In 2015 the Sacramento region was host to several events and programs geared to helping our region’s entrepreneurs launch their ideas. These ranged from Startup Weekends to more formal accelerator programs backed by VCs. Programs like these are a great way to help our local entrepreneurs launch their ideas. At this time of year it seems fitting to pay tribute to the local entrepreneurs who participated in these programs this year, sacrificing their time and resources in their entrepreneurial pursuits.
Velocity Ventures Accelerator
Velocity Venture Capital kicked off its 6th annual Entrepreneurs Showcase Fall Accelerator program, a 10-week program that educates and mentors top startups and graduate students then connects them to other entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 corporations, policymakers and investors facilitating knowledge, experience, idea and resource sharing. They selected 13 tech startups for admission to the program. Well done teams! We look forward to hearing more about your ventures in the upcoming year.
Alert-360 provides enterprise safety and security technology to companies in order to reduce risk and keep employees safe.
www.alert-360.com
Carbon Flight, LLC is an advanced materials company that has created the hollow wall composite tube.
https://www.carbon-flight.com/
CINESHARES is uniquely positioned to be the first Ecosystem as a Service to help EAAS filmmakers through the Hollywood labyrinth script-to-screen.
http://www.cineshares.com/
eze System makes dumb things smart. We instrument commercial and industrial equipment with sensors, meters and ways to control them via the Internet.
http://ezesys.com
Forager is a B2B SaaS company targeting digital advertisers.
getforager.com
MapThat is SaaS platform to create engaging map visualizations by geo-enabling your business data in real time, and combining it with up-to-date demographics and other open datasets.
www.mapthat.io
Mechanical Bakery, LLC is the dashboard for your handlebars. DB is an integrated bike headlight and phone charger that uses a smartphone as a bike computer.
themechanicalbakery.com
Second Wind is a fitness wearable company focused on providing REAL TIME fitness key analytics to competitive athletes.
http://secondwindintroduction.strikingly.com/
SFVision is delivering systems of engagement to enable expert sales by radically changing how they interact with Cloud CRM systems like Salesforce.com.
www.sfvision.com
Signata helps electronics companies save time and money by providing innovative, accurate and user-friendly signal analysis capabilities to engineers around the world.
www.signatacorp.com
Splor brings collaboration into the digital classroom. We accelerate learning and empower students by offering on-demand tutor matching in and out of school.
splor.org
Talaris Technologies allows you to explore new homes before they are even built, visualize and interact with your architectural designs, walk through worlds that only exist in the imagination.
www.stompzvr.com
wimZr is a mobile application that gives people the ability to connect prior to arriving at travel destinations and events around the world.
www.wimZr.com
Hacker Lab Startup Hustle
The Hacker Lab graduated their first cohort from their Startup Hustle program in November. Congratulations to all the teams participated in this 6 week program!
myfirstday.io – Software to welcome, inform and engage new employees from their first day forward. www.myfirstday.io
HUGGS – A platform that helps dietitians design personalized meal plans and groceries for their clients. huggs.strikingly.com
Team Square Root – Engineering the way you grow food.
square-root.launchrock.com
Openboard – Allowing you to build a longboard that means something to you.
OpenBoard.cc
Delivery Unit – A web application that enables frictionless, cross-sector performance management.
https://deliveryunit.co
On Demand Inventory – An internet of things solution for Supply Chain managers that automates inventory data collection.
http://www.ondemandinventory.com
The Sacramento Creative Colony – The Sacramento Creative Colony helps build communities for creative people to sell their creations, products an merchandise in a real world marketplace built for small business!
www.sacramentocreativecolony.com
PestScope – Real time pest mapping.
PestScope.com
Class Hints – Get to know your classes before you take them.
strikingly.com
California Clips – Clip-on water conservation – recover up to a gallon per flush.
www.californiaclips.com
iBiddo – An online bidding platform for individuals to connect with mechanics for automobile repairs and diagnostics to save them time and money.
http://www.ibiddo.com
Cater Request – Cater Request is priceline like application for Cater Industry. http://www.caterrequest.com/
Eye2Mobile – World’s first interchangeable mobile phone adaptor for slit lamps and microscopes. www.eye2mobile.com
Startup Weekend Sacramento: EdTech Edition
The Sacramento Startup Weekend team organized an EdTech edition of Startup Weekend in May. Startup Weekends are an intense 54 hours of pitching an idea, forming a team, business plan development, market validation, and design and coding.
Next Dollar App – App empowering people with intellectual disabilities to shop independently.
http://www.nextdollarapp.co/
Our Teachers – Ratings and feedback of teachers, for parents, by parents.
TruThink – Truthink gives you the ability to see both sides of complex issues.
Startup Weekend Sacramento: Elk Grove Edition
The second Startup Weekend in the region in 2016 took place at Elk Grove’s new coworking space, Innogrove and coincided with Global Startup Battle. Over the course of the weekend we saw 54 attendees pitch 19 ideas and 8 teams ultimately presented final pitches. Judging was close for the top four teams.
Invimma – a software application for leaving video messages via a text link instead of voicemails.
RenIt – a platform to rent items you aren’t using to people who need them (like sporting equipment).
Play to Gather – a mobile platform for board games.
Word Birds – word game for sharp people.
Once again, congratulations to all teams who participated in these events and programs in 2015. We hope you continue the pursuit of developing these ideas you’ve pitched.
If you missed out on any of these events in 2015, don’t worry, plans are well under way to host another round of these events in 2016. Check back regularly for new about these upcoming events.
