The day is finally here and Boulder's Boomtown Accelerators has announced the 11 companies in its fall 2018 cohort.
Companies range from beehive monitoring devices and edible crickets, to medical decision support tools and a voice-control health and wellness assistant.
By being accepted into Boomtown, founders receive $20,000 in seed funding, nearly $2 million in discounts and perks, office space, mentors, and more, while also competing in the accelerator's Demo Day pitch.
Boomtown takes 6 percent equity in exchange for the $20,000 seed funding and membership into the accelerator.
The 12-week program concludes tonight with Demo Day, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. Companies will pitch their businesses to investors, strategic partners and community supporters in Boomtown's signature event.
The cohort is 23 percent female and 42 percent minority founders, with founders hailing from Chile, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Here are the 11 startups in Boomtown's 2018 Fall Cohort:
Borsetta is an enterprise platform enabling companies to title, authenticate and secure physical assets. Borsetta provides companies with accountability, transparency and brand protection, while validating authenticity for consumers.
Breefly is a subscription-based insights reporting platform that delivers business briefs to teams via text, media and data, so they can make smarter and faster decisions wherever they collaborate.
Cowboy Cricket Farms specializes in processing crickets as a nutritionally dense food ingredient for consumer product goods, providing humans with a sustainable solution for their protein and iron needs.
The Fangage digital autograph platform delivers personalized, autographed memories with real-time authentication. Fans upload pictures for celebrities to autograph live, then download, print and share them on social media.
iSensing empowers transportation authorities with sensor data and insights about people and vehicles, for improved public transportation systems and happier citizens.
The BuzzBox from OS Beehives is a smart monitoring device that reports when colonies are sick, so labor and treatments can be efficiently deployed.
Medecipher provides decision support tools to help hospitals improve their patient care and work environments, while reducing operating costs.
Premo is an app that connects realtors and their clients throughout the home purchase process, providing a unified platform for high-quality, consistent communication and client experience.
ToMarket is an online platform that help farmers and chefs build and manage their sales and procurement operations, so local food goes more easily from the farm to the table.
Wellian is a voice-control health and wellness assistant — compatible with Alexa, Google Home and other voice platforms — that communicates information and motivation to help patients, doctors, and caregivers better manage chronic conditions.
Xompass uses an IoT platform to take the world's existing machinery and turn them into smart devices.
