2026 SUMMER LOOKBOOK
& THEIR FOUNDERS THE COMPANIES
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
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 The numbers exist, but they're buried across QuickBooks, bank accounts, and other systems, weeks out of date, so founders don't decide, decide wrong, or decide too late.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
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
Technology Type: Fintech
Annual Revenue: <5$0K
Total Funding Raised: $1.5M
MARKET
SMB. Venture-backed, Agencies, main-street orgs.
TAM: $2.6B
SAM: $230M
SOM: $16M (Beachhead)
TEAM
Gerald Hetrick, Founder & CEO gerald@centsight.com
Serial Entrepreneur with 25+ years building and scaling technology companies, applying operational and financial expertise to help businesses make smarter, data-driven decisions
Construction Risk AI
AI Powered Performance Management System for Construction
construction-risk-ai.com
Founded: 2025 | HQ: Loveland, OH
THE PROBLEM
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
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.
BUSINESS MODEL AND TRACTION
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
Annual Revenue: $80k
To be the "FICO" operational score of Construction
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
Dwarpaal
Modernizing legacy hotel infrastructure with edge AI that turns every room into a smart, selfoptimizing asset.
dwarpaal.com
HQ: Mason, OH
THE PROBLEM
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.
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
Hybrid SaaS + hardware: ~$24/room/yr SaaS plus ~$200 one-time hardware, often rebate-covered (38 states), sold direct-to-hotelier, via brand vendor status (Choice, Red Roof, Wyndham) and our channel partner network.
Traction: 20x growth since 2022 to 40,000+ rooms, 550+ properties, bootstrapped with near-zero sales/marketing spend. Poised for a breakout growth through multi-channel GTM.
Customers: Qualified Vendor at Choice (7,400+ hotels), Red Roof (750+ hotels) and IHG (4200+ hotels). Final approval awaited at Wyndham (9300+ hotels) Live at Hilton, Marriott, Best Western, Extended Stay, G6. 2 provisional patents filed
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
$1.1M Pre-Seed Round ($600K Raised)
Fragmented, underserved US hotel retrofit market
TAM: $10B
SAM: $3.2B
SOM: $1B
TEAM
Sudhanshu Patki, Co-Founder & CEO sudhanshu.patki@dwarpaal.com
23+ years leading software development across global technology companies and startups, building scalable enterprise platforms that solve complex operational challenges.
Nitin Karande, Co-founder & CTO nitin.karande@dwarpaal.com
23+ years building enterprise software and data integration platforms across hospitality and healthcare, leading the design and delivery of scalable, missioncritical technology solutions.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
Additional 30+ LOI from restaurants in Northeast Ohio
Estimated 2X GMV and MRR by the end of 2026
MARKET
412,000+ independent restaurants in the US
TAM: $4B (US)
SAM: $1.2B (Great Lakes Region)
SOM: $200M (Ohio)
TEAM
Mathew Vann, President mvann@greenlightgrocery.com
Serial entrepreneur with 25+ years building hospitality and foodservice businesses, translating frontline operational challenges into technology-driven solutions.
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
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.
OUR SOLUTION
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.
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
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.
LTCareNav LLC
Helping families plan for the complexities of long-term care
ltcarenav.com
Founded: 2025 | HQ: Cleveland, OH
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.
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
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
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.
MOTIV
The Operating System for Interscholastic Athletics
themotivapp.com
Founded: 2023 | HQ: Cincinnati, OH
THE PROBLEM
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.
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
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)
MARKET
High Schools and Middle Schools’ Athletic Departments
TAM: $18B
SAM: $6.76B
SOM: $260M
TEAM
Jaden Walton, Co-Founder & CEO jaden@themotivapp.com
Founder combining firsthand coaching experience with startup and venture capital expertise to build technology that empowers athletes and coaches.
Ordermatic
Automating manual order entry for distributors and manufacturers.
ordermatic.co
Founded: 2025 | HQ: Cleveland, OH
THE PROBLEM
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
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
Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers
Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology
Technology Type: AI/Machine Learning
Annual Revenue: $50K – $249K
Total Funding Raised: $800K
Non-dilutive Funding: $50K
Industrial distributors and manufacturers with extensive SKU counts and complicated orders across a broad range of ERP systems.
TAM: $720M
SAM: $144M
SOM: $47M
TEAM
Dan Mizener, Co-Founder
dan@ordermatic.co
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
Harvard Computer Science graduate and data scientist with experience at Microsoft and multiple startups, building AI-powered solutions that automate complex enterprise workflows.
Velocity AI Partners
AI Agents for fitness and wellness franchises velocityaipartners.ai
Founded: 2025 | HQ: Cleveland, OH
THE PROBLEM
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.
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
Traction: Signed our first enterprise contract, revenue is up 74% MoM with significant pipeline
Stage: Early Revenue/First Paying Customers
Tech Focus Area: Software/Information Technology
Technology Type: AI/Machine Learning
Annual Revenue: $229k
$2,000,000 Seed Round
USE OF FUNDS
MARKET
Fitness and wellness franchises
TAM: $1.8B
SAM: $831M
SOM: $605M
TEAM
George Granchi, CEO george@velocityaipartners.ai LinkedIn
Founder combining AI automation expertise, investment banking experience, and entrepreneurial success to help fitness and wellness businesses scale customer acquisition and retention.
Velora
Makes hearing sermons in church easy, empowering, and lasting.
velorabible.com
Founded: 2025 | HQ: Aurora, OH
THE PROBLEM
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.
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
$2.5M
Emerging product with strong traction to a scalable subscription business with two complementary distribution channels: direct-to-consumer and churchbased 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
533M Christian smartphone users who attend church
TAM: $2B
SAM: $350M
SOM: $15M
TEAM
Jonathan Hooper, Co-Founder & CDO jonathan@everywai.com
Design founder and Christian kids' author with UI/UX, branding, marketing, and ministry experience.
Colin Hooper, Co-Founder & CEO colin@everywai.com
Technical founder with faith-tech, software architecture/engineering, and product design expertise.
