Startup Showcase

The Startups

Monique Farmer

Monique Farmer

Founder & CEO

Anvil Ready makes creating communication plans simple. With Anvil Ready®, you can create omni-channel communication plans, save and search them, build measurable objectives, schedule events, activities and tactics, plan and manage your budget, assign action owners, track plan progress, evaluate outcomes and more.

Kelly Mann

Kelly Mann

Founder & CEO

Our mission is to help CPA firms improve the quality and efficiency of the Employee Benefit Plan Audit process. AuditMiner extracts 401k data and produces a foundational set of audit workpapers for the CPA.

Courtney Reinert

Courtney Reinert

Founder & CEO

Create loyalty between businesses and the people they care about. Simple, real-time feedback collection for business leaders to make effective decisions now.

Shannon & Emiliano Lerda

Shannon & Emiliano Lerda

Co-Founders

Elevator provides co-warehousing, private office space, logistics support, and a collaborative community for e-commerce companies, makers, and small businesses to get out of their garage and grow their business. Elevator’s flexible monthly memberships include all utilities, WIFI, daily carrier pick-ups, security, and access to conference room, photo studio, and shared warehouse equipment.

Andrew Prystai

Andrew Prystai

Founder & CEO

Event Vesta is a local tech startup that focuses on improving the event discovery and promotion process. Event seekers can explore things to do on the Event Vesta app while sharing and creating plans with friends while event organizers can use our tools to simplify their event organization and promotion process.

Terry Reinert

Terry Reinert

Founder & CEO

Fleet Defender is a vehicle intelligence platform that allows our customers to operate their platforms anytime, anywhere without fear of compromise.

Emily Steele

Emily Steele

Founder & CEO of Hummingbirds

We help small businesses discover and connect with hyper-local content creators & social media enthusiasts.

Marty Sampson

Marty Sampson

Founder & CEO

Leash is a pet-only ride service providing pet owners with trusted transportation for their pets to and from daily appointments.

Chris Jones

Chris Jones

Founder & CEO

Loophire is a future of work tech solution that provides an enhanced, full service recruitment experience that delivers better hires in less time at a substantially lower cost than traditional staffing agencies.

Adriana Cisneros Basulto

Adriana Cisneros Basulto

Founder & CEO

Maxwell makes it easy for employers to offer personalized benefits & rewards that attract and retain the talent they need. We’re making life/work for all.

Tom Champan

Tom Champan

Founder & CEO

Peeq is a cosmetics and beauty company specifically targeted at cleansers and skincare. In 2018, two optometrists got together and envisioned a cleanser that was able to meticulously clean in and around the eyes – equal parts clean ingredients, skin-loving benefits and relaxing anti-inflammatory botanicals. Peeq offers skincare products as well as Holiday boxes filled with both skincare and local products.

Keith Fix

Keith Fix

Founder & CEO

Retail Aware helps brands, retailers and their partners gain real-time visibility over powerful actionable insights on their target product displays or any shelf space that their product(s) occupy in-store. With these decision-making insights brands, retailers and their partners can continue growing their relationship with either their retailer partners or with brands, increase shelf space, and measure how a product performs in-store or in-relation to any digital or physical marketing campaigns.

Kellee Mikuls

Kellee Mikuls

Founder & CEO

Swishboom is a babysitting app that allows families to get their babysitting jobs claimed using trusted network. Don’t know sitters – not a problem. You can tap into our network of trusted sitters.

Mark Wong

Mark Wong

Founder & CEO

Mobile app that allow users to drink for free and discover new places to drink at.
Scott Rutz

Scott Rutz

Founder & CEO

Travefy is shaping the future of Travefy creating essential tools for travel companies to use to save time, impress clients, and sell more.

Derek Homann

Derek Homann

Founder & CEO

Workshop helps create exceptional internal communication and marketing campaigns that are always relevant, engaging, useful, and on-brand.