Companies We’ve Funded
Innovation Catalyst seeks to broaden Louisiana’s entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in start-up companies with high growth potential, in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or preferably both, a solid management team, a good business model and a potential exit within five years.
Arix Technologies
Arix is an integrated robotics & data analytics company that delivers inspection services through innovative robotics platforms
Aura Advertising
Auroa provides digital Out of Home (OOH) Advertising via a display monitor that is secured to the top of vehicles.
Certification Connect
It is a platform that connects companies with training providers. Companies get the training they need, with fast and reliable point and click scheduling. E.g., Training in CPR, Ethics, Workplace Harassment, Background checks, Drug Testing, etc.
DAWn Audio
DAWn Audio facilitates creative freedom in the music industry through its network of tools and artists. It does this by providing compatibility between the Digital Audio Workstations (DAW’s), which now allow musicians to effectively collaborate with one another.
Dinner Lab
Dinner Lab (the “Company”) is a New Orleans based Louisiana Corporation that provides a membership-based social dining experience that unites undiscovered chefs and nontraditional dining venues with adventurous diners who are looking for something different from the traditional restaurant experience. Event cuisine venues and patrons are dept constantly in flux, so each Dinner Lave event is truly a unique affaire.
Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc.
Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc. is developing the first medication, EMB-001, that treats addiction by targeting the stress activity and response system in the patient’s body. EMB-001 combines two FDA-approved drugs to address different aspects of the physiological stress response. The medication alleviates the three major causes of addiction relapse: stress-induced, cue-induced, and drug-induced. Embera NeuroTherapeutics is helping patients struggling with addiction to improve their quality of life and remain abstinent.
FollowMyCal
FollowMyCal is a calendar platform that makes planning personal, professional, and social events seamless. Users can link their Google, iCal and Exchange calendars to the platform and have information pulled from those platforms to FollowMyCal or vice versa. Users can find public calendars that interest them on the discover page and add the event information from those calendars to their personal calendar or share the information with others. Users can create public calendars and do the same. Users can create private calendars (i.e. family, business, friends, etc.) that only the users within that calendar can see its contents.
Glass Half Full
Glass Half Full picks up and has glass delivered to its Material Recovery Facility (MRF), where it is processed and recycled and then the end-product is sold.
Iconic Moments
Iconic Moments is the first NFT marketplace for 450,000 historical and cultural heritage institutions around the globe. The sustainable model for preservation of culture and history was inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on museum closures. By the end of 2020, it was predicted that 33% of world’s cultural institutions would close permanently. Iconic Moments made these institutions less dependent on in-person visitor experiences by joining the permanence of blockchain technology and the industry’s dedication to preservation through NFTs to drive revenue and bring museums’ exhibits to life. A high-quality, limited-edition NFT inspired by artifacts and vaults from the world’s top museums is released each week, and each purchase helps to support cultural institutions while preserving the image forever on the blockchain.
Indie Plate
Indie Plate is an internet-based Food and Logistics business that operates an online farmer’s market/grocery store that delivers raw groceries, meal kits and prepared meals directly to consumers. It also operates a wholesale distribution business that distributes raw groceries to local restaurants.
Juicebox
Juicebox is a mobile platform for sexual wellness that provides users with expert information and community, and provides sexual health companies with a specific, safe channel to reach their audience.
Kinesics
Kinesics, a musculoskeletal risk management company centered around a health technology software solution, is focused on being the preeminent prevention and prediction platform for musculoskeletal risk in patients, athletes, clients and employees.
Lubricity Labs
Lubricity Labs was the winner of the BREW pitch competition and has a great story: What does a single father do when his 11-year-old daughter has unruly, frizzy hair and current salon treatments contain dangerous ingredients? When that father has a PhD in Biogeochemistry, he learns everything he can about the biology and chemistry of hair and creates an innovative line of hair care products that prevent frizz, add shine, softness, and manageability.
Mastery Prep
Mastery Prep develops, markets, and sells a proprietary ACT® test prep curriculum targeted to public and private schools and school districts throughout the United States.
MobileQubes
MobileQubes provides a network of freestanding self-service kiosks that dispense MobileQubes portable battery packs (“Qubes”) for cord-free smartphone charging while “on the go.” Unlike many tethered charging stations, the MobileQubes kiosk offers consumers a convenient, rapid, secure, and reliable mobile phone charging experience.
Omnidek
Omnidek’s platform eliminates paper, files, folders, spreadsheets and the need for multiple apps and replaces them with electronic forms, chat and real-time data sharing and analytics. It’s intranet/extranet portal platform allows a Company to securely link with its employees, customers, vendors, etc., thereby creating a single platform enabling all stakeholder to #DoWorkTogether.
ParkZen
ParkZen’s mission is to help people locate available parking and organizations and enterprises optimize their parking operations at a fraction of the cost of other solutions available. The iOS and Android application provides real-time data to its users about parking availability and other data-driven parking analytics.
Pass It Down
Pass It Down is an interactive digital storytelling platform that provides users with a multitude of award-winning storytelling templates and products. Libraries, museums, well-established corporations, families, etc. all can benefit from converting their videos, photos, audio, text and PDFs into an interesting and engaging exhibit that brings any content to life. Pass It Down’s cloud-based platform allows any exhibit creation to be published instantly and anywhere. The platform scales each exhibit to any phone, tablet, computer or touchscreen to have consistent story telling on any device.
PatentDive
PatentDive has a web based interface that aligns aspects of game based learning, semantic learning, and patent law to solve the most time intensive step of patent application drafting: the invention disclosure; it also educates users on the patent process. Users create highly detailed disclosures with a drag-and drop interface. Users can then quickly upload, dissect, and label drawings and models of inventions. Once complete, users receive a USPTO-compliant application in PDF form.
Precision Payment Systems
Precision Payment Systems is a woman owned financial service company that offers companies that accept credit cards a way to analyze and improve the efficiency of their credit card payment systems by offering appropriately matched services to their business type and throughput from the many available processing centers.
Quarrio
Quarrio is a natural language interface to databases that lets user’s type questions and get answers instantaneously - with auto-generated graphs or charts and with the ability to ask follow-up questions. Quarrio allows non-technical, non-data savvy users to quickly find information and analyze data in structured and semi-structured databases.
RentCheck
RentCheck is a simple property management platform that is designed to save time on performing inspections. RentCheck allows anyone to perform inspections whether it is property owners, property managers, or residents. The application guides the user throughout the inspection process by prompting exactly what to take photos of and rating their condition. Whoever performs the inspection signs off on the final submission to state that they have completed the inspection accurately and honestly at that location. The status of all outstanding inspections and completed inspections are kept in a clear and concise user dashboard that contains all necessary details of each location.
Research Defender
Research Defender provides a secure platform to assist clients in ensuring a healthy, clean and efficient ecosystem in the research industry by eliminating fraudulent traffic and protecting high quality transactions. The platform protects users from click farms, sample fraud and professional survey takers with five distinct products: /SEARCH, /ACTIVITY, /REVIEW, /VERIFY and /PREDUPE.
Scholar’s First
Scholar’s First is a school bus transportation company providing services to Charter Schools in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans market.
SellSwipe
SellSwipe combines proprietary software, cellular location services, mobile advertising tools, social media networks, and data analytics into a powerful platform that places SellSwipe at the center of the emerging trends in consumer buying, advertising and retailing.
SmartPak
SmartPak is revolutionizing the packaging industry for beer and soft drink bottles. They have combined the functionality of a “koozie,” with standard 4 and 6 pack carrying cases. The key benefits are that the beer stays cooler, even after you pull apart the individual koozie, and there is less bottle breakage during shipping.
Something Borrowed Blooms
Something Borrowed Blooms is a Lafayette, LA-based company that specializes in the rental of flowers and floral arrangements for weddings and special events. These flowers/arrangements are made from silk and other raw materials that allow them to look like traditional flowers, while costing considerably less than the real thing.
SUDS
Suds is the developer and marketer of an on-demand mobile software application that connects Wash & Fold and Dry Cleaning provides with Residential and Commercial clients.
Swaybox Studios
Swaybox Studios has developed several groundbreaking processes, techniques and technologies that enable them to create incredibly powerful animated films in less time and with less costs by combining the best aspects of computer generated animation, stop motion animation and various forms of traditional puppetry. The company’s technology enables them to create puppets with fully articulated facial features (eyelids, eyebrows, moving pupils) and pair them with full body puppetry that can be filmed from any angle.
Team Factor Sports
Team Factor Sports is an application that provides trackable and repeatable athletic training for coaches and athletes to achieve higher athletic performance. The app allows the user to tailor each training program for each athlete based upon their skill level, necessary nutrition, and other important performance metrics. The app keep kids involved and engaged in sports, accelerates their performance, and improves the training methods used by their coaches on and off the field.
TrayAway
TrayAway provides a new and unique in-room service experience for hotel guests by having their finished trays or trolley retrieved from their room without placing a phone call to the hotel staff. With TrayAway, your service experience is simple and convenient with hotel hallways spotless without dirty trays outside of each door. Once the guest finishes their meal, they simply click a button that notifies hotel staff that their tray or trolley is ready for retrieval, and TrayAway ensures this process is completed within company standard time. Hotel staff can also track all trays and trolleys through a convenient mobile app.
WAITR
WAITR is a mobile order management cloud platform that connects restaurants to customers via ordering, special offers, social engagement and CRM, and provides insights and analytics to restaurant management. The platform allows customers to pay on their smart phone for carryout, delivery or dine-in.