gener8tor Oklahoma City Invests $800K into Eight New Innovative Startups for 12-Week Accelerator Program
OKLAHOMA CITY - Eight new fast-growing startup companies from across the country have each been selected to receive a $100,000 investment and participate in the gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator.
The selected startups are: meal matching app Availyst; digital and traditional asset platform Coast; developer tool Guidepad; real-time travel data analysis platform Meander; manufacturing export platform MyAddo; alternative energy juice Rejuvenation; web optimizer Roboamp; and tech talent evaluator ScoreAI by Simbiosis.
gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator invests $100,000 into each of eight high-growth startups per cohort across all industries and business models. Accepted startups take part in the intensive 12-week, cohort-based accelerator program, which includes 1:1 coaching, mentorship-driven programming, $1M+ in deals and perks, and 100+ connections to the gener8tor network of mentors and investors.
gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator program received more than 120 applications from across the country for the program. The eight selected companies were chosen based on their growth potential and investor readiness.
“This program represents an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and startups to access the resources and support needed to thrive in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape,” said Jennifer McGrail, executive director of the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science & Technology.
The gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator program is part of the OKlahoma Accelerator Program funded through the Oklahoma Legislature and is made possible through partnerships with the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology, Cortado Ventures, and Boyd Street Ventures.
“Cortado Ventures partners with the best to source and support innovative companies in the Midcontinent. Partnering with gener8tor and investing alongside in outstanding pre-seed companies is a force-multiplier and embodies our vision to back founders building outside traditional coastal hubs. The gener8tor model proves the advantage of backing companies at the forefront of this third wave of innovation,” said Nathaniel Harding, Managing Partner of Cortado Ventures.
At the end of the gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator program, the startup founders will pitch their companies to investors, community partners and the public at a Showcase event at 6 p.m. on June 12 at Skyline on Bricktown Canal (RSVP).
Startup founders interested in learning more about gener8tor’s programming or applying to a future gener8tor Oklahoma City program can visit the gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator website, or reach out to Managing Director Anita Ly at anita@gener8tor.com. Those interested in mentoring these companies or getting involved in other ways are also encouraged to connect.
gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator Spring 2024 Cohort
AVAILYST’s predictive AI food search engine saves grocery stores and restaurants hundreds of thousands of dollars with preference-driven consumer matching and lower fees. Availyst utilizes personalization, verticalized data sets, cohort-based analysis, advanced deep neural networking, and custom content generation to match individuals and groups to the food they love and reduce business’ spend on traditional paid advertising models. Availyst connects its community of 30,000 foodies to 40 partners on the platform.
Mandy Poston | Founder & CEO | mandy@availyst.com | availyst.com
Female, LGBTQ Founder Twitter | LinkedIn
COAST’s financial navigation platform helps digital asset investors map their finances to their lives and guides them along the way. Coast’s first product, Canvas, enables customers to connect all of their digital and traditional finances into one intuitive dashboard so they can view their comprehensive financial picture. Coast Canvas launched into Closed Beta in December 2023 and currently helps users manage over $2.6M in digital and traditional assets. Since launch, Coast has achieved 100% MoM user growth and 119% website MoM traffic with $0 in ad-spend.
Rustin Cavel | Co-Founder & CEO | rustin@getcoast.io | getcoast.io
LGBTQ Founder Twitter | LinkedIn
GUIDEPAD combines DevOps, AI/ML Ops, data engineering and workflow automation capabilities into a unified platform. The platform provides a single interface for building, configuring, and managing software at enterprise scale. Guidepad’s Platform-as-Data (PaD) approach simplifies the development process with user-friendly, low-code/no-code interfaces. Guidepad has been deployed with AuditBoard and the National Apartment Association and is developing a pilot with Deloitte.
Reginald Wilkerson | Co-founder & CEO | reggie@guidepad.io | guidepad.io
Black Founder Twitter| LinkedIn
MEANDER’s SaaS platform transforms how travel companies collect customer feedback by offering real-time surveys to travelers and rewarding them with travel points and gift cards for their input. Meander's technology allows for seamless integration into travel companies' systems, enabling instant feedback collection and analysis, which helps improve customer satisfaction and gather valuable insights efficiently. Meander is actively engaging with TAP Portugal and Royal Air Maroc regarding pilots.
Malcolm Woods | Founder & CEO | malcolm.woods@meander.travel | pulse.meander.travel
Black, Immigrant Founder Twitter | LinkedIn| Instagram
MYADDO’s B2B marketplace facilitates Mexican manufacturers and suppliers’ export process to the U.S. By utilizing MYADDO’s CRM and inventory control system, Mexican manufacturers streamline their exporting & sales processes. U.S. manufacturers and businesses use the platform to connect and purchase directly from MYADDO’s network of manufacturers and assist in the importing workflow. To date, MyAddo has seen a 73% increase in onboarding projects in under six months.
Jose Becerril | Co-Founder & CEO | jbecerril@myaddo.com | myaddo.com
Latinx Founder LinkedIn
REJUVENATION’s innovative beverages revolutionize the energy drink market. Its products are crafted with clean, plant-based ingredients to provide a natural boost of energy without the harmful chemicals found in traditional energy drinks. With a commitment to quality, sustainability, and customer well-being, REJUVENATION is here to redefine how people power through their day. REJUVENATION has partnering with Rap Snacks to join a national distribution program.
Anna Cobb | Founder & CEO | annacobbm@gmail.com | drinkrejuv.com
Black, Female Founder Facebook | Instagram
ROBOAMP provides a cutting-edge web performance optimization service that ensures websites load in two seconds or less. Roboamp’s SaaS solution directly improves user experience, search engine rankings, and conversion rates for businesses. By addressing the billion-dollar problem of slow-loading websites, it offers companies a competitive advantage in the fast-paced digital landscape. ROBOAMP has developed a WordPress plugin that is 70% faster than existing solutions
Roberto Inetti | Co-founder & CEO | roberto@roboamp.com | roboamp.com
Latinx Founder Twitter | LinkedIn
Score AI vets software talent at scale and predicts their future performance within a company and a specific open role. Through a 30-minute process including an AI interview and multi-factor evaluation, Score AI’s model collects relevant data and makes an assessment on every candidate in an employer’s pipeline. Score AI was created by Simbiosis, a platform for finding, hiring and paying remote tech talent in Latin America. Simbiosis has generated over $9M in GMV over the past four years and has $360K of ARR.
Omar Alvarez | Founder & COO | omar@getscore.ai | getscore.ai
Latinx Founder Twitter | LinkedIn
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About gener8tor
gener8tor is a global venture firm and accelerator network that supports startups, workers, employers, artists and musicians across race, place and gender. gener8tor partners with companies, governments, universities and nonprofits to operate accelerator programs and conferences in more than 41 communities across 22 states and two countries. Fast Company named gener8tor one of the Best Workplaces for Innovators in 2021 and 2022. The International Trade Council recognized gener8tor as the Global Venture Capital Firm of the Year in 2022.
About gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator
gener8tor Oklahoma City Investment Accelerator Program invests $100,000 into each of eight high-growth startups per cohort across all industries and business models. Accepted startups take part in the intensive 12-week, cohort-based accelerator program, which includes 1:1 coaching, mentorship-driven programming, $1M+ in deals and perks, and 100+ connections to the gener8tor network of mentors and investors.
About OCAST
The Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) is the state's agency for technology-based economic development. We are a results-driven, high-performing organization that increases research activity and public/private partnerships leading to innovation in the core tech sectors most important to Oklahoma's economy, including Aerospace - Defense and Autonomous, Biotechnology and Life Sciences, and Energy Diversification. This results in new businesses, job growth, higher wages, and an improved quality of life for the citizens of Oklahoma.
About Cortado Ventures
Cortado Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in ambitious, growth-driven companies, backing a new generation of economic prosperity for Oklahoma and the Midcontinent region. As one of the largest VC funds in Oklahoma, Cortado's focus is on tech companies bringing innovative solutions to the energy, logistics, life sciences, aerospace and the future of work sectors. For more information, visit cortado.ventures.
About Boyd Street Ventures
Boyd Street Ventures is a groundbreaking early-stage venture capital firm connecting institutional and other investors to high-growth investment opportunities developed within the ecosystem of University of Oklahoma, recipient of the Carnegie Classification’s highest rating for research activity, and by OU alums and other Oklahoma-affiliated entrepreneurs. BSV places Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed and Series A/B investments in the Life Sciences, FinTech, Energy Tech, Aerospace & Defense, and Climate Tech sectors. The firm focuses on under-the-radar startups that are less likely to have their prices overbid and overpriced than are startups on the East and West Coasts. This strategy, coupled with its unusually active involvement in providing de-risking strategic and operational counsel to these startups through its BSV Venture Studio, enables Boyd Street Ventures to target above-average returns for its investors. For more information, please visit https://www.boydstreetventures.com/.
