NextAccess is an advisory firm of highly experienced sales and marketing experts and AI practitioners who deliver pragmatic go-to-market solutions for ambitious companies. We cut through the noise to accelerate scalable revenue growth and enhance margins by harnessing the best in artificial - and human - intelligence.

Provide funding, advisory services, and liquidity solutions to startups, early-stage ventures and growth-oriented lower middle-market companies. Experienced in energy, communications, media, software, hardware, healthcare, green tech, fin tech, and real estate.

Techstars is the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. Techstars founders and their teams connect with other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners who will help their companies grow. Techstars operates three divisions: Techstars Startup Programs, Techstars Mentorship-Driven Accelerator Programs and Techstars Corporate Innovation Partnerships.

Ansa Biotechnologies is developing a new way to make DNA that will be faster, cleaner, and more accurate than existing methods. Currently, DNA is manufactured via a chemical method that has remained mostly unchanged for 35 years. Our enzyme-based approach promises to dramatically accelerate innovation in biological research and biotechnology, including therapeutics, diagnostics and biomanufacturing.

Lightbeam is a mobile-first storytelling platform, featuring shareable micro-films that champion inspiring people.

Noteworthy AI is working to keep the electric grid energized. ⚡️ We believe that through artificial intelligence, the reliability, resilience and safety of the electric grid can be significantly increased - something that we can all benefit from, as our reliance on the grid continues to exponentially increase.

HData is an enterprise software company and the creator of FERC Pro, which automates energy regulatory data and provides a valuable business intelligence platform.

Shipshape makes smart homes intelligent. We are on a mission to network together all of the critical systems in your home to provide a total home health analysis. Over time, we will partner with homeowners to connect, maintain, repair, and replace the critical systems that they rely on for their homes.

data.world makes it easy for everyone—not just the "data people"—to get clear, accurate, fast answers to any business question. Our cloud-native data catalog maps your siloed, distributed data to familiar and consistent business concepts, creating a unified body of knowledge anyone can find, understand, and use. data.world is an Austin-based Certified B Corporation and home to the world’s largest collaborative open data community and catalog, including COVID-19 public datasets.

Cheddar Up is the simplest way to collect and track online payments from a group. Its wildly simple user interface makes collecting online payments accessible to anyone. It allows individuals, schools and organizations (anyone!) to create custom online payment pages in a matter of seconds for almost anything, providing an alternative to inefficient cash and check payments and paper forms. Cheddar Up features robust online payer tracking, automatic reminders, no fees for the collector, and the ability for people to pay in as few as three clicks. Whether it’s a group gift or trip, event, school fundraiser or membership dues…Cheddar Up makes group payments quick and easy.

OsteoCentric Technologies has developed a novel medical device technology platform called Unifi, designed to preserve bone integrity while instantly interlocking an implant to bone. Unifi has been engineered specifically for bone by applying innovative and patented thread geometries unique to the OsteoCentric brands.

Rachio is a Denver-based software and hardware company focused on improving the water efficiency of homes. Rachio makes the best-selling smart sprinkler controller. The Rachio Smart Controller enables you to control your outdoor sprinkler system from the palm of your hand, using a WiFi-enabled iOS or Android device. Rachio’s cloud-based software allows customers to manage their sprinkler system from anywhere. Installation takes less than 30 minutes and you begin saving water and improving your yard's health immediately. The Rachio Smart Controller makes landscapes beautifully efficient.

Fast. Flexible. Staffing Reinvented. Wonolo, which stands for “Work Now Locally,” is an on-demand staffing platform that is changing the way businesses find talent for their immediate labor needs. Everyday, we are creating flexible opportunities for individuals to make extra income, learn new skills, and change their lives. At the same time, we are saving companies money by connecting them with talented people within minutes. Wonolo provides a broad range of jobs from warehouse, delivery, and merchandising, to event staffing and admin roles. Wonolo is backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, DAG Ventures, PivotNorth, and Base 10.

Havenly is a convenient, personal and affordable way to redecorate your home room by room. Collaborate with our professional interior designers on our online platform. This is interior design for real people. Get started today: www.havenly.com.A Denver based start-up, Havenly was founded by sisters Lee Mayer and Emily Motayed.

The Mighty is a digital health community created to empower and connect people facing health challenges and disabilities. We have over 2.5 million registered users and are adding a new one every 20 seconds. Our stories and videos are viewed and shared more than 90 million times a month.

Blinkfire Analytics is the leading business intelligence & marketing analytics platform to evaluate sports, media, and entertainment sponsorships across social media, digital, and Advanced TV. Using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and proprietary computer vision technology, Blinkfire Analytics measures media value and impact – allowing rights holders, players, influencers, agents, and brands to better engage their fans and sponsors across multiple platforms. Many of the world’s top teams and leagues rely on Blinkfire Analytics’ real-time, always-on platform for sports and entertainment sponsorship evaluation to quantify engagement and sponsorship dollars.

The mission at Hammerhead is to inspire and empower all people to unlock their athletic potential through cycling. Our first step towards this mission, H1, was an award-winning navigation device released in 2014. Simple, inexpensive, and inventive, the H1 used light patterns to give cyclists visual navigational directions without pulling their focus from what’s most important: the ride experience. In 2018, we released the Karoo 1, offering an elegant, visual solution to the shortcomings of existing GPS head units. Karoo combines a cutting-edge ruggedized hardware, and a responsive, full-color, high definition touchscreen with a user-friendly Android-based interface. This seamlessly integrates navigation, live data, and beautiful graphics that show you what you need to know quickly and without distraction. Released in 2020, the Karoo 2 packs all the software of the Karoo 1 into a lighter, smaller, more robust package. With additional hardware features, Karoo 2 will continue to unlock software potential in the years to come.

SnowShoe is the authentication platform for the internet of things. SnowShoe makes simple, intuitive, cross-platform compatible technologies that allow developers to easy and quickly build apps that interact with the internet of things. Our first product, the SnowShoe Stamp, is a simple, innert block of conductive material (machined aluminum or 3-d printed plastic) that can prove a smartphone user is in a specific place, at a specific time, and interacting with a person or embedded system in a specific authorized manner. The stamp does this by interacting with a phone's capacitive sensor array, and has been used to authenticate smartphone transactions - ranging from "punchcard- style" loyalty applications for SMBs to wifi-actuated door locks for AirBNBs.

Pagedip empowers businesses to provide beautifully designed, intuitively organized content for their staff and customers. No more "paper under glass" digital solutions. Sleek, simple, illuminating and engaging content can be created in moments via Pagedip Writeroom.

Lemnos is the leading early-stage hardware venture fund, providing direct investment and intensive, embedded interaction for hardware entrepreneurs. We focus on engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and financial capital; turning great ideas into successful hardware companies. We draw from our expertise, experience, and global network to work with founders and solve hardware’s biggest challenges together.

The SOMARK Labstamp System is a new approach to laboratory mouse identification. By applying automated tail tattoos to mice from pre-weanling to adult size, the Labstamp System creates permanent, easily readable IDs that remove the guesswork from mouse identification.

BananaDesk.com combines an easy-to-use online interface, a global guest database, and staff dedicated to help improve hostels' safety and consumer ratings. The goal is simply to provide hostels around the world with the tools needed to create a more positive environment for guests by helping to identify potential problems before they occur. With BananaDesk.com, hostel managers are empowered to protect their business, guests, and the global hostel community.

Aquabilt is dedicated to bringing the benefits of aquatic exercise to people worldwide. For more than 10 years, the company has designed and manufactured hydrotherapy products for the physical rehabilitation community. Aquabilt has applied its knowledge to develop state-of-the-art aquatic exercise products for the consumer, commercial and professional markets.

Schoolzilla provides a hosted service that connects, cleans and visualizes all of a school’s data sources. A typical school uses dozens of data systems to track attendance, grades, behavior, and more. But the lack of good data integration, management & visualization tools is a huge obstacle for educators, especially those trying to help struggling and disadvantaged students. And the explosion of online learning programs has only made this problem worse by exponentially increasing the number of data sources. Once schools connect their data, they use dashboards designed by some of the most data savvy educators in the country, and create their own custom dashboards to focus on the questions they care most about. In addition to saving schools time and money, Schoolzilla changes the way educators think about data - instead of a burden, it becomes an indispensable tool for improving student outcomes. Acquired by Renaissance Learning.

YourMechanic is the industry leader in mobile car repair, offering more than 600 repair, maintenance, and diagnostic services. YourMechanic is available in the top 50 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. YourMechanic connects mobile mechanics to customers who seek affordable, convenient, and honest car repair services at their home or office, seven days a week. Mobile mechanics enjoy flexible hours and higher pay than at a shop or dealership. Founded in 2012, YourMechanic has secured $32 million in funding. YourMechanic won TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in 2012 and holds an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.Headquartered in Mountain View, California, YourMechanic is funded by SoftBank Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Ashton Kutcher, Data Point Capital, and others. Acquired by Wrench.

Space Race, LLC, is the global production company behind Space Racers and specializes in children’s programming and educational entertainment. Space Racers airs in over 130 countries and territories around the globe and is available in more than 25 languages. Numerous honors and awards include the American Public Television Programming Excellence Award, Parents Choice Awards, and a Cynopsis !magination Award. Space Racers season one is currently streaming on Netflix and Space Racers season two is airing on NBCUniversal Kids. Episodes are also available on YouTube and Toys and Books are available at amazon.com/spaceracers.The world of the Space Racers comes vividly to life in each of our 26 episodes through stunning computer-generated imagery (CGI) and actual images from NASA missions. Stories tap into children’s curiosity to discover and learn about the world around them. From illustrating basic scientific concepts to investigating asteroids to solving problems on Mars, the characters of Space Racers take their preschool audience on a fun-filled adventure of learning and collaboration.

ERinfo is a software company dedicated to saving lives. ERinfo provides patented, anywhere, anytime patient recognition and emergency notification using facial recognition to match a field image of a patient with their medical profile. Real-time retrieval of critical pre-existing medical information and emergency contact notification for use by credentialed medical responders during emergencies is a game changer that improves medical outcomes and reduces costs.

Peer5 develops products that enable content providers to deliver content to their end users faster and more reliably, while lowering their bandwidth costs. We aspire to help content providers distribute their content in a significantly more efficient way and decentralize the web. Our products use emerging technologies, including HTML5 and WebRTC. They require no installation by end users and offer easy integration for content providers. With Peer5's technology, content can be distributed anytime, anywhere. Acquired by Microsoft.

Notion is an all-in-one sensor for simplified home awareness. We remove the need to choose which devices are required to monitor the things you want. Our single sensor can detect doors and windows opening, water leaks, smoke alarms sounding, lights being left on, temperature of a room, gun safes or liquor cabinets being accessed, and even how full a propane tank is. Notion sensors can do everything a home security system can (and much more!) — all in a self-installed, cost-effective, easy to use device with a two year battery life and a footprint equal to a couple of poker chips stacked on top of one another. Acquired by Comcast

Polymorph is a white-label SaaS monetization platform for publishers to maximize revenue, reduce costs and deliver better ad experiences. Acquired by WalMart.

Parkifi is solving the world’s parking challenges through data. A real-time smart parking data platform technology enables parking operators to gain valuable and actionable insights into their inventory while revolutionizing how they monetize it. Acquired by DISH Network Corporation.

Biomatrica is a San Diego-based biostability company that provides innovative technologies for stabilizing, processing, storing, shipping and assaying biological samples at room temperature. The core technology is designed for use in preserving complex biological samples and assays and is based on the principles of anhydrobiosis ("life without water"), a natural mechanism that allows multicellular organisms to survive extreme environments. Biomatrica's current products stabilize DNA and RNA with no sample degradation, thus labs can reduce their reliance on freezers and drastically reduce shipping costs. Biomatrica products are used in laboratories performing life science research, from pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to academic research and forensics laboratories. Acquired by Exact Sciences Corp.

Routehappy is the product differentiation platform for air travel, providing airlines and distributors with Scores & Amenities for every flight worldwide and Routehappy Hub, a platform to manage their rich product attribute content in all of their distribution channels. Acquired by ATPCO.

U Grok It makes RFID economical, attractive, and open for development. We bring the power of RFID to iOS and Android smart-devices, allowing organizations of all sizes to identify, locate, inventory and track items simply, easily and affordably. Moving the Internet of Things (IoT) forward. Acquired by Turck.

Are You a Human transforms online annoyances, like CAPTCHA and pre-roll video, into unforgettable advertising. We completely eliminate fraud and waste in digital advertising. Brands know that the vast majority of people ignore their ads through traditional methods. We reach consumers when they are completely focused on one task, and brands have 100% share of voice. Our proprietary patented algorithm analyzes each online interaction to determine if its real and human. This means we know exactly when a real person is interacting with a brand, and only charge for valid human interactions. Acquired by Distil Networks.

Orange Chef designs and manufactures hardware and software applications to answer some of the toughest questions around health and nutrition. Acquired by Yummly.

Uvize is an education technology company that helps college-bound military veterans succeed. We build virtual veterans centers for colleges. A virtual veterans center is a powerful resource to help prepare inbound veteran students for academic success, connect with mentors, and provide academic guidance all the way until graduation. Acquired by Sondermind.

Genome Compiler is a synthetic biology venture, building a best-in-class CAD system and a synthetic DNA marketplace for the new and growing community of biological designers around the world. Our software platform will provide support for the complete development cycle of genetic engineering projects with an emphasis on assuring public safety. The platform will facilitate the design, construction, characterization, dissemination, and maintenance of new genetic devices and systems. Acquired by Twist Biosciences.

Pathful is a TechStars company in Vancouver that improves online businesses by revealing customer behaviour insights by automating web analysis. Looking at images, text and other page elements that website visitors are engaging, Pathful provides simple, actionable ways to increase conversion for online businesses. Acquired by Mobify.

Mapkin is making navigation social by combining turn-by-turn navigation with a fun way to share directions and local knowledge with others. While GPS products have focused on providing optimal routing, the voice that guides users along the route has been stagnating. We are building a free GPS app that guides you like a friend who knows the way. To make GPS sound truly human, we're building our directions primarily from crowdsourced content. We're making it fun for people who want to show off their local knowledge by helping others navigate around their neighborhood. Our users can flag problems, vote on instructions, and even speak better instructions in the moment via an eyes free, gesture based UI. Acquired by Mapquest.

VerbalizeIt delivers real-time phone and browser-based access to a global community of human translators to facilitate cross-language conversations. Our mission is to empower people with the ability to instantly connect with a human translator to make sure that language is never a barrier to communication. Acquired by Smartling.

Prompt.ly is the only mobile-first, scheduling, promotion and payment platform for solopreneurs and their clients. Acquired by Breezeworks.

OnTheGo Platforms is a software platform for smart glasses. The first piece of software shipping is called Ari (Augmented Reality Interface) and is the 'Siri' of gesture recognition for smart glasses. Acquired By Atheer.

DreamIt Ventures is a startup accelerator which brings in promising early-stage companies for a 3-month program, providing them with seed funding, office space, dedicated mentors, attorneys, accountants and a speaker series. The teams work towards a prototype or early release over the course of the program and then pitch to investors at the Demo Day. In just 5 years, DreamIT has helped launch 127 companies who have gone on to raise over $100M in follow-on funding and currently have an aggregate enterprise value approaching $400M.

Greenworks Cabinetry is one of the few dedicated green cabinet manufacturers in the United States, offering a full range of beautiful and highly durable cabinets that will not only conserve forest resources, but also improve indoor air quality and reduce exposure to harmful chemicals like formaldehyde. Greenworks manufactures a variety of cabinetry options, such as European frameless and inset cabinetry, as well as a host of door styles, including Shaker, traditional, and unique designs. Also available are green closet systems and vanities, as well as custom green millwork for a wide variety of projects, both large and small. Greenworks is also a certified fabricator for Richlite, the leading manufacturer of recycled paper composite countertops for commercial and residential applications.

Alterna is positioned to meet the growing demand for green building materials and home products along the East Coast, Latin America and the Caribbean. The company is a proud member of the U.S. Green Building Council and is the first supplier headquartered in South Florida to focus exclusively on green building materials and home products by leveraging a world class distribution platform. Alterna's customer base includes large residential and commercial developers, lodging companies, government agencies, and residential showrooms.

XWebServices, Inc. is an IT consultancy focused on Service Oriented Architecture solutions. The company has assembled a diverse team of SOA Architects and Consultants focusing on Enterprise SOA planning and design, an offshore software development team based in Romania, and partnerships with several SOA focused software companies. XWebServices also provides SOAHub.com as a web portal for the SOA community.

Provided an operator-managed, high-speed, notification service delivering time-critical news, announcements and warnings to an unlimited number of recipients via the telephone. Clients included municipalities, public school districts, private schools, churches, hospitals, condo associations, and state government agencies. Business merged with OneCallNow.

Provide strategic, financial and marketing counsel to high growth companies and private equity firms.

Established a premier retailer for art buyers, interior designers and artists.

Provided strategic counsel to clients in telecommunications, information technology and media industries such as Sprint, Telstra, DirecTV, General Dynamics and Media Sourcery.

Managed this online entertainment company’s strategic development and capitalization, leading to acquisition by Launch Media Inc. (later acquired by Yahoo!). Negotiated unique strategic alliance with Microsoft Corporation and co-marketing and content licenses with many public companies.

Assisted private equity firm specializing in market opportunities emerging from deregulation and resulting convergence of energy, utility and telecommunication industries.

Advised clients in electric utility industry on operations improvement, capital budget allocation and competitive strategies regarding deregulation and diversification.