The Florida Venture Forum Announces Presenting Companies for the 2011 Venture Capital Conference
TAMPA - The Florida Venture Forum has selected 19 Florida companies to present at the 20th annual Florida Venture Capital Conference, to be held at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood, Fla. on Feb. 3-4, 2011.
Following are the companies selected to present:
Central Florida
Voxeo, Orlando: helps enterprises improve service and lower costs by automating and connecting their most common phone calls with their Interactive Voice Response (IVR) or Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions. Their hosting and premise platform solutions and developer services powered by VoiceXML and CCXML are used by more than 100,000 customers and developers to create and deploy any telephone application they desire.
Northern Florida and Panhandle
Inhouse, Inc., Ponte Vedra Beach: is part of the lender services industry and provides appraisal management solutions to the mortgage lending industry. The company operates through two segments: Appraisal Management Software (AMS) and Appraisal Management Company (AMC). The AMS segment offers a software as a service platform on an open network that facilitates lenders’ appraisal management needs through web-based work-flow, automation, accounting, reporting and regulatory compliance tools. The AMC segment offers an outsourced appraisal management solution that performs all appraisal management administrative functions on behalf of mortgage lenders. The company primarily serves mortgage lenders (banks, non-banks, thrifts, credit unions and brokers), and mortgage servicers.
Pet Paradise, Jacksonville: is an upscale pet boarding chain located throughout the southern region of the United States. Pet Paradise aims to be the premier chain of pet boarding facilities with emphasis placed on every detail of pet care. Currently, the company has 13 pet resorts located in 4 states, with the majority of facilities (9) located throughout Florida.
Verdicorp, Inc., Tallahassee: develops and manufactures modular, portable, Renewable-Energy Power Plants (REPPs) that can be used anywhere in the world to convert heat from a variety of renewable energy sources (including solar, geothermal, biomass and waste industrial heat) into electricity. Many entities around the world today are developing renewable energy heat sources, but what is sorely lacking is the availability of off-the-shelf REPPs that can be transported anywhere in the world, installed quickly, connected to the renewable energy heat source and placed into operation for producing electricity.
Southeast Florida
AccuDial Pharmaceutical, Palm Beach Gardens: has 34 patents for displaying weight based dosing for OTC, prescription, injectable and veterinary medications. The business model is to license to national brand manufacturers and provide store brand products. They currently have eight OTC medications in 4,500 Canadian pharmacies.
Aplicor, LLC, Boca Raton: is a global, cloud-based software company with a strong track record of delivering software solutions that address critical business needs, and has done so for an array of customers in more than 160 countries in key verticals such as high tech, government and services industry. Aplicor has received numerous awards over the years, including awards for CRM product of the year and for excellence in customer service and software development. Aplicor’s strength is in its understanding of its customers’ needs and its industry-leading ability to harness innovation in cloud computing to deliver an affordable, flexible and easily deployed next-generation business software suite.
eMindful, Inc. , Vero Beach: eMindful's business is to drive lower health care costs for insurance companies and employers. Their programs teach skills for supporting real behavioral change, improving stress management and preventing illness. They utilize the Internet to make their programs accessible and to leverage highly knowledgeable experts in a cost-effective and convenient manner. eMindful has built a robust infrastructure and established a solid operational foundation. Their process is highly scalable with relatively short start-up and implementation.
Gladinet, Fort Lauderdale: provides a cloud storage access platform proven by 600,000 users and key partnerships with EMC and others. The company's competitive advantages have positioned it as the preferred access enabler for the cloud storage offerings of hosted and managed service providers. Gladinet is partnering with these trusted advisors to create a large install base monetized by monthly recurring revenues as the company continues to extend its lead.
Loc-Aid , Boca Raton: Their privacy-protected, multi-carrier gateway connects your mobile business to the world's wireless infrastructure. They simplify all of the commercial and technical complexities involved with delivering secure location information for mobile business needs. They are the only dedicated, server-based LBS aggregator in the wireless industry. The company specializes in global operator interconnectivity and location-specific services, and they maintain connections to millions of mobile subscribers through their privacy-protected, carrier grade network.
MobileHelp, Boca Raton: is a healthcare technology company that developed and distributes MobileHelp™, the first fully integrated mobile medical alert system, providing emergency assistance to users while in their homes or away. MobileHelp integrates cellular and GPS technology to provide medical monitoring services and location tracking for emergency assistance to the user as well as notification and tracking for the caregiver. The company is dedicated to delivering a quality product to customers, who include seniors and their caregivers, at an affordable price; and to providing excellence in customer service and support.
Papatel, Miami: is the only mobile-advertising platform offering personalized and location-based advertising reaching Hispanics and other Immigrant populations of developed countries worldwide. Papatel allows businesses to micro-target customers and provide personalized and interactive content to individuals.
West Central Florida
CallMiner, Inc, Fort Myers: is the only speech analytics provider that mines 100 percent of every conversation. It is not feasible or reasonable to listen to 100 percent of customer conversations and making decisions on a small sample of calls is risky. CallMiner automates the process of listening to 100 percent of conversations, ensuring organizations are able to listen to the voice of every customer.
Claro Scientific, LLC , Tampa: is applying its patented photonics-based technology to develop an innovative diagnostic product platform. Light signal capture devices and integrated analysis systems developed using this technology are being partnered with or licensed to analytical and product companies.
Field Forensics , Largo: Field Forensics, Inc. manufactures ELITE™ trace-explosives detection kits and IDEX™ home-made explosive identifiers and distributes these products worldwide. Recently Field Forensics introduced FAST™ (Forensic Aroma Sensing Technology), a method of sniffing out explosives in air cargo containers that doesn't require users to make significant changes to their existing security protocols. FAST will allow shippers to economically achieve 100 percent monitoring of air cargo containers. Field Forensics has doubled revenues year over year for the past several years through sales of products to military, law enforcement and commercial security users and is now expanding its product line to accelerate growth.
Footprint Logistics Systems, Clearwater: is a software services company focused on managing the entire ecosystem for SMB (small-medium business) warehouse service providers and corporate warehouse environments. It solves many of today's most challenging business issues for third-party logistics providers: transparency in business practices, revenue management and customer communication. With the majority of this segment moving from 15+ year legacy systems, Footprint Logistics Systems delivers intuitive workflow and graphically-based views for easy adoption and use. Its holistic design enables those managing the multi-step processes of shipping, storing, tracking and reporting on goods to dramatically improve their operational efficiencies while delivering high-quality service and cost effective solutions to their internal and/or external customers.
Ideal Image Development, Inc. , Tampa: is the largest pure-play laser hair removal services company in the United States. Ideal Image currently has 49 corporate owned clinics and 16 franchises across the United States. With an estimated 4 – 8 percent market share, the company continues to have same store sales outpacing market growth and is opening additional clinics to gain market share.
Tower Cloud, Inc. , St. Petersburg: is focused on providing reliable and cost effective mobile backhaul services to wireless carriers to support the roll-out of new 3G and 4G wireless services. Backhaul, a critical component of a wireless carrier’s network, is defined as the transport of voice, video and data between the carrier cell site (tower, roof top or other co-location attachment) and the carrier’s mobile switching centers (MSC). Tower Cloud's innovative design delivers end-to-end high capacity Ethernet solutions from the carrier cell sites to the MSC. T-1 backhaul services are also provided for wireless carriers’ legacy 2G services. The company’s network solutions use highly reliable fiber optics where economically feasible and licensed microwave technologies for the more distant or less dense carrier cell sites.
Tridelity 3D North America, Tampa: is a German-based company has been pioneering the development of autostereoscopic (no glasses required) 3D solutions for almost a decade. These display TVs are now being launched aggressively into the U.S. market. Tridelity 3D North America is currently focused on the digital signage opportunity and offers a wide range of award winning multi-viewer displays (from 27” to 65”). Tridelity displays also offer the only portrait view TV display unit in the 3D market in addition to the traditional landscape view. Combined with the ability for the viewer to see both 2D and 3D content on the same screen, Tridelity truly offers a unique solution for the digital signage market.
XCPT Communication Technologies, LLC, Venice: is dedicated to enhancing the doctor-patient relationship through the use of its leading edge dental software. XCPT's Patient Engagement System provides eye-catching visuals of proposed treatment such as crowns, bridges and implants on the patient's x-rays, CT scans, or photos. Their software saves time, reduces paperwork, streamlines workflow in the office and allows patients to grasp treatment concepts quickly and intuitively.
