Optivia Medical is a company focused on developing and commercializing unique patented products for the practice of endoscopic medicine. Optivia’s vision is to create the next generation microendoscopy system from this technology platform. The initial products to be commercialized are a multiple port introducer and steerable working channel compatible for use with existing hysteroscopes. Concurrently, the Company is also developing a visually guided stepped dilator that greatly facilitates higher risk dilatations of the cervix.

The Sandbox Learning Company is a web-based publisher of education materials for parents and professionals working with children with autism spectrum disorders. Currently, the company produces customizable stories on social and daily living skills as well as materials for data collection to monitor progress. The Sandbox Learning Company has a number of free resources such as a special education dictionary, information on lending libraries, and links to other helpful resources. The company’s goal is to be a comprehensive educational resource for parents and professionals and it is continually developing new products and materials.

ALGAEN Corporation, a biotechnology company exploring microalgae to develop leading edge products for nutraceutical, pharmaceutical and biofuel applications. The company vision is to leverage its product development capabilities and innovative manufacturing technologies to commercialize microalgae-based high-value products for human health, nutrition and energy needs.

SourceHorizon, Inc. is a B2B development company that has produced and launched the SourceAuthority.com marketplace to offer a full range of procurement services through which manufacturers may acquire materials more efficiently. SourceAuthority.com supports purchasing goals by providing audited information on regional and national suppliers through its proprietary technology. This creates highly competitive bidding environments while simultaneously augmenting buyer resources with project management and engineering support services.

Sensory Analytics ( SA ) is a ‘New’ Company built on more than twenty years of innovative measurement & control experience. The company possesses technology for the non destructive, non-contact and highly precise thickness measurement area which include:

• - Non contact color, gloss and appearance control
• - Non contact optical thickness measurement and control
• - Non contact RF thickness measurement and control

The company’s patented information technology solutions increase manufacturing yields and reduce costs. SA owns a portfolio of proven applications designs and systems which have generated demonstrable results and blue chip success stories.

Onconix, Inc. has an exclusive sublicense from Bio-White Diagnostics, LLC (Columbia, SC) and the Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC) to market a simple blood test (named the CSATM or Cervical Specific AntigenTM test) that overcomes the deficiencies of the Pap smear test. Like the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test for prostate cancer, the CSATM blood test provides an accurate, affordable, convenient, easy-to-use detection method for early stage cervical cancer. Given its high accuracy and ease of use CSATM should gain rapid acceptance and may have the potential to eventually supplant the Pap smear test.

A medical device development company that actively factors cost management into its innovations. C Change Biosciences Inc develops clinical devices filtered through an economic lens. The company adds functions that will improve clinical performance to solve clinical problems for hospital customers while at the same time lowering usage costs and waste. In addition the company reduces inventory requirements that will benefit the purchasing supply chain.

Live Cargo, Inc. is a leading secure messaging software company with proprietary and patent-pending software designed for secure electronic transfer of digital media and information. The company possesses technology that is both horizontal and vertical market specific.

X1 Communications is a wireless Internet service provider (WISP) that has built a wireless infrastructure that can service the Piedmont Triad market. The company’s technology is based on a fixed wireless and based on the IEEE 802.16 standard. Radio communications systems using this standard are referred to as WiMax which allows WISPs to build data delivery systems that can deliver high bandwidth data communications for customers.

TIVO/DVR are dramatically changing the traditional ad revenue models by allowing users to bypass current product commercials. Product placement is moving to unique new areas such as product integration with the show, storyline or character. GET Interactive has designed and developed a system that allows consumers to identify and purchase items seen on television or broadband broadcast shows. The company’s ability to make this available exponentially expands product placement opportunities and provides multiple new revenue streams to networks.

Bioptigen has developed an OCT ( Optical Coherence Tomography ) Microscope for high-throughput in vivo, real time, two and three dimensional imaging of emerging very small animal models. The OCT Microscope couples a proprietary OCT engine to a custom lateral beam scanning capability. The OCT engine is the optical heart and signal processing brain of the system and integrates a proprietary spectral imaging system to an all fiber interferometer with no moving parts.

The resources necessary to transform a medical device concept into a commercially viable reality are enormous. Appropriate funding in addition to Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) experience, engineering and rapid prototyping are essential in order to have any reasonable chance for success. To this end, SpringMed Group is a medical device business accelerator that has been designed and organized around core competencies that will substantially improve the development time line and successful launch of new and innovative medical devices.

DENTAL SAFE, INC

Dental Safe, Inc. is a dental products company that has developed and successfully tested a nanotech based consumer product that will be used to sterilize dentures.  Using a similar technique to Polident or Efferdent tablets, the Dental Safe wafer will be placed in a container with the denture and will provide true sterilization within a matter of a few minutes.  The currently available tablets only clean the surface of a denture but make no claims about eliminating all bacteria present in a denture.  The denture market consists of 60M units in the U.S. and growing at the rate of 2M per year and projected to continue at this rate for the next 10 years.

CRE8 3D FILMS

A Winston Salem, NC based LLC single purpose company created to develop, fund and produce a full length, G rated animated film ( MAGISTICAL ). This 90 minute feature film was completed in the fall of 2007 and is in the process of being distributed in the US market.