Tech Companies to Watch

Independent Software

Provide a range of services designed to help small and medium-sized businesses move their ideas forward more quickly and effectively – from development services to talent development, aim is to get you to the next stage.
Build Your Team
Independent can help you identify and recruit talent in the process of developing software, incubating your team in their office
Free Your Concept

Building a product quickly requires a roadmap, tools, and assistance that allow you to cut through the questions and get to the answers quickly. Free Your Concept tools and services allow you to do that.

General Technology Consulting Services

    * Product Plan Consulting
    * SaaS Business Planning
    * Temporary CTO Services

Product Management Consulting Services

    * Product Concept Validation and Prototyping
    * Product Roadmap Development
    * Process Consulting (defect management, service management, etc.)

Product Development Services

    * Graphic Design and Identity Development
    * Web Application Development
    * Mobile Application Development

Independent Software

New Haven, CT

Founder & President: Derek Koch

www.freeyourdata.net

RBC Bearings, Inc.

RBC Bearings designs and maufactures high-quality parts for the industrial, defense, and aerorspace fields.  They provide creative solutions and offer unparalled customer support.

RBC Bearings, Inc. was chosen as one of the 2010 Marcum Tech Top 40 companies.

RBC Bearings, Inc.

Oxford, CT

Chairman, President, & CEO: Michael Hartnett

www.rbcbearings.com

Remarkable Technologies, Inc.

Potential Multi-Billion-Dollar industry.  A perpetually renewable energy source -- fallen tree leaves -- may be the ideal earth-friendly biofuel feedstock for the production of ethanol and / or as a secondary fuel source for power plants. 

For further details, please review our company's description at http://www.remarkable.com/leavestoenergy.html

Remarkable Technologies, Inc.

Unionville, CT

Founder & President: Eric Knight

remarkable.com

Qualtech Systems, Inc.

Qualtech Systems, Inc. makes software that captures the knowledge of how a system fails and uses that knowledge to design for testability, to improve system health, and to make troubleshooting, telemaintenance and field service more efficient. QSI's teams helps customers capture information about how their equipment might fail, so they can keep it working. The software improves fault isolation, reduces maintenance time and cost, reduces false removals, and increases equipment availability.

Qualtech Systems, Inc. was chosen as one of the 2010 Marcum Tech Top 40 companies.

Qualtech Systems, Inc.

East Hartford, CT

President: Somnath Deb

www.teamqsi.com

Floop

Floop is short for feedback loop.  Floop is the first social opinion platform for the web, smart phone, or iPad that lets users ask questions and see what others are thinking in real-time (and over time).  Floop combines the best of social networks like Twitter and Facebook with the best of market research to provide both an enhanced user experience, and a rich reporting back-end.

Floop

Woodbridge, CT

President & CEO: Richard Schultz

www.floop.com

PolyBiotics, L.L.C.

PolyBiotics has a very simple business model. We have developed a way to deliver drugs to the gum pocket in patients who have periodontal disease much more effectively than the existing model. This will increase treatment acceptance and lower cost for everyone involved. This will drive down cost and increase utilization. We feel this is over a 1 billion dollar market and we are poised to take it over.

PolyBiotics, L.L.C.

Hamden, CT

PResident: William Hylton

www.polybiotics.com

i-MARK

i-MARK specializes in delivering sales and marketing automation software 24/7 BUSINESS (TM) to B2B component manufacturers around the globe by way of the SaaS/Cloud business model. Our eBusiness system is comprised of three integrated application frameworks that i-MARK quickly adapts to create a customer-specific, end-to-end marketing and sales business process, operated over the Internet. 24/7 BUSINESS plugs-in to existing websites to guide visitors of all types and business relationships to discover needed products, then evaluate, select, and buy/request quote - online, contained in a complete self-service experience.

i-MARK addresses a significant need in the small-to-medium manufacturer sector, all of  whom must rapidly adapt  to conducting business online as their primary medium. Their markets have moved their product search and selection processes to the Internet, almost exclusively, catching most SMB’s off-guard. i-MARK’s 24/7 BUSINESS is  a perfect fit at the right time for them, since they must move online quickly and do not have the resources to do so themselves. i-MARK’s steady investment in serving the complex needs of this sector since 1998, gives us measurable competitive advantage in provided functionality, SaaS delivery experience an value – all essential to this very conservative and risk-averse segment, comprising over 45,000 SMB component manufacturers, worldwide.

i-MARK

Farmington, CT

President & CEO: Del Merenda

www.imark.com

Priceline.com, Inc.

Priceline.com gives leisure travelers the inside track to the best travel deals and discounts arounds. With its exclusive deal search technology and negotiating power, Priceline consistently delivers more ways to save on airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages, and cruises than anyone else.

Priceline.com, Inc. was chosen as one of the 2010 Marcum Tech Top 40 companies.

Priceline.com, Inc.

Norwalk, CT

President & CEO: Jeffrey Boyd

www.priceline.com

HadoopDB

Digital information is increasing ten-fold every five years, and current DBMS are already struggling to keep up.  HadoopDB addresses this problem with an open source parallel database capable of performing high speed analytics on this new generation of “Big Data”.  Using a hybrid architecture, HadoopDB combines the scalability of Hadoop with the high performance of relational databases on structured data.  The result is a database that scales linearly using inexpensive commodity hardware and can return query results nearly 10x faster than IBM’s DB2 and nearly 50x faster than Hadoop – increasing performance while reducing cost-per-terabyte and TCO.

HadoopDB

New Haven, CT

CEO: Justin Borgman

Precision Combustion, Inc.

Precision Combustion, Inc. (PCI) is a clean energy technology company developing and manufacturing advanced catalytic devices and systems for energy sector applications. Primary customers include manufacturers of aerospace and defense systems, fuel cell systems, engines, gas turbines, and chemicals, as well as oil and gas producers and the US Government.

Precision Combustion, Inc. was chosen as one of the 2010 Marcum Tech Top 40 companies.

Precision Combustion, Inc.

North Haven, CT

PResident & CEO: Kevin Burns

www.precision-combustion.com