Members
Capital Entrepreneurs members are part of the growing startup community in Madison, Wisconsin. This page lists 24 of the 40+ Capital Entrepreneurs member companies. Click on each logo to go directly to each company’s website. If you would like to contact any of the entrepreneurs for any reason, please use our contact form and we will make sure it gets to the right person.
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Justin Beck, Forrest Woolworth - PerBlue is a software startup based in Madison, WI. PerBlue was founded by University of Wisconsin students with their own limited cash. Fueled with the passion to build great products and entertain countless people, we endeavor to change the world by introducing a new genre of mobile gaming and other great software products.
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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.
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Corey Capasso – Add The Flavor created a technology that infuses flavor into plastic. ATF is devoted to the commercial development and marketing of flavored plastic by providing customers with an end-to-end customized solution and business-to-business support.
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Jonathan Rodriguez – Flying Turtle is an environmentally minded kiteboarding product development company, specializing in kiteboarding accessories. We sell direct via our online store and distribute our products to limited retail stores across the country.
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Ryan Paugh – Brazen Careerist exists to give everyone an opportunity to build and nurture a network of trusted peers. Brazen Careerist brings the best of professional networking sites, social networking sites like Facebook and microblogging sites like Twitter into one, cohesive, social media based career management tool. Think of it as a 24-7 virtual networking event, filled with people who can help you get ahead in your career.
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Thomas Carmona – City Dictionary captures city-specific language and culture for cities in the United States. The company relies on submissions from its own user base, which consists of real locals who want to share the neat subtleties of where they’re from.
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Nathan Lustig & Alex Freylikhman – Smoke Skreen is a scientific breakthrough that filters tar from hookah and other water pipe smoke. Simply pour Smoke Skreen’s patented powder directly into the hookah’s water and smoke normally. Smoke Skreen filters 12x more tar than water alone, reducing the harm associated with smoking water pipes, making smoke smoother and less harsh.
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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.
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UlluTek is a “garage phase” startup looking to develop simple green tech
products for consumers and small businesses with a twist. We are giving away
our hardware design with the goal to increase market adoption via derivative
works.
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Dave Kruse & 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.
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Mark Korshak - Project Youthanize is a multimedia organization, which began at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our goal is to engage Millennial youth (16-29 year olds) in today’s most pressing political issues. We produce informative yet entertaining content that seeks to represent the Millennial perspective.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Matt Younkle – Y-Innovation turns raw creativity into refined, marketable products. Our approach strongly emphasizes frequent prototyping and comprehensive international protection of novel breakthroughs via patenting.
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Katie Colbert and Alex Colbert – Sharecipe is a place for people to connect with their friends and family around food to share recipes and cooking tips and tricks. Built for the everyday home cook, Sharecipe brings people together to cook healthy meals by providing inspiration from the people in your life who you know and trust.
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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.
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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.
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Andrew Ferenci – The College Shack is the largest e-commerce retailer of The Game® brand head wear and apparel. Operating since 2006, the company also provides an exclusive custom bar hat service that provides hats to hundred of NCAA college sports teams, the US Navy, prep schools, small companies, and corporate events.
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Daniel Neely – We build 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.
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Brandon Gador & Ted Durkee – Powered Green provides the individual with the opportunity to take environmental action into their own hands by supporting national renewable energy sources. The proceeds from each purchase are directly helping to stop thousands of pounds of CO2.
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Bryon Shannon – Wisconsin Relic is a Midwest lifestyle brand that fuses the fashion expertise of clothing giant American Apparel with unique aspects of Midwest culture. The brand celebrates the work of youth in music, dance, service, activism and other movements that add value to communities they live in. Wisconsin Relic offers trendy premium apparel online and in various botique retail carriers throughout the state of Wisconsin.
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Jason Strutz – Cumulus Code is a web consultancy, specializing in developing web applications for early-stage companies. Let us help you get off the ground.
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Ilya Lichtenstein – Nexus Global is a performance marketing company that is committed to scalable cost-efficient results. By scientifically testing the performance of our campaigns and leveraging technology to automate most mundane tasks, we are able to launch, scale, and optimize PPC, PPV, and CPM campaigns with unparalleled speed, efficiency and profitability.
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Alex Goldstein – Badger Trips is your exclusive source for the unforgettable TrueFan(TM) experience. Anyone can purchase tickets to an away football game, but only we can provide the authentic fan experience that TrueFans crave. Depart from campus and kick back while we take care of everything until your return. Enjoy organized transportation, luxurious hospitality, premier tailgate and post-game parties with specials just for TrueFans.
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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.
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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.
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Nathan Lustig & Jesse Davis – Entrustet is a secure, organizational tool that brings together people like you, estate planning lawyers and the companies that provide online accounts and memberships. Entrustet allows users to maintain a secure portfolio of online assets, nominate heirs and manage asset distribution and deletion after their passing. Entrustet’s wide range of services allow you to organize and decide what happens to your digital assets, before your loved ones or your executor are faced with the unknowns and complexities of protecting your online legacy.
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Tyler Marcus – Gurucampus is an online college news site that gives commentary on the funniest, shocking, and most entertaining college news stories. We take college media to the next level by layering relevant and entertaining student commentary on top of the original content to drive traffic back to the newspapers themselves.
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Max Lynch & Dan Voell – GoBuzz is a web-based business relationship intelligence application. GoBuzz searches breaking news stories for information about user contacts, their respective companies, and their respective interests. Our product will enhance the process of strengthening existing relationships and building new relationships all while closely integrating within the current user business process.
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Jeremy Shafton – Door-6, a start-up mobile software development firm, was organized in June 2009 with the intention to become the global industry leader in mobile phone game development by delivering premium software to the rapidly growing smartphone user base. Our application “Atmosphere: The Training Mission” was a Top 20 finalist in Google’s Android Developer Challenge 2. Our next title, “Vacuum” is nearing its final phases of development and will be released for sale in Q1 2010.”
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John Ballantine – Bevpost.com is a 21st century measured media company built specifically for the Beer, Wine, and Spirits industry. Bevpost fosters relationships between brands and the consumers rewarding loyalty with promotions, discounts and free trips.
