SeedFire Venture Advisors provides strategic advise and mentoring to disruptive, high tech ventures. We have a proven track record of working with early and growth stage companies converting ideas into businesses.

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Quintilian improves enrollment and yield outcomes by analyzing large amounts of data to identify potential students and personalizing marketing and outreach efforts to individual students. We work with colleges using their data to build powerful AI models that help them recruit more students. Quintilian also helps colleges to improve their events and outreach, network building, yield management, analysis and reporting, and data management.

ResourceShark, the flagship service of Intelacomm, Inc. is the fastest growing Business Directory in the world. Whether you're searching for professionals, products, or services, we've got you covered. Our extensive database connects you with a global network of resources, right at your fingertips. ResourceShark digital Marketing service expertly coordinates SEO and Organic digital strategy including Social Media, Original Blogs, Custom Content, Key-Word Analytics plus Index Listings, Reputation Monitoring, B2B Contacts. ResourceShark digital marketing plans are designed to increase your brand recognition, site ranking and authority, web traffic and SM reach, and most importantly leads and sales. Best of all, of our services are affordable, scalable, and produce results.

OneSixOne Ventures is a hybrid accelerator and a pre-seed/seed VC fund focused on GovTech & Enterprise Software. We are headquartered in Gainesville, FL with offices in Miami, Cleveland and Seattle. The firm began by running events & programs for early founders in 2017. We launched our accelerator in 2020 and our venture fund in 2022. Biannually, we select a small group of startups to join our 10-week accelerator program. Startups in the program learn from accomplished guest speakers and connect with investors. In addition to our accelerator, OneSixOne Ventures hosts several other programs and events including the Startup Launch Competition at University of Florida (in partnership with Warrington College of Business), Gainesville Tech Week, workshops, roundtables as well as 5-hour startup bootcamps (in partnership with Jumpstart in Cleveland, OH).

Till It Clicks is a marketing agency that specializes in powering marketing performance and ensuring intelligent revenue growth for your business. For 7+ years, we have devised ingenious campaign ideas and acted as the catalyst to the sales success of clients from various industries. With a team boasting of diversified skill sets and unequivocal passion, TIC makes sure that the best industry brains are assigned to produce predictable and repeatable results for your business.

SIG is a fast-growing 8(a) certified small business that supports commercial customers and government agencies with differentiated professional and advanced technology services.

BDEX is the first and only real-time data marketplace and a revolutionary shift in the world of Big Data. Instant access to consumer activity only seconds after it has transpired, not days or weeks or months.

Founders' Co-op is a seed-stage investment fund based in Seattle. Pacific Northwest — from Portland, OR up to Vancouver, BC — is loaded with entrepreneurial talent and grossly underserved by the early stage investor community. We’ve pooled the resources and expertise of some of the Pacific Northwest’s most successful entrepreneurs and early-stage investors to scout for exceptional talent in these markets and bet on great teams with big ideas.Our specific focus is on web and mobile opportunities that require limited capital to demonstrate market traction, but have a shot at making a real dent in the universe at scale.

RNSC Technologies is an Atlanta-based, minority & veteran-owned cyber security services company. We work as a trusted advisor and a strategic partner with our clients to align their cybersecurity needs with their business goals. RNSC offers various services to ensure highest levels of protection to save our clients’ business resources, reputation, and time. Strategic Cyber Advisory Services: vCISO and Onsite Consulting, Security Architecture & EngineeringCyber Readiness & Maturity Workshops: Executive Cybersecurity Workshops, Privacy & Data Governance, Incident Response PlanningGovernance, Risk & Compliance Services: Policy Development & Review, Audit Preparation & Guidance, Asset Assessment & Findings, Compliance Discovery & Readiness, Data Privacy, Impact Assessment, Third Party Risk Management, Incident Response AssessmentSecurity Operations Services: Penetration Testing Services, IR Readiness Assessment Services, Security Assessment Services, Vulnerability Assessment Services, Incident Response & Forensic Analysis, Asset Discovery & MgmtRNSC Tech & Life Skills Academy, our 501c sister organization arm provides the workforce development pillar to our mission where we Develop & Deploy cyber talent into the industry.

Ridgeback Network Defense is an enterprise security software platform that defeats malicious network invasion in real time. For any enterprise deploying Ridgeback’s solutions, a network intruder — whether from outside or from an insider threat — encounters a network environment that appears to comprise, literally, billions of servers and other computing devices. The instant the intruder engages a ghost server, Ridgeback provides options to eliminate or counter-engage the intruder.

MyMela’s vision is to create a dynamic online marketplace for Indian artisans. Artisan groupsfeatured on MyMela have access to a sustainable global online marketplace where they can selltheir wares while requesting loans. You can forge a personal connection with these artisansthrough purchases and with an innovative, marketplace credits based system.

Bioceptive is a women’s health company developing innovative medical devices for a variety ofgynecological procedures. The first device, a new approach to intrauterine procedures, is a novelintrauterine device (IUD) inserter that vastly simplifies the insertion procedure while aiming tosignificantly reduce the adverse events inherent with current insertion techniques. The companyalso has a pipeline of other products in early development and conceptual phases.

The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley by a group of successful entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and senior professionals with roots in the Indus region. There are currently 13,000 members, including over 2,500 charter members in 57 chapters across 14 countries. TiE’s mission is to foster entrepreneurship globally through mentoring, networking, and education. Dedicated to the virtuous cycle of wealth creation and giving back to the community, TiE’s focus is on generating and nurturing our next generation of entrepreneurs.

AppwoRx was ACQUIRED by PatientNow in March, 2021.AppwoRx is is a HIPPA compliant cloud storage photo management software. AppwoRx’s tools make medical practices more productive and successful in the dermatology, aesthetics, plastic surgery, vein treatment and wound care fields. It allows practices to take control of their clinical photography from capturing a photo to expectation management and marketing.The AppWoRx platform combines mobile and cloud technology to streamline the process of capturing and managing medical photos.

The Portland Seed Fund is a privately managed fund and non-resident accelerator focused on providing emerging companies the capital, mentoring, and connections to propel them to the next level.

zApproved was ACQUIRED by Vista Equity Partners in May, 2017.Founded in February 2008, Zapproved is a software-as-a-service provider based in Portland, Ore. Our flagship product, Legal Hold Pro, was the first cloud-based litigation hold management software. This innovative product rapidly gained acceptance by in-house legal teams and has become the #1 litigation hold software. Our growing customer base ranges from some of the world’s largest companies, including many in the Fortune 500 and Global 2000, in financial services, high tech, energy, healthcare/pharma and manufacturing industries.Today, Zapproved’s e-discovery software offers corporate legal teams innovative cloud-based technologies for conducting e-discovery affordably and sustainably — to improve efficiency and effectiveness, while reducing risks and costs associated with litigation. Our platform is characterized by ease-of-use, scalability of processing power, data security and exceptional accessibility, all at an affordable and predictable price.

Brands use Chirpify to create a currency exchange between social media and loyalty programs to drive member acquisition, engagement, and increase customer lifetime value. They do this by enabling consumers to use social media as a remote control for marketing conversion.

Gamiana Digital Entertainment Pvt. Ltd is an online gaming company committed to deliver thebest user experience in building online communities through bridging virtual worlds, multiplayergames and social networks. The company is based out of Mumbai, India. It develops & publishesmultiplatform games for PC (browser/social networks) and wireless devices (Smart Phones &Tablets).

Indian Angel Network is a network of Angel investors keen to invest in early stage businesses which have potential to create disproportionate value. The members of the Network are leaders in the Entrepreneurial Eco-System as they have had strong operational experience as CEOs or a background of creating new and successful ventures. They share a passion to create, scale and value for startup ventures.Started in April 2006, the Indian Angel Network in addition to money, provides constant access to high quality mentoring, vast networks and inputs on strategy as well as execution. The Network members, because of their background are better able to assess the potential and risks at the early stage.

GlobeSherpa was ACQUIRED by RideScout (a subsidiary of Daimler AG) in July, 2015.GlobeSherpa is focused on mobile ticketing and commercializing opportunities to transform smartphones into payment and redemption devices. The company’s first entry into the mobile ticketing market is in transit, where its application TransitSherpa, allows commuters to hop on and off transit with nothing more than the phone in their pocket.

New World Angels (NWA) is a group of private investors dedicated to providing equity capital to early-stage entrepreneurial companies in the state of Florida. NWA has chapters in South Florida and the Tampa Bay area and is typically a lead or co-investor in transactions totaling between $0.5 million and $2.5 million.

Miami Innovation Fund provides equity financing for promising growth businesses with novel, often patentable technologies, specializing in information technology, interactive marketing and media, telecommunications, including all mobile device applications, business service and application software across most vertical industries.

Bitdeli was ACQUIRED by AdRoll in June 2013.Bitdeli is a developer platform for real-time analytics. Using Bitdeli's browser-based development environment, anybody with basic programming skills can build web tools that use big or small data without having to worry about infrastructure or the intricacies of scalable data processing.Bitdeli is an ideal backend for custom analytics, visualizations and dashboards.

AppFog was ACQUIRED by CenturyLink in June 2013.AppFog is a cloud-based hosting service for your favorite web application stack. The PaaS offering is used by more than 100,000 developers – with hundreds joining daily – who have deployed more than 150,000 applications.

Geoloqi was ACQUIRED by Esri, a long-established GIS company that provides online mapping solutions for developers and geographic intelligence for business analytics systems.Geoloqi is a platform for "next generation" location based services (first generation location services being carrier-based), with tools for enterprise, government and mobile developers add advanced geolocation functionality to apps and devices. Geoloqi provides real-time toolkit for tracking, messaging, battery management, geofencing, storage and actionable analytics, with a language agnostic SDK and proprietary API.

SweetSpot was ACQUIRED by DexCom, Inc. – a publicly held maker of continuous glucose monitors.SweetSpot Diabetes is a health technology company focused on improving the use of data in diabetes treatment and research. By providing a universal platform with massive computational capacity, SweetSpot makes it feasible to gather and analyze patient device data that is currently discarded. SweetSpot is a game changer for patients, physicians, payors, pharma and other researchers.

After leading GemStone’s acquisition by VMWare in 2010, transitioned all the GemStone staff, across the globe, into multiple VMWare divisions. Post-acquisition, GemStone’s revenue grew several fold under the VMWare brand umbrella. VMware (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, with more than 300,000 customers and 25,000 partners, helps organizations of all sizes lower costs, increase business agility and ensure freedom of choice.

GemStone Systems was ACQUIRED by VMWare, a leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, in May, 2010 for 7X revenue. GemStone Systems was headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, and had offices in Mountain View, California, New York, Tokyo, London and Pune, India.As the founder and Chief Operating Officer, oversaw the definition and execution of the company’s strategy, provided organizational leadership and directed all aspects of the company’s worldwide business including technology, sales and marketing. Re-directed company focus into enterprise data infrastructure technologies including virtualized, grid oriented in-memory real-time data management. Established the company as a technology leader in building high-performance, data-intensive solutions for Wall Street financial institutions as well as for the Federal Government, effectively positioning the company for the high return acquisition by VMWare.

Brokat Technologies (formerly listed at the Nasdaq and the German Neuer Markt) was a global leader in software that enabled user-centric business. Brokat's products (multi-channel infrastructure software, rules management and personalization technology, mobile payment software, and e-finance applications) were used by over 3,500 enterprises worldwide. With dual headquarters in San Jose, California and Stuttgart, Germany, Brokat employed over 1,400 people in 17 countries.

GemStone was ACQUIRED by Brokat Technologies in September 2000 for 12X revenue.As part of the Office of the CTO, led the definition and management of pioneering technology initiatives in the areas of Virtual Machines, Application Servers and Object Oriented Databases. Played key role in the multi-suitor M&A activity leading to the acquisition by Brokat Technologies.