A Northern Kentucky accelerator has its next cohort of seven startups.
SoCap Accelerate — which counts St. Elizabeth Healthcare and Northern Kentucky University among its backers — unveiled its third cohort last week. Its participants include:
- Aclipse Campervans designs and rents custom-built campervans to make camping easy for travelers.
- The Epiphany Brand is creating a flagship product that will kill the harmful bacteria that infests our towels.
- Band Connect care-delivery platform increases patient adherence by extending the high-quality in-clinic musculoskeletal (MSK) rehabilitation into their home. Physical therapists leverage Band Connect’s connected fitness equipment and companion software to prescribe their patients personalized treatment and to subsequently evaluate the patients' progress remotely.
- Feeding Restorative is creating new and improved infant feeding products that help combat latch difficulties.
- Kokoro envisions a world where easy-to-use, effective and sustainably implemented digital health tools help every person take charge of and transform their well-being.
- Safewave's goal is to help improve the safety, security and quality of living for those individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing through their patent-pending wristband. They give their customers the opportunity to protect their families and their homes through a vibration-based security system that links together smartwatches to sensors on windows, doors and fire alarms. They have also created a Safewave mobile application that allows their customers to see which entry was breached.
- ZapTrain is an online personal training marketplace focused on breaking the knowledge gap, providing accountability coaching, and developing a healthy lifestyle for its clients leading to lifelong results. They connect clients with their perfect match in a network of online trainers, personalized weekly updated fitness plans, daily accountability and motivation messaging and habit building.
The program is aimed at helping health care-related companies grow and scale their businesses. Participants will be mentored on developing customers and building a product as well as marketing, legal and accounting guidance.
Unlike other accelerators, SoCap does not require founders give up any equity and does not supply funding.
SoCap is led by executive director Rico Grant, founder of CrownMob, a startup marketplace for Black hair care, and a longtime mentor of startups in the region.
Grant said in a LinkedIn post the program's 11 alumni companies "have raised a total of $2 million, been accepted into top tier programs such as Techstars, obtained patents and classifications out the wazoo, received grants from Main Street Ventures and more."
The five-week program began Oct. 12.
