OCEAN ACCELERATOR ANNOUNCES CLASS III December 16th

OCEAN ACCELERATOR ANNOUNCES CLASS III December 16th, 2016 | Cincinnati, Ohio – OCEAN Accelerator, Inc. proudly announces its class for 2017. The class was selected from a rich applicant pool including a diverse range of hi-tech startups. OCEAN application is thorough, competitive, and includes a training to equip its dozen evaluators. Each application is reviewed by multiple evaluators, and all finalists experience an interview with OCEAN CEO and representative from the organization’s board. Applicants included: - 63% from outside Cincinnati - 25% minority founders The 2017 class includes founders from Georgia, Illinois, Sudan, Chile, Australia, and two founders from Cincinnati. The class is not only geographically diverse, but also features 43% women co-founders OCEAN’s 2016 program begins on January 16 and continues until the end of May, 2017. This year’s class is the first to benefit from an increase in the seed capital given to companies of $50,000 – the third consecutive increase program’s investment funding. OCEAN’s annual demo day will take place on April 27, 2017 at Crossroads Uptown. FLX FLX is a financial engineering software company focused on simplifying the farmland rental contract process. FLX solves the problem of asymmetric information between the landowner, the farmer/ tenant, and their supporting fiduciary partners as well as unsubsidized crop insurance and restricted credit to farmers. Kwema Kwema has developed a smart bracelet with an included panic button, which instantly syncs with the kwema mobile application to alert friends and family, 911, campus police or first responders close to your location during a distressful situation. ConsultMates Consultmates is a marketplace for healthcare consulting. Consultmates offers a private marketplace for multi-location practices to facilitate communication and improve knowledge sharing between geographically dispersed locations. This allows for increased affordability for practice owners to receive help running their business. Cloverleaf.me Cloverleaf is a visualization and scenario-planning tool for teams of people inside an organization. Cloverleaf uses known data points from individual personality assessments and combines those data points with the cultural preferences of an individual collected through a proprietary survey. The data is then displayed on a personal visualization dashboard which includes additional tools for team management.

Bundle Bundle’s mobile centric solution integrates inventory tracking with procurement to save clinics time and money. Real time inventory data is collected through a mobile application and optimized orders are triggered through a web platform which utilizes a price scraper to find a supplier with the lowest price offering. http://getthebundle.com/ Arajoy, Inc. Arajoy is building autopilot software to enable drones to auto-film. Arajoy’s product is autonomous-drone software that equips drones to auto-film sports, so teams can have access to their daily footage without the need of a daily-committed pilot and camera operator. Arajoy also provides service to host footage online for viewing.

Owl Labs Owl Labs is a research and development lab for human-machine interaction. The first application of this technology is DENA, the first smart prosthetic hand that has a high dexterity, sense of touch, sense of temperature, and control of mobile devices and technology. Owl Labs provides the ability to bypass touch and interact with technology using muscle signals. http://www.owllabs.xyz/