

UTicketIt is an online event registration and management service created to help small firms, non-profits, universities, churches and community organizations that hold general admission events.

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Advanced Clothing Solutions

Advanced Clothing Solutions was created to improve customer service within the retail clothing industry. By integrating technology, which supplements existing human elements, and incorporating new applicable features ACS will aid retailers in delivering unparalleled customer service and generating quantifiable trends in the clothing industry.

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Battlehard Game Studio
Stage: Graduated

Battlehard Game Studio creates games that address problems such as gaming addiction, social isolation and lack of player communication.

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Intelliwheels

IntelliWheels
Stage: Graduated

IntelliWheels is an innovative house for wheelchair technologies. Products include on-board tool kits, Caster Skis for the winter weather, and IntelliWheels AGS.

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ZingZag
Stage: Revenue

ZingZag makes social media marketing as easy as drag-and-drop and point-and-click.

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Blue Radius Media (World View
Stage: Technology Development

Worldview is a geographically organized network enabling people to connect & share streaming video from online news sources & on-demand TV.

Bzula
Stage: Business Development

Bzula is the complete solution for connecting with personal acquaintances. It includes a smart address book that is always updated and accessible, and gives real-time information about people.

Contendable
Stage: Technology Development

Contendable, a management solution for competitions, allows businesses and universities to run engaging promotions and to crowdsource ideas, designs and deliverables.

CouponRelay
Stage: Technology Development

CouponRelay is a low cost advertising platform that allows businesses to reward customers with coupons for virally advertising their business on Facebook.

CrowdSavvy
Stage: Technology Development

New apps hit the market every week in an effort to cater to the needs of smartphone users, but the needs of the app designers are often overlooked. Crowdsavvy aims to change that.

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EventBacker
Stage: Technology Development

EventBacker matches organizers of small events to sponsors, creating value for the organizer, the sponsor, and the audience.

F+/ REL Industries
Stage: Inactive

F+ automates bank's CRA requirements by identifying, organizing, and monitoring opportunities for moderate and low-income families.


FarmFixe

FarmFixe helps local foodies discover and buy the best local artisanal foods. In doing so, FarmFixe helps local food producers find new customers and develop impactful brands.

Glad.ly
Stage: Inactive

Glad.ly uses the mass network of Twitter to offer a new way for someone to donate to charity.

GroupKonnect
Stage: Inactive

GroupKonnect provides an online medium for establishing public group profiles and for connecting with similar groups for off-line events. 


Instarta

Instarta provides politicians, political consultants and pollsters with data-driven technology to help them interpret, target and reach the increasingly elusive demographic of cellphone-only U.S. households. 

Joseph Elble
Stage: Inactive

Joseph Elble develops the first electronic trading platform for corporate and municipal bonds.

Moverang
Stage: Inactive

Moverang is a fee-based address change solution, which users only input the information once.

My College Storage
Stage: Inactive

My College Storage specializes in helping college students around the world with summer and extended storage, shipping, freshman ship-to-school, and study abroad services.

P&H Security
Stage: Inactive

P&H Security modifies a standard deadbolt design to incorporate a wireless receiver to lock or unlock a door.

Passing Green
Stage:

If you have ever wished that making money was as simple as point-and-click, your wish has been granted by Passing Green.

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PerkSpy
Stage: Technology and Business Development

Just because e-mail discounts for hang gliding lessons, golf tours and spa days can be sent from a distributor to its entire e-mail list, doesn’t mean that they should be.  At least, that’s the philosophy of PerkSpy.

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WiGo
Stage: Inactive

WiGo provides a wireless screen that allows a user to remotely control his/her computer, eliminiating the need for a secondary computer.

 

 

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