Announcing the Eight 2021 Render Competition Winners

Render Capital is excited to announce the eight winners of our 2021 Render Competition. They each received a $100,000 investment award to help fund and grow their startups.

The eight winners were awarded on Thursday, September 23, during the Render Competition Pitch Event at Lynn Family Stadium. While five winners were local to Louisville, the remaining three will relocate their headquarters to the area.

The 2021 Winners

DiningTek (Broomfield, CO), An all-in-one business development engine empowering food and dining entrepreneurs, restaurants, cafes, food trucks, and food wholesalers, with marketing automation, branding, and online sales under one platform.

Innovative Therapeutix (Louisville, KY), A pediatric-focused device company solving medical and developmental issues in infants and children. Its current product, LullaFeed, is a music-based feeding device that helps parents and feeding specialists support a child through the feeding progression.

Legal Gantt (Louisville, KY), Eliminates unnecessary phone calls and reduces the risk of a communication bar complaint against attorneys.

Moolathon (Louisville, KY), A social fundraising platform built around a fitness tracking application, giving groups and individuals the ability to raise money for a cause through the pursuit of getting fit.

Repaytient (Louisville, KY), Increases hospital cash flow by up to 30% and reduces collections overhead by up to 15% by offering interest-free payment plans to patients for their out-of-pocket healthcare expenses.

Symba (Louisville, KY), Helps real estate agents close more business and provide better customer service with the industry’s only mobile-first CRM, eliminating clunkiness and complexity.

Veeper (Kansas City, MO), Builds personalized loyalty programs for online stores, rewarding customers with automatic, incremental discounts that increase each time a customer adds an item to the cart.

Xena Intelligence (Boston, MA), An algorithmic engine that optimizes pay-per-click ad campaigns by continuously ingesting keyword and sales data, automating the decision-making process and making campaigns highly adaptable to the e-commerce landscape.

The Render Competition makes funding more accessible to local early-stage startups in the Greater Louisville region, while also helping attract new entrepreneurs to the area. The winners were selected by a group of expert judges: Allie Burns (CEO, Village Capital), Vik Chadha (CEO, Scalable Ventures and General Partner, Unbridled Ventures), Kellie Kuzmuk (Growth Lead Product Manager, Rise Science), and Patrick Henshaw (Managing Director, Render Capital).

Last year, eight startups, including Stuccco, were selected to receive $100,000 to help grow their business. Stuccco, a virtual staging and online interior design company, said the funding was crucial, especially during COVID-19.

“We cannot thank Render Capital enough for their investment last year, which helped us continue to grow.”, Matt Langan, CEO and founder, Stuccco