2011 Ventures
Clean Tech & Sustainability
ARBSOURCE
Arbsource uses biotechnology to transform wastewater treatment from a costly energy liability into a valuable resource for food and beverage companies. For half the cost, we offer identical treatment speed and quality and generate valuable byproducts with our patent-pending and exclusively licensed Arbcell bioreactor.
Website: www.arbsource.us
CUSTOM AEROPONICS
Custom Aeroponics is a new venture to produce economical indoor and outdoor soilless aeroponic growing units with an emphasis on versatile interlinking components, antimicrobial resistant material, water efficacy, and vegetative growth maximization. The basis of aeroponics is to deliver an atomized nutrient solution to the roots of growing plants eliminating the need for soil or substrate. While the world is struggling for clean water and energy waste reduction, we focus on the efficient Hyper-Grow water delivery system and maximize growing areas through unique design. Custom Aeroponics revolutionizes professional and personal agronomy with its key features and exclusive cost efficient designs.
EECOSHPERE (formally DBA DRAFT Sustainability)
eEcosphere is pioneering the first enterprise-scale participatory integrated assessment (PIA) software platform for developing comprehensive and regional sustainability strategies and evaluating long-term results.
RENATURE
reNature capitalizes on industrializing the natural process of waste management to produce sustainable alternatives for petrochemical products by creating a closed-loop waste stream management system at the institutional and municipal scale.
Consumer Products
BABY CATE (formally DBA SIMPLE SWADDLE)
baby cate will provide a high-quality, well thought out swaddle blanket, designed for the needs of baby as well as mom and dad, using a design and fabrics that combine comfort, quality and affordability into one package.
BEBE ECOPOSH
Bebe EcoPosh is a green luxury eBoutique for baby that features quality high-end brands that are safe for baby and stylish for mom.
Website: www.BebeEcoPosh.com
KVZ SPORTS
KVZ Sports LLC specializes in custom destination branded products for the snowsports industry such as soft goods and other apparel. Essentially a digital printing company, KVZ uses modern textile and printing technologies to offer unparalleled products with the ability to customize virtually every aspect of each product to order. Through utilization of their expertise and expanding networks in the snowsports industry KVZ Sports is able to offer a one stop shop to resort clients around the country.
STICKYBAND
Stickyband is creating a solution to the problem of holding a Smartphone while exercising by utilizing special materials to quickly attach and remove the device from your body.
Food & Beverage
MAJESTIC TEA
Majestic Tea is a new chai formula that combines the finest quality tea leaves infused with essential vitamins and minerals from distant parts of the African jungles, creating an experience, not just a product.
ABLE FOODS (FORMALLY DBA SKEEBERS)
Able Foods produces a unique, portable, and delicious fast food that will be sold from a mobile vending cart, with the ebelskiver, a versatile gourmet Danish pancake, as its primary product.
Internet & Technology
29 MINUTES
29 Minutes is a novel on-line shopping mall that provides merchants and shoppers with a mutually beneficial opportunity that is not available on other websites. We call it “Opportunity Marketing.” Opportunity Marketing assists the merchants in selling products while providing the shopper with the best price of the moment. Merchants place their ad deals in naturally conforming product categories in 29 minutes segments. Each category simultaneously counts down from 29 minutes to the lost opportunity time of zero. The shopping hub shows categories by products: Computer and Electronics, Freebies, Jewelry and Watches, Appliances, Cosmetics and Perfumes, Art, Travel, Housewares, Cameras, Automotive, Non-profit, Silent Auction, Sporting Goods, Toys, Seasonals, Restaurant Offers, Tickets, Gift Cards, and even truckload quantities. For each category, only one product is offered at the best price of the moment. The shopper gets 29 minutes to accept the deal or lose the opportunity.
Website: www.29-minutes.com
404MARKET (FORMALLY DBA SILICON LEARNING)
404market is a platform for people to buy goods and services that don't exist. It flips the model of innovation, empowering consumers to innovate directly, rather than requiring them to wait for someone else to figure out what they want. 404market evolved out of an idea to build an adaptive learning test prep product (Silicon Learning), as the founders realized that consumers have a much better idea of the demand for a new product than impersonal corporations that are several steps removed from their customers.
AUDIO EXCURSIONS
Audio Excursions specializes in aggregating all audio tours available on the market into one easy to use website, allowing users to search out and download the widest range of audio tours in the world, and offers a mobile app to experience these tours while traveling or on the go.
BLUE DREAM
BlueDream provides high quality branding, production and marketing solutions to an exclusive market of technology(engineering), medical and academic companies. Unlike our competitors we focus on an exclusive under-served market and provide a complete “one-stop shop” solution. Our design cycle starts with corporate identity and graphics followed with a technology infrastructure of websites and cell phone applications, leading to video and audio promotional materials.
Website: www.BlueDream.tv
BRIDGE COMMUNITIES
Bridge Communities is an internet venture that provides an online platform for senior citizens living in the metropolitan Phoenix area to connect with each other; to join together around common, local issues; to provide mutual support; to share information; and, to interact in a variety of ways.
ALPHASTRipe
AlphaStripe is an online global network platform for military veterans, current service members, police and security forces, civilians, military families, supporters, and humanitarian organizations, as well as the general public to share their stories of conflict in video, photo and journal format. AlphaStripe will act as the hub for businesses, organizations and educational facilities providing services and support to the military/conflict market.
Website: www.alphastripe.com
ELLENS TECHNOLOGIES
Ellens Technologies LLC is developing an iOS platform mobile application to assist veterinarians in the diagnosis of small animals by starting with a symptom and ruling out or eliminating possible causes while moving towards the root problem.
MERCURY INNOVATIVE
Mercury Innovative™ creates, tests, and offers unique language analysis and language arts software to various markets. Mercury Innovative's vision is to produce specialty, high-end, and inventive language tools that take language processing to a new level. Mercury Innovative™ has three products: 1. DescribeVision™ - a program that converts any typed, spoken, or loaded narrative into artistic audio-visual representations (moving imagery, backgrounds, and sounds) of the narrative. DescribeVision™ is useful for language-learning, script story-boarding and artistic/entertainment uses. 2. Rhetoristics™ Web Monitor - an automated background program that allows surveillance, marketing, and business professionals to search web-files, RSS feeds, or file systems for documents that match rhetorical models created from any natural text. 3. Rhetoristics™ Jury Modeler - software that helps legal professionals analyze their jury by looking at rhetorical (persuasive) models of prior cases coupled with profiles of prospective or current jury members.
QAYTO TECHNOLOGIES
Qayto (Cato Technologies) produces self-improvement software for the Microsoft Kinect, a device which offers capabilities such as motion tracking, gesture recognition, and facial recognition, at a consumer-friendly price.
Medical
G3BOX
G3Box focuses on converting steel shipping containers into medical grade clinics by outfitting them with the basic components of power, ventilation, potable water, and insulation to create sustainable medical clinics that address critical health needs internationally, while contributing every seventh container as a maternity clinic to help decrease the maternal death rate throughout developing countries.
Website: www.g3box.org
SEYMOUR INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING
Seymour Innovative Engineering (SIDS Sensors) will produce and market a low-cost vital sign monitor for infants in order to reduce the incidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
VANTAGE REALIZED
Vantage Realized LLC will provide alternative mobility options for wheelchair users the world over, and has developed the Mechaddy, an attachable wheelchair accessory that uses the quick-release wheels on modern wheelchairs to improve mobility and control.
More-Than-Profit
ARIZONA MICROCREDIT INITIATIVE
Arizona Microcredit Initiative is a nonprofit venture that aims to provide startup capital and small business consulting for entrepreneurs in the greater Phoenix area who have limited access to traditional sources of credit.
THE QUANTA
The Quanta Foundation LLC is an educational services company that engages high school students over STEM research projects. In particular, The Quanta connects students with college mentors and faculty affiliates to help students cultivate skills in research, as well as to foster camaraderie for a premier mentorship experience.
Website: http://thequanta.org/
Service
ARIZONA PRO DJ'S
Arizona Pro DJs provides high quality and innovative event entertainment solutions for teen celebrations such as school dances, dance parties, and private events.
Website: www.azprodjs.com
DEVILWASH
DevilWash provides high pressure concrete cleaning services to the commercial property and industrial sector with a focus on parking structures and high traffic pedestrian walkways.
Website: www.devilwash.com