New York 2016

Class of 2016

acuteiq.com San Francisco, CA

acuteIQ

Ian Foley Founder/CEO

Larry Crawford Business Development

acuteIQ is a customer acquisition platform that uses artificial intelligence and predictive modeling. The company is initially targeting the enterprise lending market, providing an auction-based platform that helps commercial brokers predict merchants that might need a business loan. The patent-based technology is based on 2 years of data modeling, business profitability and a proven 4x conversion rate; working with 24 clients (eg. Transamerica).

Customer acquisition powered by artificial intelligence

Alpha Exchange

Alex Santos Co-founder/CTO

Emma Margetts Co-founder/CEO

Scott Winship Co-founder

Alpha-Exchange.com London UK

The first open financial communications network and knowledge exchange

Alpha Exchange is the first open communications network and knowledge exchange for the capital markets community. This platform aims to transform the way institutional participants interact, share knowledge and discover investment insight.

Alpha Exchange helps investors cut through market noise to deliver intelligence that drives better-informed investment decisions

This network connects buy-side investors, sell-side brokers, independent research providers, investor relations, internal colleagues, industry specialists and thought leaders in an online platform for investment insight.

Chroma

chroma.fund Portland, OR

A new securities exchange for the private market economy

Chroma.fund is the marketplace lending platform for impact investing. In addition to full support for impact metrics, Chroma.fund’s loan data schema is infinitely extensible, which allows anyone to create a new credit model. By allowing user-defined risk models to compete and learn together — using rich data from real small business loans — Chroma has built a new kind of financial market.

Marcus Estes Co-founder/CEO

Mike Merrill Co-founder/COO

Leif Shackelford Co-founder/CTO

Adam Wong Full-Stack Engineer

Create

create.io Washington, D.C.

Stefan Martinovic CEO/Co-founder

Ed Switzer COO/Co-founder

Laura Ferguson CTO/Co-founder

Smart 3D map packed with data about cities & the property market

Create is a smart 3D map packed with data that empowers rapid search, analysis, and collaboration for real estate and economic development professionals. Create distills millions of data points from local, federal, state, and private organizations to automate countless hours of research and deliver property & city level insights in a single click. Create's offers the highest resolution photorealistic maps of cities available in the world, providing an unprecedented immersive virtual environment for easily exploring the myriad complexities of the property market.

John Zemlan VP of Product

ERNIT

ernit.com Copenhagen, Denmark

Søren Nielsen CEO/Co-founder

Thomas Bjerring COO/Co-founder

The world's first smart piggy bank

ERNIT is the world's first smart piggy bank. The app and IoT piggy bank work in tandem to empower children with essential lifelong skills about money in a digital age. Through a two sided portal, ERNIT features a system where parents can help children spend, save and donate.

Mads Tagel CXO/Co-founder

Amandeep Midha Lead Developer

MortyMorty is a modern, online, fully-digital mortgage platform for home buyers

morty.co New York, NY

Morty is an online mortgage platform built for the next generation of home buyers who want a simple, modern, high-tech, and self-empowering experience. Morty’s mission is to help every home buyer find the right mortgage from the right lender at the best price. We achieve that goal by building a full-stack technology platform for loan origination, in-house mortgage experts for education and support, a network of lenders to provide lending capital, and a consumer-friendly brand for achieving scale and network effects.

Brian Faux Co-founder/CEO

Adam Rothblatt Co-founder/CTO

Sarah Thomas Co-founder/COO

Nora Apsel Co-founder/Engineer

painless1099.com Buffalo, NY

Painless1099Smart, automated banking to help freelancers save cash for tax season

Painless1099 helps independent contractors (think: freelance designers and real estate agents) save for tax season. Through a smart bank account, Painless1099 automatically withholds taxes based on user information and then deposits what is safe to spend directly to a user’s personal checking account. This allows contractors to focus on the work they know while automating savings and avoiding an unexpected bill from the IRS during tax season.

Ace Callwood Co-founder/

CEO

Justin Kauszler

Co-founder/Head of Product

Matt Russo

Co-Founder/Product Architect

Charles Merritt

COO

PierceMatrix

Roy Stephan Founder/CEO

PierceMatrix.com Washington, D.C.

Using artificial intelligence to optimize security and threat intelligence

PierceMatrix improves your company security by identifying and orchestrating the removal of hackers from your network. It looks at events on the network and provides recommendations and orchestration to increase security. This program uses an artificial intelligence engine that was first used by DARPA and the US military along with a proprietary knowledge base of global malicious actors. There are thousands of companies using PierceMatrix and contributing to its network today.

StackSourceStackSource is the online marketplace for commercial real estate debt capital

StackSource.co New York, NY

Tim Milazzo Co-founder/CEO

Nathan Wall Co-founder/CTO

StackSource is a new online platform for arranging capital for commercial real estate projects. Commercial mortgage brokers and owners of commercial real estate use the platform to efficiently market deals to lenders and negotiate the best financing package. Lenders use the marketplace to discover new, high-quality deal flow.

Richard Santhouse Co-founder

WindrushData-driven story telling for digital reports

Max Walker

Co-founder/CEO

Mark Morrison Co-founder/

COO

Riley Alsman

Co-founder/Sales & Support

Windrush.org Saratoga Springs, NY

Windrush is taking cutting edge data visualization tools and putting them in the hands of analysts everywhere. By allowing the creation of live-updating interactive charts from directly in Excel, we make your analysts more productive and produce higher quality reports. With our model and visualization versioning we allow you to track your data’s audit trail, and make your compliance team happy.

Taylor Zorman

Sales Manager

Aaron Osher

Marketing Lead