An assisted tool for recruiters to source and screen candidates faster while maintaining a personal touch.

Website: https://deephire.com/

Datefit is a multidimensional technology firm focused on cutting edge mobile dating solutions. The company was co-founded in 2016 by Steven & Stacey Macecevic and partner John Gadd (CEO hotcards.com)  with the idea of providing singles that are passionate about healthy living an inspiring place to connect and meet. 

In September of 2016 the team built a temporary datefit website to gain proof of concept, over the course of a couple of months the site garnished thousands of users giving us evidence that datefit was more than just a good idea. Since then we have taken down the temporary platform and have begun building the datefit mobile app. 

Datefit’s mobile app has basic mobile dating app functions but also incorporates very unique and appealing features. We’ve incorporated a fun daily matching system we call the “daily workout”, where each day members will receive 10 new matches and can either swipe left or right to engage in conversation if interested.  In addition, new to the mobile dating world, datefit has an Instagram like activity feed where users can post images, goals and engage with other members in a fun and unique way giving the platform a sense of community. 

In the datefit profile section users can fill out their goals, passions and other information about themselves giving potential matches a sense of what a particular user is like. Our goal with datefit is create a community and culture that inspires and motivate singles. Datefit members are looking to find love and inspire one another, all while building strong meaningful relationships through fitness and healthy lifestyle.

The past few months datefit has also built an A+ team of high level executives in the dating and marketing industries. Louis Bardov is former SVP at Match Group (match.com) and is our CTO and is also taking on an advisor roll.  In addition we have brought on Donna Groppel another former match.com executive who is currently our project manager. Lastly, our COO Is John Gadd, who owns and operated Hotcards.com, a successful printing / tech company located in downtown Cleveland. 

Website: https://www.datefit.com/

DAK Scientific, Inc. is a medical device development company with a focus on designing products related to the Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) market. 

This medical device development company was founded by Deborah Kreatsoulas and Nicholas Kreatsoulas, DO in January 2017.  Dr. Kreatsoulas worked as a Medical Director of Case Management in a community hospital where he managed patient flow throughout the hospital system. A problem continued to surface with admitted patients: What do you do with a IV drug user who has a PICC line?  A typical PICC line patient can be discharged home to continue their therapy in an outpatient setting. However, the IV drug abuser or patient at risk for tampering with their PICC line ports cannot be and presents two problems: 1) they require constant monitoring which puts significant strain on hospital staff and 2) an unsecured PICC line port offers an easy opportunity to continue illicit drug use. The founders also discovered that there was a significant increase in infection rates, due to poor sterilization techniques by healthcare professionals at the PICC line injection ports.  

The company’s goal is to provide a safe, secure, and successful experience for patients with PICC lines. PICC line insertions exceeded 2.9 million in 2015 and expect an annual growth rate of 8%.  The total U.S. PICC line market was approximately $500 million in 2015.  

In May 2017, DAK Scientific filed their first provisional patent defining the intellectual landscape of our product designs and is now entering a re-design phase, hoping to have a final product design with prototype modeling for product refinement in the next 6-9 months. The company is collaborating with Balance, Inc. of Cleveland, Ohio for our medical design prototype and product platforms. 

CutterCroix is a process innovator that uses internet technology to simplify complex problems. The company believes that the majority of software in the marketplace today are either underutilized or fall short of their intended value because they are too complicated and difficult to use. Human nature tells us that if it’s not simple, it’s probably not going to be used!

Content Status audits and monitors retail product pages for brands and retailers to ensure their products are live and the content is accurate, complete and search optimized. It was created by George Koenig, who has spent the last nineteen years helping to start, grow, and successfully exit two software companies within the product content syndication industry. Every product sold online, anywhere in the world - requires a live product detail page otherwise customers can't buy it. That page also needs to be accurate, complete, and search optimized otherwise customers won't buy it. Content status offers a cloud-based platform that is plug-in-play easy. Select your retailer, upload your UPC list, and customize your start, end and frequency of your searches. The platform reviews every product page providing clients with automated reports, insights, and workflows that provide answers to all of their questions. 

Every January, electronics and high-tech companies from around the world travel to Las Vegas to CES, the trade show formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show, to promote the latest innovations they will be bringing to the marketplace.

This year, 4,000 exhibiting companies debuted more than 20,000 products to 170,000 attendees from Jan. 7-10, the Consumer Technology Association, the event's sponsor, reported.

Apple was there. So were all of the other major device-makers. So were the larger Northeast Ohio product-makers: GE Lighting, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Moen Inc., among others.

But so, too, were Everykey Inc., RooSense LLC and a handful of other small, emerging businesses, taking advantage of Case Western Reserve University's sponsorship of a booth at CES to get their names and their products in front of the show's attendees. The booth was in Eureka Park, an area for startups that was a small part of the show, which spread across 11 buildings along the Las Vegas Strip radiating from the Las Vegas Convention and World Trade Center.

"Everyone from Walmart to Target to Best Buy and everyone in between is kind of scouring the floor for what's going to be the new up-and-coming cool technology to sell," said Chris Wentz, CEO of Everykey, a Cleveland maker of Bluetooth products that replace passwords and can unlock smartphones, computers and online sites. "This is the first year of going to CES where we actually have a shippable product."

Everykey, which Wentz created in 2013 while a student at CWRU, has struggled to bring its idea to market. But now, he said, he's refocused his approach and the product is ready to go to market.

"We've taken a little bit more of a B2B enterprise focus," he explained. "And that was a really exciting part of this show. Ninety-nine percent of the people walking around work for a company and have decision-making power within their company. So there's a lot of enterprises that we met during CES this year that want to do a pilot with our product. And you know, somebody who has 10,000-plus employees can be some pretty substantial sales for us."

CWRU has sponsored a booth at the show for seven years, said Robert Sopko, director of the university's LaunchNet program, whose mission is to train entrepreneurs, especially students and former students like Wentz, on the university's campus. CWRU took a 32-by-22-foot space — Booth 51548 — at Eureka Park. The school covered the $12,000 cost of the booth and invited a dozen organizations, most being grown by students, faculty or alumni, to share the space.

"It was phenomenal. We were busy all the time," said Sopko. "The engagement was really great. We were even busy on the last day."

Eureka Park was surrounded by 1,200 startup companies from 46 countries. The CWRU booth was close to other universities, as well as booths run by countries such as Israel and the Netherlands.

Hanieh Ghadimi and Chelsea Monty-Bromer, co-founders of Akron- based RooSense, attended CES last year to get the lay of the land, but this was their first year exhibiting. Monty-Bromer said their company is about a year away from a salable product, but the trip was still worthwhile.

"There are a lot of investors walking around looking for things to invest in," she said. "And there are a lot of people who make electronic components who are looking for maybe customers for themselves or partnerships. That's really what we were looking for: people who can help us with our different pieces that we have to make to get this to market."

Monty-Bromer is an associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Akron, while Ghadimi is a postdoctoral researcher there. The pair founded the company in late 2017 based on research on biosensors and nanosensors. RooSense is developing a fabric with sensors that can keep athletes wearing clothing made from it from becoming dehydrated.

"CES is one of the largest global forums for deal flow, so there is a lot of deals being made between companies big and small," said Neil Singh, director of technology at Team NEO, the regional economic development nonprofit, who also made the trip to Las Vegas. "Typically, it's technology companies looking at other innovative companies where it adds value to their portfolio. It's extremely good exposure for businesses in the technology space."

In addition to Everykey and RooSense, CWRU's booth was shared by 3D Music, which was showing a prototype of its 3D-printed musical instruments; Ant-X LLC, which helps people create diets that meet their health needs; Axuall Inc., which is developing a digital network for verifying professional and technical credentials; BioFlightVR, a developer of virtual-reality medical training and education software; Delta Sound Labs, a maker of audio-effects plugins; Everyone Makes Progress Inc., a blockchain-based fitness data analzyzer; Lumen Polymer, a CWRU student effort that has designed an adhesive bandage that removes easily after being treated with ultraviolet light; Repowered Robotics, a student-run startup that's developing modestly priced robotics components for startups or small companies; and Tauon LLC, which is helping video game developers incorporate voice-activated commands.

CWRU's Interactive Commons, which is developing software applications for augmented and virtual reality using Microsoft HoloLens, and Blockland Cleveland, which has a think tank at CWRU to help the effort to build blockchain technologies in Northeast Ohio, also used the university's booth.

Wentz said the experience was also a good way to get candid feedback.

"CES is a good learning experience for us. It really gives us a very honest view of the market every year," he said. "There's probably thousands of people that approach us throughout the course of CES, and these are people that know the industry and can kind of like really honestly evaluate us. There's a lot of kind individuals and brutally honest (opinions), and that's helpful for us."

CollaMedix is an early stage healthcare company that is developing collagen-based medical devices. Patented technology licensed from Case Western Reserve University allows a novel method of fabrication of pure-collagen threads and biofabric called CollaFabric. These materials can be used to create pure-collagen mesh or other medical devices. The beneficial product features of CollaFabric technology allow an ideal pure-collagen implant for various medical applications. 

RanchBookings provides an online bookings platform for adventure travel resorts. RanchBookings' online reservation software was made by ranchers, for ranchers to help manage day-to-day operations efficiently and effectively. 

Website: https://www.checkinsherpa.com/index.html

Capture Solutions, LLC is a cloud-based, digital documentation tool  that allows companies to minimize risk and increase compliance with a variety of federal, state, and local laws. Capture Solutions, LLC is a cloud-based, digital documentation tool  that allows companies to minimize risk and increase compliance with a variety of federal, state, and local laws.

Julie Sumner, the CEO of Capture Solutions, came up with the idea for Capture (the digital documentation solution the Company provides) during her 14+ years of experience as a labor and employment attorney in the construction industry.  One of the most frequent obstacles Julie faced in helping her clients was the lack of documentation available in the vast majority of cases.  Even though clients knew that documenting issues, whether they be safety-related or performance-related, was important, they often failed to do so because (1) it was time-consuming and cumbersome to document everything using pen and paper; or (2) many managers and supervisors were unsure of what to document, when to document, or how to document. 

Capture is a mobile solution to help employers with this problem.  With Capture, managers and supervisors  can document any issue that crops up at a job site right from their phones.  They can create text files, audio files, photographs, and videos to document the issue.  Once the issue is documented, it syncs to the cloud, where it is securely stored.  Once synced, individuals from Human Resources, Safety, or Headquarters can access the information from their desktops and run reports.  As a result, Capture increases communication between the field and the corporate office. 

Julie paired up with Alex Bernot (COO), John Farrall, and Michael DeAloia to create Capture Solutions, LLC and to develop the technology to create the actual app, Capture.  Capture is in live beta testing of its iOS version of the product with five prospective clients, and anticipates beta testing the Android version by the end of March.  Following beta testing of the mobile apps, Capture intends to turn its focus to the creation of a robust web-based reporting tool.  Clients will then easily be able to access the information gathered in the field from a simple and seamless backend platform.

Website: https://capturesolutionsllc.wordpress.com/

Since its founding in 2015, BioflightVR has been developing immersive education, training and simulation solutions utilizing XR technologies. With partners Facebook, Oculus ,AiSolve and Children’s hospital Los Angeles, BioflightVR developed a first in VR pediatric trauma training. The pilot program ran for 4 months and the published results that confirmed psychological fidelity and effectiveness in training has been peer reviewed and gone through a complete IRB study. This foundational work has become a core component for the new commercial training product being developed with Akron Children’s Hospital. BioflightVR is work closely with ACH and has taken up residence at TABL to work hand in hand with the simulation teams, surgical specialists and medical educators at ACH. In addition to our work with Akron Children’s we’re also launching a surgical training pilot program with DUKE University. As a company BioflightVR is planning commercialization or our core PEDS training product and expansion of our surgical training program in 2019. BioflightVR is also working with other local educational institutions like Tri-C and Neo Med.

Website: https://www.bioflightvr.com/