UpRamp accelerator unveils inaugural class of startups

LOUISVILLE — All four companies that will participate in the first Louisville-based UpRamp accelerator hail from outside the United States, including one from Canada.

CableLabs — a nonprofit research and development consortium for the cable industry — launched UpRamp earlier this year as a way to help mature startups connect their products with cable-industry giants.

Rather than capping the three-month program with a demo day in front of investors like many startups, however, UpRamp’s aim is to help companies that have already built their technology and raised some venture capital to land commercial deals with companies such as Comcast, Cox and Time Warner. UpRamp takes a 3 percent equity stake in participating companies in exchange for the access to CableLabs’ industry partners.

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The four companies participating in the first UpRamp cohort include:

Edgewater Wireless, Canada: Has a patented WiFi3 technology that provides greater speeds and reduced network infrastructure costs.

MediaHound, Los Angeles: A platform offering personalized search and discovery for videos using a sophisticated graph recommendation engine.

VelociData, St. Louis: Cleanses, transforms and protects streaming and batch data without the need for database or applications programming.

Trinity Mobile Networks, New Haven, Conn.: Uses JumpnetSDN to integrate Wi-Fi and mesh networks into users’ connectivity experience alongside their cellular connections.

Correction: Due to incorrect information provided to BizWest, the original version of this story included the wrong headquarters location and web link for Trinity Mobile Networks.