Top Tech Companies (6,506)
Don't see your company?
Create a company profile
<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Turning commercial brokerages, economic developers and chambers of commerce into Site Selector Magnets</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(1
<p>EleMental Learning is an online tutor matching service founded by a former classroom educator. Our service is differentiated from that of other online tutoring providers in that we are <strong>highly selective</strong> about the tutors we include in our directory. Specifically, tutors must be actual state-certified teachers with real classroom experience. This ensures that our clients receive tutoring from somebody who not only knows the subject matter, but who actually knows <em>how to teach</em>. Compare this to other tutoring providers who use primarily lay people who are not trained educators as their tutors, which results in an inferior and unstructured tutoring lesson.</p><p>EleMental Learning began with a focus in Chicagoland and has now expanded to other major metro areas around the country. And while we are believers in charging what the market will bear in each metro area, our hourly tutoring rates are typically lower than those of other "supposedly elite" major tutoring providers who suffer from massive headcount bloat, schlocky advertising, and huge brick-and-mortar issues that do not burden us.</p><p>Visit us at http://www.elemental-learning.com</p>
<p> </p><div>Building Bridges Consulting is a management consulting and executive coaching firm specializing in transforming dreamers into successful entrepreneurs. We do this by connecting small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs to the knowledge and resources necessary to succeed in the global marketplace.</div><div> </div><div>Building Bridges Consulting strives to be your small business concierge to meet all of the needs of your growing small business. With over 15 years in small business management, we know the obstacles, roadblocks and concerns that can come your way. We stand in the gap between where you are right now and where you want your business to be when your vision is realized. Let us be the helping hand you need to succeed in the global marketplace.</div><div> </div><div>Rest assured that with Building Bridges Consulting on your side, you can sit back and actually enjoy the fruits of being a small business owner. We are building bridges between your dreams and ultimate reality!</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Building Bridges Consulting<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><span class="INTA-H5"><sup>SM</sup></span></span> is a registed trademark wholly owned and operated by Building Bridges Chicago, LLC.</div>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Cornerstone Angels is a membership-based private investment group composed of successful entrepreneurs and business executives. The group seeks to provide financial capital, mentorship, and advisory support to high growth organizations. The company will consider opportunities nationally, but is focused on the greater Midwest given its Northbrook, IL base. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">The group invests across sectors with particular interest within Software, Media & Entertainment, Mobile, Manufacturing & Industrial, Consumer/Retail & Food/Beverage, Business Services, Healthcare Services and CleanTech. We do not currently invest in Life Sciences, Biotech, or Real Estate. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Our goal is to provide our financial and mentor capital to help build a dynamic entrepreneurial and investor community in the Midwest, though we do consider opportunities across the country. To work towards this goal, we target opportunities which can grow quickly into large sustainable businesses, and which will fuel innovation and job creation within our region. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">We target companies raising $500K to $3MM. Our sweet spot for initial investment is in the range of $100K to $500K. With these considerations, we are either involved as a single party in a small round or as part of a larger round. Based on the specific financing needs, our investments have ranged from as little as $10k up to ~$1MM, and through our network and alliances with multiple investment parties, we can be helpful in bringing together syndicates of several million dollars. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Cornerstone Angels is a member of the Angel Capital Association and is active in collaboration and syndication with Angel groups nationwide. We actively support companies and entrepreneurs under funding consideration by making introductions to other parties as relevant and based on interest. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Through our efforts since our launch we have built a portfolio of 31 companies.</span></p>
<p> </p><p>kPoint is a cloud based video platform tool for enterprises & consumers that is secure, scalable and places premium on user engagement. Using patent pending systems and features like rapid content creation, multimedia mashup, insightful analytics and search <u>within</u> a video, kPoint delivers value by improving productivity and user engagement in addition to reducing costs.</p>
<p>The best products starts with the consumer. Consumer Interactions is a technology venture firm focused on consumer-facing marketplaces, platforms and products.</p><p><strong>Furnishly</strong> - the local furniture marketplace (www.furnishly.com)<br><strong>Home Chef</strong> - fresh ingredient delivery (www.HomeChef.com<br><strong>Residence Connect</strong> - the private social network for your residential building (www.ResidenceConnect.com)<br><strong>Upholsterly</strong> - the local upholstery marketplace (www.upholsterly.com)</p><p> </p>
<p><strong>Karma Gift List</strong> is a free social gifting platform that allows donors and charities to foster a greater since of community, through the power of gift giving, while increasing the charities digital footprint.</p><p>We really believe that social gifting is the next phase in fundraising and, as a society; we are always willing to support a cause that means something to us. But if we donate money, it helps to know how that money is being used. Karma gift list provides you that luxury. Organizations make gift lists of items that need and users can purchase a specific item from their list. That way there’s no mystery! If you purchase $100 worth of clothing, you know that people in need of that clothing will benefit from the full amount purchased.</p>
<p>Garland Capital Group is an investment group that supports disruptive companies. Garland creates opportunities for growth-stage companies to successfully launch industry-disrupting products and services in traditional markets. Garland supports the vision of the entrepreneur by supporting companies with a team of brand-building experts. While investing financially, Garland is also involved in the process of collaborating and teaching entrepreneurs how to run their businesses, lead teams, build a client or customer base and know when to scale.</p><p>Garland Capital Group was founded in 2012 by Gary Holdren, former President and Chief Executive Officer at Huron Consulting Group. Under Gary’s leadership, Huron was named the fastest growing company in America by Entrepreneur Magazine in 2005, eventually growing as a public company to a market cap of $1.8 billion. </p>
<p>71lbs is the only technology firm that that looks beyond shipping, and utilizes shipping insights to provide instant savings. We work with forward-thinking individuals who want to make a difference in their companies’ operations and bottom line, in an industry known for resisting change.</p><p>We think like entrepreneurs, operate with Kaizen mindset, always thinking of continuous improvement, and deliver "Wow!" customer moments.</p><p>Most companies do not have the extra time nor resources to dedicate to their shipping. Most companies are happy to just see their orders shipped. Fewer have the time to monitor each shipment. Even less to analyze: "How could I have done this faster, cheaper, better?".</p><p>We know shipping is a hassle. We have worn your shoes, shipped thousands of packages ourselves. We know there are billions of dollars left on the table from shipping inefficiencies. We know there is an easier, more convenient way.</p>
<p>Spendbot is a Personal Financial Execution solution. Using cloud and mobile connectivity, expert systems, and banking and savings partners, we help people who really need help with their spending and cashflow management. Our patent-pending tools help families prepare and execute a personalized Spend Plan.</p>
<p>AbsoluteVisit is a travel community built around visiting the Top 100 Places in the World.</p>
<p> </p><p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 700px; float: left; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: museo-sans;">The Shadow Gang is a new breed of entertainment studio that creates original media experiences using ‘Galahad,’ the studio’s proprietary, turnkey multi-platform distribution engine. With Galahad, The Shadow Gang allows content owners to expand distribution channels, build and engage audiences, and realize new revenue potential.</p><p style="margin: 11px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; width: 700px; float: left; color: rgb(35, 31, 32); font-family: museo-sans;">The Shadow Gang not only creates interactive, multi-platform experiences for partners in film, television, publishing, gaming, major branding and more, the studio also produces original content across genres, platforms, and devices.</p>
<div>Buildings are the world's #1 consumer of energy and resources, and our mission is to help them use less.</div><div> </div><div>We are an early-stage company seeking to disrupt the $40B market for energy efficiency retrofits by developing a marketplace that connects buildings, people, products and services.</div><div> </div><div>Green Per Square Foot, enables building owners and managers to profile their buildings, find savings opportunities, and connect to a network of qualified solutions providers. We're solving a number of industry pain points for commercial building owners by quantifying how much building owners can actually save and providing new insight on which service providers are best able to serve them.</div>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">We discover unique home buying values.</h2><p>Right Residential serves buyers who don't have the means to buy an expensive new home, or the ability to research foreclosed homes. We navigate the growing field of reduced-priced opportunities for you. We buy the right kinds of homes, fix them up, and offer them for sale at outstanding savings. Our executive team is known for experience gained over three generations in real estate. Right Residential does value assessment, property inspection and title research.</p><h2 style="text-align: center;">We only offer the best homes at the best prices.</h2><p>We do not buy directly from homeowners dealing with foreclosure. We do not buy homes currently owned by banks. We look at every foreclosed home in the Chicago area that has become available. It takes a good eye to spot the right ones. For every home we buy, we reject more than 200 that don't meet the Right standards. We inspect, establish value and verify title information. Our skill in understanding this marketplace makes us unique, and is the key to providing the right homes to our buyers, at the right prices.</p>
<p>Welcome to The New Social Shopping Experience.</p><p><strong>Loopsive helps social shoppers share and discover information from their trusted networks, enabling businesses to sponsor Word-of-Mouth referrals from their customers.</strong></p><p>Small businesses’ number one need is attracting new customers. According to research<sup>1</sup>, 84% of small businesses in the U.S. claim that the most effective drivers of new customers are “Word-of-Mouth” and customer referrals. However, small businesses do not have a tool to proactively drive and measure “Word-of-Mouth” marketing.</p><p>On the consumer side, with the dramatic increase in consumer connectivity, online sharing and social networking, the ways people share, consume and discover products and services have significantly changed. Now, consumers have the means to follow the trusted advice from friends and peers anywhere, anytime, so they are less engaged by traditional advertising.</p><p>Loopsive provides an online platform whereby businesses can incentivize, measure and reward “Word-of-Mouth” referrals from happy customers. Loopsive makes it easy for its users to share their knowledge about products and businesses they love throughout their social networks, and earn rewards in the process! Participating businesses (sponsors) can boost referrals with no up-front costs or fixed fees, offering an incentive that is paid only when a referral ends up in a real purchase.</p><p><strong>How does it work? Loopsive’s WIN+WIN </strong>is a viral, powerful and sustainable system to drive sales by sponsoring advocates’ referrals:</p><p>Loopsive tracks each direct referral – and the referrals of the referrals - enabling businesses to reward their advocates according to their influence. Sponsors are able to offer a Referral Reward as a percentage of the amount spent by the referred customer. Loopsive splits the Referral Reward up 50-50% into (WIN1) a Discount for the new customers + (WIN2) Referral Cash Back for the referring network. Loopsive charges a 25% of the Referral Reward defined by the sponsor.</p><p><strong>Example:</strong> a business offers a 20% (10+10) Referral Reward. Loopsive charges a 5% transaction fee adding to a total cost of 25% per referred purchase.</p><p><strong>Customer C</strong> spends $100 and gets a $10 discount. Loopsive distributes the $10 in cash back among the referring network so that each one of the previous customers shares half of the cash back he/she earns with the customer that referred him/her before. Therefore, <strong>Customer B</strong> gets $5 in cash back and <strong>Customer A</strong> gets $5. Finally, Loopsive charges $5 to the sponsor. </p><p>[ibimage==30990==Original==Large==self==ibimage_align-center]</p><p>For more information please visit <a href="http://www.loopsive.com/">www.loopsive.com</a></p><p> </p><p><sup>1</sup> Bank of America. <em>Small business owner report, page 9</em>. Spring 2013. <a href="http://about.bankofamerica.com/assets/pdf/small-business-infographics/Spring_2013_Small_Business_Owner_Report.pdf">http://about.bankofamerica.com/assets/pdf/small-business-infographics/Spring_2013_Small_Business_Owner_Report.pdf</a></p>
Encubate is authorized to offer immigration services under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA). We are a member in good standing of ICCRC. Our principle consultant, Mr. Bassel Zoueiter, is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC), who has helped many immigrants to start a new life in Canada and the United States.
<p> </p><p style="margin-left:26.25pt;"><strong>What’s the X for Y? (e.g. Kickstarter for Film)</strong> – The TED for local in-person experiences</p><p style="margin-left:26.25pt;"><br><strong>- What’s the elevator pitch of your idea?</strong> – A platform where people can expose, navigate & address world changing issues via in-person experiences in their local communities. </p><p style="margin-left:26.25pt;"><br><strong>- What's the problem you're trying to solve? </strong> - We wish to make it easier to connect people that care with local advocates that support world changing ideas. issh will give local folk an opportunity to address issues without having to dedicate a bunch of their free time or money, while providing advocates with a free platform to reach our network of users that care.</p>
<p>Demotic is the first platform dedicated to establishing social and professional relationships within residential real estate buildings. By creating a private environment for verified building members to connet, Demotic enables valuable communication, collaboration and transparency to fuel efficiency throughout all building operations.</p><p>Demotic was recently rebranded as Residence Connect, and is a Consumer Interactions portfolio company - www.consumerinteractions.com</p><p> </p><p>Residence Connect - the private social network for your residential building<br>www.residenceconnect.com</p>
Thirdwave creates, operates, and elevates digital communications. These services include technical strategy, front-end development, interactive architecture, web design, content management systems, custom application development, maintenance, dev-ops support, and resilient hosting.
<p> </p><h1 class="pagetitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 2.5em; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Calibri, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; color: rgb(224, 119, 33); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; ">About</h1><div class="entry_wrap fix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(82, 81, 80); font-family: Calibri, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px; "><div class="entry_content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; line-height: 1.6em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><h5 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(224, 119, 33); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0em; "> </h5><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; "> </p><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(224, 119, 33); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0em; "><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Keep your head in the Cloud!<br>At Cumulus Data we encourage you to dream—it drives us to innovate and deliver the next solution.</span></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; "> </p><hr align="center" size="1" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-color: rgb(189, 189, 189); border-style: solid; clear: both; height: 0px; " width="600"><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(224, 119, 33); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0em; ">Inspiration & Mission</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Cumulus Data is passionate about harnessing and integrating the power and innovation of cloud technology for collecting and managing high-value electronically stored information. Thus, we enable clients to have secure, quick, and easy access to data collection and data management at their fingertips.</p><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(224, 119, 33); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0em; ">The Cumulus Data Challenge</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">We challenged our veteran computer forensics and eDiscovery technology team to develop a solution—driven by client requests—to collect, review, and manage high-value electronically stored information with the capability to:</p><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; list-style-position: initial; list-style-image: initial; "><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Collect high value data content from any device with simply just a web browser</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Collect from any data source: private clouds, public clouds, networks, desktops, etc.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Collect any type of data; IMAP email (Gmail, Yahoo!, Live, etc.), Exchange Servers (hosted or on premise), server based file and user shares, user workstations, and social media content</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Accelerate collection time, turning weeks and days into only hours</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Accelerate access and review of native data</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Provide a secure defensible collection and preservation of data to meet litigation, medical, financial, and business compliance requirements (HIPPA, eDiscovery, etc.)</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Provide a data migration path to our workflow tools used in the cloud or on a private virtual network</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Provide on-demand private clouds for our eCloud work environment</li></ul><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(224, 119, 33); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0em; ">The Cumulus Data Solution</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Our team met this challenge through the development of the Cumulus Data Platform, an evolving solution for a demanding and changing data environment. Our platform attributes include: security, speed, scalability, efficiency, ease of use, flexibility, cloud computing, and integration with leading products in our client’s workflow and environment. The architecture is designed for seamless integration with private clouds so that clients can continue their workflow upon collection of data.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">Cumulus Data’s first product launch is eCloudCollect™, a patent pending technology offered as Software as a Service (SaaS). eCloudCollect provides users with a simple web browser interface allowing secure and defensible data collections, native data review and data preservation. Native data containers allow collected data to be seamlessly transferred to private cloud networks or to be downloaded for early data review and analysis, processing, eDiscovery review, or analytics and data mining.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">We also partner with litigation software and service providers to offer clients integrated solutions. Legal service bureaus can integrate with other platforms directly from their private clouds to eCloudCollect, providing a secure and quick solution for cloud collection and cloud review.</p><h3 style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 1.5em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(224, 119, 33); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing: 0em; ">Our Promise and Commitment</h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; ">We’ll never stop innovating and developing new solutions for our clients. Security, scalability, quality, flexibility, performance, and reducing costs are imperatives. Our clients imagined collecting and reviewing native data on demand—it’s now a reality with eCloudCollect.</p></div></div><p> </p>
