Alabama Launchpad has selected 11 finalists for its third competition in 2021.
This third group will be placed in two stages of competition — a concept stage with finalists competing for $25,000 and a seed stage for $50,000. To date, Alabama Launchpad has funded 104 startups, invested over $5.7 million in nondilutive funding with a post-money valuation of $450-plus million and generated over 850 jobs across the state.
“We are rounding out the last cycle of 2021 with another strong cohort of finalists for the Alabama Launchpad program. The Launch Advisors look forward to working one-on-one with the finalists to elevate the already promising work each company is doing,” said Miller Girvin EDPA executive vice president of innovation and entrepreneurship. “Every cycle we continue to be impressed with the talent and ingenuity of the state’s entrepreneurs, and Cycle 3 2021 is no exception.”
The finalists for the concept stage are as follows.
- Curate-Her (Birmingham): A seasonal home decor subscription box curated exclusively from female artisans, delivered to subscribers' doors.
- Etch (Birmingham): A multi-faceted knowledge retention platform that allows educational content creators to expand their impact while also giving students a platform that allows them to retain information.
- Milkman (Birmingham): A company building technologies to enable digitization, personalization and optimization for future food retail to help people eat healthy and save time.
- RAGASEDU or Retention and Graduation Analytics Software (Huntsville): The company discovers knowledge from various academic data sources, including learning management systems, to analyze and predict students’ performance in real-time.
- SoapBox Caddie (Montgomery): An on-demand laundry service that guarantees a six-hour return, providing wash, dry and fold charging by the bag instead of by the pound.
- Vizrom (Birmingham):An electronic health record-integrated software that can pull essential information from the hospital EHR (electronic health record) database and display them on a TV screen.
The seed stage finalists are as follows:
- CAVU (Birmingham): CAVU helps businesses and people move faster and solve human problems by making training, coaching and community accessible to more people through their social learning platform.
- Need2Say (Leeds): The company, a former Velocity Accelerator member, is a mobile application that also offers online live classes that help construction workers improve their English and Spanish communication skills for the construction industry.
- Suture Health (Homewood): A SAAS-health care network enabling the exchange and signature of medical orders in one place to better manage patients at home and eliminate the fax.
- Yellow Hammer Farms (Birmingham): A company that aims to provide customers a consistently fresh, high-quality, sustainably grown local produce and to educate the community on the benefits of sustainable farming.
- Veterans Farming Initiative of Alabama d.b.a. Two Goat Brands (South Calera): Produces pure, high quality, small-batch, honey-based spirits such as beer, mead (aged honey wine) and honey moonshine (honey liquor).
