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Connecticut Innovation Pipeline
2008 Companies to Watch
The companies listed below are the 2008 Companies to Watch in Connecticut. Please visit their sites to learn more.
All of these companies have been nominated for one of 16 specific awards. Below are the specific award winners. The Awards were presented at the 9/16/08 event. Click here to read the full event recap, view pictures and watch the keynote speech by Joe Connolly, "Accessing the Media - getting large coverage for small companies". If you are interested in emerging tech companies, subscribe to the blog feed for: www.techcompaniestowatch.com
Awards |
Company Name |
Location |
Website |
The Cantor Colburn Award for Most New Patents |
Ikonisys, Inc. |
New Haven |
http://.www.ikonisys.com |
The Edwards Angell Palmer and Dodge Award for Most Venture Capital raised in Life Sciences |
Optherion, Inc. |
New Haven |
http://www.optherion.com |
The CT Innovations Award for Most Venture Capital raised in Information Technology |
REvolution Computing, Inc. |
New Haven |
http://www.revolution-computing.com |
The Tyler Cooper Award for the Most Angel Capital raised from Angel Investor Forum |
Arbor Fuel LLC |
Woodbridge |
http://www.arborfuel.com |
VBrick New Media/Internet Company of the Year |
HRinterax, Inc. |
Shelton |
http://www.hr411.com |
Pitney Bowes Most Promising New Technology Product of the Year |
Mystic Tackleworks, Inc. |
Mystic |
http://www.mystictackleworks.com |
Fiondella Milone LaSaracina Deal of the Year |
Netkey Inc. |
East Haven |
http://www.netkey.com |
Signal Lake IT Services Company of the Year |
SyferLock Technology Corporation |
Southport |
http://www.syferlock.com |
Life Sciences Company of the Year |
Lesanne Life Sciences, LLC |
Ivoryton |
http://www.lesannels.com |
Advanced Manufacturing Company of the Year |
Fabric Trends |
Plainfield |
http://www.fabrictrendsintl.com |
CCAT Energy, Environment, Green Technology Company of the Year |
VeruTEK Technologies, Inc. |
Bloomfield |
http://www.verutek.com |
Open Solutions Software Company of the Year |
Premise Corporation |
Farmington |
http://www.premiseusa.com |
Shipman & Goodwin Most Promising Emerging Technology Company of the Year |
Fairfield Crystal |
Milford |
http://www.fairfieldcrystal.com |
AT&T Telecom Company of the Year |
iCard Forensics |
Wilton |
http://www.icardforensics.com |
Wellstone Insurance/Financial Services Company of the Year |
Full Capture Solutions, Inc. |
East Hartford |
http://www.fullcapture.com |
Economic Development Corporation of New Haven Recognition Award |
Things are Common LLC |
New Haven |
http://www.cubiverse.com |
2008 Companies to Watch in Connecticut, in alphabetical order:
Company Name |
Location |
Website |
Description |
| Apollo Solar, Inc. | Bethel | www.apollo-solar.net | Apollo Solar provides a new generation of premium Off-Grid PV Power Management in a full line ofinverters, charge controllers, and communications modules, integrated into Plug-&-Play Solar Power Centers designed for fast, fail-safe installation and use. With over 40 years of experience in the design and manufacture of power systems for numerous industrial customers, such as NASA, the US Military, and numerous Fortune 500 clients, the company is known for its exclusive built-in energy meters, wireless remote data-monitoring, and web-based upgrade capabilities. |
| Arbor Fuel LLC | Woodbridge | www.arborfuel.com | Arbor Fuel LLC is a technology company formed to utilize the power of biotechnology for the generation of alternative fuels. Advancements in the understanding of microbiological processing of cellulose based plant material have opened the opportunity to generate cell lines and biological processes to covert cellulosic material into fuel. |
| Avālence, LLC | Milford | www.avalence.com | Avālence’s hydrogen generators are electrochemical devices which convert water and electricity into high purity pressurized hydrogen gas, using electrolysis. Avālence’s electrolysis process uses a liquid electrolyte and a separation process with oxygen and heat as the by products. Users can connect to existing water supplies and both renewable and conventional electrical sources making it available in a wide range of locations. |
| Black Dot Technology, Inc. |
Avon | www.blackdottech.com | Black Dot Technology, Inc. was founded in 2007 with a mission to advance the use of innovative clean printing technology as a sustainable practice in packaging. The company is committed to developing advanced coding systems and digital printing solutions that are environmentally friendly, easy to use, have low maintenance costs and are safe to operate. |
| Evans Cooling Systems Inc. |
Sharon | www.evanscooling.com | Evans Cooling Systems use revolutionary new cooling technology to completely eliminate the many problems, inadequacies, and dangers of today's water based cooling systems. Evans Waterless coolants are the future in engine cooling technology, which will be used in all internal combustion engines and vehicles to be manufactured in years to come. Advantages include Engine efficiency, enhanced power production, greater fuel economy, reduced emissions, improved overall vehicle performance. |
| GenCell Corporation | Southbury | www.gencellcorp.com | GenCell Corporation is a manufacturer of fuel cells and integrated fuel cell power generators. GenCell hardware platforms offer systematic fuel cell refinement resulting in unique cost-effective fuel cell power generators. GenCell utilizes progressive tooling and continuous manufacturing processes providing for the low-cost mass production of fuel cells. |
| Magnetic Development Inc. |
Madison | www.mdienergy.com | The present mission of Magnetic Development is to develop novel technologies for refrigeration, air-conditioning and alternative energy. Our research brings more efficient designs for geothermal heat pumps, refrigeration systems and solar installations. Their work has been sponsored by US Dept. of Energy and National Science Foundation. Magnetic Development, Inc. is the only CT recipient of SBIR/STTR program Phase II funding in 2008. The company is also involved in solar thermal heating and had developed the mobile solar system for domestic and industrial water heating, pools, spas, etc. |
| NativeNano LLC | Groton | na | NativeNano's renewable energy harvesting system for steams, rivers and tidal basin uses a modification of the hydraulic sail concept to generate power. Dr. Herman Sheets of the University of Rhode Island originally designed the system for ship propulsion and demonstrated that substantial lift could be created when using a hydraulic sail as a propulsion system. Dr. Sheets working with NativeNano later theorized that a variation on the configuration could be made to create a device that would generate electrical power. |
| OASYS Water, Inc. | New Haven | www.oasyswater.com | OASYS is a water purification business with the mission of becoming the global leader in seawater, wastewater and industrial waste stream desalination and purification. OASYS aims to achieve its mission through development and commercialization of its novel, low cost, environmentally friendly water desalination/purification technology that dramatically decreases the cost of producing fresh, potable water from a variety of sources. |
| Oil Purification Systems, Inc. |
Shelton | www.ops-1.com | Oil Purification Systems, Inc. is the leader in fluid cleaning technology. The OPS-1 on-board oil refining system removes the solid and liquid contaminants from engine oil, virtually eliminating the need for routine oil changes. Developed specifically for the oil and gas industry, the Enviro-Pur fluid cleaning system maintains the quality of lubricating fluids used by all types of drill rig equipment, and by reducing the overall consumption of those fluids. |
| Solar & Thermal Systems, Inc. |
Norwalk | www.solarandthermal.com | Solar & Thermal Systems is a manufacturing company utilizing 21st century tools & techniques to produce a line of concentrated solar powered (CSP) 'gensets'. The value of the STS product is embodied in its low production cost and exceptional rates at which the product can be installed, creating superior value for the customer. STS has the advantage of being immune to price increases over its lifetime; the fuel being sunlight. |
| SunPort Industries LLC | Norwalk | www.sunportdaylighting.com | SunPort Industries, LLC (SPI) designs, manufactures, sells, installs and services through-the-roof daylighting systems, technically called deep-well or high performance skylights, to the commercial, industrial, and governmental sectors, both in the U.S. and internationally. The systems are designed to capture as much available sunlight as possible throughout the day, direct it into the building, and then diffuse it so that the light is uniformly spread throughout the interior. The SunPort units are integrated with energy efficient existing or new artificial lights by an innovative control system, which ensures that the desired light level remains constant throughout the entire day and night. |
| Validus DC Systems, LLC | Brookfield | www.validusdc.com | Validus DC Systems is a leading provider of fully integrated Direct Current (DC) power infrastructure for datacenters and telecommunications facilities. The company’s “Hybrid Power” technology combines the best attributes of Alternating Current (AC) system design and DC energy efficiency, offering scalability, reliability and modularity, all while improving energy efficiency by up to 40%. By deploying Validus’ solutions, based on the global standard for DC power, customers are able to increase processing power and server densities in new and existing facilities at a lower total cost of ownership due to reduced complexity, greater uptime and reduced power and cooling costs. |
| VeruTEK Technologies, Inc. |
Bloomfield | www.verutek.com | VeruTEK provides proprietary, patent-pending, green nanotechnology solutions for cleaning up the environment. The company has developed a line of green and safe technologies that remedy the most persistent soil, water and gas pollution that impact companies and communities. |
| Cohesive Knowledge Solutions | Guilford | www.cohesiveknowledge.com | Cohesive Knowledge Solutions (CKS) has developed a powerful new way for organizations to get control of email and information overload. Working closely with IT and HR, CKS provides a scalable 3 hour training program -- called Info-Excellence -- that saves participants 15 days a year by reducing email volume by 20% while improving the quality/clarity of e-communications. To date Info-Excellence has helped over 300 clients such as P&G, GE, HP, Mercedes, and McDonalds to boost productivity, reduce e-discovery/email back up costs, increase sales, and improve work-life balance. |
| Control Station, Inc. | Tolland | www.controlstation.com | Control Station, Inc. is a leading provider of process control solutions, including award-winning and easy-to-use software technologies, practical skills development services, and onsite optimization services. The company's LOOP-PRO Product Suite received Chemical Processing Magazine’s 2007 Vaaler Award and Control Engineering Magazine’s Engineers’ Choice Award for ease-of-use and innovation. Control Station’s process control solutions are utilized by leading companies across the process industries. |
| Digital Surgeons, LLC | New Haven | www.digitalsurgeons.com | Digital Surgeons is a new kind of internet marketing company forged from the steel of cutting-edge industry knowledge and the iron of good-sense business principles. Their core capabilities include – all languages of website and application development including - XHTML/CSS, PHP/MySql, , Java Script (AJAX), XML, FBML, Open Social, Ruby On rails, frameworks and platforms such as Magento, Joomla, Drupal, OSCommerce and more - Social Network Application including facebook, myspace, hi-5, and igoogle apps and widgets - Flash Interactive and Action script Development (Actionscript 2.0/3.0), Search Engine Marketing & Pay Per Click Advertising. |
| Equity Health Partners, LLC |
Chester | na | Equity Health Partners, LLC (EHP) is a health care solutions company with a mission to assist Ambulatory Care Providers in the adoption of effective longitudinal care practices. EHP's CareHub™ is a web-based software platform and professional services solution that targets Providers managing patient populations with chronic conditions and preventative care needs. |
| Health Plan One | Shelton | www.healthplanone.com | Health Plan One is a licensed health insurance agency and a leading online health insurance marketplace, where you can find health insurance quotes and affordable health insurance plans. Get a health insurance quote for individuals, the self-employed, and small businesses, all in one convenient place. In addition to finding free health insurance quotes from over 100 leading carriers, you can also compare multiple plans side by side and apply for and purchase health insurance in all 50 States. HealthPlanOne is one of the only companies that has developed technology to tie into major health insurance companies back end systems to serve up real-time live rates. |
| NerdsToGo Inc. | Guilford | www.nerdstogo.com | NerdsToGo provides in-home computer services for residential computer users and on-site technology based solutions for small businesses through its network of franchise businesses. Its franchisees provide benefits to its clients by alleviating its clients' computer and technology frustrations, improving client productivity and enabling clients with technology to enhance their lives. |
| PRBC (Pay Rent Build Credit) |
Wallingford | www.prbc.com | PRBC (Payment Reporting Builds Credit) is a national consumer reporting agency and credit bureau. PRBC collects, stores, scores and reports bill payment data for "permissible purposes" under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. It is the first credit bureau to give consumers and small businesses a way to build a credit file to demonstrate creditworthiness without the need to go into debt. |
| Prescients LLC | Westport | www.prescients.com | |
| Prophesy Transportation Solutions, Inc. | Bloomfield | www.mile.com | Prophesy is Industry's Leading Trucking Software Solution for Truckload Carriers, Brokers and Private Fleets. Our complete trucking dispatch software, is designed to manage every facet of a growing fleet with integrated, comprehensive and easy to use features that ensure unsurpassed efficiency and greater profit. The company has delivered over 25,000 software products to more than 10,000 public and private fleets and currently sells its integrated dispatch software and Mobile Communications products at the highest rate in the trucking industry. |
| Queralt, LLC | Wallingford | www.queraltllc.com | Queralt LLC helps organizations improve the way they do business by increasing visibility and traceability within their environment. They provide cutting edge auto-identification and data capture products and solutions, utilizing Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and barcode technology, plus support services. They offer their services to end-users, original equipment manufacturers, and others looking to utilize auto-identification and traceability solutions. The company’s unique business model, combining consulting, hardware, software delivered on a managed service platform provides its customers with the resources and tools necessary to obtain immediate business value. |
| RelevantView | Westport | www.relevantview.com | RelevantView is a leading provider of Web-based market research solutions, serving market research firms, advertising agencies, Website design firms, usability professionals and Website owners around the world. RelevantView’s clients include GfK, BBDO, MTV Networks, T.Rowe Price, Hewlett Packard, Human Factors International, Agilent Technologies and Greenfield Online. RelevantView's proprietary ActiveSandbox® technology is used to track behavior on websites for Usability Testing. |
| RezZiliant, Inc | Waterbury | www.rezzilliant.com | RezZiliant offers MMSP Professional Services and Web 2.O software directly to healthcare software vendors and hospitals to extend and enhance their software applications while helping them drive more revenue as an integrated and seamless extension to their proprietary or in-house software. RezZiliant has also just released a full featured (EMR) Electronic Medical Records system that is built on Web 2.0 technology that cost less than half of other competitive EMR systems, has more features yet extremely simple to use, is completely customizable to fit each practice and has true embedded dictation and speech recognition. |
| SecureRF Corporation | Westport | www.securerf.com | SecureRF Corporation provides secure radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions for high value asset tracking, monitoring and anti-counterfeiting applications in the pharmaceutical, food, defense, homeland security and other sectors. The company’s technology, based on a breakthrough in cryptography that is lightweight yet highly secure, provides authentication and data protection security for RFID tags that meet both EPCglobal and ISO standards. |
| Strategy Engine | Norwalk | www.strategyengine.com | Strategy Engine has a comprehensive suite of strategy design tools and processes that have been developed and documented over many years through direct application in hundreds of successful engagements with cross-functional business teams. Our software team comprises a highly skilled and diversified technology pool with excellent design and architecting capabilities. Our Consulting Services team brings extensive experience in delivering strategic consulting services to large organizations and a strong understanding of how such organizations develop strategic market and business plans. We employ a balanced onshore / offshore development model that provides the most cost-effective solutions for customers. |
| Surety Help Desk Inc. | Glastonbury | www.suretyhelpdesk.com | Surety Help Desk is a dedicated help desk and managed security services provider to enterprises throughout North America and across the world. Surety specializes in remote telephone and Internet support for Check Point's suite of products. |
| SyferLock Technology Corporation | Southport | www.syferlock.com | SyferLock Technology Corporation’s GridOne™ product provides a secure, light-weight, One Time Password, Web based authentication system for Customer Portal Protection™. Flexible, cost effective and user friendly, GridOne™ allows device-less one time password protection for Web services and their users. |
| The Global Executive | Ridgefield | www.globalexec.com | The Global Executive is a specialized team of professionals, offering custom event solutions to over 500 global events annually. The team prides itself on its innovative creation and execution of unique events supported by their suite of web-based proprietary event technology, etouches ®, which address the critical issues facing the event planning lifecycle to industry and nonprofit business sectors. |
| The PlainSight Group | New Haven | www.plainsight.com | The Plain Sight Group is a unique alternative asset management firm established in 1999. Headquartered across from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, it is proud that Yale is one of its shareholders and that many of its personnel are graduates of or affiliated with Yale. The group generates higher revenue, higher earnings and unlocks greater shareholder value for its group of companies as well as for its Fortune 500 clients. They do this by licensing the group's intellectual property portfolio, as well as leveraging our financial, technological and general management expertise. |
| Universal Connectivity, Inc. |
Hartford | www.universalconnectivity.net | Universal Connectivity specializes in Wide Area Networking and Integration of Voice, Video and Data Communications. Universal Connectivity brings mature and proven telecommunications products, services and telecommunication solutions to the small and medium businesses it serves. |
| AllerQuest LLC | West Hartford | www.allerquest.com | AllerQuest's mission is to develop skin test reagents to safely and accurately identify patients who are at risk for potentially life-threatening reactions to penicillin antibiotics. It strives to ensure a reliable source of high quality test reagents to assist physicians in the diagnosis of penicillin allergy. |
| Bartron Medical Imaging Inc |
New Haven | www.bartron.ws | BMI is a high technology Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) that is dedicated to the development of advanced image analysis and data mining for biomedical applications. Through the use of NASA-pioneered technology that has BMI has adapted to medical imaging, the company's licenses and patents enable novel analyses and evaluation of conventional medial imaging at levels never before achieved; pixels or sub-pixels. These methods are presently being applied to clinical problems and are expected to improve diagnostic, treatment and follow-up/therapeutic applications. |
| Biorasis Inc. | Storrs | www.bio-orasis.com | BIORASIS Inc., is a start-up corporation to commercialize implantable biosensors using University of Connecticut (UCONN) spin-off technology. Biorasis Inc. is developing needle-implantable glucose and other analytes biosensors for use in drug development research as well as eventual use for human on-demand metabolic disease management. Our technology includes both miniaturized (0.5 mm x 0.5 mm x 5 mm) sensor platform (equipped with power source, signal processors and wireless communication with cell phones or PDAs), as well as biocompatible coatings that enables functioning of sensors for a period of 3 months ( and working to extend sensor operation up to one year). The continuous monitoring of body analytes is key in the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of diseases, such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, liver and kidney abnormalities, etc. |
| Gaven Medical LLC | Vernon | www.gavenmedical.com | Gaven Medical LLC specializes in the design, manufacturing and distribution of disposible safety medical devices. It continues to work with many of the worlds largest Medical Device Companies, as an R&D resource to help them complete some of their more technically challenging products and assembly processes. |
| Genomas, Inc. | Hartford | www.genomas.net | Genomas® is a biomedical company advancing DNA-Guided medicine with revolutionary PhyzioType™ systems for personalized healthcare. Core applications are clinical management of psychiatric, cardiovascular and diabetic drug treatments to enhance patient safety. The products are being developed in partnership with three leading CT medical institutions, Hartford Hospital, The Institute of Living and The Hospital of Central Connecticut. |
| Global Blood Resources LLC |
Somers | www.mybloodfirst.com | GBR is the world leader in blood salvaging with Ultrafiltration for Cardiac surgery, saving all the patients own blood. GBR's Hemobag technology is the only ultrafiltration reservoir device on the market salvaging blood with ultrafiltration. Salvaging all of the patients own blood in Cardiac surgery is paramount in avoiding donor blood that is precarious and fraught with problems. There are a approximately 1 million applications per year for the Hemobag product to be used for. |
| Helix Therapeutics, LLC | New Haven | www.helixtherapeutics.com | Helix Therapeutics, LLC (HT) is developing DNA therapeutics that will cause a paradigm shift in the way that common genetic diseases are treated, i.e. by permanently curing them. Application of our patented fundamental technolgy results in the permanent repair of DNA. We will take advantage of the well established stem cell transplantation procedure, which is annually applied to about 70,000 patients in the US, to modify a target DNA sequence permanently. Our initial disease focus is Sickle Cell Anemia, a common genetic disease for which there is no effective therapy for the majority of patients. We will cure this disease by reactivating the expression of fetal hemoglobin in the bone marrow stem cells of patients. Our therapy will be effective for all hemoglobin disorders |
| HistoRx, Inc. | New Haven | www.historx.com | HistoRx offers the first advanced histopathology analysis platform, using the company’s proprietary AQUA® technology capable of measuring biomarker concentration with sub-cellular resolution in tissue sections. HistoRx services are used throughout basic biomedical research, preclinical and clinical drug development studies, facilitating the efforts of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to improve efficiency and effectiveness throughout drug development to bring new targeted therapies to the market. |
| Ikonisys, Inc. | New Haven | www.ikonisys.com | Ikonisys is changing the practice of diagnostic medicine through its unique CellOptics platform. Through an innovative combination of intelligent imaging, microscopy, biology and informatics, Ikonisys enables physicians and researchers to deliver accurate, fast and personalized results for early cancer diagnosis, genetic disorder screening and fertility testing, giving patients best chance to beat their disease. |
| Lesanne Life Sciences, LLC |
Ivoryton | www.lesannels.com | Lesanne Life Sciences is a stroke diagnostics company that is developing a proprietary protein biomarker for the rapid diagnosis of central nervous system ischemia resulting from stroke, traumatic brain injury, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Lesanne has validated its stroke diagnostic in a successful pilot clinical trial. It has follow up clinical trials planned at Duke University Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Lesanne is, and intends to remain, a research organization. The company plans to commercialize its diagnostic with medical diagnostic industry partners, but will seek to retain certain product rights. |
| Northeast Scientific, Inc. | Waterbury | www.mdreprocess.com | Northeast Scientific's mission is to reduce the cost of quality healthcare delivery across the United States and around the globe. They accomplish this by providing FDA approved reprocessing of single-use and opened but unused surgical devices. Providers can expect to save 50% or more on their surgical products while eliminating tons of environmental waste annually. |
| Optherion, Inc. | New Haven | www.optherion.com | Optherion, Inc. is an early-stage biotechnology company that is developing products to diagnose and treat dry and wet Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and other chronic diseases involving the alternative complement system. Optherion’s proprietary technologies are based on recent scientific discoveries linking certain genes to AMD. Optherion’s Mission is to transform the lives of people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and other diseases involving the alternative complement pathway. |
| Revegen Corporation | Hamden | www.revegencorp.com | Revegen pursues a new, innovative approach in drug discovery research built on a proprietary pdiCAD™ technological platform. It has developed a variety of tools and methods that accelerate discovery of small molecule drugs based on principles of molecular recognition between therapeutic agents and protein targets. Its methods improve resource efficiency of the drug discovery process and support development of targeted therapies in a broad spectrum of indications. |
| SurgiQuest, Inc. | Orange | www.surgiquest.com | SurgiQuest, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets access technology for minimally invasive surgery with the goal of removing current technological barriers for this surgery. Its focus is the current and emerging trends in bariatric, colo-rectal, general, gynecological and urologic surgery. It's "AirSeal Device" creates an airtight area in which to perform urological and gastrointestinal surgeries. |
| Vivax Medical Corporation | Torrington | www.vivaxmedical.com | Vivax Medical Corporation designs, manufactures and markets non-invasive medical devices, durable medical equipment and assistive technology products for use in health care settings such as medical centers, hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, nursing homes, long term care accommodations, assisted living and for use in home health care and by the handicapped and disabled. |
| Z-Medica Corporation | Fairfield | www.z-medica.com | Z-Medica Corporation is a medical products company focused on innovative blood clotting technologies -- hemostatic solutions that save lives. Its QuikClot® represents the first and most effective solution to severe blood loss outside the operating room setting. Z-Medica serves several global vertical markets, including military, first responder, homeland and private security. The company is fully engaged in accelerating development and distribution of QuikClot® hemostatic agent, QuikClot ACS™ and related products. |
| Anchor Science LLC | Branford | www.anchorscience.com | Anchor Science LLC is a Nanotechnology Company developing nanoscale temperature sensing devices using carbon nanotube-based sensors. Because of their incredibly small size, these temperature devices can be incorporated in a number of emerging biological applications where precise temperature control is critical to biochemistry, bioseperations, and DNA sequencing. The emerging industry will for the first time be able to obtain high quality, real time, local temperature maps from individual sensing elements in chemical- and bio- sensor arrays. |
| Chapco, Inc. | Chester | www.chapcoinc.com | Chapco, Inc. is a manufacturer of precision sheet metal components and assemblies occupying a 20,000 square foot air-conditioned facility staffed with over fifty employees. We work with you from the design stage all the way through production, inspection, and the finishing of your product. Its newest machinery is extremely versatile and designed for quick set-up for engineering prototypes and production runs. |
| Diagnostic Devices Inc. | Simsbury | www.diagnostic-devices.com | Diagnostic Devices Inc. provides sophisticated state-of-the-art diagnostic systems for electrical power equipment to detect and locate partial discharge with precise accuracy. DDI has a proven track record in the state-of-the-art algorithmic technology related to energy, aviation, military, and stem cell identification. |
| Fabric Trends International LLC | Plainfield | http://www.fabrictrendsintl.com | Fabric Trends International, LLC (FTI) is a cooperative US/Chinese high quality flocked fabric manufacturer. FTI has a manufacturing facility in Plainefield, CT and also has a state of art production facility in China. At FTI, we proudly specialize in luxurious upholstery fabrics under our Ambrosia label, a brand that has been featured in numerous magazines associated with the home furnishings industry. Our fabric is also tailored to the market of automobile, mass transportation (buses, trains, & airplanes) furniture (home, office, & hotel), and furnishings (home, office, & hotel) industries. Our “green” line uses raw materials that are a combination of bamboo/cotton and soy/cotton fiber. The Green Technology that we adapted contributes to low or limited maintenance-free and reusable, sustainable and recyclable fabric. We use a special nanotechnology application to meet performance specifications to produce fabric that is; water and stain repellant, improves indoor air quality, flame retardant, provides maximum durability, ease of cleaning and anti-odor (antimicrobial) properties. |
| Fairfield Crystal Technology, LLC | Milford | www.fairfieldcrystal.com | Fairfield Crystal Technology is a leading supplier of high quality, high purity, single-crystal materials that enable its customers to develop next generation semiconductor devices and precision optical components. Its crystal research is focused on improving such things as the development of solid-state lighting, optical storage, wireless communications, medical imaging, nuclear medicine, and bio-agent detection. |
| Inframat Corporation | Farmington | www.inframat.com | Inframat® is a leader in the commercial development of high performance nanomaterials for wear resistant and thermal barrier coatings. The nanoscale grain structure in the coatings imparts extraordinary properties, such as ductility in nanoceramics or enhanced high temperature operation in thermal barrier coatings. Our commercial products are primarily derived from $12Million in Govt. Contract R&D and backed by 26 issued Patents. |
| Microtechnologies, Inc. | Berlin | www.temperatureguard.com | Microtechnologies Temperature Guard designs and manufactures remote data acquisition and alarm devices from the low cost residential Home Guard to the advanced, full featured Refrigerator/Freezer Guard with Ethernet connectivity. |
| Mystic Tackleworks, Inc. | Mystic | www.mystictackleworks.com | Mystic Tackleworks, Inc., works with a world-class cadre of scientists and engineers whose groundbreaking research in neurobiology, neurophysiology, and materials science has resulted in the remarkable breakthroughs represented by the BioPulse System. Research in neurosensory biology and materials science has revealed that there exists a direct link between neurosensory cues and specific behaviors in fish. Our products are designed to best activate those neurosensory systems (vision, hearing, mechano-reception, smell and taste) that drive fish to feed. So far as fish are concerned, our BioPulse™ lures LOOK like live prey, SOUNDS like live prey, create WATER DISPLACEMENT like live prey, and TASTE and SMELL like live prey! |
| MysticMD Inc. | Groton | www.mysticmd.com | MysticMD Inc. is developing proprietary materials that can significantly improve energy density, safety, and other key performance characteristics of both commercial and military lithium ion batteries.Our patented product portfolio includes nanolite® - a conductive coated polymer that reduces the weight of rechargeable batteries and LiTB™ - a new family of highly conductive, stable, and inexpensive battery salts that replace LiPF6. |
| PEL Associates | Groton | www.pelassociates.com | From concept to application using advanced materials and process technology, PEL Associates design and develop smart nano and micro sensors and self-renewable coatings. Its team of about seven scientists, engineers and technicians provides needed novel products for industry, marine and defense. |
| Preferred Tool & Die Inc. | Shelton | www.preferredtool.com | Preferred Tool & Die has established a reputation as a premiere stamping and precision CNC machined part manufacturer. It manufactures products for a variety of industries including: Medical / Surgical; Automotive; Electrical / Electronic, Fire, Safety, Emergency; Laboratory & Scientific Equipment; and Aerospace / Defense. |
| Structured Solutions II | New Canaan | www.wovel.com | The new Folding Frame Sno Wovel™ and Sno Wolf™ are the only snow removal devices, performing equal to or better than a snow blower, that are recognized by Co-op America and National Green Pages™ for its positive, pollution-free environmental standards and zero carbon footprint in usage. Univ. of Mass. indpendent study confirms the Wovel® snow shovel clears snow with a fraction of the effort and safer on the back: "comparable to simply walking." |
| TPR2 Corp. | Waterbury | www.tpr2.com | TPR2 is a company developed to provide revolutionary products and solutions for fire, heat, thermal and safety issues that a multiple of industries face today. Our proprietary formulations, unique product compositions and rapid, custom solutions build a strong foundation for cost effective, creative, quick-response solutions to suit our customers' needs. |
| US E-COAT | New Canan | www.jeepwheelbarrows.com/ | US E-COAT will leverage US expertise and know-how to provide manufacturers in China with a one-stop facility to electrocoat metal parts. The technology provides environmentally sound and cost-effective coating solutions to a wide variety of industries such as: agriculture, appliance, automotive, computer, construction equipment, electrical, furniture, industrial equipment, recreational, truck and bus. In addition to offering custom coating services to outside customers concerned with lead and other contaminants, US E-COAT will also form metal parts for Jeep Wheelbarrows. |
| Windham Automated Machines, Inc. | Mansfield | www.windhamautomated.com | Windham Automated Machines, Inc., (WAM) is a full-service automation and custom machine design and fabrication provider. WAM provides innovative, cost effective, efficient and highly reliable custom designed automation systems and machines from concept through installation. |
| iCard Forensics | Wilton | www.icardforensics.com | A division of iCard Technologies, the SIM and Smart card solutions provider, iCard Forensics' mission is to offer the very best products, and deliver uncompromising support to its clients. The focus at iCard Forensics is to provide the law enforcement, military and intelligence communities with a comprehensive selection of cell phone forensic tools, wireless network investigation solutions and secure communication products. |
| By Kids For Kids Co. | Stamford | www.bkfk.com | By Kids for Kids® (BKFK®) is a youth marketing and media company partnering with the world's leading corporations to provide a platform to foster, share, showcase, and commercialize youth innovation and entrepreneurship. Their mission is to inspire, motivate and stimulate the innovative spirit within all young people. |
| ComFit Learning | Westport | www.comfit.com | The ComFit Online Learning Center is an award-winning assessment, teaching, and skill-building resource whose "fitness-center" learning model automatically adjusts to the needs of individual learners. The content areas it focuses on include language arts, writing, reading, math, and critical thinking. |
| DsignDigital LLP | Hartford | www.dsigndigital.com | DsignDigital LLP is a digital communications firm whose mission is to provide clients with solutions to help them effectively communicate to their target audience by using the latest technology. It offers complete communications strategies, which include the integration of Digital Signage, Media Production Services, and Online Solutions to strengthen clients advertising, marketing, training and sales activities. |
| GoCrossCampus | New Haven | www.gocrosscampus.com | GoCrossCampus is a team-based social gaming platform that revolves around your connections, locations and interests. Any team of people can play, whether it's rival dorms battling across a college campus, employees competing in an exciting corporate team-building tournament, universities duking it out in an inter-campus athletic conference championship, or even supporters of presidential candidates in a great political bash. GoCrossCampus has been phenomenally successful in its private beta launch, and the company is continuing to expand rapidly, developing its brand and software into a groundbreaking new multi-platform team-based social gaming destination. |
| HR411.com | Shelton | www.hr411.com | HR411® is assisting businesses around the country manage and support their HR functions. HR411 is designed specifically to help small and mid-size businesses leverage their resources to manage their workforce, understand and comply with key employment and labor laws, and stay current on HR trends and developments. HR411® provides access to all the tools, resources, information and support a business needs to; hire, mange, discipline and terminate employees, create and maintain professional employment policies and handbooks, comply with state and federal labor laws and effectively manage their day-to-day HR responsibilities and workforce. |
| i-MARK, Inc. | Hartford | www.imark.com | i-MARK, Inc. offers hosted Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) eBusiness solutions to manufacturers that increase the productivity of their employees, agents and engineering-oriented buyers/product specifiers. 24/7 BUSINESS™, its exclusive suite of web self-service eBusiness software for the mid-market, measurably reduces direct costs, increases top-line revenues and can pay for itself in less than four months. |
| Jetera, Inc. | Danbury | www.jetera.com | JETERA™ LLC combines travel reservation and demographic data to create a dynamic marketing segmentation and pricing exchange that creates new value for marketers, brands, travel partners and ultimately, for travelers. Our patent-pending system overlays future reservation information with publicly available consumer data to create unprecedented levels of 1 to 1 marketing precision. This capability offers brand-new opportunities for travel channel partners, marketing and advertising partners, platform execution partners and travelers. The company began commercial operation in 2006 and is majority owned by Venture Capital and Consulting Group, LLC. |
| Jobs4point0.com, LLC | Westport | www.jobs4point0.com | Jobs4.0 is the leading source of job opportunities for candidates 40 and over. Jobs4.0 means real jobs at great companies that value diversity of experience; it works only with select companies that embrace the unique benefits that experienced workers can provide. Major partners of Jobs4.0 include GE Healthcare, Deloitte and Yale-New Haven Hospital. |
| PageFad LLC | Hartford | www.pagefad.com | PageFad, LLC is a global company that is contributing to and revolutionizing the future of Social Media. PageFad owns and operates the most popular and highly trafficked sports applications on Facebook and now releasing on Myspace and Bebo social networks. PageFad has grown to over 1.8 million users in its network. PageFad's soccer application (Premier Football) is one of the largest soccer properties in the world and has been holding strong as the #1 sports application on Facebook for 7 months strait now. Currently, PageFad operates sports applications that inlcude; Football, Hockey, Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, Rugby with additional sports applications and properties on the way. PageFad's online network receives well over 250 million page views per month and serves advertising impressions in well over 100 countries around the world. |
| RemoTV, Inc. | New Haven | www.remotv.com | RemoTV is a media streaming service that allows users to stream any media from their desktop to their cell phone or, using MediaBook!, to their facebook profile. The uniqueness of RemoTV lies in its ability to stream all types of video, music, and picture files. |
| SimuLearn Inc. | Norwalk | www.simulearn.net | Simulearn offers a revolutionary new approach to Leadership Development using practice. Recognized by American Society of Training and Development's magazine as the Best Product of the Year, vLeader program combines the best of interactive webinar sessions and engaging simulations to practice and quickly learn through discovery key performance skills. |
SpeedReading |
Hartford | www.speedreadingpeople.com | SpeedReading People® is a revolutionary new system for communicating using proven techniques for instantly grasping what drives another person, so you can tailor your approach for maximum impact. Based on the Jungian model of Personality Type, the SpeedReading People® System is the only easy-to-use, practically applied program of its kind. It is designed to provide the cutting edge tools everyone needs in order to expertly: SpeedREAD: quickly identify key personality type characteristics of others based on readily observable clues such as demeanor, body language, appearance, energy level, vocabulary, and speech patterns and SpeedREACH: instantly develop rapport and get on another person’s wavelength. |
| Things Are Common LLC | New Haven | www.cubiverse.com | Things are Common LLC's The Cubiverse is a non-avatar, profile-based, 3-D social networking platform. Each users profile is a Flash-based 3-D Cube, rather than a 2-D html page, that can be customized with representative and functional objects. Users populate their Cube with representative objects, such as furniture, clothing, consumer products and functional objects such as televisions, mp3 players and cell phones. For example, video can be served to the television and watched online in the Cube. Additionally, cell phones in Cubes can be used to initiate real-time messaging. Importantly, this means that users interact directly not only with objects in the Cube but also with other users concurrently in The Cubiverse. |
| tooble LLC | Wallingford | www.tooble.tv | tooble is a free software utility that puts video from the popular YouTube website onto iPods and other mobile devices. The program, which started as an independent study project, has blossomed into a full-fledged software company that boasts the accumulation of more than 250,000 users in less than 6 months. |
| Tune Rooms, Inc. | Tolland | www.tunerooms.com | Tune Rooms was developed to put the creativity and control back into the hands of musicians. You can use Tune Rooms to collaborate with local musicians, or with musicians from the other side of the world. Tune Rooms breaks down the barriers of geography and scheduling so that you can write music whenever you are inspire and you can work with artists you never could have met before. A Web 2.0 offering, it leverages the social networking aspects of music fans and music creators alike, creating opportunities for serendipitous or defined collaborative relationships and new music offerings. |
| Akademos, Inc. | Norwalk | www.akademos.com | Akademos, Inc. combines a million-plus online book titles, a peer-to-peer marketplace and an outsourced online college textbook operation in order to offer a compelling new model for the procurement and distribution of course materials in higher education. Their corporate strategy consists of becoming the outsourced solution provider of choice for small to mid-sized colleges, offering both new books and used books through an online P2P marketplace. |
| REvolution Computing, Inc. | New Haven | www.revolution-computing.com | REvolution Computing is the leading commercial provider of software and support for the statistical computing language known as "R." Its products enable statisticians, scientists and others to derive meaning from large sets of mission-critical data in record time, and to create predictive models that help to answer their most difficult questions. Predictive models built with REvolution's RPro and ParallelR products help to answer the most pressing research questions. For customers such as Pfizer, Novartis, Yale Cancer Center, Lehman Brothers, Motorola, Hess and others, "R" and REvolution Computing stand for faster drug development, reduced time of data analysis, and more powerful models suitable for deployment in a production environment. |
| Albright Associates, Inc. | Weston | www.albright.com | Albright Associates' netSafeID technology represents a revolutionary breakthrough in child Internet Safety. netSafeID anonymously verifies a person's true identity and helps websites and parents enforce restrictions on child online activities. When a child attempts to enter a website, netSafeID can block the child from entering participating adult sites. Likewise, adults and predators can be prevented from entering participating child-only websites. Unlike other Internet identity protection services, netSafeID requires in-person registration and is specifically designed for child safety. |
| Band XI International LLC | West Hartford | www.bandxi.com | Band XI is a small, agile, boutique problem-solving software and systems shop using open-source/open standards-based software tools and frameworks to solve real-world problems. It specializes in the application of OSGi architected solutions for embedded systems. We offer extensive experience integrating the entire hardware and software stack (platform, drivers, RTOS, and applications) for handheld wireless, telematics, in-vehicle diagnostics, RFID, CBRN sensor fusion, and industrial automation. |
| Core Informatics LLC | Branford | www.coreinformatics.com | Core Informatics is a software company focused on delivering state of the art web-based customized Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to customers in a variety of industries. The company was formed to address the lack of a customizable yet affordable LIMS within the marketplace. |
| ePath Learning, Inc. | New London | www.epathlearning.com | ePath Learning, Inc. provides online and professional services that empower organizations to measure the effectiveness of their current training while enabling them to develop, deliver, and manage their own eLearning. It develops and offers the most advanced, yet easy to use, online and professional services enabling organizations to create, deliver, and manage customized, on-demand learning solutions. |
| frevvo Inc. | Branford | www.frevvo.com | frevvo Live Forms is an innovative Internet application for creating rich, Ajax forms with full business capabilities using just a web browser. Live Forms provides a complete Web-based design experience that can be quickly embedded into any application and is ideal for Enterprise 2.0 companies, BPM/SOA vendors, Web hosting providers and solution providers. |
| Full Capture Solutions, Inc. |
East Hartford | www.fullcapture.com | Full Capture Solutions, Inc. develops and provides analytic-based technology and applications tailored for the insurance industry. One of the keys to the company’s value proposition is its unique patented ability to apply semantic technologies to unstructured data in a meaningful manner. Full Capture Solutions, Inc. is a privately-held, venture-backed corporation headquartered in Connecticut, with a technology hub office in Northern California. |
| GraphLogic, Inc. | Branford | www.graphlogic.com | GraphLogic provides the operating system for cloud computing. Using scalable systems to seamlessly deploy across clustered servers, GraphLogic's PointDragon software provides a programmable shell for accessing, integrating, and controlling resources distributed across the internet. Based on the patented Object Process Graph, PointDragon provides a graphical, point-and-click programming language for building an integrated web desktop. |
| HYPACK Inc. | Middletown | www.hypack.com | HYPACK, Inc. develops PC-based software for marine surveying, positioning and navigation. Features of our hydrographic single beam and multibeam, dredging and navigation software include acoustic data, bathymetry, hydrographic survey, survey post processing and seafloor mapping and it operates on Windows platform. Products are sold to surveying companies, universities, and government. |
| Netkey Inc. | East Haven | www.netkey.com | Netkey offers total solution for Kiosks and Digital Signage including applications, management software, hardware and Services. We measurably lower the cost and increase the value of interfacing with customers and employees through self-service and digital merchandising by providing industry-standard applications and a management software platform for authoring, delivering, securing and monitoring all types of content and devices across a network. Unlike custom-built systems using generic software tools, the Netkey solution is specifically designed for the deployment and management of self-service networks. |
| NexGen Solutions LLC | East Haven | www.nexgen-online.com | NextGen Solutions LLC is the Standard in Public Safety, Fire, EMS Software and Services, successfully applying its unique blend of technology and law enforcement experience to develop and market the next generation of public safety software solutions. NexGen today is recognized throughout Connecticut Police Departments and other policing agencies as the state standard in law enforcement technology. More than two dozen Police Departments throughout Connecticut, along with the University of Connecticut's Main Campus and Central Connecticut University Police, currently use NexGen software to meet their public safety requirements. |
| PerfectSoftware | Norwalk | www.perfectsoftware.com | PerfectSoftware empowers Human Resource and Payroll professionals with customer driven solutions that help them recruit, develop, pay and retain key employees. PerfectSoftware focuses on middle market companies and provides its customers with unique features that provide key benefits toward corporate goals and objectives. The solutions help the HR and Payroll Professionals position the Human Capital of the company in such a way that revenue and expenses are directly impacted through positive results. |
| Premise Corporation | Farmington | www.premiseusa.com | Premise is a leading provider of integrated and clinically-focused software solutions that optimize patient flow, streamline communications, enhance operational efficiency, and empower knowledge-based decision making. Driven by the vision that optimized delivery of healthcare services can be realized through the widespread use and visualization of real-time operating data, Premise delivers the industry's most intuitive systems for bed management, bed turnover, transport, and decision support. |
| Qualtech Systems, Inc. | Wethersfield | www.teamqsi.com | QSI’s Intelligent Software Solutions enable OEMs and Service and Maintenance organizations to reduce the design, development, support time and costs associated with complex, and critical equipment and systems. QSI's Intelligent Software Solutions empower and enable OEMs and Service and Maintenance organizations to provide the highest quality of service economically by significantly reducing troubleshooting time and increasing the level of equipment availability. |
| RecoveryPlanner.com Inc | Shelton | www.recoveryplanner.com | RecoveryPlanner.com enjoys a well-earned reputation as a leading authority on business continuity planning and disaster recovery services. Having pioneered the concept of web-based BCP solutions, the company has since gone on to define other emerging trends in the industry like offering a truly enterprise-scale planning platform and bundling complete business recovery services with its innovative software. |
| RedRoller, Inc. | Stamford | www.redroller.com | RedRoller is a convenient source for small business owners to compare shipping rates and service options among top carriers, and complete shipping transaction in a snap. RedRoller delivers multiple options across a broad range of carriers in a simple, easy-to-understand format. A customer is able to compare: delivery times, service guarantees and price options and can arrange for pick-ups and locate nearby drop-off locations. |
| USEngineering Solutions Corporation | Hartford | www.usengineeringsolutions.com | USEngineering Solutions Corporation (USES) is a developer of software solutions that enable transportation officials and asset managers to monitor, in real-time, their bridge, dam, levee, and other hydrologic infrastructure. USES’ solutions provide clients with early warning of any potentially destructive conditions to their infrastructure through electronic notification. The company’s products, BridgeWatch®, DamWatch®, and FloodWatch®, were designed specifically to meet the needs of clients charged with the safety and maintenance of bridge, dam, levee, and other hydrologic infrastructure. |
| Vgo Software, Inc. | Manchester | www.vgosoftware.com | Vgo Software is a software development and services company that develops and provides automated legacy modernization tools, services, and training to accelerate the conversion of applications to Java platforms. Vgo's flagship product is it's Oracle Forms to Java/ADF modernization tool, Evo. Vgo was chosen as one of only two partners certified by Oracle Corporation Product Development to perform Oracle Forms Migrations to Java using Evo. Vgo's most promising new technology product is it's Oracle Forms Analysis and Reporting Tool, ART. ART is the first Oracle Forms analysis tool to provides in-depth insight into Oracle Forms applications. It provides Oracle Forms users with information such as the size, scope, and complexity of the Oracle Forms applications, and an estimate of the length of time and cost to complete a modernization project. |
| XLerant, Inc. | Stamford | www.XLerant.com | Xlerant's BudgetPak is the only budget software that actually assists line managers in creating well thought out budgets the first time around, saving countless hours of validation and rework. BudgetPak helps control budget inflation by making each decision that impacts the budget transparent, and by making it easy for line managers to develop a valid budget to begin with. |