Innovation Catalyst

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Glass Half aims to make glass recycling a transparent and accessible procedure that results in a product that can be used in our state.

OfficerReports develops and distributes tracking and reporting software for its clients. The company’s product portfolio consists of reporting software, guard tour tracking software, time and attendance software, and technology bundle. Reporting software features daily activity reports, incident reports, and logs. Time and attendance software features time scheduling, clock-in and out activity controlling, and clock summary reporting. OfficerReports was founded in 2013 by Courtney Sparkman and Victor Scott and is based in Illinois.

Cura OS specializes in developing business management software tailored for care providers. The company focuses on creating a comprehensive, custom software solution that addresses the specific needs of waiver services and ICF/IDD clients. Its platform incorporates various functionalities, including client care, employee management, payroll, scheduling, billing, compliance, and training services. By offering these integrated features, Cura OS aims to help businesses streamline their operations and enhance their human resource management, ultimately providing person-centered support plans and improving overall efficiency.

Embera NeuroTherapeutics, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company based in Sudbury, Massachusetts, focused on developing innovative treatments for smoking cessation, cocaine dependence, and other addictions, areas that currently lack effective drug therapies. Founded in 2005, the company is advancing EMB-001, a novel addiction treatment that combines the benzodiazepine oxazepam with metyrapone, a cortisol synthesis inhibitor. This treatment targets the stress response system and specific brain functions associated with craving and relapse, aiming to modulate various stress-related pathways to alleviate the cravings that drive addictive behaviors. Embera NeuroTherapeutics is committed to addressing the significant challenges faced by individuals struggling with addiction by providing effective therapeutic options.

TrayAway is a technology company that offers a digital platform designed to streamline room service operations for luxury hotels. The company's service includes hardware Internet of Things (IoT) tracking devices and software-as-a-service, which help hotels efficiently track and retrieve room service trays. By automating this process, TrayAway aims to enhance the guest experience while maintaining a tidy environment by preventing hallways from becoming cluttered with trays. This innovative solution saves time for hotel staff and improves overall service efficiency.

Omnidek is an enterprise smart data content management platform that enables businesses of any size to create corporate forms, portals, workflows, and analytics within a unified mobile and web interface. The platform streamlines business process management by eliminating the need for paper, files, folders, and spreadsheets, thereby reducing administrative burdens. It features a chat-style inbox that enhances integrated workflows, allowing for efficient communication and collaboration among team members. By consolidating third-party applications, Omnidek simplifies the rollout of technology across enterprises, facilitating data-driven decision-making and improving overall operational efficiency.

MasteryPrep is an educational organization based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, specializing in college and career readiness programs. Founded in 2013, it focuses on enhancing standardized test outcomes, particularly for students scoring below 18 on the ACT. The company provides professional development for educators and administrators, enabling them to effectively implement in-class ACT preparation. MasteryPrep's services aim to improve students' test scores, facilitating their access to college and better future opportunities. By offering tailored support to schools, MasteryPrep has positively impacted the educational landscape for hundreds of thousands of students across the country.

SellSwipe™ is a mobile application that will provide a peer-to-peer and business-to-consumer marketplace for communities.

Juicebox is a digital health company that offers a personal wellness coaching platform focused on intimacy and sexual health. Founded by Brianna Rader, the app provides an anonymous environment where users can engage in meaningful conversations with certified sex and relationship coaches. The platform addresses a wide range of topics, including erectile dysfunction, libido issues, dating, and orgasms, ensuring that individuals of all sexual and gender identities, as well as varying levels of experience, have access to personalized and affordable sex education and coaching. By facilitating consultations on emotional and physical concerns, Juicebox aims to create a safe and convenient space for users to seek advice and support.

Something Borrowed Blooms is a rent and return floral boutique that offers wedding flower collections. With the company's rent-and-return system, clients are guaranteed to have the flowers they love without the high price tag of traditional wedding flowers.

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Kinesics is a musculoskeletal health management company that specializes in health technology and data analytics software solutions. The company has developed a risk management platform aimed at minimizing the risk and costs associated with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) across various sectors, including medical, athletic, fitness, wellness, and occupational environments. By utilizing objective data derived from range of motion measurements, Kinesics designs tailored flexibility programs that empower patients, athletes, clients, and employees to mitigate their risk of injury. The company's goal is to provide organizations, corporations, and institutions with the tools needed to effectively manage health risks and enhance overall performance.

MobileQubes provides its clients with self-automated kiosks that allow customers to rent and return compact battery Qubes to continue charging and using their devices on-the-go. MobileQubes makes the inconvenience of a dead or dying battery a thing of the past. It is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

ASAP is an app based restaurant platform that connects restaurants and guests. Guests scroll restaurant menus, customize an order, modify any item, add people to a group order, split the check, choose delivery or carryout, and with the push of a button, have an order in their hands. ASAP has transformed the way restaurants reach people & the way people choose restaurants. The ASAP delivery team & on-demand delivery platform differentiates itself from the pack by being built by hospitality professionals for hospitality professionals. ASAP (formerly known as Waitr) began in late 2013 and started in Chris Meaux's home office and moved into the SEED Center, a Lake Charles, Louisiana business incubator near McNeese State University's campus on Ryan Street. In late 2015, by the end of the first year of operations, 57,000 food delivery orders had been placed on the Waitr app. That was when the decision was made by then CEO Chris Meaux to begin to amp up the digital marketing & operations efforts in addition to the engineering and administrative efforts to guide the company. In marketing, Patrick Hardey was added to the team to take over founder Addison Killebrew's marketing role alongside Katie Davis & Chloe Friend. For operations, Matt Sarradet, Charity Grandchampt, and Crystal Day were hired. As they grew quickly, several months into 2016 their first acquisition took place when they bought GoGoGrocer and then a competitor called Requested out of Northern California founded by San Francisco's Jeff Bolante, & Sacramento's Sonny Mayugba, two seasoned marketing veterans who dropped out of Facebook's Global Marketing Team responsible for developing and growing the Facebook Blueprint. With Sonny Mayugba and Jeff Bolante at the helm in combination with an already successful marketing effort they were able to mentor Patrick Hardey into becoming a customer acquisition professional on Facebook rapidly, which was alluded to by CEO Chris Meaux in a 2017 YouTube video. Some time later Patrick Hardey spearheaded an internal business unit embedded in the marketing department called Partner Marketing (premium digital marketing service), and also cofounded the Waitr Impact corporate social responsibility program after a pitch to executives and board members, and afterward was invited to join the operations stewardship council. Subsequently, through their teamwork with operations, HR, sales, and service they posted a 20%+ month-to-month growth rate average for roughly 3 consecutive years before going public through a strategic partner in the world's wealthiest restauranteur who was impressed with their ability to bring in and keep customers happy on the B2B and B2C fronts. Through a SPAC led by Tilman Fertitta (who is the Billion Dollar Buyer (CNBC), owner of Landry's, the Houston Rockets (NBA), and the entire Golden Nugget casino resort franchise) they exited onto the Nasdaq in November 2018 at $308M, Louisiana history's largest tech exit valuation, and the world's second publicly traded food delivery company beating Uber to the public markets.

PatentDive, Inc. is a New Orleans-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in developing visual patent drafting software aimed at improving communication in the patent process. The company's tools assist in invention disclosure and rapid patent drafting, allowing users to transform complex ideas into patent applications efficiently. Funded by the National Science Foundation, PatentDive's software features a visual interface that simplifies the navigation of patent portfolios and translates invention language into actionable data. This innovative platform serves a diverse user base, including patent professionals, inventors, entrepreneurs, corporate innovation teams, in-house patent counsel, technology transfer offices, and educational institutions. Additionally, the application incorporates gamified elements to enhance patent education, enabling users to make informed decisions throughout the patenting process.

Kinesics is a musculoskeletal health management company that specializes in health technology and data analytics software solutions. The company has developed a risk management platform aimed at minimizing the risk and costs associated with musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) across various sectors, including medical, athletic, fitness, wellness, and occupational environments. By utilizing objective data derived from range of motion measurements, Kinesics designs tailored flexibility programs that empower patients, athletes, clients, and employees to mitigate their risk of injury. The company's goal is to provide organizations, corporations, and institutions with the tools needed to effectively manage health risks and enhance overall performance.

Juicebox is a digital health company that offers a personal wellness coaching platform focused on intimacy and sexual health. Founded by Brianna Rader, the app provides an anonymous environment where users can engage in meaningful conversations with certified sex and relationship coaches. The platform addresses a wide range of topics, including erectile dysfunction, libido issues, dating, and orgasms, ensuring that individuals of all sexual and gender identities, as well as varying levels of experience, have access to personalized and affordable sex education and coaching. By facilitating consultations on emotional and physical concerns, Juicebox aims to create a safe and convenient space for users to seek advice and support.

MasteryPrep is an educational organization based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, specializing in college and career readiness programs. Founded in 2013, it focuses on enhancing standardized test outcomes, particularly for students scoring below 18 on the ACT. The company provides professional development for educators and administrators, enabling them to effectively implement in-class ACT preparation. MasteryPrep's services aim to improve students' test scores, facilitating their access to college and better future opportunities. By offering tailored support to schools, MasteryPrep has positively impacted the educational landscape for hundreds of thousands of students across the country.

Omnidek is an enterprise smart data content management platform that enables businesses of any size to create corporate forms, portals, workflows, and analytics within a unified mobile and web interface. The platform streamlines business process management by eliminating the need for paper, files, folders, and spreadsheets, thereby reducing administrative burdens. It features a chat-style inbox that enhances integrated workflows, allowing for efficient communication and collaboration among team members. By consolidating third-party applications, Omnidek simplifies the rollout of technology across enterprises, facilitating data-driven decision-making and improving overall operational efficiency.

ASAP is an app based restaurant platform that connects restaurants and guests. Guests scroll restaurant menus, customize an order, modify any item, add people to a group order, split the check, choose delivery or carryout, and with the push of a button, have an order in their hands. ASAP has transformed the way restaurants reach people & the way people choose restaurants. The ASAP delivery team & on-demand delivery platform differentiates itself from the pack by being built by hospitality professionals for hospitality professionals. ASAP (formerly known as Waitr) began in late 2013 and started in Chris Meaux's home office and moved into the SEED Center, a Lake Charles, Louisiana business incubator near McNeese State University's campus on Ryan Street. In late 2015, by the end of the first year of operations, 57,000 food delivery orders had been placed on the Waitr app. That was when the decision was made by then CEO Chris Meaux to begin to amp up the digital marketing & operations efforts in addition to the engineering and administrative efforts to guide the company. In marketing, Patrick Hardey was added to the team to take over founder Addison Killebrew's marketing role alongside Katie Davis & Chloe Friend. For operations, Matt Sarradet, Charity Grandchampt, and Crystal Day were hired. As they grew quickly, several months into 2016 their first acquisition took place when they bought GoGoGrocer and then a competitor called Requested out of Northern California founded by San Francisco's Jeff Bolante, & Sacramento's Sonny Mayugba, two seasoned marketing veterans who dropped out of Facebook's Global Marketing Team responsible for developing and growing the Facebook Blueprint. With Sonny Mayugba and Jeff Bolante at the helm in combination with an already successful marketing effort they were able to mentor Patrick Hardey into becoming a customer acquisition professional on Facebook rapidly, which was alluded to by CEO Chris Meaux in a 2017 YouTube video. Some time later Patrick Hardey spearheaded an internal business unit embedded in the marketing department called Partner Marketing (premium digital marketing service), and also cofounded the Waitr Impact corporate social responsibility program after a pitch to executives and board members, and afterward was invited to join the operations stewardship council. Subsequently, through their teamwork with operations, HR, sales, and service they posted a 20%+ month-to-month growth rate average for roughly 3 consecutive years before going public through a strategic partner in the world's wealthiest restauranteur who was impressed with their ability to bring in and keep customers happy on the B2B and B2C fronts. Through a SPAC led by Tilman Fertitta (who is the Billion Dollar Buyer (CNBC), owner of Landry's, the Houston Rockets (NBA), and the entire Golden Nugget casino resort franchise) they exited onto the Nasdaq in November 2018 at $308M, Louisiana history's largest tech exit valuation, and the world's second publicly traded food delivery company beating Uber to the public markets.

Quarrio has created an Automated Data Analyst in a Box that makes the report writer function in enterprises redundant. Business users asks questions in ordinary English, and the system answers in English with auto-generated charts and graphs. Today, enterprise software is mostly data entry and repositories, but users have great difficulty in accessing all the stored data for decisions in their daily jobs, and very few have access to personal data miners. Quarrio solves this problem, giving each business user their personal data analyst.

MobileQubes provides its clients with self-automated kiosks that allow customers to rent and return compact battery Qubes to continue charging and using their devices on-the-go. MobileQubes makes the inconvenience of a dead or dying battery a thing of the past. It is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

MobileQubes provides its clients with self-automated kiosks that allow customers to rent and return compact battery Qubes to continue charging and using their devices on-the-go. MobileQubes makes the inconvenience of a dead or dying battery a thing of the past. It is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Dinner Lab is a membership-based social dining experiment that unites undiscovered chefs with adventurous diners who are looking for something different from the traditional restaurant experience. Whether it happens on the roof of an abandoned building, the floor of a paper mill, or inside a motorcycle dealership, they believe that good people, good food and good drink are the only elements paramount to a memorable meal. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.

MasteryPrep is an educational organization based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, specializing in college and career readiness programs. Founded in 2013, it focuses on enhancing standardized test outcomes, particularly for students scoring below 18 on the ACT. The company provides professional development for educators and administrators, enabling them to effectively implement in-class ACT preparation. MasteryPrep's services aim to improve students' test scores, facilitating their access to college and better future opportunities. By offering tailored support to schools, MasteryPrep has positively impacted the educational landscape for hundreds of thousands of students across the country.