Shout-outs
Cooler Planet
Cooler Planet is the first company funded (and co-founded) by Founders Co-op. The company specializes in matching pre-qualified residential and commercial customers with local alternative energy suppliers on a pay-per-lead basis. With dozens of participating suppliers and a national service footprint, Cooler Planet is an early and leading entrant in this fast-growing market, and reflects Founders Co-op's commitment to achieving social good in the process of creating business value. Cooler Planet was created by a two-person founding team: Tom Staples and Danny Vo.
LookStat
LookStat is focused on delivering analytics and workflow automation for the rapidly growing microstock photography industry. Contrary to the prevailing trends in digital music and video, innovation in the stock photography market is driving growing demand and increasing seller pricing power. LookStat is building a platform to enable a growing number of photographers and illustrators to earn more by giving them better systems and information. The company was created by a two-person founding team: Rahul Pathak and Casey Zednick.
Array Health Solutions
Array Health Solutions is an employee benefits company whose purpose is to expand access to benefits to more working Americans. Array provides employers with a compelling alternative to group health insurance. Array's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform offers employers health benefit cost predictability, funding flexibility and greater employee choice. The company was created by a three-person founding team: Jonathan Rickert, Daniel Wolf and Christopher Moneta.
Frugal Mechanic
Frugal Mechanic is an auto parts search and price comparison engine serving the $40B a year do-it-yourself auto repair market. The site regularly collects and compares pricing information from dozens of auto part retailers and distributes that information via FrugalMechanic.com as well white-label implementations of the service managed on behalf of dozens of partner sites. The company was created by a two-person founding team: Eric Peters and Tim Underwood.
AppStoreHQ
AppStoreHQ is a search engine and discovery platform for mobile applications and developers. Created by Founders Co-op partner Chris DeVore and co-founder Ian Sefferman, the company offers an authoritative view of the best mobile applications by tapping the collective intelligence of the most influential bloggers on the subject. The company also offers iPhone app developers a high-visibility channel for connecting with both app purchasers and prospective contract development customers.
Nearlyweds!
Nearlyweds! provides personal wedding websites for design-conscious couples. Created by Porter Bayne and co-founder John Scrofano, Nearlyweds! is renowned for their focus on user experience, partnering with top wedding designers in the industry to offer customers only the most fabulous website designs. The company also offers the most interactive and relevant features, like pushpin maps, blogs, unlimited photo uploads, event listings, online RSVP for any wedding event, registry listings, and social features that enable guests to make comments, send messages, or post their own photos on the couple's site.
BigDoor Media
BigDoor Media provides an alternative monetization platform for online publishers. Created by Keith Smith and co-founder Jeff Malek, BigDoor believes that entertainment publishers and consumers can both be better served by replacing current forms of contextual advertising with a dynamic slate of relevant offers that bridge the gap between low-yield advertising and high-friction subscription-based approaches to monetization.
Appature
Appature creates enterprise marketing solutions tailored to the needs of the healthcare industry. Created by co-founders Kabir Shahani and Chris Hahn, Appature provides a simple way for Fortune 1000 medical device and pharmaceutical companies to manage customer data and execute complex marketing programs. From market research to campaign management and rich business intelligence, Appature provides insight before, after, and during marketing campaigns to drive business results.
Urban Airship
Urban Airship builds RESTful APIs for iPhone and mobile developers to easily perform core functions like push messaging and in-app transactions, leaving them more time to focus on the differentiating and fun bits of their apps. The company was created by co-founders Steven Osborn, Scott Kveton, Adam Lowry and Michael Richardson.
Untitled Startup
Untitled Startup invites you to tell them what business they should be in. As a transparent startup building social media marketing and public relations tools, the company invites ideas and guidance from their most passionate customers (and critics). The company was created by co-founders Aviel Ginzburg and Damon Cortesi.
