Congratulations to our 5 finalists for the 2018 March Amber Grant ($1,000). We’ll announce the winner shortly!

Norma

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Baby Change-N-Go

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Rocky Mountain Sign Language

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Rise House (formerly Just Ride Indy)

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Cheer For You

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Congratulations to our 5 finalists for the 2018 February Amber Grant ($1,000). We’ll announce the winner next week…

Ziva Wearables

Heloise Taillet

DC Design Tours

Carolyn Muraskin

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YERU STEM Education

Shaakira Hardy

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Vie Cycle

Sylvie Froncek

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Don’t Forget The List

Lisa Buie

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Congratulations to the 5 finalists for the 2018 January Amber Grant ($1,000) …

PearBerry Development

Rebecca Walton

Snow Day Productions

Julie Drew

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Madison Eats Food Tours

Otehlia Cassidy

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Wildflower Learning Community

Shelley Welch-Riselvato

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LifeFlo Ergonomics

Courtney Mitchell

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Imagiread

Tiffany Rachann McMiller

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Kids at Risk for Diabetes

Julie Stelting

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Luxury Holidays

Jerelyn Mayer

Website

Double Mission

Jaimie Healey

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Lactation Link

Lindsey Shipley

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Tip Genie

Elle Rustique
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TipGenie is a mobile payments and social impact startup based in Mountain View, California.

WNS Events

Whitney Nichole Stevens
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WNS Events is a boutique event planning agency that specializes in curating corporate, charity and social events in Sports and Entertainment.

Upcycled Stone

Tara Lynn Huff
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Upcycled Stone takes excess stone that would otherwise be tossed into the trash and upcycles it into products including fire pits and pavers.

Anahata Collaborative

Lara Cornell
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Trinity Gunshot Alarm System

Stacy Jax
Website (Release in early 2018)

Influenced by the Sandy Hook tragedy, Stacy’s goal is to improve school/building security and safety.

Front Forty
Lauren Condell
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Front Forty is a grab n’ go concept providing personalized, healthy, farm-to-table meals at the touch of a button — made possible with a network of next-generation kiosks.

Hope Adoptions & Consulting
Amber Van Dyke
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Hope Adoptions and Consulting is a licensed adoption agency offering home study and post placement services to families across Northern Wyoming.

Re-Nuble
Tinia Pina
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Re-Nuble uses a proprietary process enabled by technology to offer effective, environmentally friendly, bio-based products to the agricultural industry.

WiGo Trips
Jaqui McCarthy
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Vital Step Physical Therapy & Fitness
Lyndsay Brown
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Vital Step provides clients with the steps necessary to reach a level of maximal recovery and independence in a supportive, compassionate environment.

Spirited Grape
Brenda Audino
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Spirited Grape’s approach to wine education is not simply learning about wine, but fostering an understanding of the industry. Spirited Grape will offer industry recognized wine certification programs which have been developed by internationally recognized organizations including: Wine and Spirit Education Trust (WSET), The Society of Wine Educators (SWE) and others.

Accents, School of Foreign Language
Brenda Beaudette-Kaim
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Brenda’s mission is simple: to provide fun, interactive immersion foreign language classes to children and adults ages four and up. She creates a comfortable and friendly learning environment so everyone can thrive.  She wants students to have an enjoyable and positive experience!  ASoFL focuses on speaking where students are actively engaged through word/image association, conversation, fun physical and artistic activities, music, and even theatre.

Sleep N Feed
Victoria Goodwin
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The Sleep N Feed is a multifunctional co-sleeper/nursing pillow/traveling bassinet system that transforms for different feeding positions and accommodates babies from birth to one year of age. Drawing on personal experience, Victoria’s goal with the Sleep N Feed is to provide babies a safe sleeping space and to make breastfeeding easier and more comfortable.

Omiga™
Karen Cohen
Website

Omiga’s patented technology detects physiological signs that first appear at the point where physical and cognitive ability is considered legally impaired. These signs are scientifically analyzed and recorded, and the results are reported. Omiga’s communications capabilities can transmit customized results to designated recipients, simply record the testing results for future processing, or even disable a vehicle’s ignition.

BLOOM
Bri Alexander
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BLOOM was inspired by idea that language and culture should be accessible to the communities and descendants it belongs to. By working in conjunction with tribal and ethnic nations and their existing language initiatives, BLOOM makes learning one’s language easier and more accessible than ever before.

Congratulations to the finalists — we will announce the winner shortly!

Pepper
Jaclyn Fu
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Jaclyn and co-founder Lia Winograd started a company that makes better fitting clothes for small-chested women, starting with bras. The goal for Pepper is to help women redefine their own body standards and celebrate the body they’ve got.

Jamie Lee Photography
Jamie Lee Martinez
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Jamie’s portrait photography business is located in San Antonio, Texas, and specializes in newborn and child photography. A life-long lover of photography, Jamie beautifully captures precious moments from the early years of life.

Hey Paddle
Rebecca Tongsinoon
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Hey Paddle brings indoor workout studios to the outdoors on paddle boards, giving you a unique experience. Austin, Texas provides the perfect backdrop for this emerging business that’s rooted in self-growth and overcoming challenges.

Connect2Nicu
Shante Nixon
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Connect2nicu is developing web and mobile apps to help health care providers and parents who have babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. They are a team of world-class health professionals, developers, testers, analysts and creative thinkers who collectively address NICU issues with technical solutions.

Lactation Link
Lindsey Shipley
Website

Lactation Link offers online breastfeeding classes, e-Consults, in-person breastfeeding classes and in-person breastfeeding consultations. Drawing on personal experience, Lindsey aims to educate the many mothers looking for guidance during this critical time.

*Thanks for reading. Note that we’ll announce the July winner by Friday the 11th.

Sanjeevita By Audubon
Vaishali Ketkar
Website

Sanjeevita by Audubon was started with one goal: to provide consumers with an all-natural personal care line that they could trust. Their products go beyond the “natural” and “organic” labels by using the right raw materials, components, and manufacturing processes. The result — scientifically-formulated personal care products that are not only safe to use every day but can help to improve quality of life.

Goûter
Violaine Orban
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Goûter is an alkaline water-based superfood company providing unprocessed, nutrient-dense, real food options for people on the go. They use premium organic ingredients to create the purest beverage that your body can use as clean fuel. Their mission is to change the face of snacking and provide clean fuel alternatives that nourish and energize the body in a fast, easy and accessible way.

Baby Bay Box
Anna Dailey
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Baby Bay Box is a virtual hand-me-down network that aims to revolutionize the way parents shop for their babies and toddlers. Drawing on personal experience, Anna has seen how much parents spend for rapidly-growing young childen. So, her goal is to cut costs for parents, reduce time spent shopping in-store, and minimize environmental impact.

Veterans Resort
Elizabeth Bannon
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Veterans Resort allows all U.S. military veterans a 5 night stay in just-like-home mountain cabins for a discounted price. Several activities and amenities are geared towards the season of stay. A portion of the proceeds go towards funding for Operation Homefront Heroes.

Mama Joy Foods
Joy Leeper
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Mama Joy Foods’ goal is to help people maintain their diets and save them time by selling baked goods with only natural ingredients. All of their foods are gluten-free, dairy-free and grain-free. Most foods are also Paleo and Vegan Friendly, too.

Congratulations to the finalists — we will announce the winner shortly!

Intero
Rebecca Rogers
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Intero VR helps athletes achieve their potential by reducing stress, fear, and anxiety through visualization. Their VR training apps connect people in order to create a sense of community and support. They’ve introduced the first headset designed specifically for athletes, one that’s form-fitting, ventilated, lightweight, has a larger field of view, and looks cool. This headset can be used with athletic training machines as well as for personal visualization without a machine.
Resthetics
Rose Xie
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Resthetics is a medical device company that aims to convert waste anesthesia gas into a safe renewable resource. Resthetics has technology that can capture these waste anesthesia gases in the operating room and prevent the release of toxic gases into our environment. The company’s core technology, a porous crystalline organic framework, originated from interdisciplinary research conducted at the University of Houston.

Easily Amused Productions
Chrissy Fagerholt
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Friend or Faux helps recall memories, unveil truths and laugh at life’s funny but all-too-real moments: first kisses, bad hair styles, and questionable choices made when we were younger. Friend or Faux is often surprising, at times risqué but always revealing. After two years of research and development and over 300 play testers, they’ve discovered people are craving face-to-face interaction, especially the millennial generation.
PUVI
Daniella Alejandra Henry
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PUVI strives to make innovative, multi-use products. Their newest product is a patent-pending hair accessory that aims to revolutionize the way girls with curls tie their hair. The PUVItie allows the user to control how loose (or tight) the hair tie is. It is made of 100% silk, preventing breakage and those pesky ponytail creases.

STEMed Academy
Emily Silveira
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STEMed Academy evolved because of a passion for science and a dire need in the homeschool community. Their motto is: Think like a scientist. Teach like a teacher. Love like a parent. While the main paid product is curriculum, STEMed Academy also provides parent training in science education to better equip them with the skills to bring science to life in their homes.

Congratulations to the finalists — we will announce the winner shortly!