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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. |
Aptello The Aptello team create an online service exchange platform initially focused on education services such as tutoring and professional development. |
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Battlehard Game Studio Battlehard Game Studio creates games that address problems such as gaming addiction, social isolation and lack of player communication. |
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BTSocial 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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Bzula 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. |
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Contendable Contendable, a management solution for competitions, allows businesses and universities to run engaging promotions and to crowdsource ideas, designs and deliverables. |
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CouponRelay CouponRelay is a low cost advertising platform that allows businesses to reward customers with coupons for virally advertising their business on Facebook. |
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CrowdSavvy 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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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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EventBacker EventBacker matches organizers of small events to sponsors, creating value for the organizer, the sponsor, and the audience. |
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Fitoodle A good workout plan and the right diet can be difficult to find, but with Fitoodle, a healthy lifestyle is just a few clicks away. |
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Gameway promotes a different breed of college sports |
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GroupKonnect GroupKonnect provides an online medium for establishing public group profiles and for connecting with similar groups for off-line events. |
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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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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. |
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IntelliWheels 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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IsoMax The IsoMax exercise and rehabilitation machine offers safe, high-intensity training that targets fast twitch muscle fibers, providing injury and concussion prevention in addition to cardiac and neurological rehabilitation. |
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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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Paperless Rewards Paperless Rewards allows small businesses to have their own rewards system and mass customer messaging systems. |
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Passing Green 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 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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PrintEco 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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SERIONIX Serionix entered the job market with a good economy on its side – Dr. Economy, that is. |
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SilverScreen aka MilkShield SilverScreen develops Milkshield, a platform technology that keeps milk fresh without refrigeration. |
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SpotHero 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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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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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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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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ZingZag ZingZag makes social media marketing as easy as drag-and-drop and point-and-click. |
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Green Purpose LLC Green Purpose LLC is an eco-minded enterprise that provides communities with innovative solutions for reducing solid waste.
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Illini Prosthetic Technologies 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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Travel-Perks.com Travel-Perks is an employer-administered platform that allows employees to plan, save, budget and pay for vacation in installments. |
UTicketIt 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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Glad.ly Glad.ly uses the mass network of Twitter to offer a new way for someone to donate to charity. |
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F+/ REL Industries F+ automates bank's CRA requirements by identifying, organizing, and monitoring opportunities for moderate and low-income families. |
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Glad.ly Glad.ly uses the mass network of Twitter to offer a new way for someone to donate to charity. |
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Joseph Elble Joseph Elble develops the first electronic trading platform for corporate and municipal bonds. |
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Moverang Moverang is a fee-based address change solution, which users only input the information once. |
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My College Storage 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. |
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P&H Security P&H Security modifies a standard deadbolt design to incorporate a wireless receiver to lock or unlock a door. |
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WiGo WiGo provides a wireless screen that allows a user to remotely control his/her computer, eliminiating the need for a secondary computer. |