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Portfolio Companies

These companies are seeking private equity and have been screened by LAUNCHfn.  As companies are approved for an upcoming event, their description and profiles are loaded here.  The most recent presenters are at the top. 

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Loyalty Lane, Inc.
Industry: Saas & Digital Marketing Spaces
Stage Emerging Growth

We have a proven track record and solution delivery model currently implemented in nearly 200 retail locations and growing at 30% per year.  Further demonstrating our potential for market dominance, we maintain a 99% customer retention rate.  We have multiple warehouse distributors pushing our solution to their retailers.  We have developed our software and we own all our technologies.  Our gross-profit margins are 85% and our EBITDA now is 18% and is on track to be 30-35% for maximum valuation prior to going public or selling. Our annualized recurring revenues are now north of $1 million and growing at 300%.

Loyalty Lane has been developing our software solution and delivering it to the market place to capture and process POS transactions, provide SaaS reporting web-portals and manage ancillary marketing services for retailers for over 5 years.

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Click here for Loyalty Lane Investor Profile

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Real Professional Network
Industry: Commercial Real Estate
Stage Emerging Growth

REAL Professionals Network, LLC (RPN) is a membership network for independent commercial real estate companies that helps them make and keep more money. 
Members subscribe to an online web environment for secure lead exchange and referral management.  The commercial real estate industry is highly fragmented.  Approximately 90% of all commercial real estate firms are small companies, but they conduct the majority of all commercial real estate business.  RPN provides a valued forum to leverage their specialized expertise(s), contacts, and collective size.  

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Click here for RPN Investor Profile


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ElderHope Investements, LLC
Industry: Assisted Living
Industry: Facility under contruction

EHI develops assisted living facilities which specialize in dementia care for the elderly.  
The growing number of elderly afflicted with Alzheimer & Dementia is staggering.  Recent studies indicate 1 in 8 over the age of 65 are diagnosed as such, growing to a shocking 50% by the time a person reaches age 85.  At national level, 7000 of our aging populous turn 85 each day.  There is a severe under-met need (and demand) in the marketplace for safe and specialized long term care. 
Our initial target market is within the Greater Atlanta area in Gwinnett County.  The Hope Assisted Living and Memory Care Facility will be located in Lawrenceville, Georgia to serve a 20 mile square area with an estimated 5000 afflicted with some form of dementia. The facility will have 4 wings for staged transitional care, offering 64 private bedrooms. 

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Click here for EHI Investor Profile

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Tendercare Beds

Industry: Assisted Living
Stage: Early Stage

Our Goal is to Help Millions of Families   "Take  the "Hospital" out of The Hospital Bed!"

And help the 55 million caregivers take the "Sterile Institutional" look out of their loved one's or residents' room. 

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Click here for Tendercare Beds Investor Profile

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I-guide Robotics, Inc.

Industry: Technology
Stage: Early Stage

I-guide Robotics has developed an autonomous robotic navigation system that involves teaching a vehicle to follow a path by driving it one time. In subsequent trips, you place the vehicle near the start of the path and the vehicle repeats the path it was taught without an operator. We have chosen lawn mowers as the first commercial application of this system.
 

Click here to View I-guide Robotics Company Profile

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ServusXchange

Industry: Construction (Technology)
Stage: Early Stage

ServusXchange's MyOnlineToolBox™ is an Internet-based business-to-business (B-2-B) and business-to-consumer (B-2-C) application that allows contractors in repair and remodeling to manage front office and back office processes.  We help contractors find work, manage work, and collect money.  With the slowdown in the housing market, people are more likely to keep their existing home and maintain it rather than buy a new home.  The target markets of our platform are the two million small mobile contractors servicing the sector, target advertising for product manufacturers who want to sell to contractors and homeowners, and the $200 billion in transactions between them all.  In 2008 MyOnlineToolBox was awarded a Top 10 Small Business Innovator Award by Dell followed by a 2009 Forbes America's Most Promising Company Award.   

 

Click here to View ServusXchange's Investor Profile

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VYSTAR Corporation
Industry:  Life Sciences
Stage Emerging Growth

VYSTAR - Vytex – Vystar offers the unique process to create VYTEX, a natural, non-allergenic latex.  They are creating a whole new segment by reducing the potential toxic nature of the natural latex allergins so that all things elastic can now have an organic solution rather than a petroleum based solution.   VYTEX will be able to go ahead with Spandex as an organic, yet less costly, alternative.   With pending FDA approval for use in surgical gloves and within medical facilities, Vystar's VYTEX will soon become a household word. Vystar is one of NBAI/LAUNCHfn's success stories with the investors placing critical capital with them at their early stage.  Vystar recently went public on the OTC BB and is raising a private round to fuel their growth.  VyStar is a materials processing company manufacturing a non-allergenic latex for medical, industrial and consumer products.

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P2P Cash

Industry: Banking
Stage: Early Stage

Outside of the U.S. more people have cell phones than bank accounts and virtually everything is paid for in cash.  P2P Cash's unique, proprietary system (patent-pending in several countries) accomplishes VISA-style clearing at a fraction of the cost and significantly less risk than VISA credit transactions.  Retailer enrollment is free and includes FREE Universal Payment Gateway ( UPG ) software turning any retailer cellphone into a combination Point of Sale (POS)/ATM/Western Union terminal.  The subscriber's cell phone takes on the characteristics of a debit card to securely store their personal data for authorized access to funds.  Our system allows ANY Retailer to securely disburse/accept consumer funds on behalf of ANY Bank and/or ANY Carrier , regardless of the mobile wallet technology they employ. 
 
The recent acquisition of TreasureCom and strategic partnerships with retailers and micro-finance providers to millions of customers sets the stage for massive near simultaneously adoptions on a worldwide basis . 

Click here to view P2P Cash Investor Profile

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Micro Technology International, Inc. (MTI)

Industry: Retail
Stage: Emerging Growth

MTI provides software technology and e-Commerce solutions for small and medium businesses in the retail sector that integrates the management of their online sales environment with their offline retail store environment.  

A four year relationship with eBay, initially as an authorized developer that grew into a strategic relationship, produced two software solutions Brick 'n ClickTM and Back Office LiveTM for eBay.  These two solutions were specifically developed for the "eBay e-tailer"(eBay Sellers and eBay retailers) that needs an integrated solution to manage the financial operation of their auction site, online store, or integrate with their offline retail store operations seamlessly. 

Click here for MTI Investor Summary

   
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Play Golf Planet
Industry: Web Community
Stage: Early Stage

 

Web community for golf fans and golf course managers alike.   Golf Courses gain a means to market and sell unused tee times and interact directly with golf fans in a more personal way than their traditional information centric web site.  Golf Fans join to see the golf courses they want to play in virtual video tours and to schedule tee times for golf courses in their destination locations.  They have fun comparing scores with other golfers at those destination courses and to interact with the pros and trainers associated with those golf courses.     Filled with rich media and content for golf players and fans to join the community.   They have gained the support and endorsements of golf pros and key leaders in the industry and many of the top golf courses are signing up in anticipation of their full market launch in spring 2010 http://PlayGolfPlanet.com


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Click here to to view Investor Profile

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NuVue Therapeutics (NuVue):
Industry: Biotech and Medical Device
Early Stage

NuVue Therapeutics, Inc. (NuVue) is a privately held, biotechnology driven/medical device Company that has developed a totally innovative and disruptive Site-Specific Regimen of Cancer Therapy for soft tissue cancers. Its products are designed to offer a completely new proprietary method of site-specific focal delivery of microencapsulated chemotherapies into cryothermally sensitized malignant tissues through its own patented consumable devices.




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Click here to view NuVue's company profile

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Worthpoint
Industry: Date Mining / Web Community
Stage: Early Stage

 

Worthpoint is building a "Bloomberg" type platform for the valuation and trade/purchase exchange of antiques and collectables. With the combination of "Antique Roadshow" in an online community and a sophisticated exchange to establish the true value of the collectable, this company is getting incredible market presence with over 1 Million hits a month. With multiple revenue streams, points of penetration and key strategic alliances, this company is poised to have a dramatic impact on the billion dollar collectable market.

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Listen to Worthpoint talk about their business model
from the SPEC Talk Radio Show

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BTM Corporation


BTM Corporation
Industry: SaaS Business Integration
Stage: Emerging Growth

BTM Corporation provides management solutions that innovates new business models, enhance financial performance, and improve operational efficiency by converging business and technology with its unique applications and intellectual property (IP).

Through multi-year research and development since 1999, academic and industry support, customer collaboration and continuous marketplace examination, the ongoing efforts of BTM Corporation have created products and solutions that provide the structure, automation, and analytics needed to converge the management of business and technology.  These efforts include the industry's first integrated product suite, various research and educational initiatives, and customer-specific solutions that improve the strategic position, financial performance, operational efficiency and business model innovation needs of Global 2000 organizations, government agencies and social businesses around the globe.


Click Here to Read Their WST Interview

Click Here to View BTM's Summary

Click for BTM Radio interview

 

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Sword Diagnostics
Industry:  Clinical Diagnostics and Life Science Research
Stage:  Early Stage

The company has a new and unique detection system that improves the performance and sensitivity of tests for disease markers.  This improves the performance of existing tests and enables tests for new low abundance markers.  The technology is extremely versatile and may be applied across a wide range of markers, and is easily incorporated into tests and workflows already in place.

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Verdant Energy Solutions
Industry: Renewable Fuel "Bio-Coal" for Electric Power Generation
Stage: Early Stage


Verdant Energy Solutions provides “Bio-Coal”, a 100% renewable fuel alternative to fossil coal use for electric generating utilities world-wide; substantially reducing CO2 and other harmful greenhouse gas emissions. We have pre-selected a suitable location in Brazil to locate the initial Bio-Coal production facility. Verdant Energy Solutions will develop additional production capability in biomass-rich regions to serve the growing need for a non-fossil fuel alternative that can be co-fired with coal, to achieve CO2 emission reductions.


Legislatively mandated CO2 reductions have created a market need for our product. No technology currently exists to remove CO2 from smoke stacks. Switching to clean burning Bio-Coal, provides compatibility with today’s existing energy infrastructure and the opportunity to meet tomorrow’s increasingly stringent emission reduction targets cost-effectively.

Click here to review Verdant's one page profile.


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ONEPAK Greentech Management
Industry: Cleantech Logistics Systems
Stage: Early Stage


ONEPAK, Inc. is an environmental logistics technology company, specializing in the new regulatory-driven niche of electronic waste management.  The Company manages nationwide packing, tracking, and transportation of used computers and other electronics for reuse and recycling, as well as secure management of hard drives containing sensitive data.

OnePak's primary client markets are computer and electronics manufacturers, technology remarketers and recyclers, and equipment leasing entitities. The Company's cleantech logistics technologies and services help businesses comply with new "green" regulatory mandates and security issues involved in the safe handling and ecological disposal of obsolete electronics.

 

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Radio Interview: Listen Now!

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Kiz Toys
Industry: Consumer Goods > Toys  
Stage: Start up

Kiz Toys is a revolutionary toy company focused on the interaction and safe integration between virtual environments and traditional toys (i.e. cars, dolls, etc).

Our strategy is Innovation. Build a brand of trust for parents. Parents allow children to access internet. Children access virtual world. Virtual world grows into a protected on-line community. Create additional products and services to enhance community. Revenue is comprised of retail sales (multi-units/child), product line sponsorships (5-Year), online gaming & parental supervision services (subscription), virtual world purchases (transactional).

Click here to review Kiz Toy's profile.


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Valt-X

Valt-X
Industry:  Security Computer High Tech Chips

Stage:  Emerging Growth


Valt.X Technologies develops computer ultra security chips, add-on security controllers and cyber secure storage subsystems. The Valt.X SFIRE Ultra Security Chip secures desktop, notebook and server computers with absolute certainty, allowing computer users to use the internet without fear that their computer systems will be compromised. We believe our technology solves the worldwide endpoint computer security problem. Valt.X has 20 Patents granted in USA, Canada, Europe, China and Taiwan and 40+ additional applications in process.      


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2 Chicks with Chocolate
Industry:
Retail Food & Entertainment

Stage: Early Stage

Stage one of the launch is almost complete as 2 Chick With Chocolate has gained a large customer following in the Northeast for their custom chocolate gifts and unique catering experiences.   They are poised to execute on Stage two plans for a unique new concept in retail chocolate: Think Willie Wonka meets Build a Bear.  2 Chicks with Chocolate's will open their flagship store in New Jersey to ensure success from their large and growing customer base.  With a integrated marketing model of retail locations and web based customer loyalty and ongoing revenue streams, they will expand into other markets in Stage 3 of their rollout.  Their research and market strategies are solid and with an impressive management and advisory team, this is a company to watch.   http://2chickswithchcocolate.com


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Listen to them talk about their business model with talk host Karen Rands on SPEC Talk Radio Show
  
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eCycle
Industry:  Manufacturer of electric motors and generators; Cleantech; Energy efficiency 

Stage: Early Stage

eCycle is a manufacturer of battery air-conditioning systems (BACs) and auxiliary power units (APUs) for vehicles.  These products reduce diesel idling, thereby saving fuel, reducing cost and pollution by using eCycle’s high efficiency, three-phase brushless motor-generator that delivers very high performance and runs directly from a battery. It helps enable environmentally responsible transportation.


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Onecall Wireless LLC
Industry: Software/Wireless

Stage: Early Stage

OneCall Wireless assists businesses in managing their mobile assets and their associated costs. Their solutions grew out of corporations’ need for assistance with “end-to-end mobile lifecycle management.” Mobile lifecycle management refers to managing a mobile device (i.e., a cell phone or a BlackBerry) from the time it is purchased to the time its service is cancelled when an employee leaves. Mobile lifecycle management consists of two areas: asset management and cost-control management. OneCall provides solutions in both of these areas.  They have the first automated software module completed to compliment their full suite of services.  They have their first customer and others pending.


Review Onecall's Investor Profile by clicking here...

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Reliant Healthcare, LLC
Industry: Behavioral Healthcare Services
Stage:  Emerging Growth Stage


Reliant Healthcare develops and operates modern  behavioral health facilities associated with large acute care hospitals.  Reliant has identified a group of markets in the southeast that has a demonstrated demand for inpatient psychiatric services because the services have been removed or reduced as a result of regulatory or government budget issues.   Their first operational facility is in Waycross, GA and is generating over a $1M in annual revenue.  Reliant is seeking investors and long term financial partners to open up additional facilities in targeted markets in the southeast.


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