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Use the Inno Pages to search for and discover the Twin Cities' top startups. Filter by industry, funding, stage and size or hit the ‘Inno Shuffle’ for a little dealer’s choice.
Zivix
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2006
Based in Minneapolis, Zivix builds innovative electronic instruments and connected software to inspire, educate and empower musicians and creative professionals.
Project Helios
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2020
Project Helios aims to use electrolysis to convert wastewater into hydrogen which can then be either transported to be used as a fuel or run directly into a generator to produce energy and pure water as a byproduct.
DealDash
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 11 – 50
- Year Founded: 2009
DealDash sells brand new merchandise from big box retailers in an exciting way which makes shopping fun.
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SynerFuse
- Funding: $5M – $10M
- Stage: Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2015
At SynerFuse™ we leverage capital, our intellectual property, and decades of experience to commercialize a novel platform intended to relieve chronic back pain that integrates DRG neuromodulation with direct lead placement at the time of spinal fusion.
ChRi Laboratories
- Year Founded: 2009
ChRi Labs is an analytical testing laboratory in Saint Paul, MN that uses data and scientific expertise to collaborate with individuals and companies who desire to assess, research, and develop pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, and hemp products.
Checkable Medical
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
Checkable Medical is empowering consumers to make clinically backed decisions through the availability of at-home testing kits. With at-home test kits for COVID-19 antibodies and Strep Throat, Checkable Medical utilizes later flow testing to provide affordable and quick results.
Kaleidoscope-KawmThiabSiv, LLC
- Funding: $0 – $100K
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2020
KaleidoScope-Kawm Thiab Siv, LLC (KS, LLC) is a community-driven dissemination clearinghouse dedicated to translating evidence-based research and health communications in a timely and culturally-responsive manner to the Hmong community.
KnectIQ
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Serie A
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2015
Securing all data in-transit without the threat surfaces associated with current encryption technologies.
Virtuwoof
- Funding: Bootstrapped
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
Virtuwoof is Minnesota's first and only telehealth platform designed to meet the unique needs of veterinary care. We are a woman-owned SaaS company whose proprietary web and mobile platform is changing the way veterinary care is delivered to animals in Minnesota and around the country.
Geneticure
- Funding: $1M – $5M
- Stage: Serie A
- Year Founded: 2015
Geneticure is a Mayo Clinic backed precision medicine company that has developed cheek-swab tests that predict individual response for chronic disease therapies, based on DNA. Their patented tech. leans on the genetics of integrative physiology, clinical evidence, and robust intellectual property.
Phenomix Sciences
Rochester-based Phenomix Sciences is a biotech company that offers a test predicting how a person will respond to FDA-approved obesity treatments. The company received $500,000 as one of two winners in MEDA's second annual Million Dollar Challenge. Just days later, Phenomix secured $10,000 from Securian Financial as the MN Cup's top insurance-tech startup in the competition and another $35,000 from MEDA as the top minority-led startup. Readers of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal also named Phenomix as the most promising startup of 2019.
Abilitech Medical
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Abilitech is creating a device called Assist that helps restore mobility to people with upper-limb and neuromuscular conditions. In October, the company won the Minnesota Cup, securing $50,000. It also landed $25,000 as the competition's top women-led startup. And in December, Abilitech closed on $7.4 million in funding to support the commercialization of Assist.
Visana Health
- Funding: $100K – $1M
- Stage: Pre-Seed
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2019
Visana Health empowers women with menstrual-related chronic pelvic pain with digital health technologies so they can take control of their healthcare.
Nice Healthcare
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- Year Founded: 2017
Nice Healthcare is a technology enabled primary care clinic that brings care into patient's homes via chat, video, and in home visits.
Synergy eTherapy
- Stage: Private Equity
- Headcount: 1 – 10
- Year Founded: 2016
Synergy eTherapy offers a variety of online mental health therapy services to help you focus on you. Our flexible, convenient, and easy to use services are great for kids, teens, families, adults, and couples. Our independent, licensed, professional therapists are waiting to work with you!
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