It’s not easy to get into one of the most successful accelerators in the country, and out of thousands of applicants, only ten companies are selected to participate in Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator’s four-month program. This latest bunch are offering solutions that range from automating API testing to helping patients determine the best place to go for the health care they need, from better sharing and personalization of mapping data to better coordinating of event calendaring, from improving image collaboration to helping universities connect with their alumni, from getting the whole news story to getting the real deal when it comes to travel.
And investors pay attention. ERA graduates have since been backed by dozens of leading investors, including 500 Startups, Atlas Ventures, Blumberg Capital, Cowboy Ventures, Elevation Partners, ff Venture Capital, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, Founder Collective, High Peaks Venture Partners, iNovia Capital, Lerer Ventures, Lightbank, Matrix Partners, Milestone Venture Partners, NextView Ventures, Payment Ventures, Pilot Group, RRE Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, True Ventures and a variety of seed funds and angel investors. And five ERA alums even made it on to Forbes’ latest list of 30 under 30.
Here’s the latest batch of ERA companies, some of whom have relocated from Boston and Silicon Valley to make their mark in one of the tech centers of the universe.
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Alumni Spaces is a platform for university alumni associations to empower and better connect and engage with their member groups. This socially-integrated platform gives local chapters a unique digital presence, while simultaneously allowing national administrators to better understand and efficiently connect with their members. Best of all, it gives both the groups what they need, and the staff what they need.
API Fortress is a testing and monitoring platform that lets any non-technical user monitor and test third-party APIs. It allows users to create and run tests to resolve bugs using a visually guided UI, schedule tests to run, and then get notified by text and email with a full report that helps quickly diagnose what went wrong.
Blinkbuggy is a platform that allows parents to capture, organize, share and store family memories in one safe place. Let’s face it: life logging is basic human nature, and no one takes more pictures and capures more moments than new parents. Blinkbuggy gives families an easy way to integrate images, notes and quotes as they happen, and then transform them into unique stories that are centralized and organized—all, while maintaining full privacy controls.
Bunchcut is an image collaboration platform for businesses and creative professionals to easily and intelligently sort, share and rank visuals. Bunchcut lets teams curate image boards for presentation to managers, clients and others without emails, phone calls and in-person meetings. In other words, it’s image sharing at work, made super easy and efficient.
Connect2Care is a location-based healthcare recommendation engine that analyzes patient symptoms or conditions and suggests the most appropriate, cost-effective and convenient medical provider options available nearby. How many times have you gone to a hospital emergency and waited for hours for something that could easily have been managed otherwise? Connect2Care uses digital care redirection to reduce waste and save money for both consumers and payors. Not to mention the fact that it’s a time and energy saver.
Eventable is a marketing platform that connects customers and brands through calendars. The platform populates events directly into customers’ daily schedules on their calendar of choice—including Google Calendar, Outlook, and iOS. Eventable lets brands and businesses send geo-targeted promotions, personalized content, and push notifications directly to any device in real-time. Best of all, changes to the event are updated to the customer’s or attendee’s calendar in real time.
Ketchup in this case is not the condiment but rather a special sauce: it’s a mobile newsreader that creates a timeline of events to accompany news articles, so readers get the whole story. Users are provided historical context of a story to help create a deeper understanding of how events have developed over time, not just what happened last night. It’s ‘ketchup’ as in ‘catch up on news.’
Place Pixel is an aggregator of location-based data that lets anyone easily collect, organize, share and map geographical information using the company’s Pixel Map interface. Whether it’s a particular tree in Central Park, San Francisco street art or Houston demographics, Place Pixel puts the power of mapping useful but scattered data in everyone’s hands. One Boston user even mapped out the town’s #babes. Like they say, there’s a map for that…
Rollinglobe is an online travel platform that lets anyone quickly create a virtual travel agency and earn money by creating and recommending trips. Rollinglobe agents customize their travel store by choosing from thousands of hotels, activities, and tours, and are able to create their own unique packages. And who knows better than someone who’s been there, done that?
SELECT is a members-only “black card” for the next generation, that provides access to exclusive events, savings, and perks at thousands of locations across the globe directly through the SELECT card. The SELECT community enjoys insider-only rates, access and VIP treatment at premier restaurants, hotels, nightlife venues, retailers, events and more. Think of it as a combination daily deals and credit card done right.