2010 Presenting Companies

Aero Innovative Research, AIR Inc, is a privately held medical device company based in Wichita, KS. Air’s current focus is in the area of manual patient mobility. The company’s initial launch product, the Flight wheelchair, is the lightest, strongest, most durable folding wheelchair on the market today. Engineered and manufactured under the same principles and with the same technology as aircraft, the Flight has been awarded FDA approval, Medicare/Medicaid authorization and a Veterans Administration contract. Aero Innovative Research is currently raising funds to expand marketing and establish a sales organization.

AirMass has developed PropertyTrak as an easy to use web-based work-flow automation system for Facility and Property Managers. It provides centralized control of costs, services, and vendor management through increased efficiencies in communications, scheduling, work orders, project management, reporting and emergency preparedness. Our unlimited user license encourages total employee/staff participation and utilizes priority-based unified messaging along with application specific modules and monitoring tools to promote best practices and the efficient management of properties, equipment and assets. PropertyTrak is easy to implement, easy to use and cost effective for small and mid-sized businesses. The International Facility Management Association and Building Owners Management Association are pushing mid-sized businesses to implement facility management software. Our AirMass PropertyTrak SaaS - Software as a Service is designed for rapid growth with small incremental costs to expand customer capacity.

AudioAnywhere is a highly customizable and social audio information service designed to simplify and merge the experiences of publishers and listeners. The company’s cloud-based solution is available via any Internet-enabled device including mobile phones. By aligning the web and mobile platforms, AudioAnywhere eliminates the significant challenges faced by customers in today’s fragmented and underdeveloped market.

CritiTech, Inc. iis a pharmaceutical drug delivery and development company that spun out of research done at the University of Kansas. CritiTech's principal focus is on the use of its patented technology for the production of nanoparticles of existing pharmaceutical compounds for pharmaceutical companies and in the development of drugs for its own development program. Presently, CritiTech's drug Nanotax® is in Phase 1 clinical trials at the University of Kansas Medical Center for treatment of ovarian cancer. The drug delivery system CritiTech has developed dramatically reduces the adverse effects of chemotherapy by replacing the harsh solvent delivery system with a method of crystallizing cancer drugs into uniform microscopic particles which will allow suspension of these drugs in water, thus reducing use of highly toxic solvents that cause adverse affects to patients. CritiTech has several additional oncology drugs in various stages of development. It has the capability of producing clinical quantities of GMP drugs in house using its patented drug production technology.

Emerge Medical Solutions develops Clinical Decision Support software that provides evidence-based clinical information at the point of care. Our system enables physicians to comply with complex guidelines and improve clinical decision making that leads to better diagnosis and treatment of patients with heart and vascular disorders.

KC BioMedix, Inc. is a commercial stage medical device company developing and selling neurostimulation products that address the overwhelming problem of incompetent feeding in premature infants. There are over 500,000 infants born prematurely in the U.S. each year, and as many as 50% are suffering from the inability to breast or bottle feed. Because these patients are not discharged from the neonatal ICU until they achieve 100% oral feeding competency, they create a substantial medical, economic and emotional burden for hospitals, neonatologists, patients and their families. Our first product, the NTrainer System, solves this problem by assessing and treating their dysfunctional oral feeding, accelerating healthy development and enabling them to leave the hospital sooner.

Lead Horse Technologies a Health IT company developing drug safety information tools for the wholesale healthcare markets. Our award-winning product, Medloom, helps healthcare professionals prevent or decipher adverse drug reactions and reduce their associated costs. We address an unmet medical need and can do so faster and cheaper than the competition because of our ‘software as a service’ model and because our healthcare search engine is built on the InterSystems Caché platform. Our business model is a subscription service, where our customers—the wholesale health IT companies—pay a fee for access to our servers and database.

Mobile Symmetry has created the first mobile membership list system that is created, controlled, and updated by individual users. This platform provides social, business, religious, sports, political and other groups with an easy to use and affordable micro directory. A Mobile Symmetry micro directory is a secure listing of contact information, managed and accessed via a mobile phone or computer, for members of a group. These groups may be time bound (a sports season, school year, special event), or may be constant (a networking group or business), however for various reasons never make each other's contact lists. Because Mobile Symmetry micro directory members can now access this information through most mobile phones and computers, groups are stronger and more effective. No more calling trees, out-of-date paper lists and missed messages. Updated and secure contact information is accessible at your fingertips!

OsteoGeneX is an early-stage company focused on oral therapeutics that build bone through Sclerostin - a clinically validated target whose role was identified by Dr. Debra Ellies. While at the Stower’s Institute, Dr. Ellies also developed antibodies (injectable route of administration) that were able to block sclerostin function, all of which were out-licensed to large pharma. OsteoGeneX was founded to focuses on the oral therapeutic approach to building bone by blocking sclerostin function. The poor understanding of how bone formation is regulated has led to 92% market domination by drugs that stop bone loss instead of build bone (global osteoporosis market in 2010 $10B). There still is a market need for new osteoporosis drugs because of the lack of safe bone building therapies. OsteoGeneX is developing the first-in-class small molecule against sclerostin with its lead compound currently in preclinical development. OsteoGeneX is seeking angel seed financing to position itself for a FDA pre-IND meeting and strategic partnership or IND studies, where first-in-humans enabling preclinical studies would start in Q1 2011, and the program would enter the clinic by Q3 2013.

Spiral16 monitors, measures and analyzes digital content, seeking the most relevant online information related to specific areas of interest for our clients. Spiral16 helps clients gather in-depth business intelligence from the Internet. Our powerful platform uses proprietary technology that is not limited to social-media websites, focusing instead on comprehensive Internet monitoring. We work with businesses of all shapes and sizes. Our clients include ad agencies and PR firms, Fortune 500 companies and start-up businesses, as well as small to medium-sized established businesses. Our clients realize the importance of the online space and how important it is to adapt to change and embrace technology to integrate business intelligence into their marketing and sales strategies.

SocialVolt is developing a proprietary, industry-leading software platform called STUDIO which is an enterprise-class social media management system targeted to Fortune 1000 consumer brands, financial services, healthcare and government. Current social media tools are primarily single-user, offer no compliance features and have virtually zero integration across platforms. STUDIO changes the game by bringing together Social Media Relations, Social CRM and Mobile Social in one integrated platform and allows companies to improve social media ROI and efficiency across the enterprise.

Soleran is a web-application development company specializing in building enterprise level software applications. eSalesTrack, Soleran’s award winning hosted Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, helps companies dramatically improve the management and collaboration of sales, marketing, and customer service information. Senior executives, managers, and business owners get complete visibility to their team’s activity, forecasts, campaigns, service requests, and sales without any complicated set-up.

WorkSpace Communications helps businesses communicate more effectively. The company combines disparate communications such as telephony, messaging and conferencing into a single, integrated platform and corresponding service offering. Our unique patent-pending ability to interconnect our cloud-based platform with a premise-based Microsoft e-mail deployment, combined with our wholesale strategy, enables us to deliver unsurpassed value and superior scale.

Xerces has developed a cutting edge disruptive technology for VoIP and Wireless Industries which are the two fastest growing segments of the multi trillion dollar telecom industry. Our flagship product is called Xerces Mobile VoIP Software. This mobile software is easily installed by end-users on their Smartphone’s and offers end-users Voice over IP (VoIP) calling over Wi-Fi and 3G/4g wireless data networks. No matter where the end-user is our Mobile VoIP Software allows end users to make and receive VoIP calls over various wireless mobile data connections such as Wi-Fi, 3G/4G wireless data networks. And customers can now start enjoying a lower monthly wireless bill over traditional wireless and cellular wireless networks. This also allows end-users who travel internationally to avoid global roaming charges which are especially high.