Startup Showcase
The Startups
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
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
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
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
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
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
Founder & CEO of Hummingbirds
We help small businesses discover and connect with hyper-local content creators & social media enthusiasts.

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
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
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
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
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
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
Founder & CEO

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