Members

Capital Entrepreneurs members are part of the growing startup community in Madison, Wisconsin.  This is a partial list of the 100+ Capital Entrepreneurs member companies. If you would like to contact any of these entrepreneurs for any reason, please use our contact form and we will connect you.

Justin Beck & Forrest Woolworth – PerBlue is a privately held mobile and social gaming software company based in Madison, WI. Founded in 2008, we are a growing team of young and energetic engineers, artists, designers and business specialists. PerBlue makes games for iOS and Android platforms, and has over 1 million players worldwide.

Chris Meyer - Sector67 is a start up TechShop / Hacker space / Makerspace / Collaborative Environment in Madison, WI dedicated to providing members the opportunity to work on tomorrow’s technology; to build, collaborate, learn, and teach about next generation devices.

Matt Younkle, Preston Austin, and Steve Faulkner – Murfie is part marketplace, part community; an online music service for your CD collection. As a Murfie member, buy, sell, and trade albums with other members. Download any album in your Murfie collection in the digital format of your choice, including lossless formats. All CDs in our inventory are stored at our headquarters in Madison, WI

Scott Resnick – Hardin Design & Development is a boutique technical development firm in Madison, Wisconsin focused on creating a diverse array of Internet content. At the forefront of “Web 2.0″ trends such as interconnectivity and interactive content, the company creates applications for websites, mobile operating systems, social-networking sites, and widgets.

Bradley Grzesiak & Stephen Anderson – Bendyworks is a software firm focusing on mobile and web application development. We deliver value constantly with a unique process that allows our clients to manage and direct their project at all times.

Mark McGuire, Greg Kaldor, and Enrique Barreira – Alice.com is an open, online retail platform for consumer packaged goods, focused primarily on linking manufacturers of essential household stuff like tooth brushes, toilet paper, trash bags etc. to end consumers directly.

Daniel Neely & Brian Johnson – Networked Insights builds software tools that analyze the social web to help advertisers and marketers make better strategic and tactical decisions. We’re not just interested in the loudest voice in the room and tracking the things you already know. We listen to the silent majority (in addition to the vocal minority) and uncover concepts that you might never be aware of.

Greg Tracy – Asthmapolis is dedicated to improving the management of asthma for patients and healthcare professionals. Asthmapolis is using inhaler sensors, mobile applications, advanced analytics and feedback to help physicians identify those patients who need more help controlling the disease before they suffer a severe and costly exacerbation.

Dale Emmons – Vidmaker is a TechStars company that provides a cloud-based video editor that lets users work with video on any device, anywhere and with anyone. It simplifies video management, editing and collaboration by storing all video data in the cloud while providing Google Docs style real time collaboration and GitHub style project management and reuse.

Heidi Allstop – SPILL, or Supporting Peers in Laid-back Listening, is a peer-based online support network by and for UW students that provides a confidential, student-based “venting outlet” where they can write in about issues they want to get off of their chests.  We connect them with other students who have dealt with that specific issue, providing the “spiller” with support, feedback, and resources for dealing with that specific issue.

Nathan Lustig & Jesse Davis – Entrustet is a free online service that allows you to securely list all of your digital assets, which are online accounts and files on your computer, and decide if you’d like them transferred to heirs or deleted when you pass away.

Ash Gupta & Jonathan Baran – HealthFinch is a Health 2.0 startup out of Madison, WI focusing on developing applications to help patients with chronic diseases manage their treatments more effectively. HealthFinch is driven by a goal to improve patient lives and ultimately improve the long term outlook for those living with chronic conditions. HealthFinch was founded by Ash Gupta and Jonathan Baran in early August 2009.

Claus Moberg – SnowShoe is a Madison, WI startup that makes the SnowShoe Stamp – an insanely intuitive, inexpensive and indestructible way for smartphones to authenticate real-world interactions. A simple touch of the SnowShoe Stamp to the screen of a person’s smartphone proves that the phone’s owner is in a specific location, at a specific time, and is interacting with a person or system in an authenticated way.

Matt Ford – WomStreet.com is a Social Media hub that hosts contests. They’ve deemed themselves the social stage. They create the contests-typically focused around businesses & events-where anyone can submit content, anyone can vote, and anyone can win. The site acts as a powerful marketing tool for companies that want to reach users in a new and creative manner. It allows companies to stay “cool” while reaching lots of people through social media means.

Ben Seigel & Corey Losenegger – MusiciansConnect is a musicians social network allowing musicians to find each other; find instructors; buy and sell gear; connect with area resources like stores, studios and rehearsal space.

Aaron Larner & Pitt Fagan – Style Shuffler gives you personalized clothing suggestions based on what we learn about your style. All you have to do is tell us a couple things that you like.

Max Lynch & Ben Sperry – Codiqa is the premier prototyping and interface-building tool for jQuery Mobile. Codiqa lets you rapidly turn your mobile web or native app vision into reality.

Mark Olschesky & Dan Wilson – Moxe wants every patient to receive the best care, regardless of where they live or their ability to pay. We’re dreamers focused on the perfect state and we spend our days doing everything possible to make it a reality. Our mission has us focusing on patient-centered primary care. We know that lowering costs and improving quality is doable and we’re creating an enterprise platform to help provider and payor organizations excel in a system moving away from Fee-for-Service care.

Lucas Dailey – Our Ballot Box is where you vote on the issues. It’s a constituent communication and polling site that answers the most basic question in a democracy: What do we want?

Troy Vosseller – Sconnie Nation is student owned and operated t-shirt company producing original apparel celebrating the Wisconsin lifestyle!  Sconnie Nation was founded during the spring of 2004 in our freshmen dorm room  with the goal of spreading Sconnie pride across the country.

Monty Schmidt – Sonic Foundry is the developer of the most trusted video management platform for academic, enterprise and event webcasting. Our first products were groundbreaking software applications that let the average person with a PC manipulate digital audio and video. Ten years later, we decided to tackle some bigger enterprise communication and video content management problems.

Timothy Nott – MobileIgniter is building mobile services aimed at dramatically reducing the cost and time required to put a native business app in the marketplace.

Matt Howard & Eric Martell – EatStreet is a free online ordering service that connects you with food from your favorite local restaurants. With EatStreet you can easily find and order from the best food delivery restaurants in your area. EatStreet was designed as simply as possible to get out of the way of you and your order. By using EatStreet you are only a few clicks away from your next meal.

Ted Gurman – BlueTree Network’s mission is to provide an open environment for customer-consultant engagement. Think of BlueTree as the EHR consulting matchmaker. Our platform offers healthcare organizations and high caliber consultants the unique ability to connect directly with one another, saving both you and your customers precious time and money, while at the same time producing better results and happier consultants. BlueTree Network is not a consulting group, but rather, a tool to match your unique career interests and skills with customers’ specialized projects and needs.

Joel Hestness – 3 Day Startup is an entrepreneurship education program designed for university students with an emphasis on learning by doing. The idea is simple: start tech companies over the course of three days.

Jeremy Hach – Dosojin is a smartphone application that connects travels and local people for in person meetings, via GPS locating, in-app messaging, and geo-tagged videos.

Peter Kostka, Andre Gagnon, and Matt Lea – HypeSpark is a social endorsement marketplace that allows consumers to endorse their favorite brands on ANY link that they share online. HypeSpark partners brands with their most loyal customers to create brand awareness, increase customer traffic and reward those loyal customers with in store credit and deep discounts.

Scott Kohl – Ronin Studios & Consulting designs and builds games for adult learners. The Company uses its specialized expertise in educational game design to create engaging digital applications for corporations and non-profits that enhance participation, learning, and development. Ronin products help enterprises harness the power of game play to achieve goals in the areas of training, recruitment, branding, and education by creating games that help learners apply their knowledge in contextually relevant settings.

Brian Jensen – Fishidy.com is a geo-social network unlike anything else available to anglers today. The application provides the best information, including fishing and waterway maps to outdoor enthusiasts, along with providing a network and technologies for each to share their successes, favorite spots, photos, tools and techniques.

Kevin Conroy – Exact Sciences is a molecular diagnostics company focused on colorectal cancer. The company has exclusive intellectual property protecting its non-invasive, molecular screening technology for the detection of colorectal cancer. Stool-based DNA (sDNA) technology is included in the colorectal cancer screening guidelines of the American Cancer Society and the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer.

Laura Strong – Quintessence Biosciences, Inc. is a private, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel anti-cancer compounds based on our patented EVade™ Ribonuclease technology. Our most advanced lead candidate has shown efficacy in models of a variety of tumor types including: colon, non-small cell lung, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancer. A Phase 1 clinical trial is ongoing.

Patrick Heaney – NCD Technologies was founded by Dr. Patrick Heaney, commercializing his UW Madison Materials Science PhD research of Nanocrystalline Diamond (NCD) Coatings. NCD is a platform technology which improves small device and part functions by decreasing the power required for and wear of any moving part. NCD’s unique processes allow the creation of thinner, more uniform coatings with significantly improved adhesion.

Jason Oliver – Faculte is a cloud based platform for the easy creation of online elearning and presentations videos. By combining powerpoints, images, documents and videos and then applying narration and annotation, the output is a dynamic and interactive online video presentation or class. The cost of creation is significantly less than video production. We facilitate the monetization, tracking and management of the online videos to provide an end to end online platform for creation, distribution and management of online classes and presentations.

Ben Landau – The Madison Fund, Inc. (“TMF”) is a non-profit micro lender based in Madison, Wisconsin. TMF was organized in order to improve the economic and financial conditions of small businesses and low-income entrepreneurs in the Madison, Wisconsin area and to provide these business owners with safe and affordable capital for their business activities. These loans are aimed at borrowers with little or no collateral, credit, income and resources. TMF also aims to fund and enable businesses that have a larger sustainable and “green” impact in the community.

Michael Fenchel – 7cees is a start-up based out of a mobile collaboration studio that travels around the country inspiring people to unleash their creative passion in ways that enhance their community. The venture is an exploration of creative evolution, and is dedicated to helping people support themselves through doing what they love.

Cody Candee & Tim Kessler – Badger Innovations is an entirely student run business focused on providing local small businesses as well as orginizations on campus with professional quailty websites. We are also providing student employees with the opportunity to gain real world experience.

Justin Sisley – ScooterCabs is Madison’s premier designated driver service. Our drivers arrive on a folding motor scooter, store it in the trunk, and drive you home in your own car.

Greg Shives – High Iron Studios is a small, independent game developer that creates amazing gameplay experiences to entertain mobile and PC game audiences throughout the world.

Bob Baddelay and Perry Sieber – Portable Scores has built a connected portable electronic scoreboard and timer, named the DigiTally. Now athletes and spectators can watch recreational sports and know what the score is, how much time is left, AND share it all online.

Brad Orego – Trinker is a free app that helps you party with your Buddies anywhere in the world – whether they’re across the street or across the globe. Stop running around and sending endless text messages to track people down. Trinker provides a live feed so you know if you’re rocking out or missing out. By keeping track of everyone – where they are, what they’re doing, and who they’re with – Trinker helps you create and share experiences centered on social drinking.

Chris Johnson – Pilot Training System is a software package conceived through academic research funded by the Federal Aviation Administration to make flying safer and training more affordable. It will serve as a one-stop, flight-training resource and platform technology featuring a weather-simulation engine that uses archived weather data to drive weather simulation in existing software platforms.

Christopher Beley – Flextory is an easy to use web-based data management system for inventory, personnel, libraries, research data, or just about anything else.

Lydie Hudson – MapWise Software, LLC brings visualization to trademark management, giving corporations a dynamic worldview of where their brands are legally protected. MapWise helps corporations cost-effectively and reliably manage their trademark assets.

Ben Raboine – Optimal Media Group LLC licenses “NightOut” sites such as http://www.RockfordNightOut.com to one person per city. These sites are targeting people looking for something to do that night in their city including Dining, Bars, Entertainment, Bands, and Accommodations.

Paul Pucci – Flatt Cola is an Energy Cola company based in Madison, WI made with all natural sugar, vitamin C, and extra caffeine.  A beverage with a sarcastic brand image, Flatt Cola’s tagline is Everyday World Domination.  Flatt can be found at Metcalfe’s Sentry in Hilldale, Woodman’s East and West, Steve’s Liquor on University, and the Old Fashioned, with new locations being added daily.  Try it out, its pretty tasty.

Jeremy Shafton – Door-6 is developing the next generation of mobile games, delivering unparalleled gaming experiences on phones and tablets. Founded in 2009 by 3 UW-Madison Graduates, Door 6 was a finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge 2 and released the first Android game to reward the best users with cash prizes.

Heather Wentler – Fractal is a Challenged Based enrichment program geared towards Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) achievement for children. Through our programming, participants will build foundational knowledge for success in their educational pursuits; as well as self confidence, team work abilities, and communication skills necessary for professional development. Currently we are based out of Sector67.

Michael Bright – WAE2 is an early stage research, science and technology company. We explore over 50 fields including cognitive neuroscience to better understand human performance. We are developing new methods to accelerate entrepreneurs. We support and conduct scientific research which helps us better understand the brian and entrepreneurship.

Tyler Leeper – ProactiCare, LLC is a service technology company focused on the prevention of pressure ulcers and falls through patient monitoring. The company’s product, The CareMetric System, monitors patients in bed and provides critical care alerts to nursing staff and administrators to assist in assuring the highest quality of patient care.

Sarah Manski – PosiPair is a web service that bridges the gap between green business and green consumers. We’re building a virtual green trade show that provides businesses with online profiles, the ability to pair with business partners, highlight their eco-labels, and use a shopping cart for direct sales. PosiPair lets consumers review businesses and products, set up personal profile pages, and search different green characteristics.

Tyler Leeper – Wingra Boats is public small boat marina that offers a rental fleet of over 100 boats that includes canoes, kayaks, paddle boats, and sailboats. We also offer a small boat marina, windsurfing and sailing lessons, kids day camps, and family memberships. Wingra Boats operates at two locations at 824 Knickerbocker Street off Monroe Street and now at Vilas Beach.