Tech Companies to Watch

PlantESP™ Enhanced with Automated Process Improvement Capability

New Feature Speeds Implementations and Aligns Solution with Six Sigma

Tolland, CT - March 31, 2011 - Control Station announced enhancement of its PlantESP Performance Monitoring Solution with the introduction of an innovative auto-benchmarking capability. The innovation further simplifies the optimization and control of business-critical production processes.

PlantESP's new auto-benchmarking capability embraces best-in-class production practices and supports the goal of constant process improvement. Introduced with the most recent release, the function evaluates control loop performance on a scheduled basis and tightens benchmarks of individual PID controllers as performance improves. PlantESP works nonstop to ferret out under-performing PID controllers within a production environment. Recommendations for corrective action from the solution equip users with actionable intelligence. In this way PlantESP identifies the source of production-related defects and assists with the reduction of production variability, mirroring the core principles of Six Sigma. The auto-benchmarking capability aligns PlantESP more closely with Six Sigma by automatically adjusting benchmarks to more rigorous performance levels.

Read the whole story here. 

Learn more about Control Station and the product PlantESP. 

                             

Flashback: Control Station was one of the CTC's 2010 Companies to Watch

 

Reality Gap, Inc.

Reality Gap, Inc., is a publisher of Massively Multiplayer Online Games located in Seattle, Washington, founded by video game veterans Michael Williams, J. Mark Hood, and Nolan Bushnell. The company is the innovator behind MetaTIXTM, a turnkey billing system for the virtual worlds. Their first title, Monato EspritTM, is a 3D Online Role Playing Game. Their newest offering, Battleswarm, is the "#1 Top Original MMO of 2009".

Reality Gap, Inc.

Seattle, WA

Dylan Hundley

realitygap.com

MysticMD

Our focus is developing proprietary conductive solutions using formulations of carbon nanotubes alloyed with traditional materials and/or other nanoparticles to solve real world problems.  We are a member of the University of Connecticut Technology Incubation Program with laboratories at the Avery Point Campus on beautiful Fishers Island Sound.

MysticMD

Groton, CT

Frank Gerlando

mysticmd.com

Myometrics

Myometrics is a start up biotechnology company founded in 2007. It is focused on the Discovery of therapies to treat diseases of the neuromuscular and skeletal systems and is also engaged in providing CRO work for large pharmaceutical companies.

Myometrics has four drug discovery programs in the areas of :

i) Periodontitis and implantology

ii) ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease)

iii) Huntington’s Disease

iv) Cachexia

The staff at Myometrics have over forty years of combined experience in small molecule pharmaceutical research. They have been Principal Investigators and Managers in a number of drug discovery programs ranging from product conception to supporting Phase III clinical trials.

Myometrics

New London, CT

Jim O'Malley

myometrics.com

YouGottaCall.com, LLC

Description:
YouGottaCall.com (YGC) is a Web-based community of "in real life" relationships between consumers and trusted businesses. YGC's Web application supports the finding and sharing of referrals for trusted businesses through the Member's social graph. Consumers can search for trusted businesses by industry or name and filter the results by those trusted by their network of friends.  Alternately, consumers can give referrals through the network and recommend their friends to contact a trusted business similar to how they give referrals offline.

Presence:
Hundreds of CT consumers trust and connect with over 160 YGC “trusted service providers” (TSPs).  Thousands of CT business listing can be claimed and customized for free by the business owners.

Unique Value:
YGC's has unique value propositions for each of our three types of Members: consumers, businesses and not-for-profit organizations (NFPs):
Consumers save time & money finding service providers while maximizing the value of their purchases. They also can support their favorite NFP.
Businesses get more, higher quality referrals that close at a higher rate. They can track their most valuable referrers. They are able to use simple and effective CRM-like communication tools. They can pay the amount they want to pay for each newly referred customer. They have improved cash flow because their fee is paid after they have gotten their new customer.
NFPs can generate recurring donations through the social activities of their supporters. This maintains supporter relations while avoiding donor fatigue.

Revenue Model / Benefiting the Community:
Unlike other Web sites  in the social, local ad space, YGC has an intrinsic revenue model.  Our revenues are derived from the process every time it is effective at making a successful referral.  YGC retains 20% of each referral fee paid by member businesses and distributes the balance (80%) to our Members' designated charities.

YouGottaCall.com, LLC

New Haven, CT

Founder & Managing Member: Tim Tracey

yougottacall.com

Yamisee.com

Yamisee.com is an online marketplace whose mission is to bring those who have knowledge to share with those who seek to learn. Yamisee creates a virtual classroom where learning takes place through two way interactions. Interactions take place between student and instructor via technology that allows visual, verbal and written communication to facilitate the learning process.  Students pay a fee to take classes.  Yamisee earns revenue through student and teacher fees, partnerships and sponsorships.

Yamisee.com

Westport, CT

CEO: David Lynch

yamisee.com

HistoRx Receives Fundamental Patent on Standardization of Results in Digital Pathology

Branford, CT - March 21, 2011 – HistoRx, Inc., announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent protecting the company’s methods for standardization of digital microscopy instruments in order to go beyond imaging to generating high-quality reproducible data that precisely relates to biomarker concentrations in tissue sections.

Digital pathology involves taking digital pictures of an anatomic pathology specimen, a slide with cells or a thinly-sliced piece of tissue, and managing the interpretation and storage of the resulting images.  While most companies involved in digital pathology emphasize generation and storage of images for interpretation, HistoRx is the only company to bring reproducibility, or standardization, to those images, to quantify protein in tissue for accurate biomarker measurement.

 “This patent covers HistoRx’s unique ability to ensure that multiple instruments performing the same test, whether in one or many locations, can give the same result for a patient’s slide,” said Jason Christiansen, Senior Director of Operations at HistoRx and the lead inventor.   

“We don’t make digital microscopy systems, we make digital microscopy systems better.”

                                           - Jason Christiansen, HistoRx lead inventor

Read the whole press release here. 

Learn more about HistoRx and their AQUA technology. 

                                  

HistoRx was also one of the CTC's 2010 Companies to Watch

 

ViraShield UV Sanitizer Eradicates Bacteria

New Device Launched to Protect Students, Health professionals, Office workers, Tweeters, Facebook Users

Washington DC, March 21 — ViraShield, the new UV sanitizer introduced by VirWall Systems Inc., is the first multi-purpose device of its kind that takes only seconds to rid those products we’ve come to depend on (computers, iPhones, iPads, iPods) of the bacteria and viruses that typically crawl, breed and cover the surfaces of our personal communications devices. The new ViraShieldcosts less than a penny per use (retails for $249) and has utility in school classrooms, hospitals, home offices and in businesses — especially where shared computers are common.

Easy to use, the 26” x 11” x 5” unit fits like a lid over a standard computer keyboard, or over a group of iPhones, iPads and more, to rid your electronics of bacteria and viruses in about 30 seconds.

“Recent studies have shown the average computer keyboard is home to more than 3000 germs per square inch,” notes product inventor Jon Roberts, PhD, engineer and founder of VirWall Systems Inc. “The powerful germicidal 254 nm UV light will help protect you from the widest range of germs – including MRSA, E. coli and even swine flu, plus the usual suspects – staph, strep, influenza A, norovirus and more...”

Read the entire press release here.                                          

Learn more about Virwall Systems Inc. and their ViraShield technology. 

                                         

FLASHBACK: Virwall Systems Inc. was also one of the CTC's 2010 Companies to Watch. 

uKnow

uKnow increases revenues and adds value for display ad sellers, such as publishers, ad networks; ad buyers, ad agencies and marketers, as well as display aggregators like exchanges and media traders. Our proprietary technology provides page-level filtering, real time processing and easy deployment. uKnow delivers brand safety, transparency and accountability, allowing more relevant display ads to be served, generating more revenue for customers.

uKnow

Guilfield, CT

CEO: Peter Gasparini

litmuscorp.com

TTB Technologies, LLC

TTB Technologies, LLC is a company founded for the purposes of creating, developing, licensing and commercializing new technologies and intellectual property.  They are currently promoting a social network known as MeetingWave.

TTB Technologies, LLC

Ridgefield, CT

CEO: JJohn Boyd

meetingwave.com