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Xootr designs, produces, and sells high-performance human-powered devices for urban transport, including kick scooters and bikes. It has led the performance segment of the kick scooter market for 10 years. Business Week recently named the Xootr scooter one of the 50 coolest products of the 21st Century.

Terrapass, Inc. (Founded by KU and OPIM 651 team in 2004; alums Tom Arnold and Adam Stein are key members of management team)

Terrapass is the leading retailer of carbon dioxide offsets and has offset more than one billion pounds of carbon dioxide since 2004. Its partners include Ford, Expedia, and Enterprise car rentals. Since 2007, Terrapass has become the leading originator of farm methane, landfill gas, and other carbon-dioxide-remediation projects in the U.S.

Officedrop (Founded by OPIM 651 alum Prasad Thammineni, KU advisory board member)

Officedrop is a Netflix like system for scanning and storing paper documents. You mail documents to Pixily in prepaid envelopes. Pixily scans, indexes, and organizes the digital version of the documents and then either returns or recycles the originals.

ScoopFree (Founded by OPIM 415 alum Alan Cook, KU advisory board member)

ScoopFree is an automated cat litter box that allows cat owners to leave their litterbox unattended for 30 days. The business model is based on recurring revenue from a replacement litter cartridge.

Gordian Capital LLC (Founded by OPIM 651 alum Robert Befidi and classmate Mark Sinatra, KU investor)

Gordian Capital is a search fund which uses a tournament structure to find small-cap companies to acquire and operate. Its first acquisition is StaffOne a professional employer organization operating in the Southern region of the U.S.

Nexride noseless no-nose bicycle seats (KU designer and founder)
Nexride designs and manufactures an innovative noseless bicycle saddle which increases comfort and minimizes cycling-related nerve and arterial damage. These seats are of the "no nose" variety, which is the design shown clinically to minimize cycling-related risks.

"Living Dead" (If you'd like to take over any of these projects, let's talk...)

Lingzini (KU founder and investor)

Lingzini is a new power tool for naming products, services, and organizations. It combines instant domain checking with tools like a thesaurus, translator, and affix manipulator. Lingzini grew out of the 2009 offering of OPIM654 in San Francisco.

Smatchy, Inc. (Founded by OPIM 651 alums Joel Wooten and Juneen Belknap, KU investor and advisory board member)

Smatchy is a new method for making recommendations based on an addictive survey-based website.

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