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4Moms

View Website | @4Moms

Markets: Lean Tech

We may be a small company, but we have some big ideas. We’re dedicated to finding innovative solutions that make parenting tasks easier and more enjoyable for families all over the globe.

Our company is named after our first focus group of 4 real live moms (well, actually 5 moms, but 4moms makes a better name, so one mom adopted the nickname ‘The Stealth Mom’). Their insights helped get us off the ground, and ever since then we’ve continued to look to them and all the other parents who use our products for ways to make them even better.

Our search for experts didn’t stop there. Since the company began in 2005, we’ve added product and graphic designers, web developers, business professionals, engineers and roboticists to our team. Together, we design and build the innovative products we hope will help out parents and babies everywhere.

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ActivAided Orthotics

View Website | @ActivAided

Markets: Medical Devices

Born out of a collaboration between biomedical engineers and a practicing physician, ActivAided Orthotics is dedicated to supporting active lifestyles and keeping people of all ages strong, healthy, and pain free. Our products are based on a unique treatment philosophy that remedies pain by encouraging self-correcting habits. We believe working with the body’s own natural abilities can enable people to pursue their passions without limits.

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Allegheny Organics

View Website | @ValueFromWaste

Markets: Lean Tech

Allegheny Organics is committed to providing an easy and seamless organic waste recycling service to the residents, businesses, restaurants and community events of Allegheny County. Through our efforts, we aim to promote healthy eating, responsible farming, waste minimization, and local economic sustainability, which will play an integral role in reinvigorating our region and building a strong, cohesive community.

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AppCertain

View Website | @appcertain

Categories: Operations

AppCertain helps parents understand and manage their family’s mobile devices by monitoring which apps get installed on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, and sending parents and guardians notifications with information about what these apps do.

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Bossa Nova Robotics

View Website | @BNRobotics

Markets: Robotics

Bossa Nova Robotics is a developer of Personal Robots: helpful robots that make an emotional connection with consumers. Founded by robotics expert Sarjoun Skaff, the company launched out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in 2005 with one simple goal: to bring robots out of the lab and into our lives. Previously focused on interactive play experiences for children, the company is broadening its portfolio to encompass personal robotics for the home. Bossa Nova Robotics has R&D facilties in its home office in Pittsburgh, PA as well as executive offices in San Francisco, CA.

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BudgetSimple

View Website | @BudgetSimple

Categories: Operations

BudgetSimple is one of the leading personal finance apps, allowing individuals to create a free budget quickly and easily. We help individuals understand where their money is going and what they can do to improve their financial situation.

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CivicScience

View Website | @CivicScience

Markets: Lean Tech

CivicScience is a next-generation polling and data mining company. We partner with hundreds of premier websites to survey millions of anonymous people every week. Our proprietary technology then rapidly analyzes consumer sentiment, discovers trends in real-time, and accurately predicts market outcomes. CivicScience is used by leading enterprises in an array of industries including marketing research, advertising, digital media, financial services, and political polling.

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Comvibe

View Website | @comvibe

Markets: Lean Tech

ComVibe is a Software as a Service application which exists to assist property managers with enhancing their tenants rental experience through creatively leveraging technology to address unmet customer needs. During the early stages of the company, the core team recognized that there were limited online options for tenant management, and a disconnect existed between tenant satisfaction and property management services. In order to better understand our customers needs, the team conducted extensive market research over 2010 – 2011 to clarify our customer needs before developing ComVibe’s ground breaking platform.

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Crowdasaurus

View Website | @crowdasaurus

Categories: Operations

Crowdasaurus build white label crowdfunding communities for your business, academic institution, or nonprofit. In just a few clicks you can have your own branded, measured crowdfunding platform to spur innovation and drive your brand’s marketing strategy.

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Digital Dream Labs

View Website | @digitaldreamlab

Markets: Lean Tech

Digital Dream labs, LLC is developing an educational, peripheral-based iPad experience for children, K-1st grade. Along with friends or parents, children solve puzzles to advance through virtual worlds by interacting with physical, interconnecting puzzle blocks, representing virtual characters and their attributes. The educational goal is to teach abstract computer science principles through play.

The iPad experience is complimented by an existing interactive table, the dreamTableTop, for informal learning spaces, such as museums and science centers.

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Engineered Style

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Markets: Lean Tech

Engineered Style specializes in fashion related software for “style challenged” men, or roughly 99% of the male population.

Our easy-to-use web and mobile tools help men learn what to wear, how to wear it, and where to buy it.

Founder & CEO, Angela Lynn, is a CMU materials engineer turned fashion guru. She has developed a unique system to teach men the keys to great personal style.

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Fiks:Reflective

View Website | @FiksReflective

Operating out of the Point Breeze neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Fiks:Reflective proudly designs and produces innovative products to help keep bikers, runners, and other active people safe at night while crushing the standard assumptions that safety clothing has to be ugly and consumer products have to be made overseas to be profitable.

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Flippo

View Website | @FlippoApp

Flippo is an application that creates a market on campus for the exchange of daily tasks, errands and chores among college students. The app will allow students to view and complete nearby tasks for other students, giving them greater control over their time management. This gives them the power to focus when they have work to do, and/or earn supplemental income at their convenience. By “flipping” their daily tasks using our service, students can allocate their time much more efficiently. Our vision is to create a marketplace for students and to ultimately change the way they interact with each other by fostering a culture of interconnectivity and collaboration.

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Gigapan

View Website | @GigaPan

Markets: Advanced Manufacturing

Gigapans are gigapixel panoramas, digital images with billions of pixels. They are huge panoramas with fascinating detail, all captured in the context of a single brilliant photo. Phenomenally large, yet remarkably crisp and vivid, gigapans are available to be explored at GigaPan.com. Zoom in and discover the detail of over 50,000 panoramas from around the world.

GigaPan gives experienced and novice photographers the technology to create high-resolution panorama images more easily than ever before, and the resulting GigaPan images offer viewers a new, unique perspective on the world.

GigaPan offers the first solution for shooting, viewing and exploring high-resolution panoramic images in a single system: EPIC series of robotic camera mounts capture photos using almost any digital camera; GigaPan Stitch Software automatically combines the thousands of images taken into a single image; and GigaPan.com enables the unique mega-high resolution viewing experience.

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Gittip

View Website | @whit537

Markets: Lean Tech

Gittip is a platform for weekly cash gifts. It’s a way to say “Thanks!” and “Keep up the good work!” to people that make your life better through their music, art, software, etc. Gittip is an open company, funded on Gittip. Open companies combine the best of companies (productivity, efficiency) with the best of open source projects (transparency, freedom), by (1) sharing as much as possible, (2) charging as little as possible, and (3) not paying their employees.

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Industry Weapon

View Website | @industryweapon

Markets: Lean Tech

Industry Weapon is focused on the deployment of complex technologies through simple non-technical interfaces. As a leading content deployment company, we systematically organize, store and deploy images, video, text and consumer data through our proprietary software platform. IW’s Content Gateway quickly broadcasts and receives data from multiple consumer touch points such as digital signage, touch screens, mobile phones and e-commerce sites.

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Insurance Zebra

View Website | @InsuranceZebra

Markets: Lean Tech

Insurance Zebra allows users to instantly compare accurate and unbiased quotes from all major insurance carriers, turning the time-consuming and difficult task of shopping for insurance into a quick and easy process.

Using state insurance filing data, Insurance Zebra is able to replicate insurance company pricing models and estimate rates within a few dollars accuracy. With just a zipcode and car type, users can begin to see which insurance provider may be best for them. As users continue to input more information, the estimates increase in accuracy in real-time, allowing users to see what affects their insurance rates and by how much.

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Interbots

View Website | @Interbots

Markets: Robotics

Interbots started in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2005 as a spinoff of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center.

Our primary goal at Interbots is to create compelling interactive characters who enable memorable experiences with their guests. To that end, we specialize in the design and construction of custom interactive characters (both physical and virtual), control software, and interactive multimedia content. Quasi, our first animatronic character, was selected to be the mascot of the World’s Fair for Kids, and has made numerous television appearances including ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Evening News Eye on America, Regis and Kelly, the Science Channel, and the Discovery Channel. Quasi has been featured in several academic conferences, including the SIGGRAPH 2005 Emerging Technologies Exhibition in Los Angeles, CA. Our second character, Moxi, was built for the Singapore Science Center, where she is currently installed.

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Machovy

View Website | @machovy

Markets: Lean Tech

Local Shopping Discovery… For Men.

Let’s face it, men love deals just as much as women do.
So we created a deal site just for men that negotiates local deals on merchandise, services and really bad-ass experiences. No more enduring an endless parade of lady products – and we didn’t stop there. Making merchants happy is important to us, so we created a win-win promotion formula to keep the deals flowing.

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Meaningfy

View Website | @meaningfy

Markets: Lean Tech

Categories: Operations

Meaningfy is a competitive intelligence platform that uses machine learning and collaboration tools to provide workgroups an up-to-date, consolidated view of their competitive landscape.

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MegaBits

View Website | @megabitsapp

Markets: Lean Tech

MegaBits is a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game based on your physical location. It allows you to catch, train, and battle monsters found in different areas in the real world. We want adventure. And what better place to have that adventure than in the real world? Your location in MegaBits is your location in real life. Trainers near you appear right on your map.

You might find different wild MegaBits depending on where you are in the world, what time of day it is, and even the weather. You can search for the rarest MegaBits, or trade to collect them from every region in the world. You can feed and play with your MegaBits to keep them happy, or you can battle them against other trainers from anywhere. No matter what your play style, you too can become a MegaBits legend.

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MetroMe

View Website | @MetroMeVIP

Markets: Lean Tech

MetroMe is your one-stop online concierge that delivers customized recommendations of events, dining, nightlife, theater, sports, concerts, and much more directly to you, tailored specifically to your preferences. MetroMe streamlines the process of making plans by presenting you with personalized information through our website, mobile application, or our full-service concierge team. From there, MetroMe can help you make reservations, plan a trip, or score tickets to an upcoming event. With MetroMe, you can truly make every city your city.

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NoWait

View Website | @nowaitapp

Markets: Lean Tech

NoWait takes the frustration out of the seating process at no-reservation restaurants for both restaurants and guests by managing the waiting list via text messages. NoWait further creates the opportunity to serve mobile web content to waiting guests and automatically builds a text message marketing list for post visit engagements.

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OpenCurriculum

View Website | @OpenCurriculum

Markets: Education

OpenCurriculum is a place to create, access and share K-12 learning material. A non-profit company incubated at ThrillMill, OpenCurriculum was founded by two-time CMU alum Varun Arora.

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PortaBeer

View Website | @PortaBeer

Categories: Operations

Founded in 2009, PortaBeer has developed the PortaDraft, the only fully-portable draft beer dispensing system that delivers an ice-cold, pub-quality experience that is attractive, durable, customizable, and easy-to-use.

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PoweredAnalytics

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Categories: Operations

PoweredAnalytics is democratizing predictive analytics with a cloud-based platform that enables companies to make predictions from big data.

Our machine learning and data mining platform delivers actionable data-driven insight that results in better decisions, more effective targeting, and less waste in business operations and marketing. PoweredAnalytics is simple to use and easy to deploy, providing a window to the future before it happens.

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RentJungle

View Website | @rentjungle

Markets: Lean Tech

Rent Jungle is the only true search engine in the apartment and rental housing industry. Its web-crawling technology gathers up nearly every property listed in the U.S. from over 7,000 rental sites. Apartment hunters can search over five million active listings broken down by city, neighborhood, size, and price.

Navigation is easy with an interactive map which allows users to zoom in and out of locations and filter their search for specific features. A sophisticated search engine optimization and easy-to-navigate interface stands Rent jungle apart from sites such as Hotpads, Apartments.com, and Craigslist.

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Rhiza Labs

View Website | @rhiza

Markets: Lean Tech

Tags: Analytics

At Rhiza, we know that big data can help you stay ahead of your competition. But data alone is not enough. You need to understand it. Rhiza Analytics helps you find the answers you are looking for quickly and easily. So you can spend more time staying ahead of market trends, and less time trying to understand them.

As a software company, we make data work for people. Our customers enjoy direct access to the designers and programmers that build our software, and don’t have to climb through a morass of automated phonebots. We know that with better analytics and access to information, people make better decisions, faster. That’s why our customers don’t just follow market trends, they crush them.

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Shoefitr

View Website | @shoefitr

Markets: Lean Tech

Shoefitr is a team of engineers and athletes fed up with ordering shoes online, only to be disappointed when their shoes arrive and do not fit. They set out to solve this problem by putting their expertise to good use and began working to create a solution. Out of extensive research and development, Shoefitr was born.

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Showclix

View Website | @showclix

Markets: Lean Tech

Back in 2007, founders Lynsie Campbell and Joshua Dziabiak created ShowClix as an online ticketing and live event search engine. From a one-room office with a couple of computers and a ping-pong table, the company eventually evolved into the full-service event ticketing system that it is today.

Millions of tickets, three offices, and two cereal walls later, we’re the preferred ticketing solution for thousands of performing arts theatres, live music venues, and festivals — as well as museums, non-profit fundraisers, nightclubs, even circuses and rodeos.

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Sole Power

View Website | @SolePowerTech

Categories: Operations

Sole Power, LLC is an innovative technology startup focused on bringing energy to the masses.

Sole Power is working to commercialize an energy harvesting shoe insert that generates power while you walk. It produces enough power to charge portable electronic devices like cell phones and GPS.

The co-founders are very motivated and dedicated to bringing a quality product to market that will not only make Sole Power a profitable company but also have a significant social impact.

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The Resumator

View Website | @theresumator

Markets: Lean Tech

Categories: Operations

Tags: Human Resources

The Resumator solves the special recruiting challenges of small and fast-growing organizations, making tedious and complex recruiting tasks easy for anyone to complete. Over 6,500 employers trust The Resumator to help them find and hire great people. Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr got off the ground with it and you can too. Learn more at www.TheResumator.com

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Thread, LLC

View Website | @threadintl

Markets: Social Innovation

Thread transforms waste in desperately poor countries into the most innovative products possible. We strive to set an example for environmentally-conscious innovation, provide economic opportunity for and improve the general welfare of the people we do business with, and use our business to inspire common sense and actionable, sustainable solutions.

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Treatspace

View Website | @treatspace

Markets: Lean Tech

Treatspace is a portal that authenticates online physician info. Products empower doctors to ensure their information is accurate and to protect them errors. Patients now have a source they can trust about their physicians.

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Vendalize

View Website | @VendalizePGH

Categories: Operations

We’re crowdsourcing the long tail of local search.

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Webbula

View Website | @webbula

Markets: Lean Tech

Categories: Operations

Webbula is a data technology services provider. We help clients find, develop and manage customer relationships to make their businesses more profitable.

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Webkite

View Website | @flyasite

Markets: Lean Tech

Meet the next generation of content management—WebKite. Whether you’re a business owner, web developer, product reviewer, or anyone with content, WebKite is the ideal platform to enable your users to intuitively explore your content like never before—without breaking the bank.

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Workshirt

View Website | @HitchedPic

Markets: Lean Tech

Workshirt helps people capture and share the big events in their lives. Their first product, HitchedPic, is a mobile app that captures the wedding from a unique perspective. HitchedPic also gives the bride and groom a website to help manage wedding details, invite friends & family and organize the photos, and also offers a free iPhone app to all the guests to take and personalize photos.

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