Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship

The Dingman Center Angels connects regional start-up companies seeking seed and early-stage funding with angel investors. During the year (September 2011 – June 2012), our team received 116 applications, screened 60 companies and invited 40 to present at monthly breakfasts. 13 companies received angel investments totaling over $4M.

Funded Companies:

• 6th Street Commerce is an automated E-commerce platform that helps retailers simplify their critical business processes.
• CirrusWorks develops a networking platform, which makes it easier and cheaper to manage infrastructure technology applications in non-corporate commercial buildings.
• eco-armour™ manufactures and markets natural, healing skin care products based on its patented botanical shaving solutions for men & women.   
• LearnZillion is a learning platform that combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting.
• Lemur Technologies is a software company that brings together experts in retail, programming, and social media marketing to develop innovative solutions for common retail problems by leveraging smart phone technology and social networking.
• Seva Call is the next-generation request aggregator and filtering search engine.
• Social Tables has created the world’s first social seating chart through its event planning and community-building platform.
• Social Toaster is a social marketing platform that engages supporters to promote content directly to social networks while driving website traffic and providing comprehensive reporting on the effectiveness of efforts.
• Spinnakr increases click-throughs and conversions by automatically displaying the right message to the right visitor.
• Spotflux has developed several unique technologies that bypass censoring technologies, protect privacy, and allow users all over the world to browse an open and free internet.
• SpydrSafe’s mobile security platform provides IT departments with the necessary tools to safeguard corporate data
• Target Entertainment Properties (TEP) is a Maryland based company dedicated to developing a suite of celebrity branded games across multiple platforms.
• Veenome is a video enabling platform, translating video content into data for superior publishing, searching and monetization.

Additional Presenting Companies:

• 24K National is the first licensing company to empower entrepreneurs to build unique gold brokering enterprises.
• Airside Mobile is a mobile transaction platform enabling airport service and passengers to conduct mobile transactions for goods and services, cutting down lines, saving times for passengers and creating additional revenue opportunities.
• ARCSys provides a web based on-line SaaS module that addresses the new regulatory requirements and disclosures mandated by GAAP and FASB.
• Apeliotus is commercializing a novel diagnostic for early detection of macular degeneration, an age-related eye disease causing blindness in 1 in 6 people over the age of 65 worldwide.
• Bookstore Genie is a platform that offers college students the lowest textbook rental prices in the nation.
• Brain Sentry has created a helmet-mounted sensor that detects impacts that could cause a concussion- helping prevent further injury.
• Contactually acts as a personal assistant for your inbox by collecting rich data on your email relationships, allowing you to effortlessly take immediate action.
• Euveda Biosciences’ cell miniaturization technology enables efficient drug screening on the most relevant primary cells, resulting in less expensive and more reliable clinical trials.
• flexReceipts aggregate consumer’s cash and credit card purchases into a centralized cloud based platform and provides retailers holistic analytics on spending habits.
• Gryphn simplifies mobile privacy by providing enterprises with one-touch security and encryption for their mobile messages while not requiring any hardware.
• Kidspotter is a wristwatch that provides a location tracking device for kids in theme parks.
• Local Food Systems connects aggregated suppliers (Foodhubs) to high-volume wholesale buyers (like Sysco).
• LocalUp Solutions powers hyper-locally branded restaurant discovery and online ordering guides for hyper-local cities/communities across North America.
• Mashed Pixel has developed a protective case for smart phones that enables it to function as a universal learning remote, pushing real time ads based on user’s viewing habits.
• mxHero brings file sharing to email by transparently enabling users of any email system to send and receive files of any size.
• Parking Panda is a community marketplace that enables parking space owners to capitalize on their underutilized parking spaces by renting them out to a community of drivers.
• Ringio helps businesses become more customer-centric by providing cloud-based solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises.
• Seguro Surgical aims to improve patient outcomes of abdominal surgery while increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
• Seventy Degrees provides a revolutionary full-size QWERTY keyboard with full-size keys, yet small enough to be built into mobile devices.
• Smart Composite is focused on developing technologies including a driveway snow-melting paint, paint on strain gauges for structural health monitoring, electromagnetic shielding paints, and a novel method of silent propulsion for marine vessels requiring no moving parts.
• ti•ki is focused on family events offering end-to-end work-flow, planning, and purchasing assistance.
• Tista Games is the HBO of games providing a platform for regularly scheduled episodic games that keeps players engaged with monetization for years, as opposed to weeks.
• True Influence is a self-service ad platform for B2B marketers such as Symantec, IBM, and Xerox that are looking for targeted marketing leads.
• Uppidy is a mobile app that lets users securely archive and organize text messages.
• Urgnt.ly connects people who have urgent or time-sensitive needs with the nearest party to meet it.
• Villagize is a social network and social discovery tool where all U.S. consumers can meet and socialize with their real-world neighbors
• Votifi is a mobile oriented polling & analytics company built on a political network that uses polls & content to connect & empower voters.
• Well Care Strategies developed a key product called TPS™ EMR, a specialty electronic medical record targeted to the wound care clinical segment that serves 7M+ US patients/year.