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Company Name: AccelGolf
Primary Contact: William Sulinski
Email: ws@accelgolf.com

Website:  www.accelgolf.com

AccelGolf, formerly mCaddie, Inc. is a mobile web and social networking startup anchored by an advisory team including former senior Yahoo!, Avaya, Nortel, and Lucent executives, PGA golfers, and professors at the University of Maine, Southern Maine, and Machias. Winner of the 2008 USM Annual Business Plan Competition, AccelGolf introduces wireless connectivity to the golf course by cell phone. Accessible through the mobile Internet, AccelGolf is also being developed for apple's iPhone and Google's Android platforms.

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Consumer Energy Research Corp (CERC) was the winner of the 2006 USM student business competition. The principal is William Sulinski. The company won their second MTI seed grant award from Maine Technology Institute (MTI) in Information Technology to develop their prototype design of Heat-Safe, a remote sensing device that will supplement home heating oil tank gauges by relaying low-oil and low temperature alarms to third-parties (which will enable oil retailers to significantly decrease their cost of delivering oil.)

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Company Name: Life Story Commons
Primary Contact: Robert Atkinson
Email: Atkinson@usm.maine.edu

Professor Robert Atkinson, a USM faculty member, is developing a social networking web site for senior citizens/aging boomers featuring a large archive of life stories and a methodology for collecting life stories.

Liquid Wireless is a mobile lead generation company that creates data and voice leads for our advertisers using mobile marketing techniques.  Our system has generated over 30,000 leads and helps advertisers reach new prospects through a new channel.

OAC will use efficient trucking routes to serve a diversity of commercial food waste generators; compost the waste at its facility using proven and cost-effective processes; and grow in a controlled fashion with input from its expert Advisory Board. 

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PEM has developed the technology for a carbon emissions measuring device.  Their mission is to reduce uncertainty in small and large-scale carbon budgets, to create a holistic understanding of how climate change is affecting humanity, particularly at local scales, through the use of community networks, and to equip the youth of the world with the knowledge to deal with shared climatic problems and solutions.

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The USM chapter of SIFE is headquartered in the MCED incubator. There are weekly meetings on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in LBH 241.

Founded in 1975 and active on more than 1,500 college and university campuses in 37 countries, SIFE is a nonprofit organization that works in partnership with business and higher education to provide students the opportunity to take what they are learning in the classroom and apply it to real-life situations, using their knowledge to better their communities through educational outreach projects.

2008-2009 officers:

President:     Tim Pulsoni         timothy.a.pulsoni@maine.edu

Vice Pres:      Nevin Duffey            nevin.duffey@maine.edu

Treasurer:     Joe Albert                 joealbert459@msn.com

Secretary:      Chelsea Cutler       chelsea.cutler@maine.edu  

Faculty advisor: Professor John Voyer          voyer@usm.maine.edu

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Silver Performance Gear is developing high end women’s athletic clothing with new interactive materials. Principal is A. Silver. The company will design and manufacturer athletic apparel for well-endowed women and hard–to-fit women. They seek to solve the problem of inadequate breast support for active well-endowed women and transform the sports bra market. SPG’s value proposition includes using smart fabrics and developing design patents to truly offer a new generation product to a growing market sector. 

The company was winner of the USM Student Business Plan Competition 2007.

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Like many competing gas sensors, this sensor monitors, detects, and identifies a variety of gas analytes.  However, Guvench’s improved rapid detection sensor identifies a wider range of gases, consumes less power, and is more easily manufactured.  The sensor is also expected to be more resistant to drift and respond more quickly because of its advanced circuitry and proprietary shuttle heating element chamber design. 

The sensor may be used in dosimeter and rapid detector applications requiring high durability, improved specificity, and increased sensitivity at low cost.  FMI on Dr. Guvench & his work with MEMS sensors visit, http://usm.maine.edu/engineering/News/Old%20News/0704guvenchmemsgrant.html .

Inquiries about the licensing availability of this technology can be made to the Maine Patent Program.  874-6521

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Visible Government Online will be a web-based subscription service, combining access to complex public data sets with a powerful analytic tool. Potential customers include news media, think tanks, lobbyists, university researchers, and government officials. The data will be from state and large local governments, including budgets, revenues, expenses, and school test scores.

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Company Name: zumsport LLC
Primary Contact: Amy Ireland
Email: Amy@heiasport.com

zūmsport (previously d/b/a heia) was founded in 2007 with the inspiration that athletics are a vital element of society and that athletes deserve products that better serve their needs. To address these needs zūmsport has developed two very distinctive and exciting products - zūm a new performance / energy snack, and zumsport.com a dynamic website to service the needs of athletes. Made from natural, allergen free ingredients that deliver the right balance of proteins to carbohydrates and optimally sized, zūm is an innovative product in the sports food category. zumsport.com compliments this unique snack by providing resources and functionality that support and promote athleticism along with an online community that celebrates athleticism and the lifestyle of athletes.

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iSagacity is a leading force in the delivery of predictive condition monitoring technology and specialized engineering software. Their software and services enhance the performance of a variety of industries by increasing productivity, promoting operating efficiency, and providing early detection and diagnosis of abnormal process conditions.

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Company Name: ORPC, Maine
Primary Contact: Chris Sauer
Email: csauer@oceanrenewablepower.com

Website:  www.oceanrenewablepower.com/home.htm

Ocean Renewable Power Company, LLC (ORPC) was formed to generate reliable, competitive, emission-free electricity from ocean resources. They are developing proprietary modular ocean current generation (OCGEN ^tm ) technology and incorporating it into environmentally superior, financially successful, ocean and tidal current generation projects.

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