Growing Companies

Alphamicron was formed in 1997 to solve a nagging problem with the forward positioning of flight deck displays. The result was the world's first liquid crystal technology for curved surfaces.

330-676-0648
1950 Ohio 59
Kent, OH 44240

As Ohio manufacturers businesses and individuals look to power � and benefit from � the emerging Green Economy, rexorce Thermionics is developing a product to capture waste heat and solar thermal energy.

234-542-4379
405 S. High St.
Akron, OH 44311

Sooth Inc., of Beachwood, is hoping to put thousands of technology geeks into a box, permanently changing the way computer networks run with cost-saving programs that eliminate the need for an army of behind-the-scenes techies.

216-862-8637
3 Commerce Park Square, Suite 900
Beachwood, OH 44122

Jazz musician John Knific was looking for something like a LinkedIn for musicians. The model didn't exist -- so he created it.

888-207-2369
1321 Mathews Ave
Lakewood, OH 44107

A Wooster College professor had been developing an experimental nano-glass, but didn't know how to market it. Then, a chance encounter on an airplane got him the help he needed.

330-234-7999
740 Quinby Ave.
Wooster, OH 44691

Fast becoming a leader in the stored-value card field, SparkBase handles millions of transactions annually for merchants in five different countries.

216-867-0877
3615 Superior Ave., Suite 4403C
Cleveland, OH 44114

Turning Technologies, a Youngstown-based software firm, has been growing continually since its formation in 2002. In 2007, Inc. Magazine ranked it the fasted-growing, privately held software firm in the country and the 18th fastest over all, with respect to revenues.

866-746-3015
255 W. Federal St.
Youngstown, OH 44503

St. Bernard-based Brighton Technologies Group has developed a dozen new technologies designed to make make manufacturing and engineering processes safer, cleaner and less costly.

513-469-1800
1006 Kieley Place
Cincinnati, OH 45217

Amelia -based First-Response Robotics produces agile, mobile robots that are special not only because they detect chemical and biological hazards, but because they can transmit their data and video live.

513-752-6653
4010 Bach-Buxton.Road
Amelia, OH 45102

GrafTech International built its early reputation by supplying arc lights to Cleveland in the early 1900s. Now, its graphite products are probably in your cell phone.

216-676-2000
12900 Snow Road
Parma, OH 44130

AssureRx, LLC, based in Cincinnati, is developing the next generation of personalized medicines, including a lab-developed test that will measure and analyze genetic variants in psychiatric medicine.

513-234-0510
7264 Columbia Road, Suite 600
Maineville, OH 45039

Akron-based FMI Technologies is working on a new tool that can peel images of the brain back to the molecular level � where the cell-killing processes of Alzheimer's disease percolate.

330-253-0200
26 S. Main St., Suite 812
Akron, OH 44311

Hiking the Appalachian Trail, Tremont Electric, LLC owner Aaron LeMieux realized that he was generating loads of kinetic energy. Today, Tremont is harnessing that kinetic energy for handheld electronics.

440-821-1889
2379 Professor Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44113

MesoCoat is advancing the next generation of coatings that will keep bridges, boats and other large steel structures free of corrosion for as long as 100 years.

216-453-0866
24112 Rockwell Drive
Euclid, OH 44117

After working with a patient in 1999 whose blood pressure was unstable as plasma seeped out of her blood vessels University of Toledo doctors sought t a treatment. ADS Biotechnology was born.