Thank you to TerraManta, a renewing Member of the OC Startup Council! TerraManta: Platform for forecasting commodity prices using machine learning, starting with crude oil and corn futures. Their business plan is to manage outside capital and trade crude oil futures in a separate trading entity with TerraManta providing an exclusive license. OC Startup Ecosystem Directory Category: Artificial Intelligence AI... Read more →

Welcome to Cyrano.ai, INC, a new Members of the OC Startup Council! Cyrano.ai, INC: An artificial intelligence company focusing on improving the quality of conversations, not just transactional QnA. Effective communication is the single biggest advantage an individual or company can have, and they are bringing that ability to everyone. They are currently optimized for commercial deployments, though longer term... Read more →

Welcome to AWM Smart Shelf, a new Member of the OC Startup Council! AWM Smart Shelf is a vision technology company with a comprehensive retail solution. The underlying technologies are built utilizing artificial intelligence, computer vision, machine learning, and application engineering to reinvent the retail space as it is known today. The ecosystem of solutions improves operational efficiencies, increases sales,... Read more →

Vottun is a leader in blockchain enterprise technologies. The company focus is to build scalable, interoperable blockchain solutions for enterprises and governments. Vottun solutions include blockchain credentials, supply chain traceability, identity, APIs, and a full interoperable blockchain agnostic protocol. The company is funded by Draper Ventures (Draper B1), a leading Blockchain Venture Capital firm led by Tim Draper, and has... Read more →

Welcome to Chore Buddy, a new Member of the OC Startup Council! Chore Buddy: Their online community helps homeowners working on do-it-yourself projects quickly and easily find someone else extremely qualified to do it for them. Has been a 5-star preferred service provider on Amazon Home Services since 2015. It is powered by the experts-as-as-service platform from APi Technologies Inc,... Read more →

Orange County investors of all levels are invited to meet five inspiring black founders leading innovative companies. All of these companies are currently raising capital and anyone, even you, can invest for as little as $100. Netcapital is hosting a Virtual Demo Day on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 500 PM PDT highlighting five black founders that are currently raising... Read more →

Welcome to these new Members of the OC Startup Council: Academy For International Culture and Professional Education, Invysta Technology Group, Quantum Computing Report Academy For International Culture and Professional Education s a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization with tax exempt status in the state of California with the team of Instructors and researchers with the mission to enhance social understanding... Read more →

Welcome to these new free listings in the OC Startup Council Startups Directory: FinTech: Advisor Brands, LLC - San Clemente Hardware: Hindsight Technologies - Irvine Real Estate Tech : SOLD.com, LLC - Irvine Visit these local startups to learn more! (And get a free listing for your company or organization in the OCSC Startups Ecosystem Directory HERE.) Read more →

Welcome to Float, a new Premium Member of the OC Startup Council! Float: Their mission is to give consumers full control over their information, unlock savings and encourage community to support financial health. Float gives consumers full control of their financial information by allowing them to share only what is necessary to receive better financial products. OC Startups Directory Category:... Read more →

Welcome to these new Members of the OC Startup Council: Business Sales Accelerator Academy, NeighborING, ReadySetConnect Business Sales Accelerator Academy train direct sales people, entrepreneurs and small business owners to become more effective at generating new business so they increase their bottom line profits & improve their local economy. Business Sales Accelerator Academies initial target audience are the millions of... Read more →

Welcome to Alchemy Technologies, a FinTech Infrastructure Company, a new Premium Member of the OC Startup Council! Alchemy Technologies, a FinTech Infrastructure Company are behind everyone's "Apply" button. They deliver core solutions and customized workflow for a variety of financial verticals. Personal loan, line-of-credit, mechanics financing, construction loans and student loan installations are state of the art. Alchemy Technologies has... Read more →

Welcome to Active Cypher, a new Executive Member of the OC Startup Council! Active Cypher provides a variety of intelligent, quantum-resilient file security solutions that are automated to provide end-to-end data protection. Merging AI, blockchain, and advanced quantum encryption technologies, Active Cypher has launched the most comprehensive solution available yet. The startup was built upon a socially responsible fabric, that... Read more →

Welcome to these new Members of the OC Startup Council: Computer Strategieskb, Newport Electric Boats, Inc., Reality Smash, Inc. Computer Strategieskb provides knowledge, and services to vertical niche markets. They will have peer curated postings from a variety of selected RSS streams plus ad hoc curation. It will also provide a buying service that will allow subscribers to take advantage... Read more →

Welcome to these new free listings in the OC Startup Council Startups Directory: Software: 10-8 Systems - Mission Viejo Education: GradeHub - Irvine FinTech: Ultra Jet Software - Aliso Viejo Visit these local startups to learn more! (And get a free listing for your company or organization in the OCSC Startups Ecosystem Directory HERE.) Read more →

Thanks to Black Dog Venture Partners for joining the OC Startup Council as a new Supporting Member. Black Dog Venture Partners is a Venture Capital & Corporate Finance Consulting, Business Development, PR, Sales and Marketing. A business accelerator that provides access to funding though their network of 13,000 investors, business development though their network of 40,000 business partners, sales/marketing and... Read more →

Curogram Closes $1.8M Series Seed Round to Lead Evolution of Two-Way Messaging for the Healthcare Industry Round includes Zuora Founder, Chairman and CEO Tien Tzuo and Over 80 Medical Professionals Recently praised by Google Health and Samsung Health for modernizing healthcare communications, Curogram, the leading patient-centric universal healthcare messaging platform, announced it has closed an over-subscribed $1.8M series seed round.... Read more →

Welcome to Ariel Precision Medicine, Inc., a new Supporting Member of the OC Startup Council! Ariel Precision Medicine, Inc. delivers precision medicine solutions for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of complex chronic diseases and disorders. Their technology integrates a patient’s symptoms and genetics with complicated medical information using systems modeling, machine learning and other advanced reporting technology, then their multidisciplinary... Read more →

Thanks to Tepia Co, Inc. for joining the OC Startup Council as a new Supporting Member. Tepia Co, Inc. creates custom-tailored software solutions that are visually vibrant, user-friendly, and maximize effectiveness. For entrepreneurs to see their idea brought to life, or for small business owners needing to enhance operational processes and procedures, they work through their principles to leverage technology... Read more →

MyShoperoo, an on-demand, errand service for office workers, was ranked No. 6 among the most fundable startups in the U.S., according to a lengthy assessment by Pepperdine University and The Venture Alliance. Irvine-based MyShoperoo, which plans to raise a seed round next year, topped more than 3,500 other startups on Pepperdine’s Graziadio Business School’s second annual Most Fundable Companies List.... Read more →

Welcome to Filled By Five, a new Supporting Member of the OC Startup Council! Filled By Five is the recruiting platform that connects employers who have open positions with recruiters across the globe. Employers post jobs for free and pay nothing until they make a hire. Employers choose the placement fee they will pay to get their jobs filled. Recruiters... Read more →

NowRx Announces Series B CrowdFunding Round on SeedInvest NowRx, the on-demand, free same-day delivery pharmacy that is disrupting the healthcare industry by reinventing pharmacy from the ground up, today announced a third crowdfunding round on SeedInvest, receiving over $500K in reservations in its first 24 hours, one of the fastest ramp-ups in SeedInvest’s history. The company is raising $20 million... Read more →

Welcome to these new free listings in the OC Startup Council Startups Directory: Healthcare Tech: RepuGen - Irvine Healthcare Tech: Vaccitech Inc - Irvine Education: Votingsmarter - Irvine Visit these local startups to learn more! (And get a free listing for your company or organization in the OCSC Startups Ecosystem Directory HERE.) Read more →

Welcome to Subsync, a new Supporting Member of the OC Startup Council! Subsync has developed a mobile application that automatically synchronizes the teachers schedule in real-time with Mindbody. It allows the teacher to request a drop and send invites out to qualified teachers. The substitution requests are then available to other teachers to accept or decline. When a class drop... Read more →

Welcome to Kareo, a new Supporting Member of the OC Startup Council! Kareo is the only cloud-based complete medical technology platform purpose-built to meet the unique needs of independent practices in more than 45 specialties. A medical technology platform that helps independent practices run efficiently and be more profitable. Kareo helps independent practices find more patients, manage their care and... Read more →

OCTANe LaunchPad Raises Record Capital in First Half of 2019 OCTANe LaunchPad and Alumni Companies have set a record high capital raise in the first half of 2019. With over $306.7M raised so far, this 6-month period has exceeded any prior full year’s raise. Last year, OCTANe reported a record $297.3M for the full year. These LaunchPad Alumni Companies are... Read more →