2014 FiReStarters
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Apeel Sciences provides a proprietary solution created from natural plant extracts to treat fruits and vegetables, increasing the shelf life of produce and reducing the energy costs of cold storage. Despite an explosion in scientific knowledge, costly refrigeration methods have developed and long remained the dominant method of produce preservation. Apeel’s Edipeel technology capitalizes on recent scientific advances in materials science to transform the agricultural industry, using a low-cost spray-coating procedure that acts to maintain produce quality by preventing the two processes that cause spoilage: water loss and oxidation.
FiReSpotter: John Petote: CEO, CIO Solutions
Participating at FiRe 2014
James Rogers, President and CEO (Speaker)
Louis Perez, Director of Formulation EngineeringVisit Apeel Sciences at: www.apeelsciences.com
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Everyone Counts has uniquely built a team of industry-leading, internationally recognized election administration, computer security, and usability experts to bring modern election administration and voting systems to election officials. It has achieved this by using technologies, processes, and best practices that have been proven in other mission-critical industries throughout the world for decades. The company’s eLect® voting solution allows election administrators to cost-effectively ensure that every person in every democracy or membership organization in the world with the right to vote can easily do so privately, independently, and securely – and with full confidence that their vote is counted.
FiReSpotter: David Titus: San Diego Venture Group
Participating at FiRe 2014
Lori Steele Contorer, Founder and CEO (Speaker)
Reed Vickerman, COOVisit Everyone Counts at: www.everyonecounts.com
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Immunomic Therapeutics Inc. (ITI) is a privately held clinical-stage biotechnology company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, with lab facilities in Rockville, Maryland. ITI is developing next-generation vaccines based on the patented Lysosomal Associated Membrane Protein, or LAMP, technology. Its LAMP-Vax™ vaccine platform significantly increases the effectiveness of the immune response to nucleic acid vaccines while simplifying overall vaccine design and delivery, yielding safer, more cost-effective human and animal therapies.
LAMP emerged from $20 million of NIH-funded research conducted by distinguished scientist Dr. Tom August at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. ITI has the exclusive worldwide license to the LAMP technology patent estate and is commercializing groundbreaking next-generation LAMP DNA vaccines, beginning with allergy, cancer, and infectious disease.
FiReSpotter: Nathan McDonald, President, Keiretsu Forum
Participating at FiRe 2014
Bill Hearl, CEO (FiReStarter Speaker)
Bernie Rudnick, CFOVisit Immunomic Therapeutics at: www.immunomix.com
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Ivycorp is democratizing communications by connecting the unconnected, focused on delivering valuable communication solutions that bridge the gaps that exist in communication due to geography, technology, or economics.
The Ivytalk® group messaging platform was developed by Ivycorp to help businesses and organizations take the complexity out of messaging by simply allowing them to use any type of messaging on any device.
Ivytalk is the only messaging platform that enables private, simultaneous, 2-way conversations over email, SMS, and mobile applications. Ivytalk makes timely information available to everyone everywhere anytime.
Participating at FiRe 2014
Mary Jesse, Founder, CEO, and Chair (FiRe Speaker)
Steve Knox, Co-Founder and CTOVisit Ivytalk: www.ivytalk.com
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Kymeta is developing the next-generation antennas for satellite communications, enabling new types of mobile and fixed services. Kymeta’s innovative antennas use metamaterials technology to electronically and dynamically steer the antenna beam toward the satellite with no moving parts. The Kymeta technology enables flatter, thinner, lighter, more efficient, and less expensive antennas compared with traditional satellite antenna technologies.
Kymeta’s mTenna™ products simplify satellite connections needed for instant broadband service anywhere in the world, including mobile applications such as planes, trains, boats, and automobiles.
Participating at FiRe 2014
Nathan Kundtz, Co-founder, EVP, and CTO (FiReStarter Speaker)
Vern Fotheringham, Chairman, President, and CEO
Gary Roshak, Vice President, ProductsVisit Kymeta at: www.kymetacorp.com
“The FiRe Conference completely exceeded my expectations. It was such a pleasure to take some time off from our daily lives that are so deeply invested in our respective industries and businesses to capture so much information across such an expansive range of topics in the company of other committed and dedicated professionals and technologists. What a mind-bending and expanding experience.” – Vern Fotheringham, Chairman, President, and CEO, Kymeta Corp.
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MD Revolution is the first company to leverage genomic assessments and mobile tracking tools to deliver personalized health programs. Patients and employees self-track their progress using RevUp, MD Revolution’s patent-pending software platform. RevUp captures the patient’s health, nutrition, and exercise data from mobile apps and health devices with open API interfaces and in a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based system. RevUp elegantly displays the patient’s progress in a secure, HIPAA-compliant online portal that is accessible via iPhone, iPad, or desktop. RevUp offers employers, health systems, and primary-care physicians a platform to dramatically scale and sustain outcomes-based personalized wellness and healthcare.
RevUp allows employees to track their progress and receive personalized feedback and coaching from nurse practitioners, nutritionists, and metabolic experts. Employers can track engagement and eligibility for Affordable Care Act incentives and discounts for medical benefits. Physician practices can track patient progress and provide updates and guidance rather than waiting for the next patient visit. The system is affordable and scalable, thanks to proprietary algorithms that have developed in MD Revolution’s clinical lab with actual patients.
Over 90% of MD Revolution’s patients have experienced statistically significant improvements in resting metabolism, body fat, and visceral fat reduction, and improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness. These indicators have been proven in the latest scientific research to be the real drivers of chronic disease, which has now reached epidemic proportions in the United States.
FiReSpotter: Larry Smarr, Director, Calit2, UCSD/Irvine
Participating at FiRe 2014
Samir Damani, Founder & CEO (FiRe Speaker)
Camille Saltman, PresidentVisit MD Revolution: www.mdrevolution.com
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart for the wonderful, gracious hospitality that your team showed us at FiRe! What an incredible experience. This morning I had to present MD Revolution at a (trade organization) board meeting. The remarkable thing was that the board includes senior execs from Microsoft, HP, Sony, Broadcom, Verizon, etc. The discussion and the demos were interesting, but on every front I had heard from the top-level people in the previous few days [at FiRe] on almost every issue that was discussed – and the discussion was at a much higher level. Incredible. What a privilege!” – Camille Saltman, Chief Business Officer, MD Revolution
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NorthShore Bio, founded in 2009 by a team of veteran life-science, electronics, and system technology experts, is bringing the domains of biotechnology, computing, and semiconductor manufacturing together to accelerate the revolution in “digital biology.” The team combines decades of experience in biology and chemistry with deep expertise in developing leading-edge computing systems, from high-performance computing down to microprocessor design.
NorthShore Bio is dramatically changing the “molecular information” problem, developing proprietary silicon-based, label-free direct electrical sensors that enable significant advances in the capability and speed of molecular measurement while dramatically reducing time and cost. Its patented electrically tunable, silicon-based “direct to digital™” chips reduce process time and workflow complexity while improving data integrity and unlocking valuable new information.
The privately held company is co-located in Dr. Leroy Hood’s Lab at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle.FiReSpotter: Nathan McDonald, President, Keiretsu Forum
Participating at FiRe 2014
Jonathan DeHart, President and CEO (Speaker)
Visit NorthShore Bio at: www.northshorebio.com
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Respect Network is the world’s first global private network of personal and business clouds. Launching June 23, 2014, in a series of events in London, San Francisco, Sydney, Tel Aviv, and Berlin, the Respect Network is based on an award-winning trust framework developed over three years by leading Internet architects and 50 Founding Partner companies from around the world. As a decentralized, multi-provider network similar to the global banking or email networks, the Respect Network will enable members anywhere in the world to share sensitive private data with strong assurance that their privacy will always be respected.
FiReSpotter: Nathan McDonald, President, Keiretsu Forum
Participating at FiRe 2014
Drummond Reed, CEO (Speaker)
Visit Respect Network at: www.respectnetwork.com
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The SpaceCurve real-time platform is for organizations that want to quickly transform big data into value. SpaceCurve ingests, fuses and analyzes Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, spatial, sensor, weather, social media, historical and other data to deliver immediately actionable intelligence at petabyte scales. With SpaceCurve, larger volumes, higher velocities and wider varieties of data than ever before can be immediately fused to create real-time models of reality.
FiReSpotter: Fortunato Vega, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Participating at FiRe 2014
Andrew Rogers, CEO (Speaker)
Susan Spencer, SVP MarketingVisit SpaceCurve at: www.spacecurve.com
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uBiome is a microbiome sequencing service that provides information and tools enabling people to explore their microbiome. Based on research from the NIH Human Microbiome Project, uBiome has perfected the technology to perform large-scale microbiome studies.
Founded by UCSF scientists and Stanford and Cambridge technologists, uBiome’s mission is using big data to understand the human microbiome. Each of us is covered in trillions of bacteria. uBiome helps consumers and organizations understand what they are and what they do, using tools such as machine learning, bioinformatics, crowdsourcing, Illumina Hi-Seq, and robots.
Dozens of conditions are correlated with the human microbiome, including asthma, diabetes, irritable bowel, and heart disease. uBiome is the first and only big data company focused on the microbiome.
FiReSpotter: Larry Smarr: Director, Calit2 / UCSD
Participating at FiRe 2014
Jessica Richman, Co-Founder and CEO (Speaker)
Zac Apte, CSOVisit uBiome at: www.uBiome.com
“[FiRe 2014] was an amazing gathering, and I’m so honored to have been a FiReStarter! ‘Life-changing’ [as another attendee said] is exactly right. What a fantastic event, and we’re so happy to be a part of the family.” – Jessica Richman, Co-Founder and CEO, uBiome