2012 Class
The 2012 IDEAxcelerator, accelerated by IBERIABANK, is comprised of 21 New Orleans-based startups.
IVEC 2012
Be Well Nutrition: Billy Bosch, Matt Mouras
Be Well Nutrition seeks to produce a nutritionally conscious, all-natural, functional beverage that enters the market with a strict emphasis on the health-conscience consumer and added focus on social activism.
Bluebag, LLC: Mehmet Ergelen
lovebluebag.com
Bluebag specializes in everything IKEA. It’s IKEA “delivered.”
ChapterSpot: Joe McMenemon, Brendan Finke
www.chapterspot.com
ChapterSpot solves the problems of group management. ChapterSpots online application allows groups to communicate efficiently, collect membership dues, share important files, maintain a member database and design a website all on one platform.
DesignerSocial: Francine Ballard
www.designersocial.com
DesignerSocial is fashion’s first global marketplace, connecting buyers and sellers of pre-owned designer merchandise via the Internet and social media.
Dukky: Shawn Burst
dukky.com
Dukky is a web-based marketing and analytics software platform used by companies of all sizes to get new customers, gather customer feedback and increase response rates of direct response marketing
HUKA Productions: Bennett Drago, AJ Niland
www.hukaentertainment.com
Huka produces live events for fans by fans. Hangout Fest is the signature event.
NOLACajun.com: Lovey Wakefield, Brett Wakefield
www.nolacajun.com
NOLACajun.com is the number one ecommerce site that provides Louisiana and New Orleans specialty food products to customers around the world.
SOLarchitect Studio: Alex Landau, Scott Oman
SOLarchitect Studio provides a free, web-based tool that enables users to assess the feasibility of installing solar panels on their homes.
VoiceHIT: Dr. Peter Ragusa, MD, MPH, Rand Ragusa, Jeffrey Miller
www.voicehit.com
VoiceHIT leverages current and emerging technologies to streamline patient encounters and reclaim providers’ time. VoiceHIT automates documentation during patient encounters - dramatically improving patients’ experiences while virtually eliminating provider-based manual data entry as well as time wasted proofreading transcriptions....
TRUE-See Systems: Francis James
TRUE-See is a manufacturing and tech company dedicated to improving video image quality in telemedicine and video conferencing. The patent pending product is a self-contained portable lighting unit for use in point to point video conferencing and telemedicine.
Wire Fly Communications: Darin Veale, Stephen Hall
www.facebook.com/pages/Wire-Fly-Communications/158394274219771
Wire Fly Communications specializes in servicing high density apartment complexes, condos and townhouses with affordable high speed internet service.
Water Challenge 2012
Aquaponic Modular Production Systems (AMPS): Douglas Jacobs
www.ampsnola.com
Aquaponic Modular Production Systems (AMPS) designs, builds, and operates aquaponic and hydroponic farms. These farms consistently grow the freshest and healthiest fruits and vegetables for sale to local consumers.
Bayou Native: Colleen Morgan
Bayou Native is a native plant nursery that grows and sells native plant material for rain garden installations, new park developments, recreational corridors, wetlands plantings, and coastal forest restoration projects.
Tierra Resources: Dr. Sarah Mack, Ph. D.
www.tierraresourcesllc.com
Tierra Resource provides scientific, financial, regulatory, and eco-asset development advisory services for landowners, companies, nonprofits, and government entities managing, adapting, and mitigating the effects of climate change through water resource management.
Education Challenge 2012
Whetstone: Eric Seling, Ron Gubitz, Andrew Cox
Whetstone gives school leaders a web based tool that records and sorts teacher observation data
ZingBoard: James Blitch
www.zingboard.org
ZingBoard connects parents, teachers, and schools around student achievements inside and out of school. This secure online platform promotes student achievement by allowing students to share their personal accomplishments, awards, community involvement and any of their proudest accomplishments with their peers, family and school....
Tulane Challenge 2012
Advanced Polymer Monitoring Technologies: Alex Reed
www.apmtbiz.com
Advanced Polymer Monitoring Technologies LLC, APMT, is a spin-off from PolyRMC, a Tulane University center, whose goal is commercialization of a Tulane patent portfolio. APMT is an innovative green-tech startup providing reaction monitoring and control solutions to polymer manufacturers to eliminate widespread process inefficiencies...
NanoFex, LLC: David Culpepper
nanofexllc.com
NanoFex manufactures patented carbon microspheres with nanoscale iron. These microspheres are an affordable, effective product for remediating a common but extremely dangerous waste product.
NOvate Medical Technologies: William Kethman
novatemedical.com
NOvate Medical Technologies is a New Orleans-based medical device development company focused on commercializing low-cost medical products. NOvate’s first product offering, SafeSnip, is aimed at decreasing healthcare costs and increasing standards of care while addressing global health issues. SafeSnip is a disposable obstetric...
