Florida Venture Forum Announces Presenting Companies For EmergingTech Showcase Taking Place May 20, 2022 |
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Tampa and Miami, FL- May 5, 2022- Florida Venture Forum, Florida’s largest statewide support organization for investors and entrepreneurs, is pleased to announce it has selected 17 companies to present at its EmergingTech Showcase, being held at the GuideWell Innovation Center at Lake Nona on May 20, 2022.
Ben Patz, Co-founder and Managing Partner with DeepWork Capital and EmergingTech Showcase Selection Committee Chair said, “One of the true joys of being in venture capital, is to see truly innovative technologies that promise a different, better world from the current one. The principal challenge is down-selecting from a set of amazing companies that cover a wide array of emerging technologies. I want to thank all companies that applied and all those that spent many hours reviewing the applications to come up with this impressive group of presenting companies.”
Kevin Burgoyne, President and CEO of the Florida Venture Forum said, “Congratulations to the companies selected for this year’s showcase, and to all of those who applied. The quality of our applicants was unprecedentedly high and our selection committee did an amazing job reviewing and choosing the final presenters. We welcome them to the Forum, and look forward to seeing them present on May 20th.”
This year’s selected group of presenters include companies from throughout the State of Florida and beyond, representing multiple industries and technologies. Presenting companies were selected by a committee of active venture capital investors.
Presenting companies will also have the opportunity to compete for the Space Florida’s Accelerating Innovation (AI) awards, totaling $100,000.
Online registration is still open for those that have not registered. Also, a few remaining sponsorships are still available.
Presenting companies by region:
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Central & East/West Central Florida
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Brick Street Farms, (www.brickstreetfarms.com), St. Petersburg, the company utilizes patent pending environmentally forward technologies to service both a direct-to-consumer market and a business-to business wholesale market. It created the technology and the vertical farm containers to grow 16-20 acres of crops on 1/3-acre urban settings using their own farm containers- bringing mass food production to the point of consumption without using supply chain or distribution services.
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Fulament, (www.fulament.com), Clermont, the company is a 3D printing company streamlining materials for consumers. Focused on the DTC segment, Fulament is making developments in material usage, sustainability, delivery & experience. Fulament is building a world where every home needs a 3D printer.
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Future Cardia, (www.futurecardia.com), Safety Harbor, the company is developing a simpler and accurate solution to current Heart Failure monitoring system to challenge CardioMems by Abbott. Their devices continuously monitor cardiac function by assessing subtle micro changes in ECG and Heart Sounds for up to 2 years. Recorded data is securely sent to the smartphone. Then it is pushed to a cloud based AI for the clinicians to access.
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Helicon, (www.heliconchemical.com), Orlando, the company makes the most advanced propellant in the world. They are working with more than 70 percent of the rocket industry today to increase rocket performance by 20-40 percent. The DoD has endorsed them and has place to scale up production 100X this year.
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Kalogon, (www.Kalogon.com), Melbourne, the company has tested and proven their market-ready solution to pressure injuries - Smart Seating. Their smart cushions dynamically adjust the pressure distribution of the user and intelligently change their algorithms to suit the needs of the patient. Their product allows for easy software customization to offload locations of concern and has been designed to prevent pressure injuries and help heal existing injuries. This allows their users to sit for longer, without pain, and reduce the risk of developing life-threatening injuries.
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Kismet Technologies, (www.kismet-technologies.com/), Orlando, the company is a B2B company, where they will work with licensees that sell to healthcare customers and the cruise line industry. They will manufacture the active ingredient (NanoRAD) and sell that to companies that license the NanoRAD formulation from Kismet Technologies. The company has a patent pending NanoRAD active ingredient. It has the high potency of hydrogen peroxide, able to provide non-stop virus and bacteria protection, with the gentleness of water to humans when in contact with the material. NanoRAD is able to take water from the air, and surrounding the pathogen, and create an oxidizing specie like hydrogen peroxide to eradicate a bacterial or viral load.
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Prisma Imaging, (www.prismaimaging.com), Alachua, the company has developed a novel system that is capable of providing both digital radiographic and CT imaging of the entire anatomy of a conscious, weight-bearing horse. These improvements represent an opportunity to provide better diagnostics, performance, and care and promote the health and welfare of horses compared to current imaging technology.
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Novineer, Daytona Beach, the company has a Novel engineering design and simulation cloud software as a service (SaaS) to enable product engineers to design and 3D print better products, faster.
Novineer provides integrated software for geometrical modeling, design optimization, simulation, and the generation of 3D printing input. It is a product-oriented company selling the SaaS to multiple customer segments, including Contract 3D Printing Manufacturers, Aerospace, Medical, Automotive, and Energy sectors.
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Ocellott LLC, (www.laceeng.com.br/index_en.html), Daytona Beach, the company is committed to enabling the safe transition to an electrified and connected world. Ocellott offers products that serve the defense, aerospace, and testing and measurement Industries.
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Nhu Energy, (www.nhuenergy.com/), Tallahassee, the company provides digital distributed intelligence to enable the clean, flexible, and resilient electric power systems of the future. It is a suite of scalable interoperable digital operating technology (OT) solutions.
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ALE North America (DBA: Sky Canvas America), Miami, the company’s planned service is a unique shooting star show that are provided from the satellite in space. They have a proprietary technology which replicates natural phenomenon. Their service will transform the night sky into a show case which can be seen in in the area of 200 km wide. Sky Canvas offers entertainment on an unprecedented scale.
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Beycome Corp, (www.beycome.com), Miami, the company is a digital platform which empowers users to buy and sell real estate on their own. It is faster, cheaper and more efficient than a traditional brokerage. They give homeowners more control and transparency. In addition, they close 21 days faster than a traditional agent. Finally, the 6% you would pay a listing agent is credited to their users at closing.
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CoFlow Jet Wind Turbines, LLC, Miami, (www.coflowjetwindturbines.com), the company aims to transform the wind turbine industry and greatly impact the global environment protection initiatives by reducing green house gas emission, fresh water usage, and levelized cost of energy (LCOE) using their advanced coflow jet (CFJ) active flow control technology. Their advanced wind turbine configuration is 2-bladed downwind turbines using CFJ blades. The target is to dramatically improve efficiency (Capacity Factor) by 20% and reduce turbine levelized cost of energy by 30%.
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Traq.ai, (www.traq.ai/) Delray Beach, the company brings the power of artificial intelligence to transform the sales process, starting from the sales conversation. Traq.ai analyzes the content, tone and manner of each conversation, providing objective insights on the buyer’s sentiment and propensity to buy, while sales leaders have complete visibility into every deal and can build successful strategies for years to come.
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Aleph Farms, (www.aleph-farms.com/), Israel, the company grows delicious beef steaks from stem cells, without killing animals, nor harming the Environment. Their mission is to build resilient & sustainable food systems for tomorrow. They are also developing a new entity dedicated to collagens and ECM which has many potential applications.
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Hardee Nutritional, Lake Delton, Wisconsin, the company will grow and extract value-added ingredients from two types of algae in Hardee County FL, specifically: Haematococcus pluvialis (aka Hp), a source of natural astaxanthin and its co-product defatted algal meal; and Spirulina, known for its complete protein content and as a source of natural blue food colourings. These algae/products have been validated in the marketplace and represent more-than $1 billion in annual global sales.
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Leading Edge Equipment Technologies, (www.leadingedgetech.io/), Wilmington, Massachusetts, the company is a solar wafer manufacturer commercializing a patented process to make silicon and germanium wafers that are higher quality, lower cost, and produce fewer manufacturing CO2 emissions than existing technologies anywhere in the world. They plan to build a wafer factory here in the US, creating over 4000 well-paying jobs with excellent benefits, and enabling an entire US-based supply chain for the photovoltaics industry.
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About the Florida Venture Forum: The Florida Venture Forum is Florida’s largest statewide support organization for investors and entrepreneurs, helping companies with headquarters, operations or supply chain in Florida connect with sources of capital from across the country. Since 1984 over 1600 companies have presented at Forum events and have gone on to raise upwards of $12B in equity capital and contribute well over $20B in economic value to Florida and beyond. The Forum’s 200+ members represent a “who’s who” of venture capital and private equity dealmakers, including and equity and debt investors at all stages, as well as major law, accounting, and investment banking firms, and large corporates active in the innovation ecosystem. The Forum provides programs and programming statewide throughout the year in addition to hosting major annual conferences like the Florida Venture Capital Conference, the Statewide Collegiate Start Up Competition, the Early Stage Capital Conference, and industry-focused events including aerospace, and healthcare. For more information, visit: www.flventure.org.
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Media Contact: Pat Schneider, Florida Venture Forum, pat@flventure.org
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