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MESA Portfolio

Current MESA Mentees

Companies that are actively under MESA Group mentorship are referred to as “portfolio companies” in keeping with our Intellectual Capital model. Our primary focus is on emerging software companies who have a commercially available product and have demonstrated a repeatable sales model. Each portfolio company candidate is carefully screened and evaluated by the mentor team and, if approved, is assigned a sponsor mentor to work closely with the organization.

If you’re interested in learning more about MESA and how to become a portfolio company, please contact us.

astropadAstro HQ

Astropad is software that turns the iPad into a high end drawing tablet for the computer. Existing dedicated drawing tablets either have difficult learning curves, or they are prohibitively expensive, costing thousands of dollars. Now with Astropad and an iPad, we are able to deliver the same experience as expensive drawing tablets at a fraction of the price.


 BilliyoBilliyo

Billiyo is a comprehensive, affordable EHR for the health care of the future — designed from scratch for home health care, home medical equipment, adult day programs, and private duty personal care.


Binary Bridge

Binary Bridge creates hi-tech solutions for humanitarian medical teams and rural clinics in low-resource countries, allowing them to serve more people and provide better care than ever before.


CaptureLife

CaptureLife is a mobile marketing and commerce platform connecting brands to consumers through personalized digital media. We turn memorable images and video that are uniquely important to each consumer into new revenue and on-going customer relationships for content and experience creating businesses.


Creatively Focused

Creatively Focused

Creatively Focused offers services and technical solutions to solve the teacher retention crisis with a focus on special education teachers. Every special education teacher will feel understood, supported and valued, creating no reason to leave the field.


Delve HealthDelve Health

Delve Health is a clinical IT organization focusing on solutions to enhance clinical trial collaboration and provide data management services. Our Digital Products are designed to remotely engage patients and collect data using a web and mobile platform.


DispatchDispatch

Dispatch is a platform services company providing technology that connects the industrial distribution market with on-demand delivery. Dispatch delivers real time status and location visibility and a massive on-demand driver network to make delivery affordable, scalable and tech enabled. Targeted at the industrial business to business sector, Dispatch allows industrial suppliers the ability to affordably meet the “I need it now” delivery requirements of their customers.


HabitAware

HabitAware’s patented smart bracelet, Keen, is delivering on its promise to “Retrain Your Brain” away from negative compulsive behaviors. Keen’s customizable gesture detection technology creates heightened awareness of unwanted behaviors in real-time via vibration. With awareness, one has the power to make new, healthy choices.


Reflection SciencesReflection Sciences

Reflection Sciences provides training and tools for assessing executive function skills in early childhood and across the lifespan. Executive function (EF) refers to neurocognitive skills, such as attention, working memory, self-control, and cognitive flexibility, that are involved in goal-directed problem solving. EF measured in childhood has been proven to predict school readiness, academic achievement, and educational attainment, as well as career success, health, wealth, and well-being in adulthood.


Say KidSayKid

SayKid has developed the world’s 1st screenless, play-based learning platform. SayKid developed voice tech in the form factor of a plush robot to help children learn in a safe, natural, and engaging way.


ThrivorsTHRIVORS

THRIVORS is a digital health platform for that helps cancer patient’s healing during and after treatment with evidence-based modules such as exercise, nutrition, mindfulness, and community support that improve physical function and quality of life. We support our primary customers, pharma and payers, with insights into patient behaviors that occur beyond a clinical setting that influence adherence and outcomes.


Ur TurnUR Turn

UR Turn puts students in the driver seat and guides them toward success with goal mapping, personalized insights, and visual progress tracking.

 


VemosVemos

Vemos is a data and analytics company that allows hospitality venues manage, understand, and grow their business from a single dashboard. Our software helps bars and nightclubs understand every guest that walks through their door, from what they spend inside to what brought them there to key demographics. Vemos then turns that information into actionable insights for owners and managers to increase profitability.


wheniworkWhen I Work

When I Work makes employee scheduling easy. Most businesses spend an average of 8 hours per week or more on employee scheduling using programs like Excel, or even worse— a pencil and paper. Employee scheduling software can help you build your schedule for the week in as little as 15 minutes. When I Work is an employee scheduling app that does more than just save you time on scheduling. It also helps you improve communication, eliminate excuses, boost accountability among your staff, track time and attendance, and grow your business.


Offering Tree

OfferingTree is a suite of business tools for wellness professionals that puts your website, scheduling, payment and email tools in one place so you can focus on your passion: serving your clients. Without the right tools, managing your business can be frustrating, so we built OfferingTree, a platform that brings all of the important business essentials into one place. Spend time with clients, not with software.


SupDoc

SupDoc is an AI-powered health platform for direct primary care and behavioral health. SupDoc offers virtual concierge employer benefits for companies focused on convenience and efficiency.


Bus Stop Mamas

Bus Stop Mamas is a digital workforce platform that introduces businesses to off the market talent—stay at home parents—mostly moms, but dads too. Businesses easily post full time, part time and temporary jobs on the website platform, the key is flexibility. Bus Stop Mamas is a mission driven, hybrid workforce model that delivers social and economic upswing with one-click. The quick-acting, super affordable, innovative technology is a win-win-win for the ecosystem of suppliers: business, family, community, and, importantly, mom–the producer of all people.


Trust Mary LogoTrust Mary

Trustmary is a survey tool for marketers that helps them to measure NPS, collect feedback, reviews, testimonials (including video), and other formats of social proof to improve website conversions and measure the achieved results.

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Testimonials

  • The MESA mentors are one of the most trusted advisors a founder CEO can have. MESA brings both trust and clarity to help a founder address challenges and determine what actions are best.
    Chad HalvorsonCEO, When I Work
  • MESA provides a unique perspective that we don’t get elsewhere. We have experience doing product development but not in operating and running a business. Our MESA mentors provide us with the operational guidance we need.
    Matt RongeCEO, Astro HQ
  • Our MESA mentors were able to articulate proven strategies that we implemented to improve internal alignment. Very quickly the team was more in sync as the new strategies allowed us to have a clear line of sight to where we needed to go.
    Sameer KumarCEO, HabitAware

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