A "Taste" of Cincinnati Startups

Each day, my colleagues and I are driven by a singular goal: helping startups win! We offer comprehensive assistance, ranging from building effective teams and refining ideas to developing products, finding customers, and establishing connections with venture capitalists. Our work is incredibly rewarding because we have the privilege of aiding innovators, creators, disruptors, and game-changers who are actively shaping our future.

Below, you'll find a selection of Cincinnati area startups that we work closely with on a daily basis. Nearly all of them are official "members" of Cintrifuse, and we currently have a backlog of over 50 startups seeking our support. If you have a bold, venture-scalable idea or a startup-in-progress, we invite you to reach out to Mark Wood , Erica Middleton , or Evan Garcia . Our mission is to become the leading startup hub in the Midwest and a top innovation hub in the country, with extra focus on areas like supply chain, sustainability, fintech, and digital trust.

Sustainability

Metasorbex? Corporation : An early-stage startup in the climate tech space, focusing on advanced materials for carbon reduction and removal. Metasorbex offers solutions for both point source and direct air capture.

Electrada : Manufacturer and operator of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure intended to overcome accessibility and reliability hurdles currently limiting EV adoption. Just raised $22 million from BlackRock !

80 Acres Farms : Operates high-tech vertical farms to provide fresh, nutritious, and sustainably grown fruits and vegetables at affordable prices.

PayTile /RADIUS: The Pokémon GO For Rewards?Private, cashless payments combining metaverse and gamification elements to drive recycling, sustainability, and other consumer behaviors. Listen to founder Anu Vora below.

Clean Earth Rovers : A company specializing in environment-cleaning technology dedicated to fighting and monitoring the marine debris crisis by cleaning and monitoring pollutants. Both Xavier and UC grads and big support from 1819 Innovation Hub and University of Cincinnati .

intersect Agriculture : Conversion of waste into nutrients through rearing insects in a net carbon-negative process, providing customers with protein-rich animal feed.

Losant : A developer of an enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) platform that helps teams securely build complex real-time data systems. Significant sustainability and energy efficiency benefits. A CincyTech company.

Artificial Intelligence

Scheduler AI (fka. Get Together): Predictive calendaring software that gets even the busiest of friends together.

Pieces for Developers : Building a cloud-based infrastructure that allows designers and developers to save, store, and share assets of large project files through copy & paste. ChatGPT is built into the core proposition.

NativeAI : Uses A.I. to bring unique qualitative insights to the CPG industry to better optimize e-commerce channels, monitor & improve brand health and fuel R&D.

Nichefire : Marketing analytics platform that uses artificial intelligence to optimize marketing strategies.

FinTech/InsureTech

Tesouro : Operator of a payment platform intended to help businesses make secure and timely payments. Building the payments platform of the future?

WiPROSPER : Crowd-sourcing for the Black Owned Business economy

Neural Payments : Offers digital adoption, lower transaction costs, limit exposure to fraud, and simplify technology integrations, enabling financial institutions to connect to the latest technologies and trends.

Narval : Web3 wallet platform designed to cater to organizations; Offers web3 guilds, decentralized autonomous organization, and non-fungible token funds.

Pay Theory : Developer of financial software designed to break down payment barriers between families and service providers in education, health care, child care, and kids' enrichment.

Coterie : Developer of a commercial insurance technology designed to empower businesses to take risks by removing unwanted risk and enabling them to do good.

Payload : Developer toolkits to integrate payments and automate invoicing for any business or marketplace.

Real Estate and Construction:

Akru : Fractional commercial real estate investing platform using artificial intelligence and blockchain technology designed to create a secure and intuitive marketplace that helps people take advantage of real estate investment opportunities.

Homeshake : Platform that allows homebuyers to browse homes, contact sellers, make an offer, and homeowners to create a listing, host a tour, and get an offer.

Struxtion : Provides contractors in the commercial construction industry with tools to grow their businesses and compete on capability, not capital.

Supply Chain, Transportation, and Logistics

FRAYT : A last-mile delivery platform offering on-demand shipping, enabling businesses to provide scheduled or same-day delivery to their customers.

Subterra : Underground mapping and intelligence platform designed to digitize the world's underground infrastructure networks.

Beltways : Developer of modular accelerating walkways designed to allow urban pedestrians to power walk no carbon footprint. Actively working with CVG Airport - Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport .

Velontra : Developer of a hypersonic UAV technology that manufactures engines capable of hypersonic speeds

Technology and Software:

Pantomath : Specializes in data observability and traceability tools for supporting end-to-end data operations across complex data ecosystems.

Cerkl : Developer of a cloud-based personalized newsletter application, allowing users to communicate with groups and add their organization, invite their teams to post updates, needs, and events.

Astronomer : A developer of a data engineering platform designed to collect, prepare, and analyze business statistics for enhanced analytics.

Contact CI : Develops hardware and software solutions for augmented and virtual reality, providing businesses with glove haptic technology to begin the first-in-market use of their tech.

Physna: Often dubbed the "Google of 3D Objects," Physna specializes in 3D data analytics, using advanced algorithms to analyze and understand 3D models for various industries.

Talent & HR

Hearty : Talent marketplace that recommends members to leaderboards by skill, offers crowdsourced lists.

Gotara: Gotara is a leading career growth platform for women in STEM + fields and their employers, offering upskilling career sprints that aim to close the gender gap in STEM + and create higher-performing organizations by delivering measurable ROI within eight weeks

Hearty Collectives: A joint venture with Black Achievers , helps enterprise companies attract and retain diverse talent through trusted connections.

Health Care

RE-Assist is a care coordination platform that simplifies the process by integrating patient, case manager, and service provider roles, providing efficient organization, streamlined access to information, and automated notifications and paperwork processes.

Enable Injections: Developer of on-body delivery devices designed to enable subcutaneous self-administration of high-volume therapeutics.

Medality (formerly MRI Online) (fka MRI Online): Provides online continuing education services for radiologists.

Band Connect : Developer of a care-delivery platform and devices designed to manage musculoskeletal injury conditions and rehabilitation at home.

Hive Networks: A technology company that enables the formation of intelligent networks in healthcare, facilitating collaboration among patients, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers.

Bexion Pharmaceuticals : An oncology drug infusion company that has successfully completed Phase I trials and is progressing into Phase II.

High Enroll, LLC : Software application intended to recruit, retain, and sustain a multi-center clinical trial.

Future of Branding and Retail:

Lerch : A sophisticated event app that provides easy and modern assistance to virtually everything you need to attend your next event.

NaviStone : Uses online intent data, models data through proprietary algorithms, and distributes individualized direct mail within a few hours of the consumer's visit to the website.

Narratize : Allows entrepreneurs to enterprises to transform scientific, technical, and medical insights into compelling content that accelerates time-to-market using proven story patterns.

4SiGHT Research & Analytics : Online platform providing consumer reviews to help companies enhance and refine their branding efforts.

Amify : A provider of a platform of tools and professional services that optimize businesses' presence, margins, and sales on the Amazon Marketplace.