IVCA Feature: Techstars Chicago Announce the Ten Businesses/Start-ups in their 2018 Accelerator Program Clyde: Founded by Brandon Gell, Josh Scaglione and Nick Scaglione. This tech company’s goal is to transform insurance at the point of sale, starting with the warranty industry. Clyde allows e-commerce stores to offer extended warranty and product insurance to customers when they buy something, giving businesses a passive revenue stream. Click https://www.joinclyde.com/ Hurry Home: Founded by Jada Mclean and John Gibbons. Hurry Home is a start-up to help renters become homeowners, using capital from investors to finance houses through shared ownership, which allows renters to earn equity on their homes while paying close to or less than what their rent would be for the same property... while investors reap a competitive return. Click https://www.hurryhome.io/ Kal: Founded by Jonathan Smith, Jane Decker and Dan Rye. Kal provides a digital fitness coach that communicates with users through a text message system. It is powered by augmented intelligence, and engages users about their fitness goals... it helps users set standards for workouts, nutrition and accountability, much more affordably than an actual personal trainer. Click https://kai.coach/ Neopenda: Founded by Sona Shah and Teresa Cauvel. This start-up is anchored by a wearable neo-natal monitoring system, that continuously detects a newborn’s key vital signs, then sends the data wirelessly to a medical authority source. The goal is to reduce birthrate deaths in developing countries, where 98% of first-month infant mortality takes place. Click http://www.neopenda.com/ Optivolt Labs: Founded by Rohit Kalyanpur and Paul Couston. Advancting the latest in drone technology, this start-up is developing high efficiency solar-powered drones for commercial and military clients. This tech will increase, by three to four times, the flight times of these drones. Click https://www.optivoltlabs.com/ Rheaply: Founded by Garry Cooper and Tyler Skelton. This marketplace platform allows professionals and organizations to trade, donate or easily share surplus inventory or assets within the network, while also helping to manage waste, resources and storage. Click https://www.rheaply.com/ Speeko: Founded by Nico Aguilar, Will Field-Thompson and Anthony Pham. This mobile app brings interactive verbal communication training to your workforce, by using artificial intelligence and automated voice analytics to assess live or recorded presentations, and provide feedback and insights on how to improve overall communication. Click http://www.speeko.co/ Trala: Founded by Samuel Walder and Vishnu Indukuri. This Juilliard School of Music-approved app teaches users how to play the violin. It provides tutorials, daily lessons and instant feedback on mistakes, and it can teach beginners to play songs like “Amazing Grace” in only 30 days. Click https://tralaapp.com/ Vacation Fund: Founded by Erica Pearson, Abhinav Mathur and Britney Mackey. The start-up is a benefit that can allow employees of businesses to save more money for vacations, with help from their employers. The “fund” offers an employer-matched savings program. incentivizing them to put money aside for travel every year. Click https://www.vacationfund.io/ For more information about Techstars Chicago, click https://www.techstars.com/programs/chicago-program/
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