An essay by John Melonakos
Tonight’s Atlanta Startup Village #12 Recap
Tonight’s Atlanta Startup Village was awesome. With hundreds of high-energy people all buzzing about, the Village staff had problems getting everyone to leave! I’m hoarse from talking so much.
Here’s a recap of tonight’s companies:
- Started in 2005 as a hobby
- The founder is a registered dental hygienist and still sees patients one day a week (4 of her patients were in the audience!)
- Seeing 50% growth this year
- Thousands of registered dental offices
- Innovative enterprise mobile solutions
- Creates software to help manage a deployed workforce, e.g. delivery trucks
- Every deployed person has a GPS connected smartphone or tablet and the product coordinates the deployed workforce through those devices
- Provides real-time tracking information to the managers
- Provides the ability to capture signatures and photos in the field
- Provides the ability for managers to dispatch work orders
- The company currently has 10 customers at different stages of deployment
- Self-funded through consulting services
- An online marketplace for people to sell and buy tax credits
- Currently focused on helping sell/buy entertainment tax credits in Georgia
- The founder has a background as a policy advisor for the Georgia entertainment tax credit
- Just closed their first $200k tax credit transaction
- The company makes 2-5% commissions on transactions
- A marketplace for transparent medical pricing
- Raising $1.5 million at a $15 million valuation
- 65k doctors and 51 hospitals already in the platform
- Like Travelocity for medical procedures
- Shows cash vs the original price to consumers
- There are 8.3B preplanned doctor visits per year
- There are 500k doctors and dentists in the US
- They estimate they can eliminate $69k per doctor per year in insurance transaction costs
- They hinted that they may be on Shark Tank in the near future
- Software developers can’t script as much as in the past due to the need to test website user interfaces
- They record testing sessions
- Testing user interfaces is a subjective thing and they provide the ability for testers to take subjective notes about there experiences in a video format with the website as a background
- The results can be uploaded into JIRA or other project management systems
It was great to be with everyone and feel the energy of the Atlanta Startup Village crowd at the Atlanta Tech Village tonight.
What were your favorite moments of the evening?