Shout-outs
Cooler Planet
Cooler Planet is the first company funded (and co-founded) by Founders Co-op. The company specializes in matching pre-qualified residential and commercial customers with local alternative energy suppliers on a pay-per-lead basis. With dozens of participating suppliers and a national service footprint, Cooler Planet is an early and leading entrant in this fast-growing market, and reflects Founders Co-op's commitment to achieving social good in the process of creating business value. Cooler Planet was created by a two-person founding team: Tom Staples and Danny Vo.
LookStat
LookStat is focused on delivering analytics and workflow automation for the rapidly growing microstock photography industry. Contrary to the prevailing trends in digital music and video, innovation in the stock photography market is driving growing demand and increasing seller pricing power. LookStat is building a platform to enable a growing number of photographers and illustrators to earn more by giving them better systems and information. The company was created by a two-person founding team: Rahul Pathak and Casey Zednick.
Array Health Solutions
Array Health Solutions is an employee benefits company whose purpose is to expand access to benefits to more working Americans. Array provides employers with a compelling alternative to group health insurance. Array's Software as a Service (SaaS) platform offers employers health benefit cost predictability, funding flexibility and greater employee choice. The company was created by a three-person founding team: Jonathan Rickert, Daniel Wolf and Christopher Moneta.
Frugal Mechanic
Frugal Mechanic is an auto parts search and price comparison engine serving the $40B a year do-it-yourself auto repair market. The site regularly collects and compares pricing information from dozens of auto part retailers and distributes that information via FrugalMechanic.com as well white-label implementations of the service managed on behalf of dozens of partner sites. The company was created by a two-person founding team: Eric Peters and Tim Underwood.
AppStoreHQ
AppStoreHQ is a search engine and discovery platform for mobile applications and developers. Created by Founders Co-op partner Chris DeVore and co-founder Ian Sefferman, the company offers an authoritative view of the best mobile applications by tapping the collective intelligence of the most influential bloggers on the subject. The company also offers iPhone app developers a high-visibility channel for connecting with both app purchasers and prospective contract development customers.