The Dreamit Fall 2019 cohort at Kickoff Week in Philadelphia. Photo credit: Bob Stasio, Dreamit (@BobStasio).

Our team at Dreamit is thrilled to announce the new cohort of startups for our Fall 2019 Securetech, Healthtech, and Urbantech programs.

Over the next 14 weeks, these startups will work with the Dreamit team to de-risk their products, build their sales pipelines, pitch to new customers, improve their investor pitches and funding strategy, and present their businesses to venture capital investors.

In the first weeks of the program, the startups will be preparing for a “Customer Sprint.” During Customer Sprint prep, Managing Directors and Program Managers prepare founders to meet with enterprise-level customers and partners by critically analyzing and reshaping how to best present the company and product. Teams dig deeply into how to present the problem statement, value proposition, differentiation, use cases, and more. The Dreamit team will challenge key assumptions just like a customer might test them, and they will provide suggestions to streamline and hone every aspect of their customer-facing pitch.

In weeks 6 and 7, the startups will hit the road for the Customer Sprint. All tech founders are familiar with a “dev sprint,” and Dreamit designed the Customer Sprint with the same principles in mind. Founders create a game-plan and then focus intensely for 2 weeks on pitching, selling, getting feedback, and creating relationships with 50+ corporates in Dreamit’s customer network.

The customer network includes top enterprise organizations in our core verticals, such as Independence Blue Cross, Strategic Property Partners, Penn Medicine, American Express, IBM, Intermountain Healthcare, Blackstone, Related, and more. The products these organizations use often become the industry standard. During the Customer Sprint, founders visit the offices of these organizations to meet senior decision-makers, discuss pilots and/or sales, and initiate partnerships.

In the second half of the program, founders shift their focus to fundraising. In weeks 13 and 14, the program culminates in a two-week, bi-coastal Investor Sprint. Founders meet with 20 to 30 investors in one-on-one, in-person meetings at investors’ offices. Dreamit’s Investor Sprint is a faster, more efficient way to build relationships with investors, raise capital, find lead investors, and get meaningful introductions.

Securetech Startups

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Tewksbury, MA

Ascent AeroSystems designs and manufactures unique coaxial drones that are more portable and rugged than conventional multi-rotor drones. Ascent’s rugged cylinder-shaped vehicles scale to any size and are ideal for industrial, public safety and military markets where mission-critical operations in tough environments are the norm.

Tewksbury, MA

Philadelphia, PA

Dash provides solutions for automating the compliance process in the public cloud and for managing vendor risk. The automated platform streamlines cloud security for enterprise organizations and allows companies to manage regulatory compliance without consultants and security experts.

Philadelphia, PA

Berkeley, CA

LOCH Technologies fortifies networks from Internet of Things (IoT) risks through non-intrusive wireless monitoring across the entire electromagnetic spectrum (Wifi, LTE, Bluetooth, etc). LOCH Technologies’ products are used across a wide range of industries for asset management and security monitoring, giving organizations the ability to prevent network breaches and avoid data loss due to infiltration from wireless networks.

Berkeley, CA

Playa Vista, CA

NVISNx is a SaaS security product that helps companies visually profile their data to better protect their most valuable digital assets and dispose of digital liabilities that may be toxic or have no value.

Playa Vista, CA

Omaha, NE

V2verify is a voice biometric technology that can authenticate users within 2 seconds, eliminating the need for passwords, PINs, or knowledge-based questions. The technology contains built-in multi-factor authentication and works across all channels and customer touchpoints.

Omaha, NE

Philadelphia, PA

ZeroEyes uses is a video-based system leveraging artificial intelligence to detect weapons and send real-time alerts, improving situational awareness and decreasing response times for first responders. Guarding schools, houses of worship, and other often-targeted locations, ZeroEyes delivers a fast, highly automated solution that alerts first responders to weapons drawn and potential mass shootings shaving minutes off of response times during extreme potential loss of life situations.

Philadelphia, PA

Healthtech Startups

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Philadelphia, PA

NeuroFlow enables expanded behavioral health access and engagement. Behavioral health treatment is proven effective, but two-thirds of patients with behavioral health issues never access care. NeuroFlow’s suite of tools includes a mobile platform incorporating remote monitoring and clinically proven behavioral protocols with integration across the continuum of care, including psychology, primary care, and pain management settings.

Philadelphia, PA

Sarasota, FL

PaceMate enables providers to efficiently track and manage the rapidly growing population of patients with implantable cardiac devices, including pacemakers and defibrillators. The platform integrates with all major cardiac rhythm companies. By monitoring and identifying patients at risk for critical events via an intuitive dashboard, providers quickly deliver appropriate and often lifesaving interventions while immediately increasing revenues and care team efficiency.

Sarasota, FL

Chicago, IL

SurvivorPlan enables cancer care providers to effectively implement and manage mandated survivorship programs. The platform automates care plan generation, implementation, and tracking, ensuring providers can secure and maintain their Commission on Cancer accreditation. The result is improved provider efficiency and adherence to the care plan.

Chicago, IL

Urbantech Startups

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Chicago, IL

Abode is the only company that can help both large REOs (e.g., banks, REITs) and DIY home sellers list, market, show, and sell their homes at a fraction of the cost of traditional brokers. Abode operates in 38 states, can rapidly list hundreds and even thousands of homes on the relevant Multiple Listing Services (MLS), and provides customers with a dashboard so they can easily track these kinds of bulk sales.

Chicago, IL

San Jose, CA

At HUM is the real estate industry's first AI interior designer, helping property developers and real estate agents overcome a critical barrier to sales: lack of customer imagination. The platform guides customers through quick consultation to predict their needs, lifestyle and style to show them a virtually staged, photo-realistic 3D space furnished to their exact tastes and needs. In the past 8 months, At Hum has already helped sell over 500 units, shortening the sales cycle by over 25%, and reducing costs associated with physical models and staging.

San Jose, CA

Austin, TX

Ruckit is a collaborative logistics platform that enables construction material producers, contractors & carriers, GCs, and subs to order, track, and manage the movement of bulk materials from plants to job sites. Ruckit automates invoice processing and reconciliation, optimizes the dispatch and routing of haulers and streamlines transportation management and their back office. Ruckit has 40 customers in 15 states including CRH & Summit Materials, 2 of the 6 largest producers of asphalt and rock in the US, and large infrastructure builders and operators like Ferrovial & Zachry.

Austin, TX

New York, NY

Stoop is a software platform that helps multifamily landlords rent furnished, shared (e.g., rent-by-the-bed) spaces to the rapidly growing segment of renters who want those kinds of accommodations. Stoop guides the landlord through the process of furnishing and servicing the units appropriately and currently lists 280 beds from 20 landlords for prospective renters.

New York, NY

Dreamit Announces the Fall 2019 Cohort

Securetech Startups

Healthtech Startups

Urbantech Startups