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OUTSTANDING PRODUCT (-250 employees)
A qualified Nominee is a company WITH FEWER THAN 250 EMPLOYEES that has designed, developed and produced a technology-based product. Through this product the company has shown success in addressing an industry need or market niche.
NanofiberSolutions.com
Nanofiber Solutions, LLC is a medical device manufacturer of three-dimensional (3-D) scaffolds and cell culture products that advance biological sciences.
The company has numerous products in development that address specific market opportunities using its unique platform technology. The drive is to identify biomedical markets where we can provide superior product solutions. Specifically, the technology is used to build scaffolds that are critical in the development of life-saving, tissue engineered implants.
We manufacture the only bioartificial tracheal implant with an FDA Investigational New Device (IND) allowance in the U.S. These implants have been used successfully in several European surgeries in the past year with upcoming surgeries scheduled in the U.S. The company is rapidly expanding its product offerings and patent estate based on this proven scaffold technology.

AlphaResourcesLLC.com
We develop instruments, usually containing a microcontroller. We are developing a product for fire fighters to help them fill an SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) they typically wear. These are small for mobility, so they have to be re-filled on the truck.
This has to be done in stages and is now done manually, taking a significant amount of time. There is a regulation that will soon go into effect that requires records be kept of each fill. Our product does this all automatically, increasing the fill speed and taking the burden of writing records from the fire fighters.
Azoti.com
Founded in June 2011, Azoti is an Internet marketing and business service company that offers an online platform to connect independent farmers and food producers with consumers who want fresh, healthy food delivered right to their workplace.
Through its Employer Connect program, Azoti has redefined locally grown food as an employee benefit whereby employers actualize the nutrition component of wellness thus lowering insurance premiums, employees receive fresh, wholesome food delivered on-site as they leave for the day and farmers can go from sustaining to thriving in less than 1 year.

Capture-Education.com
Capture Education, Inc. was formed in April 2006 in order to bring together a group of passionate educators and developers who are dedicated to school reform and equality in educational opportunity. The goal is to improve one of the most difficult tasks that schools face: to provide a quality master schedule that impacts student achievement.
After five years of hands-on research with school districts and various SIS operating systems across the country, it was obvious that an age-old problem needed a new solution. ScheduleSmart was created as a strength based scheduling tool that maximizes teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Capture Education continues to be the provider of software that allows schools to make the best use of student performance data by being the first to connect the IMS, Gradebook, and SIS for scheduling.
Their innovations have garnered partnerships from Pearson Education, Battelle, Battelle for Kids, EdMap, and The National Academy Foundation to ensure that as many students as possible receive learning environments most conducive to success.

CueYouLtd.com
CUE YOU LTD is a developer of simple to use technology that represents absolute ease-of-use, and provides inexpensive aid to support the independence of those who require assistance to develop or maintain their health, safety and emotional well being.
Our first product, an iOS app called CUE YOU, permits Seniors with memory problems to live independently, in their own homes, with subtle cues provided by a caregiver who creates and manages a schedule of reminders and messages on the Internet and delivers the schedule to the iOS device using the app. CUE YOU can also permit those with traumatic brain injury and controlled mental illness to regain a sense of control of their lives and enable those with developmental disabilities to benefit from participation within the community to an extent never before available to them. The app is a technological solution that requires no understanding of technology for the end user. It automatically delivers messages and automatically delivers acknowledgement of the receipt of those messages to the caregiver. CUE YOU is simple technology for independent living.

CupcakeYumYum.com
Cupcake Yum.Yum puts a modern twist on old school, artisan baking while focusing on non-GMO, organic and no wheat ingredients. Our signature, two-bite cupcakes, aka “Yums,” are small enough to have more than just one!
Our products serve two very different customer bases. We have a customer base that has a hard time ordering/eating out due to cross contamination of wheat. Even with clear kitchen restrictions, it’s nearly impossible to get a GF dessert in a restaurant or bakery that is not contaminated. We want our gluten free friends to be able to feel confident that they will not be contaminated and that they will enjoy great tasting cake like everyone else.
Customers who CAN eat wheat love our products due to the high quality ingredients, culinary care and recipe refinement we put into our cakes. Cupcake Yum.Yum is known for unique flavor combinations like Spiced Maple Bacon, Sea Salt & Cracked Pepper and Cookie Dough. We serve Columbus in many ways from corporate events and retail to weddings and parties. Eat them. Buy more. They’re small.

EPM1.net
Environmental Pest Management provides pest control for over 30,000 apartments in central Ohio.
Jason has created a patent pending software that allows property managers the ability to create, view, and submit work orders online. After the work is completed, the technician closes the order with all pertinent information to be stored indefinitely online.
The software also allows both EPM and the properties the ability to research all services that have been completed.

expesite.com
Expesite, LLC (A 2012 Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America Recipient for the sixth year in a row) is a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) company, which provides a collaborative software platform for real estate development, construction, and facilities management through its suite of Vision products. Since 1999, Expesite has helped clients maximize the productivity of real estate assets, efficiently manage projects, and cost-effectively maintain facilities. Expesite delivers results through long-term client relationships and an intimate understanding of each client’s evolving needs. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Expesite maintains global offices and serves some of the largest retailers, chain restaurants, financial institutions, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, and government agencies in the world.
The Expesite VisionMSI (Multi-Site Inspection) product was designed to help clients better understand their assets throughout their real estate portfolio. VisionMSI was launched in 2010, because Expesite recognized that gathering all the information about one’s assets across a large portfolio was challenging.

GlobalMedFoam.com
Global Medical Foam, Inc. is an innovative company that specializes in the prevention and treatment of decubitus (ulcers bedsore, pressure ulcers)(wound care) prevention and treatment along with proper positioning. Victoria A. Langer holds several patents on medical devices she has developed for the above conditions.
Global Medical Foam, Inc. offers a comprehensive and complete line of Pressure Management Products. We are an industry leader and the only one in the marketplace who can offer you the patented Conforming Comfort line. This patented line promotes even tissue load distribution, secure positioning, as well as a specially designed core center to prevent bottoming-out. This entire patented line is developed around the AHRQ Guidelines.
Global Medical Foam, Inc. is proud of our ability to manufacture and continually develop products designed to meet your needs. We have on our product and development committee a Certified Surgeon as well as many other healthcare professionals. Our Conforming Comfort products are a patented design positioning devices that offers proven pressure reduction for patients or residents of long-term care facilities, hospitals, home care, hospice, and rehabilitation. Fluid proof - anti-bacterial cover included.

HealthSpot.net
HealthSpot is a healthcare technology company based in Dublin, Ohio, that has conceived, developed, and built a pioneering telehealth product, the Care4 Station.
The Care4 Station is a walk-in kiosk with integrated medical devices. Patients connect to healthcare providers over real-time high-definition videoconferences. With this groundbreaking integration of telehealth and primary care, HealthSpot increases access to high quality, convenient and affordable healthcare services at a time when the healthcare system faces more physician shortages and rising costs than ever before.

MyStaffingPro.com
myStaffingPro is an applicant tracking and recruiting system that empowers human resources professionals to recruit, qualify, track, and hire the best applicants.
The system provides applicant tracking, candidate recruiting, and onboarding in a scalable, configurable solution. With more than 500 clients, myStaffingPro is not limited by industry, browser, or integration requirements. Its SaaS model makes it accessible from anywhere at any time, and offers unlimited integration capabilities with background checking, assessments, HRIS, learning, and performance management systems.

IntelligentID.com
Intelligent ID (IID) is a software system which is designed to provide IT administrators, security experts and HR personnel with unprecedented transparency into user and endpoint activity. It protects government, military and commercial organizations from insider threats by predicting, monitoring and alerting management to real and potentially harmful behavior including intellectual property theft, data loss, workplace violence and inefficient use of time and resources.
Intelligent ID incorporates user activity monitoring with an innovative cognitive behavioral model, analyzing past and real-time events to predict and alert to imminent behavior before zero-day events occur.
No other system has the breadth of functionality and analysis of IID, while at the same time presented in an intuitive interface that is user-friendly and highly customizable to meet organizations’ specialized and ever-changing needs.
sLifeBio.com
LifeBio promotes better health through reminiscence. LifeBio Inc.’s web-based memory capture system is deployed in health care and senior care settings to systematically create simple biographies in order to improve the patient experience, to increase cognitive function, and to promote overall wellbeing. LifeBio also helps thousands of family caregivers and older adults living at home to capture life stories and to experience better health as well.
LifeBio is the leading provider of therapeutic reminiscence in settings serving older adults such as senior living, long-term care, assisted living, and hospice. Additional settings using LifeBio’s approach include the Mayo Clinic, cancer treatment centers, and one of the largest health insurers. LifeBio’s turnkey web-based approach makes it fast and simple to create a very basic “About Me” bio or a more extensive full Biography. The system also provides a private and secure Journal.

MailTamerApp.com
Email was one of the first communication mediums on the Internet and it shows no signs of going anywhere. However, the flow has increased exponentially. We identified this problem and came up with a unique solution that lets you interact with this mass of messages in a different way.
MailTamer was developed as a mobile-first email experience challenging assumptions about how you work with your email. Its original Recipient-centric view to your inbox is not offered by any other email client or utility on the market. This view proves to be incredibly effective at its task of getting you to the messages that matter most.

ModernMedical.com
Modern Medical; a leader in the workers’ compensation services industry since 1986, provides a full range of services to insurance companies, third party administrators, self-insured companies and case management companies nationwide.
VeroSuite, an innovative set of state-of-the-art, web-based technology tools was introduced to create efficiencies in tracking and managing workers’ compensation claims for their clients. With the introduction of VeroSuite, Modern Medical has provided to its clients the tools, functions and features required to manage: the claimant, utilization of services and the providers that come in contact with the claimant. VeroSuite not only saves the client time and money, but more importantly gives the client actions in real time to manage responses for their claimants.
Modern Medical’s VeroSuite framework has positioned the company on the cutting edge of other new technologies that are currently being tested and promises a very bright future for the company, its clients and future clients. Modern Medical is SSAE16 certified.

Moncai.com
Moncai (pronounced Monkey) is a Limited Liability Company (LLC), based in Central Ohio.
Dale Ragan and Eric Blevins founded Moncai to solve one of their biggest problems for the past 10 years when deploying .NET web applications into production and scaling them

nanobloxinc.net
Established in 2003, NanoBlox Inc. is a nano-technology based company specializing in the manufacture of nanodiamonds. Over the past two years, NanoBlox has focused on the goal of producing nanodiamonds in volume quantities that are the most pure nanodiamond available in the world. We have succeeded in being the only North American producer of nanodiamonds and are quickly reaching our goal of supplying the highest purity nanodiamonds available.
In January of 2011, NanoBlox Inc. commissioned its newly constructed nanodiamond detonation reactor. Nanodiamond was produced during the detonation of a mixture of the energetic materials RDX and TNT. The detonation occurred in a controlled atmosphere within the custom designed and built reactor. The synthesized nanodiamond was verified using both X-ray diffraction and transmission-electron microscopy.
Aided by two U.S. Army contracts secured by NanoBlox, we have succeeded in our goals of understanding the manufacturing process and then developing the production processes and hardware involved in the domestic manufacture of nanodiamonds. With this knowledge and equipment, NanoBlox successfully synthesized and purified a high quality nanodiamond product.

TeamNorthwoods.com
Northwoods helps human services agencies nationwide improve efficiency and save money with our Compass software suite of products. Our goal is to revolutionize the delivery of human services with proven methodologies, innovative software, and superior service. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Northwoods is a privately held company solely focused on providing software and services that help human services agencies nationwide meet their increasing challenges.
Northwoods latest product is Compass CoPilot, a tablet-based application that allows social workers too conduct client visits and other appointments away from the agency. The application brings many of the timesaving innovations that Northwoods provides to agency-based workers to the field. In addition, it delivers new efficiencies that specifically fit the way mobile workers do their jobs. Designed with child and adult protective services in mind, CoPilot helps social workers protect more vulnerable clients by saving them valuable time. By giving the worker the tools they need to work at a client’s home or anywhere help is needed, Compass CoPilot is truly the social worker’s office to go.

PerfectPracticeUSA.com
Perfect Practice is a recent start-up company based in the Columbus, Ohio area. It was founded in January 2012 by Physical therapist / Athletic trainer Chris McKenzie, and Biomechanical engineer Ajit Chaudhari, both from OSU Sports Medicine.
Their goal is to expand the commercialization of a revolutionary core stability testing and training device, which has developed as part of their research. Perfect Practice is dedicated to the aggressive marketing of this technology and becoming the recognized leader in core strength training and rehabilitation among both professionals and the general public.

procuresafe.com
ProcureSafe has developed a unique cloud based application that gives corporate buyers an easy-to-use platform designed to automate and manage existing and prospective suppliers.
With ProcureSafe, companies can direct suppliers to a supplier registration portal where they complete a profile, and add product and pricing information. The supplier information is stored and categorized in a personalized company account in the ProcureSafe database. When the buyer is ready to make a purchase, they simply search the database for qualified suppliers and request a quote online. The supplier sends a quote response directly to the buyer portal for tracking and comparison.
By automating the sourcing process, ProcureSafe dramatically reduces the acquisition timeline and the cost for both the buyer and the supplier.

RealWeldSystems.com
The RealWeld Trainer™ scores welding proficiency while performing live arc-on Mig, Stick, and Flux-Cored welds.
The system is used to screen new-hires, confidently fast-track proficient trainees, and upgrade the overall welding skill base of an organization through standardized testing and competitive learning.
The patent-pending motion capture technology was developed by EWI and is exclusively licensed to RealWeld Systems, Inc.

TheSevenexGroup.com
Headquartered in Dublin, OH, Sevenex provides new savings and net revenue Solutions to hospitals across the county.
These patented and algorithmically selected and sequenced Solutions and their implementation processes greatly enhance hospital’s EBITDA margins on a contractually guaranteed basis in excess of a 7 to 1 ROI.

VentureHighway.com
Venture Highway creates and distributes entrepreneurial curriculum offerings for college and university instructors and aspiring entrepreneurs. Designed by successful entrepreneurs and highly respected academic thought leaders, Venture Highway elevates the entrepreneurial education experience – both in and out of the classroom. Our products replace traditional textbooks for a richer learning experience.
Venture Highway’s integrated learning platform for entrepreneurship includes textbook-like content, features that are typical of Learning Management Systems, and database driven tools and worksheets, such as an online Business Model Canvas tool and Business Plan Builder. The platform allows instructors to include their own content and customize a course to their specific needs. Students find the material and tools helpful and interesting. Enrollment in the courses that have used our products has grown each semester.

Venueseen.com
Venueseen is a social media management/monitoring tool that pulls hashtagged and location-specific photos, check-ins and comments from Instagram and Foursquare.
Identify your audience, interact with loyal fans and visitors, respond to suggestions and collect feedback all from our easy-to-use dashboard. The Venueseen campaigns tool is the first of its kind to let brands easily create, implement and manage hashtag-driven Instagram marketing campaigns while collecting customer contact information.

Whouter.com
Whouter.com (pronounced Hooter.com) is an uncensored global free speech platform for adults that allows users to compose and share text whouts with photos, audio Whouts and video whouts without fear of retaliation or job loss.
It also provides users with the ability to view photos, listen to audio and view videos that may contain explicit language, images or videos, which are required to be hidden with a two clickable label button to protect those who want the option to ignore such content, without restricting others rights of free speech and expression.
Whouter.com does not require identifying data from users, which will encourage adults to express themselves.
AutismDataConnect.com
Autism Data Connect (ADC) is a web based software app that is being designed to help a wide variety of caregivers that surround children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and other related developmental disabilities.
We at WilData are creating a pilot of ADC in collaboration with Easter Seals Central & Southeast Ohio and Nationwide Children’s Hospital by utilizing a grant award from the Ingram-White Castle Foundation. The Foundation board is excited to see the partnership of non-profit organizations working with our for-profit corporation to help a wide variety of caregivers in the autism community.
ADC will be available so parents, teachers, therapists, and other providers of care can share data concerning the individual’s treatment. Improved communication between caregivers will assist in reaching common therapeutic goals and provide much better outcomes of treatment. Also, anonymous data will be provided to those involved in scientific research to help find the causes of autism and other disorders on the spectrum.

ZiaSystems.com
Zia Systems LLC is a small central Ohio business that provides innovative sensor technology to the construction industry. With the help from Third Frontier funding Zia has designed, developed and is now marketing sensor technology used in the rehabilitation of water and sewer pipelines.
Today the industry uses a trenchless process to repair pipelines, called Cured-In-Place-Pipe lining, or CIPP. This is done by inserting a resin-based liner inside the host pipe, and applying heat with steam or hot water, to cure and harden the liner.
Zia’s sensors are placed every six (6) inches along the pipeline between the host pipe and liner. Temperature readings are automatically recorded and graphed every 10 seconds. With this information, proper temperature, as well as proper heat duration, ensures that the liner was cured properly. In the past, this temperature information along the pipeline was unknown. The sensor system is embraced by municipalities, engineers and contractors. The system helps ensure that the lining work was done according to specifications. The system also reduces the cost of fuel, labor and equipment, and eliminates manual temperature recording.



