Start-Up Spotlight

Throughout the year, we will highlight those promising companies that have come through our Start-Up Council on their way to launch, profitability and who knows, market dominance.

TripLingo

TripLingo is the only product available at the intersection of travel, TripLingo focuses on what you need when you need it on the device you have with you.  TripLingo launched in May 2011 and was founded by Jesse Maddox.  www.triplingo.com

Guild Quality

Customer satisfaction surveying for homebuilders, remodelers, contractors and real estate companies with commitment to exceptional service.  The best homebuilding and remodeling companies use GuildQuality to receive real-time customer feedback, monitor and improve quality, and articulate that quality for prospective customers.  www.guildquality.com.

Toomah

Toomah, LLC helps customer service organizations improve hiring decisions, reduce recruiting costs and increase talent performance using its proven predictive performance technology.  Employees hired using Toomah’s suite of talent performance optimization products demonstrate increased speed to competency, reduced attrition and improved sales and service performance.  www.toomah.com.

 CoThrive

CoThrive is the unique commitment management system that enables people to convert their email into explicit work agreements that can be managed from their inbox for improved performance.  www.cothrive.com.

Go Rank Em’

Rank Em’ is crowdsourcing the music discovery process.  By aggregating the expertise of the existing fan base for every artist, prospective fans can more easily embrace a new artist or dive deeper into a catalog than they ever had previously.  In general, we hope you’ll find the songs you were always meant to hear.  www.gorankem.com.