The Heureka Intelligence Platform (HIP) provides a unified framework that enables organizations to identify information and gather intelligence from their digital endpoints on a global scale, in real time. HIP allows organizations to discover & analyze data in-place for strategic, surgical incident and event response.

HIP can be used on premise or as a SaaS and incorporates an endpoint service application that builds local, full text content and metadata indices of all file system objects, perpetually. From a central Command Console, operators are able to remotely interrogate all endpoints and identify specific unstructured or semi-structured documents or file system artifacts by user-selected criteria such as filename, content keyword, date ranges, hash value, application or file type, Boolean statements, fuzzy logic, pattern matching, proximity or wildcard to analyze information across an entire enterprise. From the Command Console, operators leverage use-case specific workflow applications to identify, analyze, classify, tag, collect or move items on an as-needed basis, across the globe, in minutes.

We were founded in 2012 to create a more efficient and cost effective way to identify data on endpoint computers to be used in litigation. Once we started demoing our alpha version to customers, they told us to forget about evidence for lawsuits as our technology would be more useful finding malware or identifying data that posed risks for organization like those that contained social security or credit card numbers.

By June of 2014 we pivoted and renamed ourselves Heureka Software and began rebuilding our original vision.

Website: https://www.heurekasoftware.com/

Hedgemon is a Cleveland-based startup developing a hedgehog-inspired, shock absorbing liner. 

The comapny was founded in February 2015 and is developing a platform shock absorbing liner inspired by hedgehogs. Wild hedgehogs are agile climbers, scaling trees to heights exceeding 30 feet while foraging insects. When a hedgehog needs to descend from an above ground perch quickly–to escape an owl, for example–it will curl into a spikey ball and simply drop to the ground. Upon high speed impact, the hedgehog scurries away uninjured because the quills projecting from its pelt absorb shock.

Hedgemon’s patent-pending liner, which consists of elongate polymer elements projecting in various directions from a base material, emulates two key principles of the hedgehog model. The first is the overlapping layout of flexing quills, which enables adjacent quills to ‘domino’ into each other, facilitating omnidirectional energy dissipation. The second is the internal architecture of the quills, which facilitates elastic bowing under load, and therefore, multi-shock durability.

The initial target application for Hedgemon’s technology is an integral safety liner for football helmets to reduce risk of concussion. Other potential applications include but are not limited to body armor; running shoe soles; infant car seats; protective packaging for fine art; transport cases for sensitive equipment; vibration damping bases for airdrop pallets; fall protection flooring for nursing homes and daycare facilities; and furniture cushions.

UroSense™ urine management system provides real-time awareness to caregivers enabling them to mitigate health and safety issues associated with catheterized patients while realizing substantial cost savings. The product provides fill level and core body temperature data directly to a monitor or nursing station wirelessly.

Full Circle Technologies has developed a patented chemical mechanical process to devulcanize old tires, turning them back into sticky, elastic rubber which is then made into a free flowing pellet. The end product, called Ecorphalt, is used as a polymer modifier in asphalt roads to make it last longer, more durable and create a smoother surface.

Fontus Blue has a cloud-based decision software that helps water treatment plants optimize their use of treatment chemicals and processes, resulting in exceptional water quality with reduced operating costs.

Today, treatment plant operators don’t have a way to quickly and reliably tell how changing the amount of one chemical will affect the need for other chemicals. So they often use more treatment chemicals than necessary. Decision Blue® is a patent-pending software using real-world data collected at water treatment plants, unique measures developed at the University of Akron, and advanced multi-component optimization mathematics to quickly evaluate millions of possible combinations of treatment chemical dosage levels and search for cost-effective solutions. The company already has customers in six states and Canada using its platform 

Fontus Blue is housed in the Akron Global Business Accelerator (Akron, OH).

Website: https://fontusblue.com/

Folio Photonics is developing an optical data storage disc with two Terabyte capacity manufactured using a highly scalable, low-cost method. Data storage is a nearly $30 billion market utilizing primarily magnetic storage technologies such as hard drive disks (HDD) and magnetic tapes (MT), which are costly, power-intensive, and short-lived. Optical data storage, on the other hand, is known as an inexpensive, energy-friendly, long-term storage solution. However, progress in optical disc storage capacity has limited its market share.

Folio Photonics’ technology is based on a multi-layer disc produced by polymer co-extrusion, a manufacturing method used primarily for food packaging. This manufacturing method produces data storage films with dozens to thousands of layers with almost no marginal cost per layer. These films can then be cut and laminated to disc substrates for a highly competitive manufacturing cost that provides the opportunity for large margins in comparison with HDD and MT. The use of fluorescence-based physical-multilayer disc architecture allows the use of inexpensive read/write hardware.

Folio Photonics is a start-up company spun-off from the Center for Layered Polymeric Systems, a National Science Foundation funded Science and Technology Center.

Website: https://foliophotonics.com/

Flutter Social is changing the way people find and vet the multiple businesses needed to host major social and corporate events. We believe nothing beats a trusted recommendation, so Flutter Social taps into users’ connections to make personalized recommendations based on the best local businesses for them. Our smart matchmaking algorithm considers a user’s preferences, behaviors and connections to help them build their event #dreamteam of businesses.

Finding the multiple businesses needed to plan and produce major social/corporate events is overwhelming, time consuming, and loaded with uncertainty. Event professionals spend upwards of 10% of revenues on to connect with consumers online but those connections aren’t converting into booked business. Flutter Social’s smart matchmaking algorithm delivers on-demand personalized recommendations to help consumers build their full event team in one place. Flutter Social taps into the networks of local professionals and their past clients to see which businesses fit a user’s criteria and have prior experience working together. Our network driven approach allows us to deliver highly personalized recommendations that are likely to result in a transaction.

The US Events industry is massive, at $350B. Considering the 607k US event businesses, Flutter’s Total Available Market is $1B based on our average annual subscription that event professionals pay to appear in matches with event hosts. The platform is free for event hosts to discover the best local businesses for them and build their event team online.

Flutter Social is currently available for couples planning a wedding in Northeast Ohio and Greater Philadelphia. We plan to expand into all major events (i.e. mitzvahs, non-profits, corporate, etc.) across the US.

Website: https://fluttersocial.com/

Flexible ITO Solutions (FITOS) produces patterned electrodes on flexible transparent conductive films for the electronics industry. The company has developed a groundbreaking method to controllably crack the ITO conductive coatings by bending the flexible films.

The company received a $100,000 Innovation Fund award in June 2014.

Website: https://fitosolutions.com/

FishMySpot, LLC is a sharing economy platform that connects pond owners to people that want to fish privately. Having grown up sneaking onto their neighbor's pond to fish, founders Joseph Nadzam, Eric Metcalf and Michael Smith developed the idea of FishMySpot through their past experiences and love of fishing. It all starts with a pond owner listing their lake/pond/stream on the platform. FishMySpot covers all the marketing, booking/reservations, and a general liability insurance policy on pond owners during the time of reservation. FishMySpot has three elements to the business; sharing economy, experience, and private fishing. This makes them stand out from the rest because there is currently no company in the market that encompasses all three.

Website: https://www.fishmyspot.com/

Echo is a financial technology company that empowers users to make the best investment decisions possible.

Today, there are over 90 million Millennials who control more than $2 trillion in wealth. By 2020, that number is expected to grow to $7 trillion, and by 2025 they will make up nearly half of total U.S. income.  In aggregate, the investment industry is even larger, with just the mutual fund industry in the U.S. totaling $17 trillion in AUM and total global assets amounting to more than $71 trillion. Seeing the radical, transformative changes that technology can bring to other industries, entrepreneurs began experimenting with robo-advisors; apps and websites dedicated to empowering individuals (mostly Millennials who have a preference for said changes) when it comes to their own finances. The results thus far have been extraordinary. The largest player by valuation, Robinhood, is worth $1.3 billion, while the largest by AUM, Wealthfront, has $7 billion. 

Echo Investing is the next step in the evolution of this industry. Its platform is an app that allows users to trade shares of publicly-traded securities commission-free. The company's minimum viable product (MVP) is complete, with all major functionalities built into it, including our keystone real-time portfolio synchronization. Real-time stock prices can be looked up on the platform, the sale and purchase of these can be made (paper trades but cash trades would be achievable with minimal effort), two iterations of echoing strategies can be implemented, and users can see the bios and portfolios of other users on the platform.

Website: https://www.echo.investments/