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Portfolio companies are Client Companies that have received a significant investment from
Advanced Automation Consulting (AAC) is an information technology services company helping organizations improve performance through the innovative application of technology. AAC currently services clients throughout the state from their headquarters at 7891 Broad River Road in Irmo.
Argolyn Bioscience is a privately held biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering and developing novel peptide drug candidates to treat psychosis, pain, and other serious diseases and disorders. Its most advanced development candidate is ABS201, a first-in-class peptide derivative currently in preclinical development for the treatment of schizophrenia.
CIVISonline Inc., a software and services company, offers tools and technology for major news media to enhance audience interactivity and “citizen journalism." It’s marketplace is among the 13,500 daily newspapers and television station that stretch across the United States and the world. CIVISonline provides these media outlets with tools to promote a new interactive model, a civic ‘MySpace’, that will change the global media market.
Climax Global Energy is commercializing waste-to-fuel technology that converts non-recyclable plastic waste into synthetic crude oil. Climax’s initial market focus is on the processing of waste plastics to sell its products, namely synthetic crude and diesel-range commodities, directly to refineries and fuel terminals with an efficient, safe, environmentally friendly and highly profitable process. Climax’s strong management team has over 50 years of combined industry experience and is led by an MIT trained engineer.
CreatiVasc Medical is a Greenville, SC-based company that was founded in 2004 to deliver a stream of innovative, easy-to-use and intuitive vascular technologies that address the universal problems of kidney dialysis connectivity. The dialysis field has seen little innovation over the last 40 years and CreatiVasc devices are designed to provide innovative solutions that dramatically improve dialysis patients’ quality of life. CreatiVasc’s Hemoaccess Valve System was recognized by the History Channel in 2006 as one of the five winners of their Innovation of the Year award, out of 4,000 entries.
DigitalDerm is addressing melanoma skin cancer rates, which continue to rise nationally and worldwide. DigitalDerm’s MoleMapCD® service and technology provides a self-contained and easy-to-use cutaneous baseline imaging product enabling both the physician and patient the ability to identify melanoma changes as they occur. Utilizing two prior capital rounds totaling $1.6 million from private investors and SC Launch!, DigitalDerm has established 13 imaging sites throughout 6 states in the southeast, Arizona and Indiana. Leveraging a combined 75 years of management team expertise in the financial, business and medical imaging arenas, the MoleMapCD is now poised to expand nationally and become the “Standard of Care” in early melanoma detection.
Digitalsmiths is the leader in automated video indexing technology. Its patent-pending platform powers search technology behind leading television and film shows as well as groundbreaking disruptive opportunities in the product placement and brand integration industry.
GET Interactive’s innovative advertising model leverages standard practices across media and publishing to enable all online entertainment content accessed on the Internet or mobile devices, to serve as an unrestricted opt-in platform for consumers to immediately discover, identify, browse and purchase the products they find desirable. The company delivers a patent-pending, turnkey solution linking a brand's promotion, production placement and ecommerce to deliver a complete customer experience all the way from promotion to purchase.
Innegrity is marketing a high modulus thermoplastic fiber to enhance fiberglass and carbon in performance composite applications.
MedProcure is a software solutions company providing supplies procurement applications for physician offices, surgery centers and nursing homes. By offering a fast yet simple method of managing and ordering all the supplies necessary to run a medical office, MedProcure is linking the supply chain and bringing significant value to manufacturers, distributors, and their customers.
PromoPipeline is a vertical search engine that allows you to search for promotions from vendors and distributors without logging into multiple web sites or finding that elusive promotion email. PromoPipeline lets you locate the promotions you need, when you need them.
Sabal Medical is a medical technology company that provides patent-pending automated medication carts and bar code verification software. Sabal’s medication cart, named Palmetto, helps nurses and pharmacists provide safe care by accessing and administering medicines at the bedside.
Selah Technologies is an advanced materials company focused on the development of nanotechnology enabled products for the biomedical and consumer electronics industries. Selah has two patent pending platform technologies. Selah Dots™, brightly luminescent carbon nanoparticles, and uses Selah Tubes™, enriched single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Q Tires is a tire company that is creating Celsius, the first and only all-weather tire with retractable studs. Q Tires has developed this patented all-weather tire technology for autos and trucks. Celsius technology enables studs to be extended from the surface of the tire in snow and ice, yet lie below the tread when not required. Celsius tires with retractable studs alleviate extensive road damage caused by permanent studs, and improve safety in all weather conditions. Celsius is the long awaited solution to challenging weather conditions.
Vigilix ITM is designed to monitor systems around the clock, providing real-time systems event management . Business critical systems are ‘watched’ 24/7, support related information is captured and recorded and high priority notifications are issued. The goal is to keep you informed at all times. Vigilix ITM is designed to be simplicity yet powerful. You simply install the software agent and select from a list of pre-defined monitoring templates. From then on, Vigilix ITM watches for something to happen. The moment something you defined as interesting occurs, Vigilix ITM logs the information and, if critical, let's you know via your cell phone, email or pager. All the information is available to you, 24/7, through an easy to use web interface. And, if it makes sense, you can even have Vigilix ITM try to fix the problem for you. Each step of the way it’s your choice. You’re in total control.
Zipit is a portable Instant Messenger device that connects to 802.11b/g wireless home networks or free "hotspots" and enables users to chat with no monthly service fee. "Supporting the most popular instant messaging services, Zipit is an ideal solution that allows kids to chat with their friends without tying up the family PC or running up unwanted mobile text messaging charges," said Frank Greer, CEO and President of Zipit Wireless, developer of the product.
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