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Entrepreneurs participating in the LAUNCHfn
Access to Capital System™
These companies are among the most innovative with the most exciting go to market strategies.  They are working with LAUNCHfn on capital strategy, business models, cashflow strategies and access to capital.  As companies are pre-qualified to pitchto  angel investors that attend the Atlanta Angel Investor Club - Innovative Investor Group meeting, their description and profiles are uploaded here.  The most recent presenters are at the top.  There are many more companies working with LAUNCHfn on strategy, preparation, debt financing and investor relations that may not be listed here. 

 iPlan.com

iPlan.com
Industry:  Web Application / Financial Sector
Stage: Early Stage

IPLAN is a simple to use, online environment that delivers a new financial solution that helps increase the confidence of individuals when making investment and planning decisions. IPLAN.com is the first firm to score a financial plan. Our scoring method takes into account every decision required to develop a sound financial plan and creates individualized simple action steps for improvement.  IPLAN focuses on the individual’s perspective by: Plan Everything: our solution takes into account a holistic approach, from investing to insurance, from legal needs to debt. Sell Nothing: IPLAN does not manage money, create products or generate income based on transactions or individual actions. Keep it Simple: Easy to sign-up and manage a plan through an iterative process couple with an intuitive interface.  Consumers end up with a personalized financial assessment they understand.  They are equipped to go forward with their financial planning. Multiple revenue streams are created.

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Bob Knows Phones!
Industry: Retail / Franchise

Stage: Early Stage

 

Bob Knows Phones is capitalizing on the shifting consumer attidude to Fix rather than Replace smart phones.   Bob Knows Phones has created a well branded and efficient repair vs replace retail offering.  Following in the path blazed by "Geek Squad" that changed how we thought about repairing a computer, and utilizing all the guerrilla marketing tactics available to them on a limited budget, they have perfected their business processes, marketing tactics and operations to reach cash flow positive in less than a year a their first location. With virtually no competition with the same branding and recognition and efficient operation, the timing is perfect for this business to expand.   Initially they will expand to 5 stores in the Atlanta Metro area and then proceed with a regional expansion to 100 stores in 36 months and are seeking financial partners to facilitate this growth.  

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Synkup
Industry: Mobile & Web Application

Stage: Startup

 

Synkup offers mobile and web solution breaks new ground as a personal scheduling assistant with all-inlcusive, insider access to your calendar and your people.  It enables the user to "Synk-up" with friends, family, and personal contacts regarding activities, appointments, and action items.   Fully developed and ready for deployment.

Send an email to request more information about Synkup

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GrandCamp
Industry: Gaming/Entertainment

Stage: Early Stage

 

GrandCamp Adventures has developed an innovative and integrated themed "backyard adventures" for Grandparents and Grandchildren to connect and bond in ways that seem out of reach in today's high-tech, fastpaced world.  GrandCamp Adventures' products and servics are carefully crafted to create the space and conditions for building treasured relationships.  Sold through an online commerce site, the word is spreading and retailers are asking to carry the products. Strategic plans are in place ot expand beyond traditional activity sets to rich media, entertainment and travel offerings.

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IP Resources International
Industry: Healthcare/BioMed

Stage: Early Stage

 

IP Resources is an intellectual property management firm that commercializes compelling healthcare-related technologies on a global basis. Our management team brings over 100 years of combined experience in finance, marketing, and sales. Our professionals have developed strategic relationships with companies around the world who are actively seeking new healthcare-related technology and products.

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URecruitMe.com
Industry:  Web platform
Stage: Early Stage.

Urecruitme.com has developed a solution that matches Employers and Jobseekers quickly, directly, and cost efficiently, eliminating the need to use Job Boards or Staffing Agencies, and reducing the recruitment lifecycle by an average of 3 weeks. After two years of development and testing, it was launched in Atlanta to impressive results.  In just a short few months over 4000 subscribers have posted their qualifications and multiple businesses and institutions have signed up to fill job openings.  

 

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Guardian Lion Wireless
Industry:  Wireless, Consumer Product
Stage:  Early Stage

GuardianLion Wireless (hereafter GLW) has developed, trademarked and patented the LEO®, which leverages a fully functional life-saving personal emergency response wristwatch with GPS locator, alert, cell phone and 9-1-1 response system technologies to be worn by people 6 - 75+ years old in various markets and applications. When purchased, this 1” square device can provide individuals and families assurance that a “guardian” is always within reach in key emergency situations via a third-party 24/7 emergency response service, a 24/7 internet-based tracking software system and a two-way communication service offered through a major telecommunications carrier.  With an experienced management team and barrier rich product offering, this is a company to watch. 

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DSGM Systems
Making Life Easier for Diabetics.

DSGM Systems
Industry: Medical Device

Stage: Start Up - Commercialization

 

DSGM Systems is a medical device company whose mission is to commercialize diagnostics that improve the health and lifestyle of diabetics. The first product to be commercialized by DSGM Systems is a highly accurate, non-invasive, needle-free device that provides continuous measurement of blood sugar levels. DSGM's Glusonic Alert alerts users to changes in their blood sugar levels during the daily activities - shopping, sleeping, driving, exercising, etc. and alert them when their levels change to rapidly or fall below safe levels.  With 27 million Americans (~10%) and another 79 million considered pre-diabetic, the market for blood glucose monitoring supplies is projected to be $3.7 Billion by 2015. 

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Bion Document Tracking

BION Document Tracking
Industry: Technology - Security

Stage: Early Stage

 

Bion's mission is to be a foundational architecture across all industries that recognize the need and value in tracking electronic records, files and documents - who opens, where they open, who sends, who receives - no matter where the document originated, was saved or ends up.  Those who are best at using technology to track, manage, sell & secure their business - win.  BION SmartFile Reporting gives its users a powerful competitive edge.  The centerpiece of BION's technology is the invisible digital "tag". Once inserted into any digital document or file, that electronic file becomes a "smart file". The footprint of the technology is very small, virtually invisible, accurate and is not permission-based.  It works across the most advanced firewalls and active malware systems.  

Send an email to request more information about BION Tech

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INCA, LLC

International Nutraceutical Company of America (INCA)
Industry: Bio Med
Stage: Early Stage

 

INCA develops and markets natural products that have been shown, in formal scientific tests, to improve their users’ health. INCA's first product is Revalife™, a glucosamine cream for the treatment of osteoarthritis that delivers 50X more glucosamine to the affected areas than any other product on the market. Osteoarthritis (OA) is an incurable, debilitating joint disease caused by the deterioration of joint cartilage. Symptoms include localized pain,
inflammation, reduced mobility, and deformity, requiring sufferers to alter and manage their lifestyles to prevent further deterioration. Many studies have shown that glucosamine reduces OA joint pain and inflammation. Moreover, several studies have found that glucosamine prevents further joint space narrowing in OA sufferers.  Over 23 million Americans have OA and they spend over $6.5 billion annually on products for treating it. Revalife is a break through medical treatment because of the unique proprietary formula that effectively delivers the glucosamine unlike no other internal or topical solution on the market to directly treat the impacted areas.

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OhMyGov!
Industry: Web Platform for Communication Analytics
Stage: Early Stage

 

OhMyGov Inc. is a VA-based media and technology firm. They provide SaaS for measuring and improving political communications, tracking political dialogue, and analyzing public sentiment as found in public comments across the Internet. Their innovations include the ability to monitor information as it spreads across the Internet, track reactions of the public to events, and help predict elections and outcomes of communication campaigns. They were initially funded by a National Science Foundation grant, continued development with angel investment and revenues.  Actively deployed and used by a number of government agencies, political candidates and special interest groups, they are rapidly gaining clients that realize the OhMyGov platform and analytical toolset is a key to managing and monitory perceptions and impressions on the Internet in the world of public commentary. 

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The Venue Network
Industry: Virtual Web Interactive Training and Collaborative Platform
Stage: Early Stage Company

The Venue Network has delivered to the market, VenueGen.  VenueGen is the next generation platform for completely immersive online learning.  Deployed as a browser plug-in, VenueGen users are up and running  in about a minute without any special hardware or cameras; and they immediately experience nearly all the benefits of a face to face gathering.  Unlike all the  other virtual meeting modalities (gotoMeeting, Webex, Skype etc), VenueGen empowers users to see who's talking and to whom comments are directed, and their physical cues, as they interact as if they are in the same room with each other through the humanization of their avatars.   They can spread out their content from each participant or speaker on larger viewers as if there are multiple screens or white boards in the room, and collaborate in ways that have not been possible online before now.  VenueGen minimizes operational overhead, increases accessibility to customers and staff, and delivers an engaging, personal telepresence-like experience yet, with the practical usability and low-cost of basic web collaboration tools.  Fully functioning and deployed in a number of blue-chip corporate settings, VenueGen is poised to be a category killer with this significant advancement in technology.

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DreamBoats - OceanQuest
Industry: Shallow Water Recreational Craft
Voyage to Navigate The World

Stage:  Early Stage

 

DreamBoats manufactures a flat boat that draws less than 3 inches of water to navigate through shallow waters found in marshes, low tide, and inner-coastal waterways.  As part of the plan to prove the stability, reliability and maneuverability of this water craft, DreamBoats took the challenge and succeeded in breaking world records for first cross to Bermuda in record time.  Then the stepped up to Cross The Atlantic Ocean in their Intruder-21ft Flat Boat traveling from Tampa, FL to Frankfurt, Germany in record time.  They are preparing for the next challenge of breaking the speed record to navigate the world in the Oceans Quest Race Around the World.  With this recognition and the revenues from the expedition, they will begin mass production of their Flat Boat and fulfill their pent up demand for boats.

 

 
 

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Visit DreamBoats website to learn more.

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MySkoopz, Inc
Industry: Consumer Product
Stage: Early Stage Company

 

MySkoopz, Inc. developed an all-natural sugar substitute, skoopz®, made not from sugar cane but fom other natural botanical products, in response to the rapidly growing demand for an alternative 0-calorie  sweetener free of chemicals and synthetics.  skoopz®  is diabetic-friendly, tastes better than any other sugar substitute on the market, has no aftertaste. It's low cost of productions makes it available so consumers for less than the other natural sweeteners and sugar/artifical sweetner hybrids currently on the market.  The demand for the product and predictable success of this company is evident in its penetration into multiple retail chains and stocked in over 300 stores in just months after its initial launch into the market. 

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Laughing Skull

Atlanta Bewing Company (RedBrick Ale)
Industry: Beverage / Consumer Product

Stage: Expansion Stage Company

 

RedBrick Ale Brewing Company has a rich history of producing award winning craft beers, sold and distributed in the Southeast.   As one of 6 Southern Craft Breweries, Atlanta Brewing Company is enjoying an increased demand as awareness spreads about the quality and tastiness of their special crafted beers.   With expanded capacity and renewed marketing focus, they are expanding their sales and distribution outside of Georgia and are enjoying record growth in sales as a result.  This is an unique opportunity to be a silent partner in a respected local company poised for tremendous growth in the coming years. 

RedBrick Brewing Company Website

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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 over 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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Stay Put Fishing Systems, Inc
Industry:  Consumer Products / Recreation
Stage: Early Stage

Stay Put Fishing Systems (SPFS) has developed and commercialized an effective fixed pole anchor system for shallow water fishing boats. The product launched in Q4 2009 and has received wide acceptance in the boating and fishing communites across North America.  The aftermarket for boating and fishing products is $45 Billion.  With strategies for rapid deployment and national brand awareness, SPFS is excited to have dealers in 16 states and Canada

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Q Care International, LLC
Industry: BioMed Device
Stage:  Early Stage

Q Care has developed a proprietary system to safely, and conveniently remove the needle from a syringe to render a contaminated needle harmless.   Over 267,000 people are accidently "stuck" by carelessly discarded needles costing $175 Million annually to care for those who contract serious illnesses as a result of an unintended prick of a contaminated needle.  Q Care offers two models.  One for home use intended for diabetics who need to use and safely discard multiple needles each day.  The other is for commercial use in medical office settings.   Pending legislation would require improvide disposal methods and provide medicare funding for the Q Care products. 

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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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TenderCare Beds

Industry: Furniture Manufacturing
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. TenderCare Bed's core product is a patent pending furniture-style headboard / footboard set for hospital beds in private homes and long term care facilities.  Quite simply, it is a cosmetic enhancement to the unattractive construction ofa functional hospital bed.  It is an affordable way for an individual caring for an elderly or seriously ill person in their home to have both function and beauty; and a convenient way that institutional facilities to "remodel" their long term care facilities to be more "home like".

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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.   

NOW Featured in August 2010 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine.

 

Click here to View ServusXchange's 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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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.
 

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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 . 

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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. 

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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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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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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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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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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).

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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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