With just $40k in seed capital, four months to prepare, free office space, an awesome mentor network, Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator’s latest class is ready to put their noses to the grindstone shake up a vertical or two in not too long a time.
This newest batch is focused on everything from transforming legacy industries to changing decades-old processes, to finding important new ways to improve commerce, to taking fresh approaches in the messaging space. From trucking and human resources to fragrance distribution and made-to-measure clothing; from mobile messaging to tools for financial planners, here are the startups that reflect ERA’s commitment to investing in and helping to grow businesses that are key to New York City’s economy. And if they disrupt a few industries in the process, well, then they’ve done their job.
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advisorConnect
advisorCONNECT is a social relationship management platform (SRM) that helps financial advisors find new clients. The platform provides advisors new tools to stay current with their networks, including money-in-motion alerts and proprietary wealth graph, which identifies qualified prospects, referrals and centers of influence.
Bubbl
Bubbl is a mobile video clip sharing service that lets users capture online video highlights. At the push of a button, Bubbl grabs the short “snip” of streaming content that matters most to the viewer, making sharing and digesting video content more engaging.
Chicory
Chicory is a grocery-shopping platform that lets today’s cook discover recipes from across the web and instantly create a complete shopping list with all needed ingredients. Chicory’s ‘smart cart’ calculates how much of each ingredient is needed and orders the exact amount from local online grocers.
IMPAQD
IMPAQD is a cloud-based platform for the shipping industry that allows shippers and truckers to communicate directly, in real time, without the hassle of a broker. IMPAQD automatically matches carriers to available shipments, increasing route efficiencies, filling empty cargo space and lowering costs.
MobileSuites
MobileSuites is a mobile platform for hotels that gives travelers on-demand access to frequently used hotel services, allowing any hotel to instantly modernize its guest offerings. Hotels respond to concierge and other service requests guests make through a mobile app. MobileSuites allows hotels to boost guest satisfaction and increase guest revenues.
NUMARI
NUMARI is an e-commerce company solving the issue of fit in women’s apparel by offering made-to-measure clothing at competitive retail pricing. Each garment is made to a customer’s individual measurements and styling preferences, such as dress and sleeve length. By executing custom at a mass scale, NUMARI gives stylish women the best-fitting look for them.
Plainlegal
Plainlegal is a software platform that helps make law firms more productive and profitable by automating routine legal and administrative work. The platform lets lawyers focus on lawyering by automating manual tasks like client intake, document assembly, and payment collection.
Poacht
Poacht is a SaaS platform for covert job search. It enables employers to recruit the most qualified, currently-employed candidates by ranking and matching the passive candidate to an open position on the platform. Poacht makes it simple to source from a talented pool of candidates and connect with them discretely on their mobile devices.
Pull
Pull is a mobile messaging distribution platform that lets users privately share conversations. Text conversations can be shared easily between friends, giving users more control over on-going conversations and facilitating commenting and voting when appropriate. Pull creates a new approach to texting and messaging for its users.
Scentbird
Scentbird is an e-commerce company that has created a discovery and sampling engine for scented beauty products (e.g., perfumes, home fragrance, bodycare). Scentbird eliminates the uncertainty of purchasing fragrances online by combining a visual fragrance recommender with a risk-free, at-home sampling program.
