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, Sept. 23, during the Render Competition Pitch Event at Lynn Family Stadium. While five winners were local to Louisville, the remaining three winners will now relocate their headquarters to the area.

“We cannot wait to see how these funds will benefit the eight startups and to watch our local entrepreneurial scene continue to flourish as a result of the great work they will be doing here.”
– Marigrace Ragsdale, Senior Associate at Render Capital

The eight Render Competition winners are DiningTek, Innovative Therapeutix, Inc., Legal Gantt, Moolathon, Repaytient, Symba, Veeper, and Xena Intelligence.

DiningTek (Broomfield, CO): DiningTek is an all-in-one business development engine empowering food and dining entrepreneurs (restaurants, cafes, food trucks, and food wholesalers). DiningTek provides marketing automation, branding and online sales under one platform, providing high-profit margins, brand elevation and customer retention.
Innovative Therapeutix, Inc. (Louisville, KY): Innovative Therapeutix, Inc. is a pediatric-focused device company solving medical and developmental issues in infants and children. Their current product, LullaFeed™, is a music-based feeding device allowing parents and feeding specialists to support their child through the feeding progression, which is a problem for nearly 60% of infants every year – an estimated 74 million infants.
Legal Gantt (Louisville, KY): Legal Gantt eliminates unnecessary phone calls and reduces the risk of a communication bar complaint against attorneys.
Moolathon (Louisville, KY): Moolathon is a social fundraising platform built around a fitness tracking application. They give all groups and individuals the ability to raise money for a cause through the pursuit of a cause we can all relate to… getting fit!

Repaytient (Louisville, KY): Repaytient increases hospital cash flow by up to 30% and reduces collections overhead by up to 15% by offering interest-free payment plans to patients to pay their ever-increasing out-of-pocket healthcare expenses, and help them get the care they need when they need it.
Symba (Louisville, KY): Real estate agents have extremely fragmented and chaotic sales processes preventing them from providing a modern customer experience. Symba helps agents close more business and provide better customer service with the industry’s only mobile-first CRM that eliminates clunkiness and complexity.
Veeper (Kansas City, MO): Veeper builds personalized loyalty programs for online stores and rewards customers with automatic, incremental discounts instead of cashback/points. They track customers’ shopping activities and apply the optimum discount that gets them to buy more. Each time a customer adds an item to the cart, they’ll see their discount increase.
Xena Intelligence (Boston, MA): Xena Intelligence is an algorithmic engine that optimizes pay-per-click ad campaigns by continuously ingesting keyword and sales data from various sources and automates the decision-making process, thereby making the ad campaigns highly adaptable to the ever-changing 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), Jacob Schpok (Vice President of Entrepreneurial Services, Elevate Ventures) 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 enabling realtors and homeowners to get any room staged or designed in as little as one day, said the funding was crucial, especially during COVID-19.