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Today, The Forces Of Disruption And Globalization Are Buffeting Well Established Industries. The Creation Of An Innovation Economy That Is Driven By The Rapid Expansion Of Start-ups Has Never Been More Prudent. At Ryse, We Take A Vested Interest In Fostering An Environment That Helps These Start-ups Take Shape, Grow And Succeed. Start-ups Who Join Ryse Receive The Funding They Need To Grow, But More Importantly, They Tap The Synergy That Can Happen From Working With Like-minded Talented People. We Offer The Solution To The Problem Of Isolation That Many Start-ups Experience And Provide Important Help They Need To Succeed.
Entrepreneurs bring the ideas; we provide the processes. Successful outcomes are often based on the same best practices. We share processes with entrepreneurs such as documentation, how to measure progress, how to set up milestones and how to prioritize work.
When we fund a company, we favor experimentation overelaborate planning and iterative design over big dev projects. In our minds, it is better to start over with a new approach then to be forced into a long business plan outcome that is destined to fail.
The fundamental activity of a startup is to turn ideas into products. We can help measure how customers respond to products to learn whether to pivot or persevere.
Startups exist to sell a product or service and serve customers. However, some entrepreneurs are not born sales people. We have industry veterans available to help start-ups with the selling process and take the guess work out of bringing a product to market.
We know intuitively that diversity matters. But do private equity firms really embrace it? Our research finds that companies in the top quartile for gender or racial and ethnic diversity are more likely to have financial returns above their industry medians. Diversity is an obvious competitive differentiator that shifts market share towards more diverse companies over time. That’s why attracting, developing, mentoring, sponsoring and retaining the next generation of diverse global leaders is so important to ryse ventures. With this mindset, we are confident that those who embrace diversity will pull further ahead and the laggards will fall further behind.
The Foundation of Our Approach is to Provide Start-ups with Funding and Shared Infrastructure Needed to Achieve Success.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
This is the evolution of the smoke detector. It can detect smoke and hazardous gasses. It can also detect motion for robbery alert. It also has a camera and intercom so that first responders can see if there is a real threat or if it is false alarm. If it is a real threat having the camera be operated by the first responder (police or fire department) will help them tremendously in stopping the hazard. It also has backup connectivity via 4g so that in the case of electrical fire or if the robber cuts the Wi-Fi, it can still transmit.
Navitt provides immediate notification to a loved one if your car is involved in an accident or high impact situation. Making sure someone is notified right away via text message might provide enough time to ensure that medical, police, fire or a friend is dispatched in time. The equipment necessary is a small device that plugs in to the OBD port in your car. The device senses when you have been in an accident or high impact. After that, you can select who you want to notify such as your friend, a loved one or our Command Center who will call you and make sure you are ok. Navitt also provides directions to people you select to notify in case they need to get to your location. Navitt provides nationwide coverage across the entire United States and you are protected wherever there is cellular signal.
Gruvvi is a new music website that allows users to discover and create playlists of their favorite songs. Playlists can then be embedded in sharable music walls that contain unique visual experiences that can be viewed on PC’s, Tablets, Smartphones and TVs. Gruvvi solves the problems (commercial interruptions, can’t customize and save playlists…etc) that exists with current music streaming or internet radio sites. With the Gruvvi walls and the Gruvvi Web App, seamless playlists of free content can be created within seconds.
It has been only nine years since the iPhone first emerged and the apps that followed have changed the way we do almost everything. Introducing the new age of always-on mobile connectivity for “things”. These “things” are networked devices and they now already outnumber the people on the planet. By some estimates, within the next five years, the number of devices connected to the Internet will outnumber the people on the planet by over seven to one—50 billion machines, ranging from networked sensors to industrial robots. Inexpensive computing power, cheap or free connectivity, and the relative ease with which new software and chips are making connecting will make it possible for governments, companies, and even individuals to collect detailed data from IoT (Internet of Things) devices and automate them in some way. Telko Labs will lead the way and make many of these connections possible.
Combining functionality and aesthetics, KlipCam is a video camera that clips to anything you want it to. Interchangeable mounts allow for KlipCam to be placed on clothing, around your house or in your car. It is as small as an ipod shuffle but its 10MP camera is powerful enough to deliver full HD Video and 100 mins of playback time. It is equipped with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth so you can easily save what you record to your phone or the cloud. Recording is easy with KlipCam, just clip it on and tap. When you are done recording, tap twice.
SlideSolve is a variety of dynamic and evolving challenge-response puzzles used by websites to determine whether or not a user is human. This “proof-of-work” test of humanness protects websites from unwanted intrusion by bots or automated hacking programs. SlideSolve replaces a widely used Turing test (CAPTCHAs) because the solution is more user friendly, optimized for touch screen devices, reduces website churn and is more secure. SlideSolve is also advertising friendly as the puzzles can be integrated with a variety of advertising approaches.
It has been only nine years since the iPhone first emerged and the apps that followed have changed the way we do almost everything. Introducing the new age of always-on mobile connectivity for “things”. These “things” are networked devices and they now already outnumber the people on the planet. By some estimates, within the next five years, the number of devices connected to the Internet will outnumber the people on the planet by over seven to one—50 billion machines, ranging from networked sensors to industrial robots. Inexpensive computing power, cheap or free connectivity, and the relative ease with which new software and chips are making connecting will make it possible for governments, companies, and even individuals to collect detailed data from IoT (Internet of Things) devices and automate them in some way. Telko Labs will lead the way and make many of these connections possible.