The Barris Incubator Program draws on the expertise of Tuck's recognized faculty, who are involved in the incubator's
processes and who advise entrepreneurial-minded students on selected projects. The incubator offers Tuck students entrepreneurial
guidance and support, access to experts in key areas, and opportunities to present business concepts to professional investors
in the greater Dartmouth community and more broadly.
Incubator teams are required to compete in at least one regional or national business plan competition per academic year. The
Center provides financial support and advising services to incubator teams as well as to other Tuck students competing in business
plan competitions.
The Barris Incubator Program provides project teams with working space complete with communications
equipment, whiteboards, filing cabinets, and Internet and intranet support. Each term,
teams apply to the Center for access to incubator space. The Center's incubator is
a no-cost alternative for Tuck teams (or teams with at least one Tuck student) in the
earliest stages of developing their ventures.
The incubator advisors are
Fred Wainwright, executive director of the Center and
Richard Green D'75, Center Fellow.
Current Incubator Teams:
People want to know what their community is thinking and they want to be heard. OPENVOTE is a website where people in any real-world community can poll each other, vote, and see what everyone else thinks. Each group or college campus has its own OPENVOTE site. Polls are user-generated, and the polls with the most votes are displayed most prominently. OPENVOTE is free for users and will generate revenue from contextual advertising, including paid content (i.e., sponsored polls), traditional display advertising, and integrated market research. The long-term vision of OPENVOTE is to change the way communities make decisions. Soon individuals in any community will demand a place where they can share their opinion and see what the rest of their community thinks.
Team members include: Jason Freedman T'08 and Colin Van Ostern T'09.
Webdesc provides online computers. With a Webdesc account, you can access your data and your programs anywhere with an internet connection. It does so by putting a subscriber’s entire computer—the operating system, the applications, the data, and the media—online. Subscribers access Webdesc through a plugin that runs on any standard web browser (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox).
Team members include: Abe Gurjal T'08.
Cairn Venture Group
For Thousands of years, travelers have relied on piles of stones known as cairns to help them navigate barren and dangerous landscapes. Cairns are piles of stone, built at short intervals so that someone traversing the trail will be able to follow the cairns. Because there are no natural features above tree-line, cairns act as waypoints, forming an artificial path to follow.
Even in the densest fog, travelers can rely on the cairns to guide them to safety.
Cairn Venture Group is a group of outdoor enthusiasts with business expertise formed with a single clear vision, to help entrepreneurs navigate the challenging landscape of outdoor retail and deliver innovative products to outdoor consumers.
Team members include: Matthew Bolduc T'08
Previous Incubator Teams:
Advanced Transit Enterprises, Inc.
Advanced Transit Enterprises, Inc. (ATE) is commercializing patented tractor-trailer rear drag
aerodynamics technology to reduce fleet vehicle oil consumption by over 200 million gallons annually.
Rear drag generated by tractor-trailers at highway speeds causes as much fuel inefficiency as wind
resistance experienced at the front of the vehicle. ATE’s patented drag reduction device reduces the
negative impact of this rear drag and provides fuel efficiency gains of 6-10%.
Team members include: Andrew Smith T'07, Keith White T'07.
Instant Wirefree
Instant Wirefree creates mobile environments for people to interact with each other and the local world
around them. Local events listings, user event ratings and identification of proximity of friends serve
to strengthen community bonds. Instant Wirefree's software serves as a platform that facilitates
interactions amongst mobile users.
Team members include: Greg Ames T'07, John Maletis T'07, Mehul Nagrani T'07, Jonathan Novita T'07, Victor Ocran T'07,
Atsushi Otsuka T'07, Harsh Shetty T'07.
RamGuard Specialities, LLC
RamGuard Specialties, LLC specializes in the development of innovative
products in the home security hardware industry. The company is currently exploring strategic partnerships,
angel investments, and bootstrapping in order to expand its operations to a national scale.
Team members include: Scott Seiffert T'07, Ken Tittle T'07, Brian Walsh T'07, Jamie Whitticom T'07, Rodney Tittle, Charles Wigley
Tuck Fund of Search Funds
The Fund of Search Funds Partners will provide superior capital returns to institutional and
high net worth investors by facilitating access to investments in the currently inaccessible micro-cap private equity arena through
the utilization of search funds. We will offer a diversified investment portfolio by investing in a series of search funds, thus
gaining access to the underinvested growth opportunities and top notch management talent traditionally characterizing the funds.
Team members include: Zal Masani T'06, Daniel McGuire T'06, Karlston Nasser T'06, Elnor Rozenrot T'06, Daniil Stolyarov T'06,
Iriving Wang T'06.
BackDrop
BackDrop is developing a brand of technical and casual clothing for the telemark skiing market.
Team members include: Jeff Danley T'06, Chris Manning T'06.
Level Development Market Analysis
Level Development LLC is a residential real estate developer based in
Denver, Colorado. The company builds high-end town homes in Denver's LoDo and Ballpark districts.
Chris Manning, T'06, is working with Level to refine their site selection process, using an analytical model to predict the value of potential development scenarios. The model accurately and rapidly helps Level determine if land sites are suitable for their product. In addition, Chris is helping Level with general operations and marketing activities.
Team members include: Chris Manning T'06.
GOGO Development Partners
GOGO develops brownfields properties, formerly contaminated superfund sites. Local governments benefit by having idle land returned to the stream of commerce.
Green Living
Green Living will develop and manage moderately priced, environment-friendly rental housing
in major metropolitan areas.
Stone City Capital
Stone City Capital will invest in commercial real estate on behalf of
institutional and high net worth clients. We will offer access to
underinvested growth markets in the Heartland through a series of
co-mingled funds investing in the ownership, management and development
of core and value-added commercial properties.
Laurie Weber
The mission of Laurie Weber is to offer a quality accessories product that is fresh and new, at a competitive price.
Nanobay
Nanobay wants to enter the nano-materials industry as a niche sales and marketing force that acts on the behalf of small suppliers.
OmniVidia
By initially focusing on the foreign and independent movie market opportunity, OmniVidia intends to become a leading provider of Internet Video-on-Demand content.
Virtual Mechanic
Virtual Mechanic intends to revolutionize
the auto repair manual industry by creating graphically-intense, multimedia manuals that utilize 3D models, animations,
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