2018

The Angel Venture Forum will look at a variety of industries, stages and geography. Our interests are varied and will look at both tech and non-tech companies in health care, healthcare services, medical devices, clean tech, gaming, mobile, internet and web services, software, hardware and more. The AVF Showcase is the culmination of three months of screening, education, networking, mentoring, guidance and due dilligence (by both the company on the investors and the investors on the companies). Through this unique relationship-based process, we have found that AVF is more efficient in soft circling an appropriate round of active angel investors for the best and brightest companies.  

Please see the list of companies selected for previous showcases:    

2015 AVF Showcase Presenting Companies

 

Barkly, Washington, DC 

Clear Guide Medical, Baltimore, MD

DeadRinger, Washington, DC

Englue, San Diego CA

FelixFido, Washington, DC

Forest Devices, Pittsburgh, PA

GoodShuffle, Washington, DC

Griot Inc, Falls Church, VA

HRM, Millersville, MD

NVICTA Challenge , Los Angeles, CA

MobilePhire, Washington, DC

PrivacyCheq, York, PA

RedShred, Baltimore, MD

RemitRight, Washington, DC

RoofMonitor, San Antono, TX

Ruvna, Washington, DC

Verb8tm, Columbia, MD

Visidraft, Columbia, MD

WordsLiive, Washington, DC

Zone2, Reston, VA

2014  AVF Showcase Presenting Companies 

2Armadillos Snack Co.
Consumer Products
Washington, DC
Our mission is to help our customers live happier, healthier, and more memorable lives by make snacking delicious, healthy, and convenient. 

3i LLC
Health & Medical 
Germantown, MD 
We accurately identify bacterial pathogens in < 1h without culturing to guide early & right antibiotic decision influencing lives, costs, and antibiotic overuse. 

Bloomery Plantation Distillery, LLC
Consumer Products
Charles Town, WV
With a sweet spin on moonshine, we are the only craft distiller in America whose complete focus is on making a line of all natural, farm-fresh cocktail liqueurs. 
 
Delight Me, Inc.
Internet
Washington, DC
Delight Me's cloud-based coaching and goal attainment platform empowers businesses, individuals, and sponsors to achieve better results in less time.

Eqalix, Inc.
Health & Medical 
Reston, Va
Eqalix, Inc. is a private emerging regenerative medicine company based in Reston, Virginia that is developing a unique plant-protein based nanofiber scaffold for wound dressing and other uses, a small diameter vascular graft and three dimensional tissue scaffolds, each for billion dollar market segments. 
 
eventuosity
Internet
Philadelphia, PA
Eventuosity is the first event planner’s application to successfully bridge the wide event-tech gap between registration and post-event analysis.
 
EventKloud
Internet
Columbia, MD
EventKloud's marketing intelligence software now helps over 25 orgs bring more people to their events by: promoting better, engaging users & tracking what works.

Fliptu
Internet
Los Angeles, CA
Social Hub as a Service. Our SaaS aggregation tech enables any user on any budget to create a social fan page or social hub in 60 seconds.
  
Learnteria
Education 
Washington, DC
We have created Learnteria, the Yelp for the PreK-12 education market, where educators can research, rate and review the resources they use every day.

Linked Senior, Inc. 
Health & Medical 
Washington, DC
Linked Senior is a cloud based dementia and therapy engagement software for the senior housing market.

medMapr
Health & Medical 
San Diego, CA
Connecting healthcare providers with realtime location information on critical medical devices so they can focus on the wellbeing of patients.

North Star Games
Consumer Products
Kensington, MD
Our games are always fun, simple to learn, and bursting with personality. They are created by artists with a lifelong passion for game design.

OmniSpeech LLC
Security/IT
College Park, MD
OmniSpeech develops innovative software solutions that enhance voice quality and speech-enabled technology in communications devices, apps and VoIP platforms. 
  
ProLiVida Biomedical
Health & Medical
Dix Hills, New York
A company founded by women focused on new molecular tests to improve reproductive health. 
 
RYSE Media Group, Inc.
Internet
New York, NY
RYSE is an online community for Multicultural professionals. We Connect, Empower & Celebrate professionals of color via RYSE Connected, RYSE Magazine & RYSE TV.

Savenia LLC
Energy/Environment
Bethesda, MD
Savenia Labs is an independent testing laboratory and information services company that provides energy and environmental impact ratings on popular appliances, electrical products and homes.

SOL VISTA
Energy/Environment
Silver Spring, MD
SOL VISTA reduces utility spend for individual commercial buildings and across entire portfolios.

Speak Agent
Education
Rockville, MD
Speak Agent is a language software company founded in 2011 to serve both educators and learners with high-quality, engaging resources that can be customized to their exact needs.

StormCenter Communications, Inc. 
Security/IT
Halethorpe, MD
StormCenter Communications has evolved from a specialized weather and climate technology communications company to an innovative Cyber and Homeland Security technology development and applications company.

uwannadu
Education
Washington, D.C
Helping match people to careers for a better life using a multimedia and data rich experience.  uwannadu - "It begins and ends with U".

Vericord LLC dba Chexout
Security/IT
Vienna, VA
Chexout automates costly and time consuming health center patient communications with text/email based service.

Vheda Health
Health & Medical
Columbia, MD
Vheda Health's personalized smartphone-based intervention increases compliance by giving unmanaged, chronic populations attention and out of the hospital.
 
Vitus Animal Health
Security/IT
Columbia, MD 

VitusVet is a cloud-based network of Medical Records for pets. 

 2012 AVF Showcase Presenting Companies
 
  • Advance Response. Sea Girt, NJ. The first cloud-based, multi-payer, multi-channel, claim analytics portal, for streamlining medical biller-payer claim resolution.
  • Apps Do Good. Milwaukee, WI. A mobile app marketing network that empowers users to generate revenues for nonprofits simply by downloading participating apps.  
  • Black Duck Industries, Inc. Worcester, MA. Green, clean, energy efficient duct, reducing energy costs by 30%+, reducing carbon emissions by the same amount, and uses recycled plastic
  • Brain Sentry, LLC. Bethesda, MD. Brain Sentry's helmet-mounted sensor detects impacts that could cause a concussion - helping prevent further injury or death.
  • CCC Diagnostics. Baltimore, MD. CCCD has a diagnostic test to determine in advance of therapy which chemotherapy drugs will work against breast cancer.
  • CircleBuilderFranklin, MI. CircleBuilder is a closed loop social network platform that helps orgs better connect & communicate with its members, volunteers & donors
NEWS
December 2012: Received $525,000 investment (Seed B Equity) from Mavrick Capital LTD (New York)
 
  • Cite Bebe, Ltd. Austin, TX. City Bebe's breakthrough, patented child stroller allows parents to carry everything they need, including large bulky items - easily!
  • CORAnet Solutions, Inc. Bethesda, MD. A disruptive dual technology that brings medical records securely to your fingertips through smart phones anytime, anywhere.
  • Cut2It, Inc. Columbia, MD. Cut 2 the important segment of a video and with only few clicks, select, comment using multimedia, markup and share with complete security.
  • Digital Wallet Plus. Vienna, VA. A mobile wallet solution for everyone, your wallet in your phone.
  • Dolly Drive. New York, NY. Time Machine meets MobileMe. Dolly Drive is an award winning Mac focused all-in-one Cloud Storage Solution.
  • E-ISG Asset Intelligence, LLC. Baltimore, MD. Provide more efficient software solution for mid markets to manage equipment and physical asset management. Early stage growth, profitable.
  • ePURCHASINGnetwork LLC. Ashburn, VA. Corporate-Branded intranet marketplaces for Nat'l Chain procurement dept's that accelerate and simplify the purchasing process.  
  • Foodem.com. Baltimore, MD. Foodem is an online trading, business intelligence and process automation solution for the $650B US wholesale food distribution industry.
NEWS 
November 2012: Wins Startup Maryland Pitch Across maryland Fan Favorite Competition with 29K Votes.
August 2012: Receives $75,000 investment from TEDCO to build online wholesale food Portal.
 
  • Guerrilla Mobile, LLC. Pittsburgh, PA. An engagement marketing software company giving local retailers an edge via a platform combining mobile apps, GPS, social media & analytics.
  • H2ope Biofuels, LLC.  Aurora, CO. With its patent pending technology, H2OPE Biofuels projects hydrogen CapEx/OpEx savings will be greater than 50% per unit.
  • HoOdiePet. Milwaukee, WI. Clothing meets Toy, an extra soft cuddly fleece HoOdie w a removable plush toy you can Collect, Trade & Play, go online w your secret code!
NEWS 
December 2012: Hoodie Received the "young inventors award 2012" by TAGIE (ie Hasbro, Mattel, etc) at the Chicago Toy Fair. 

  • Melon. Melon delivers low cost energy efficiency to commercial buildings by leveraging smart meter data, starting with an easy Energy Star score.
NEWS
December 2012: Melon will not be a presenter at AVF12 as the company reports that they have been acquired by Wegowize, a Braintree  MA- based Real Estate management company, which manages 12,000 residential units around Boston and New England. 
 
  • NextGen Medical Systems. Melbourne, FL. NexGen Neuro is an early revenue med-tech seeking $2M for marketing of FDA-cleared devices for direct brain delivery of therapeutics.
NEWS
OCTOBER 2012: NextGen will not be a presenter at AVF12 as the company received the funding they needed prior to AVF.
 
  • Micronic Technologies. Herndon. VA. Cleans water from any source cheaper and more effectively than the competition.
NEWS 
December 2012: Named winner in its category at the 2012 Regional Finals of the Mid-Atlantic region of the Cleantech Open, the worlds largest cleantech accelerator.
 
  • Sensory Analytics. Greensboro, NC. Sensory delivers exclusive thin film and coating measurement systems that immediately improve manufacturing cost, quality and performance.
  • TouchDome LLC. Arlington, VA. The TouchDome watch will be the first high-fashion audio timepiece designed to serve the 22.5 million Americans with low vision.

NEWS

January 2013: Touchdome Kickstarter Campaign. Make a pledge by March 2, 2013 to get a limited edition. Help the company raise $32,500 they need to get off the ground with the Dress Code Watch Collection.

  • Traffic Talk. Great Falls, VA. TrafficTalk helps drivers get where they're going faster, providing access to useful real-time traffic information - without distractions.
  • Trustpages. Bethesda, MD. Mobile and Facebook business cards for local service companies.
  • YOGASMOGA. New York, NY. YOGASMOGA™ is a designer, manufacturer and retailer of Yoga inspired athletic apparel and accessories.
NEWS 
December 2012: YOGA will not be presenting as they have raised a partial round of capital and to focus on sales during the Christmas season. Expect YOGASMOGA to be back soon.

2011 AVF Showcase Presenting Companies
 

3000 BC Home

Amwell Security

Apeliotus

Asius Technologies

Audiodontics

Better Bowls

Biofactura

CityBizList

CloudSolar

FlowPay

Halare

IPGhoster

LapBelt Cinch

Masking Networks

Pilius Energy

PrepayNation

Pure Bang Games

Runa

Seguro Surgical

Servhawk

Social Toaster

Sparkpad

Stabilz Orthopaedics

Tales2Go

Uppidy.com

Urgent.ly

VanGogh Imaging

Veroha

Wellcare

Yorn