JumpStart Trailblazer Software Accelerator - 2026 Summer Lookbook

2026 SUMMER LOOKBOOK

THE COMPANIES

& THEIR FOUNDERS

CentSight AI-Native Financial Intelligence Platform to Give SMB Owners CFO Grade Clarity Without the CFO Cost centsight.com Founded: 2026 | HQ: Lakewood, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

$3M

Founders are flying blind, are indecisive, and most businesses stall or die.

The numbers exist, but they're buried across QuickBooks, bank accounts, and other systems, weeks out of date, so founders don't decide, decide wrong, or decide too late. They struggle to make the next right decision fast enough.

OUR SOLUTION

Seed Round Closing: Dec ‘26

USE OF FUNDS

CentSight connects to the systems founders already run, normalizes and verifies the data, and answers any financial question in plain English (cited, checked, and proactively watching the business), giving founders CFO-grade clarity they can act on in minutes, not weeks.

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION Launched product in late June 2026. Adding trial users daily, with the first users beginning to convert to paying as of mid-July. Current pricing is $95/month, but we expect to convert to usage-based pricing after the next fundraise.

Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology

Product Development

40%

GTM

60%

MARKET SMB. Venture-backed, Agencies, main-street orgs.

TAM: $2.6B SAM: $230M SOM: $16M (Beachhead)

Technology Type: Fintech

TEAM

Annual Revenue: <5$0K

Gerald Hetrick, Founder & CEO gerald@centsight.com LinkedIn

Total Funding Raised: $1.5M

Serial Entrepreneur with 25+ years building and scaling technology companies, applying operational and financial expertise to help businesses make smarter, data-driven decisions

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

Construction Risk AI AI Powered Performance Management System for Construction construction-risk-ai.com Founded: 2025 | HQ: Loveland, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

Construction has no standardized measures of project performance.

As a result, contractors only identify problems after they appear, insurance companies underwrite and manage risk after claims occur, and owner/developers select and manage contractors based only on past project outcomes. There are hundreds of billions of dollars of inefficiency resulting from the industry's lack of understanding of construction operational performance.

OUR SOLUTION

$1.5M Seed | SAFE

USE OF FUNDS Product Development

40%

Customer Management

30%

Sales and Marketing

30%

CR AI uses the data from a wide range of construction technology firms to build a standardized operational performance profile for any project and any contractor. This standardized profile has been tested against cost, schedule, safety, and insurance outcomes and has been proven to drive better results for all stakeholders. CR AI can quickly diagnose any portfolio or project and develop intelligent strategies and recommendations for how to improve it.

MARKET

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION

To be the "FICO" operational score of Construction

The product consists of a centralized backend that ingests data and builds the operational performance profiles. The different views of the product are provided to different customer types (Insurance, Contractors, Tech, Developers). The first chapter of the GTM strategy is to penetrate the Insurance & Tech market to build authority, network, and data/intelligence moats. The second chapter of the GTM strategy is to build off the foundation to penetrate the Contractor and Developer markets.

Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology Technology Type: AI/Machine Learning

TAM: $30B SAM: $3B SOM: $300M TEAM Jeremiah Woods, Founder & CEO jeremiah.woods@constructionriskai.com LinkedIn 15+ years leveraging AI, machine learning, and actuarial science to unlock actionable risk insights from complex construction and insurance data.

Annual Revenue: $80k

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

Dwarpaal Modernizing legacy hotel infrastructure with edge AI that turns every room into a smart, selfoptimizing asset. dwarpaal.com HQ: Mason, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

Dwarpaal solves the profitability and modernization gap for economy and mid-market hotels. These are properties running on thin margins and declining revenue while facing rising guest expectations, climbing energy costs, brand tech mandates, and sustainability requirements. Current solutions are capex heavy, not integrated with hotel systems and create guest friction.

$1.1M Pre-Seed Round ($600K Raised) USE OF FUNDS Growth

30%

Sales Operation

20%

Marketing

30%

Product/IP

20%

OUR SOLUTION Dwarpaal modernizes economy and mid-market hotel property assets without enterprise budgets. Our edge-AI platform (ezConnect™) connects smart thermostats, smart locks, and PMS-aware room infrastructure. It reduces electricity costs by 14-17%, removes operating friction, and uses utility rebates (available in 38 states) to make upgrades near-free. Live across 550+ properties/40,000 rooms+ today.

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION

MARKET

Fragmented, underserved US hotel Hybrid SaaS + hardware: ~$24/room/yr SaaS plus ~$200 one-time hardware, retrofit market often rebate-covered (38 states), sold direct-to-hotelier, via brand vendor TAM: $10B status (Choice, Red Roof, Wyndham) and our channel partner network.

SAM: $3.2B Traction: 20x growth since 2022 to 40,000+ rooms, 550+ properties, SOM: $1B bootstrapped with near-zero sales/marketing spend. Poised for a breakout growth through multi-channel GTM. TEAM Customers: Qualified Vendor at Choice (7,400+ hotels), Red Roof Sudhanshu Patki, Co-Founder & CEO (750+ hotels) and IHG (4200+ hotels). Final approval awaited at sudhanshu.patki@dwarpaal.com Wyndham (9300+ hotels) Live at Hilton, Marriott, Best Western, LinkedIn Extended Stay, G6. 2 provisional patents filed.

23+ years leading software development across global Stage: Revenue Growth/Inflection Point Tech Focus Area: Edge AI/SAAS Technology Type: Hardware / Cloud Annual Revenue: $1.3M (2025) → $3.5M (2026 proj – on target).

Total Funding Raised: $600K Non-dilutive Funding: $50K

technology companies and startups, building scalable enterprise platforms that solve complex operational challenges.

Nitin Karande, Co-founder & CTO nitin.karande@dwarpaal.com LinkedIn 23+ years building enterprise software and data integration platforms across hospitality and healthcare, leading the design and delivery of scalable, missioncritical technology solutions.

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

GreenLight Grocery The AI-powered purchasing platform that gives independent restaurants chain-level buying power greenlightgrocery.com Founded: 2023 | HQ: Broadview Heights, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

$500K

Independent restaurants are losing money and time because, on their own, they will never have the purchasing power, pricing transparency, and product leverage that national chains use to reduce food costs. Restaurants have never paid more for groceries and generated less profit due to these increased costs.

Seed Round

USE OF FUNDS

OUR SOLUTION GreenLight Grocery creates a competitive purchasing platform where our network of distributors competes for every order, giving independent restaurants chain-level buying power. For distributors, every dollar earned through our platform is from a newly unlocked customer. For restaurants, this cuts out the costly back-and-forth associated with negotiating each of their own purchasing orders and leads to higher margins and time saved.

A clear win-win for both sides of the table.

Product Development

40%

GTM

30%

Notable Hires

30%

MARKET BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION Launched product in Jan. 2026. 100% customer retention to date.

Secured exclusive partnerships with four nationally reputable foodservice distributors covering the full range of restaurant product needs. Distributors pay a percentage fee on every order purchased.

412,000+ independent restaurants in the US TAM: $4B (US) SAM: $1.2B (Great Lakes Region) SOM: $200M (Ohio)

Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology Technology Type: E-commerce/Marketplace Monthly GMV: $688K since Jan 2026 Monthly Recurring Revenue: $25K

TEAM Mathew Vann, President mvann@greenlightgrocery.com LinkedIn Serial entrepreneur with 25+ years building hospitality and foodservice businesses, translating frontline operational challenges into technology-driven solutions.

Additional 30+ LOI from restaurants in Northeast Ohio Estimated 2X GMV and MRR by the end of 2026

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

Kuddo Inc AI-powered patient data analytics to help behavioral health clinicians deliver their best care. kuddohealth.com Founded: 2024 | HQ: Westlake, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

Behavioral health is the only major medical field that can't measure its own quality. Claims data shows a session happened, not what happened in it.

Evidence-based protocols hit 60-80% fidelity in trials but only 25-45% in routine practice, so $280B in annual US behavioral health spend doesn't translate to outcomes; supervision doesn’t scale — fidelity-rater managers cost ~$120K each and medical directors ~$220K — much of it spent on manual review, and clinicians churn for lack of feedback, with 25–40% annual turnover and each replacement running $30–50K, and supervisors can't see which of their hundreds of clinicians are drifting until a patient deteriorates.

$3M Pre-Seed | SAFE USE OF FUNDS Key Hires

40%

Tech and Data

35%

OUR SOLUTION

Compliance

15%

Kuddo is the AI quality measurement layer for behavioral health. Clinicians upload session audio; Kuddo de-identifies it, scores it against evidencebased protocol rubrics, shows the AI score beside the clinician's selfassessment, and closes the gap with targeted, timestamped feedback.

Supervisors see every clinician, session, and trend in one dashboard with one-click compliance reporting — automating the manual review that today consumes $40–50K of a medical director’s time and the fidelity-rater headcount teams pay for to do this by hand. Our model hit 93% agreement with expert raters on an internal 80-session benchmark.

GTM

10%

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION Enterprise SaaS ($120K ACV) for digital health platforms, health systems, and SAMHSA-funded clinics, plus a $50/month direct-to-clinician wedge; 85-92% blended gross margin.

Traction: Stanford Medicine deployment with four validation studies; 60+ clinicians from Columbia live.

Stage: Pre-Revenue / Pilot Testing Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology Technology Type: AI/Machine Learning Annual Revenue: Pre-Revenue Total Funding Raised: $429K angel round closed.

MARKET TAM: $165B: (clinical quality + fidelity infrastructure) SAM: $10B: US (BH + adjacent clinical training verticals) SOM: $100M ARR (BH sites, platforms, payers.)

TEAM Wenyi Zhu, Founder wenyi@kuddohealth.com LinkedIn Founder & CEO. Scaled Cyber from 0 to 1M users; previously healthcare investing at CICC and capital markets at Citigroup. Carnegie Mellon.

Elias Lattouf, MD/MSc, Co-founder & CTO – built the Kuddo platform; postdoc at MGH/Harvard Medical School + Cleveland Clinic; first-author Nature.

Greyson LaLonde, Incoming Founding Engineer – ex-crewAI (second core maintainer); scaled Health Universe from 0 to 1 through Kleiner Perkins A; APHL/CDC public-health roots.

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

LTCareNav LLC Helping families plan for the complexities of long-term care ltcarenav.com Founded: 2025 | HQ: Cleveland, OH

RAISING

THE PROBLEM Families face care crises unprepared — six-figure decisions made in days, guided by biased lead-gen sites instead of trusted advisors. Providers pay for unvetted, oversold leads instead of educated, ready families. Employers absorb lost productivity as employees scramble to manage a parent's care, yet the benefits programs offer no tools to help. Everyone's navigating long-term care with scattered, self-interested information.

OUR SOLUTION LTCareNav's core advantage is its guided needs assessment — a structured conversation that helps families understand what they need before they start searching. Unlike lead-gen sites that push families toward the nearest available provider, LTCareNav asks the right questions, delivers clear and personalized guidance, and only then connects families to matched providers. Families arrive informed. Providers get qualified leads. The advice is the differentiator.

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION Free family platform funded by paid provider network. To reach families at scale, LTCareNav also distributes through EAP and employer benefits programs, turning a common workforce pain point into a low-cost acquisition channel. Similarly, licensed social workers and advisors use the platform to serve their own clients, further expanding the family network. One platform, one mission — with multiple channels feeding it.

Traction: 1 national partnership, provider partners, ~$30K/month revenue, 2 EAP pilots underway, integrated into 3 elder care platforms as their LTC planning solution.

Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology Technology Type: Planning Software/Lead Gen Annual Revenue: $250K – $499K Total Funding Raised: $429K | $40K Angel Round Closed.

$2M Series A | Convertible Note USE OF FUNDS Key Hires

40%

Product Development

30%

Marketing

30%

MARKET Across Provider, EAP, Software Sales TAM: $8B provider + $4.5-12B EAP/employer + $50-150M software

SAM: $100-150M provider + $500M-1B EAP/employer + $30-80M software

SOM: Conservative: $5.3-12M ARR. Base case: $13.3-25M ARR, Upside: $30.3-56M+ ARR

TEAM Lindsay Friedman, Founder lindsay@ltcarenav.com LinkedIn Serial entrepreneur building AI-powered solutions that simplify caregiving and long-term care, with a track record of founding and exiting technology startups.

Shannon Lyons, COO Shannon@ltcarenav.com LinkedIn Tech entrepreneur, operations enthusiast, and angel investor. Passionate about building customer-centric products and helping organization to grow. Creating high-performing teams and is intensely focused on multiple bottom-line results.

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

MOTIV The Operating System for Interscholastic Athletics themotivapp.com Founded: 2023 | HQ: Cincinnati, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

There are over 8M high school athletes in the US and nearly every athletic department manages them through a patchwork of GroupMe chats, email chains, spreadsheets, and disconnected apps. Coaches spend hours on admin work instead of coaching. Parents miss schedule changes and updates because information is scattered across five different platforms.

And as 28 states tighten student data privacy laws, schools face real compliance risk from the same unregulated tools they rely on every day.

There is no single system of record for high school athletics, and the cost of that gap is growing.

$2M Seed Round | SAFE

USE OF FUNDS Product Dev

50%

Sales

25%

Team

15%

Automation Tools

10%

OUR SOLUTION Motiv is a compliance-first operating system that brings coaches, parents, students and athletic administrators together in one platform, reducing administrative burden and keeping programs running smoothly. The all-inone centralized system of record brings everything you need to run, fund, and fuel a high school or middle school into one place.

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION Revenue Model • Schools adopt Motiv at no cost, which accelerates onboarding and locks in usage across coaches, parents, and athletes before layering in paid transaction streams • Revenue scales through integrated team stores (50% margins), digital fundraising (90% margins), and event ticketing (90% margins) Sales & Pipeline • $300K revenue in the last 6 months with a 57% sales conversion rate • 30+ schools across 7 states 10k+ DAU and 30+ schools in immediate pipeline • Walnut Hills (11th largest school in Ohio) mandated Motiv department-wide

MARKET High Schools and Middle Schools’ Athletic Departments TAM: $18B SAM: $6.76B SOM: $260M TEAM Jaden Walton, Co-Founder & CEO

jaden@themotivapp.com LinkedIn Founder combining firsthand coaching experience with startup and venture capital expertise to build technology that empowers athletes and coaches.

Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology Technology Type: Sports Tech Annual Revenue: ~ $600K Total Funding Raised: $225K (Non-Dilutive) A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

Ordermatic Automating manual order entry for distributors and manufacturers. ordermatic.co Founded: 2025 | HQ: Cleveland, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

$1.25M

Across the $720M US wholesale distribution industry, a significant share of orders still arrive by email, fax or handwritten purchase order and get processed manually, one line item at a time. This manual order entry is bleeding distributors and manufacturers dry.

OUR SOLUTION

Seed Round | SAFE

USE OF FUNDS

Ordermatic is an AI platform that extracts and validates manual order entries in seconds, giving distributors a straightforward path to faster, more accurate operations. Customers see upwards of 40% more orders processed YTD using Ordermatic.

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION

Product Development

40%

Notable Hires

30%

Sales and Marketing

30%

Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology

MARKET

Technology Type: AI/Machine Learning

Total Funding Raised: $800K

Industrial distributors and manufacturers with extensive SKU counts and complicated orders across a broad range of ERP systems.

Non-dilutive Funding: $50K

TAM: $720M

Annual Revenue: $50K – $249K

SAM: $144M SOM: $47M TEAM Dan Mizener, Co-Founder dan@ordermatic.co LinkedIn 15+ years in industrial equipment sales and asset management, combining deep logistics expertise with AI-driven solutions to modernize distributor operations.

David Boone Jr., Co-Founder david@ordermatic.co

LinkedIn Harvard Computer Science graduate and data scientist with experience at Microsoft and multiple startups, building AI-powered solutions that automate complex enterprise workflows.

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

Velocity AI Partners AI Agents for fitness and wellness franchises velocityaipartners.ai Founded: 2025 | HQ: Cleveland, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

Fitness and wellness franchises struggle to keep high-quality front desk associates. They're arguably one of the most important positions: they contact all your leads and follow up with all your customers. They're the first people who walk through the door. If they're underpaid and overworked, they're not going to produce the best results. This could lead to loss of revenue, current clients, and a decreased reputation in their communities because someone's not able to dedicate the time they need.

$2,000,000 Seed Round

USE OF FUNDS Hiring Talent: 40%

OUR SOLUTION Velocity AI Partners adds AI team members to support revenue management. Contacting any new leads, any old leads, any current members, and any former members, and using AI insights to improve overall messaging, response, and follow-up. Our AI agent responds to new leads in 11–14 seconds, reactivates dormant prospects and surfaces retention analytics, helping franchise operators grow membership and reduce churn with less manual effort.

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION

Marketing/Ad Spend: 30% Product Development: 30%

MARKET Fitness and wellness franchises TAM: $1.8B SAM: $831M

Traction: Signed our first enterprise contract, revenue is up 74% MoM with significant pipeline

SOM: $605M

Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers

TEAM

Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology

George Granchi, CEO george@velocityaipartners.ai LinkedIn

Technology Type: AI/Machine Learning Annual Revenue: $229k

Founder combining AI automation expertise, investment banking experience, and entrepreneurial success to help fitness and wellness businesses scale customer acquisition and retention.

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

Velora Makes hearing sermons in church easy, empowering, and lasting. velorabible.com Founded: 2025 | HQ: Aurora, OH

THE PROBLEM

RAISING

Those who leave home on Sundays to worship in a local church community are motivated by a genuine desire to hear and respond to God's Word. Yet in today's distracted media culture, it's hard to stay engaged throughout a sermon, note every Bible reference, remember the message, and carry it into the week. Velora is designed for Christians who want to center their devotional life on their own church's preaching.

$2.5M Seed | SAFE USE OF FUNDS Team Expansion / Key Hires

45%

Marketing

30%

Product Innovation

15%

Operations & Working Capital

10%

OUR SOLUTION Velora is an AI-native personal Bible app that uses your phone's mic to transcribe sermons, identify passages as they're referenced, and recommend related verses—all in real time. Powered by a proprietary AI engine, Velora lets you build a personal library of transcripts, summaries, and Bible references from each message. You can ask Velora anything about what you've been learning and generate sermon-based resources, turning Sunday's teaching into ongoing weekly devotion and application.

BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION

MARKET 533M Christian smartphone users who attend church

Emerging product with strong traction to a scalable subscription business with TAM: $2B two complementary distribution channels: direct-to-consumer and churchSAM: $350M based adoption.

Traction: Closed Beta: 560+ paid users + 500 volunteer testers, 69% trial-topaid experience conversion Public Launch Week 1: 470+ app installs, $2 CPI, 6.3% trial conversion B2B Pipeline: 67 qualified pilot churches, 200+ warm leads regionally Stage: Early Revenue / First Paying Customers Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology Technology Type: AI/Machine Learning Annual Revenue: $33K at initial launch

SOM: $15M TEAM Jonathan Hooper, Co-Founder & CDO jonathan@everywai.com LinkedIn Design founder and Christian kids' author with UI/UX, branding, marketing, and ministry experience.

Colin Hooper, Co-Founder & CEO colin@everywai.com LinkedIn Technical founder with faith-tech, software architecture/engineering, and product design expertise.

A member of the Jumpstart Trailblazer Accelerator Program.

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