Acceptd is an online resource that streamlines the recruitment and admissions process allowing universities to efficiently recruit and screen applicants while also enabling high school students to search and find schools that are the best fit for them.

In the initial 12 months of operations, over 100 clients, including The Juilliard School, and thousands of students have joined the Acceptd network.

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.

Churchsys: Software for the entire Church – In today’s world, technology is the engine that drives church productivity. However, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to church software selection.

We provide churches with powerful member intelligence tools that afford them the ability to measure success, identify new opportunities for growth and pinpoint areas of concern. With everything processed in the cloud, Churchsys puts information at your fingertips when you need it the most.

Churchsys delivers an unprecedented set of features and functionality, all integrated into one comprehensive solution that improves efficiency, eliminates redundancy and drives significant member benefits. Inquire today and see what Churchsys has to offer to help your church grow and retain members.

For many years, a broad base of stakeholders, including physicians, patients, employers, insurers, and hospitals, have touted the benefits to healthcare delivery if health information technology was widely adopted in hospitals and medical practices. The vision of a patient’s medical history being portable and easily accessible to various medical providers and in multiple care settings seemed like an obvious way to improve healthcare delivery and to control costs. Nonetheless, many hurdles blocked the realization of this vision for providers. The Central Ohio Health Information Exchange (COHIE), a non-profit organization, was established in April 2010 to help Primary Care Providers overcome the barriers to Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption. Through funding provided by the Federal Government’s HITECH Act, COHIE has already served over 1,350 medical providers in the central Ohio area.

COHIE has raised the bar of EHR adoption in central Ohio, which is arguably the most significant step toward enhancing clinical decision making, improving overall quality and reducing healthcare-related costs. We have achieved great success to date and know that our continued work will ultimately benefit the most important part of the healthcare equation – improving patient care.

Cuptoopia.com, Inc. is a Internet Technology startup company, with a monetized social network collaboration website that facilitates the development, sale and distribution of digital products and Pay-Per-View Events.

It launched in April 2012 in Columbus, Ohio with the goal of providing access to the latest digital content creation technology that will enable individuals with ideas for apps, music, eBooks, games, eMagazines, eNewspapers and pay-per-view events to collaborate with skilled professionals to develop digital products.

Cuptoopia.com innovative business model will share 80% of the revenue generate equally between all project participants as a way to ensure that all participants are valued and rewarded equally for the success of their collaboration. It’s social collaboration to make you money without greed.

EndoSphere Inc. is a pioneer of endoscopically-insertable medical technologies. The company’s flagship product, the SatiSphere™ System, is a non-invasive treatment for one of the world’s largest health issues: metabolic disease including Obesity and Type II Diabetes. The SatiSphere™ device improves the regulation of appetite and satiety by using the body’s natural physiology – providing an incisionless, reversible, and repeatable solution. Clinical studies have shown that the SatiSphere™ device enables obese patients to achieve significant weight loss without the need for surgery or medication. The device has received CE Mark regulatory approval for commercialization in 31 countries. EndoSphere’s game-changing innovations in the industry create a broad IP portfolio including 29 issued and pending U.S. and international patents.

EndoSphere was selected winner of this year’s Fierce 15 award, named by FierceMedicalDevices as one of the 15 most promising medical device companies in the world. Editor Damian Garde said, “EndoSphere’s exciting device, the Satisphere™ System, presents a non-surgical solution for the millions of people struggling to lose weight, demonstrating to be less invasive than bariatric surgery and more effective than diet and exercise.”

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.

LogoMyWay.com connects clients needing logo designs to a creative community of more than 15,000 talented logo designers all around the world. Any business can start a logo design contest within minutes and see imaginative design submissions within a few hours!

pH Matter, LLC is a start-up company dedicated to providing materials-based solutions in emerging markets related to alternative energy. The company was formed in November 2010, and is located at the TechColumbus Business Center.

The core business of pH Matter includes the development of novel catalysts, and development of scalable production methods for these materials. Over the past year, pH Matter has developed a new catalyst material for air cathodes that will replace currently used precious metal catalysts. These lower cost and more durable materials will be used in a number of applications, including metal-air batteries, fuel cells, and industrial electrolysis electrodes.

Current customers for pH Matter’s materials include the DoD, NASA, and commercial partners. The impact felt by adoption of the materials will span from higher performing energy storage for electronics, cars and grid energy storage, to improved efficiency industrial electrolysis.

Mark Kelnhofer founded Return On Ingredients LLC in January 2009 and currently serves as the company’s President & CEO.

Kelnhofer started his accounting career in manufacturing cost accounting with a variety of products. In 2002 Kelnhofer was hired by the Bravo Brio Restaurant Group as their Cost Accounting Manager. While there he was involved in the development of systems based on his manufacturing background that assisted in the reduction of costs five consecutive years. This resulted in millions of dollars of savings. It did not take long to see that there was a large need for better tools in the industry.

Return On Ingredients is the premier cost management tool for the industry allowing restaurant operators to identify all their true costs on recipes (ingredients, labor and overhead) and utilize this data to calculate production and ordering schedules, benchmarking, physical inventories and a more methodical way to engineer menus for profitability.

SoftSyl Technologies brings total end-to-end inbound IVR, outbound power/predictive dialing, and interactive web and SMS solutions to businesses and call centers in several key industries.

The company’s technology team has over 15 years of experience with designing and developing IVR and telephony systems for Fortune 500 companies. By leveraging this experience, SoftSyl Technologies has built an enterprise-class, cost-effective, proprietary platform that integrates with any IP phone system and at the same time maintains full industry compliance. The company eliminates multi-vendor dependency by offering analysis, design, development, deployment, and support for hosted and on-site solutions.

TheraVasc is developing TV1001, an oral therapy for the treatment of Peripheral Arterial Disease or PAD.

In animal models of vascular disease, TV1001 was shown to selectively promote new blood vessel formation, stimulate wound healing, inhibit inflammation, prevent tissue necrosis and reduce kidney problems.

The company has recently enrolled the final patient in a multi-center Phase IIa clinical study of PAD patients to assess not only the safety of chronically administered TV1001, but also to determine whether treatment results in biological activity, including improvements in vascular health and biomarkers associated with PAD, a disease that affects 15M people in the US for which there are no truly effective therapies currently available. TV1001 is a repurposed drug, sodium nitrite, and as such, benefits from a well established safety profile, reducing the time and cost associated with clinical development. While the initial trial is focused on PAD, given the breadth of therapeutic activities other indications are being explored. This includes the recent spin off of TheraVasc Veterinary Medicine to begin development of veterinary applications of TV1001.

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.

Zepheira is a professional services firm delivering solutions to integrate, navigate and manage data within and across enterprises. Zepheira’s experts have a long history of leading the design and development of Web standards and delivering open solutions based on these standards to industries worldwide, including library / museums / archives, manufacturing, financial services, medical research and public health.

Zepheira’s Freemix™ platform is based on these open standards and designed to provide the means to businesses and communities link fragmented data sources into easily searched wholes. Freemix provides the ability to surface data from a range of formats into an open Web and easily generate and customize views (interactive maps, timelines, facets, tag clouds) that allow users to experience their data in new and innovate ways.

Zepheira’s qualifications for the Outstanding Start-up Business Category are as a company started in 2007, we have implemented significant cost saving and agile solutions for over 20 clients ranging from such clients as The Library of Congress, Sun Microsystems, Eli Lilly and World Health Organization.