Member Companies

 

 

Hawai`i’s people are among the most generous donors in the nation. In 2001, 92% of all households in Hawai`i gave to charity, and they gave an average of $1,100 per year. (Source: Hawai`i Giving Study 2002, Hawai`i Community Foundation, www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org). People in Hawai`i are committed to giving back to the community, and the managers and employees of early stage companies are no exception. These companies have become EF Hawaii members by donating equity to EF Hawaii:

 


ACI

www.aci-sim.com

ACI (Atlantis Cyberspace, Inc.) is a leading-edge provider of middleware and end-to-end fully immersive, virtual reality simulation training solutions for mounted and dismounted groups of individuals, including military, homeland security, and first responders. ACI’s breakthrough technology platform allows those using both new and legacy military simulation systems to leverage the ongoing innovations driving the imaginative $50 Billion commercial gaming market.


AGIS

www.agis.com

As eldercare and long term care (LTC) specialists, AGIS Network:

  • Helps caregivers and their loved ones meet the challenges of aging with unbiased eldercare information and access to support services through our public site, AGIS.com.
  • Connects agencies, employers, providers, and consumers.
  • Works with benefit advisors to provide employers with comprehensive benefit programs.

Attainia

Attainia

www.attainia.com

Attainia is dedicated to improving the management of the capital equipment lifecycle in healthcare. Attainia supplies the industry's broadest array of capital equipment management systems, including: BUDGET, PLAN, PREDICT, REUSE, TRACK and WATCH. All Attainia software systems are internet-based. Getting started is simple and fast. Attainia's applications currently enable hundreds of IDN's, hospitals, architects, equipment planners and groups to manage thousands of healthcare projects and budgets.


Avatar Reality

Avatar Reality

www.avatar-reality.com

Avatar Reality’s mission is to utilize the leading-edge in computing technologies to build serious entertainment for the masses. The company is developing Blue Mars, a new online massively multiplayer virtual world (MMVW), featuring stunning graphics, realistic characters and endless social bonding opportunities. Set on Terraformed Mars in the year 2177 AD, players will be able to live out their fantasies through personalized avatars.


BioImagene

www.bioimagene.com

BioImagene is a leading provider of total imaging solutions for pathologists, researchers and drug developers in clinical diagnostics and life sciences. Our mission is to bring affordable digital pathology to every pathologist in every laboratory worldwide. Our systems automate pathology workflows for acquisition, analysis, management, archival, reporting and sharing of tissue images. Our solutions can significantly boost productivity, ensure accuracy and reduce bottlenecks in all aspects of lifescience workflows.


Blue Lava

www.bluelavatech.com

Blue Lava is developing technology to fundamentally change the way you interact with digital media. Instead of spending hours organizing your media, you'll spend hours enjoying it. Our flagship platform, iLovePhotos, uses state of the art facial detection, automatic smart photo organization, and multi-platform distribution to bring photos back into your life effortlessly. iLovePhotos is the fastest way to organize, share, and enjoy your photos.


Cardax Pharmaceuticals

www.cardaxpharma.com

Cardax Pharmaceuticals develops proprietary small molecule therapies for large unmet medical needs where oxidative stress and inflammation play important causative roles - including cardiovascular disease, hepatitis, macular degeneration, and many cancers.


Casdex

www.casdex.com

Archives protect your business, guarantee your files haven't been altered, and simplify audits and litigation. Fortune 500 companies spend millions of dollars a year on archiving. For the first time ever the same level of bullet-proof authentication recommended by the U.S. Federal Courts and compliant with SEC requirements governing trillion-dollar markets is available to small business as a service. No need to purchase hardware, no need to dedicate a portion of your office to a rack of computers. Just connect to Casdex via your internet connection, and your files are securely archived.


Cellular Bioengineering Inc (CBI)

www.cellularbioengineering.com

Cellular Bioengineering Inc. (CBI) is a Hawaii based accelerator of disruptive technologies with biomedical and biodefense applications. CBI searches for innovative and ingenious ideas which it can nurture and grow into mature products that will change the way the world operates. It has brought forward suites of technology at varying stages of development which have favorably impacted health care and homeland security in our country.


Dali Wireless

www.daliwireless.com

Modern cellular phone technologies provide consumers with an increasing range of attractive mobile voice and data services. However, these ever-higher bandwidth networks are increasingly expensive to operate and extremely energy inefficient. Most of this is due to the poor performance of the RF power amplifiers at the heart of cellular base stations (a.k.a. cell sites). Dali Wireless’s new line of highly efficient power amplifiers, Remote Radio Head and Digital Repeater units can cut power consumption in the entire cell site by 50% while increasing bandwidth and linearity required for new generation technologies. Dali Wireless has patented breakthrough technologies that improve base station performance, shrink critical system size, and reduce power consumption by up to 50% vs. conventional approaches.


DragonBridge Capital

www.dragonbridgecapital.com

DragonBridge Capital is a financial advisory firm/merchant bank that serves Chinese technology companies by helping them become successful global citizens through the capital raising process, including private equity and venture capital, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions.


EzRez

www.ezrez.com

EzRez is a software company that helps any business enhance its Web presence with intelligent and easy packaging and selling of air, hotel, rental car, vacation activities, and other related travel components for customers to purchase online. In addition to packaging and merchandising solutions, EzRez also offers the needed inventory through direct access to its vast network of travel-related services and distributors. This leads to broader offerings and lower distribution costs, while increasing efficiency.


GreenCar Hawaii

www.greencarhawaii.com

GreenCar Hawaii is introducing a sustainable transportation alternative for Hawaii's largest industry, travel & tourism, by offering the first car-share service in the state. GreenCar Hawaii provides convenient access to electric-hybrid SUVs at the guest's hotel (no waiting at the rental car agency) and hourly service at an all-inclusive rate. GreenCar Hawaii reduces traffic and emissions by taking cars off the road and providing only electric-hybrid and zero emission vehicles. The company's vision is to build a full-service green platform in Hawaii, for Hawaii, and by Hawaii.


Hawaii Biotech

www.hibiotech.com

Hawaii Biotech, Inc. is focused on the research and development of vaccines for established and emerging infectious diseases. We have developed a proprietary protein production platform that is applicable to the production of vaccine antigens and other proteins. Our lead vaccine candidates target the West Nile virus and Dengue Fever. Additional subunits vaccine candidates that are produced from the proprietary protein production platform are currently under development.


Hoana

www.hoana.com

Hoana will be the world's leader in intelligent medical vigilance, delivered through seamless and invisible sensing technology. The company's revolutionary, patented LifeBed™ patient vigilance systems provide non-contact measurement of patient vital signs using sensors embedded in a hospital mattress coverlet, eliminating the need to attach sensors, electrodes, cuffs or other devices directly to the patient.


Hoku Corporation

www.hokucorp.com

Hoku Corporation is a diversified clean energy products and services company with three business units: Hoku Materials, Hoku Solar and Hoku Fuel Cells. Hoku Materials plans to manufacture, market, and sell polysilicon for the solar market from its plant currently under construction in Pocatello, Idaho. Hoku Solar markets, sells and installs turnkey photovoltaic systems in Hawaii. Hoku Fuel Cells has developed proprietary fuel cell membranes and membrane electrode assemblies for stationary and automotive proton exchange membrane fuel cells.


It's All About Kids

www.iaak.net

It's All About Kids' SmartKids programs are designed to offer learners, educators, and parents supplemental tutoring and enrichment educational services for kindergarten through high school students. The SmartKids programs use the CompassLearning™ Odyssey software program in combination with on-site or online tutor support/coaching to engage learners to build their knowledge and skills.


NanoPoint

www.nanopointimaging.com

Nanopoint's cellTRAY®-based solutions are miniaturized cell culture and imaging systems for live cell-based assays, with broad applications including life science research, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical production.


People Bridge

www.peoplebridge.com

People Bridge online neighborhoods are the most accurate models of the neighborhoods we live in. We have built a set of integrated online applications and cutting edge tools you control to model your neighborhood online. Our powerful neighborhood platform helps businesses, organizations and individuals reach out and connect with their communities.


PipelineFx

PipelineFx

www.pipelinefx.com

Founded in 2002, PipelineFX produces Qube!, the leading render farm management software for film and post production, product design, game development, and digital media education around the world.

Originally built for Square USA’s groundbreaking Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, the first fully animated feature film, Qube! embodies over 30 man-years of development and $3 million of investment. Qube! increases production throughput while significantly reducing the amount of time it takes to render frames for animation in movies, visual effects and games. Production-proven on thousands of servers, Qube! is used by hundreds of leading studios, broadcasters, manufacturers and universities.


ProService Hawaii

www.proservicehawaii.com

ProService Hawaii is the state's largest and most respected HR administration firm. We manage the time-consuming HR functions including, payroll, health benefits, and workers' compensation, exclusively for employers in Hawaii. With clients in virtually every industry, we are uniquely positioned to help local business owners navigate the complexities of their HR-related responsibilities.


SBI

www.sbipay.com

By leveraging Oracle through SBI, you are utilizing the most trusted global software developer in the world for managing your HR and Payroll operations - without the usual upfront costs and maintenance headaches. SBI handles your HR and Payroll processing as a fully outsourced solution, including tax and filing services and year-end processing. Customers currently pay top dollar for complex HR and Payroll solutions that do not meet their needs. SBI offers customers all the benefits of Oracle with a simple per employee per month license structure. In addition, our customer support is personalized and we will work with you to get the right solution.


Sennet Capital

www.sennetcapital.com

Sennet Capital is a Hawai`i merchant bank focused on investing in mid-market companies and renewable energy opportunities. Our mission is to use our capital, financial skills, local expertise and relationships to help our portfolio companies and projects thrive and succeed in a rapidly changing marketplace.


Sopogy

www.sopogy.com

Sopogy is a leader in MicroCSP technologies that bring the economics of proven large scale Concentrating Power Systems (CSP) to the distributed generation markets. MicroCSP technologies are used to create Process Heat, Solar Air Conditioning or Electrical Power.


Sprout

www.sproutbuilder.com

Sprout is the quick and easy way for anyone to build, publish, and manage widgets, mini-sites, mashups, banners and more. Any size, any number of pages. Include video, audio, images and newsfeeds and choose from dozens of pre-built components and web services.


uBoost

www.uboost.com

uBoost's mission is to inspire students to perform at their highest academic level by surrounding them with motivational elements that foster interaction with and recognition from teachers, tutors, parents, and peers. By boosting the way students feel about their learning and providing educators with an innovative way to encourage their progress, uBoost can ultimately help drive positive student learning outcomes.


UserLink

UserLink

www.userlink.com

UserLink provides the tools that developers of mobile software, content, and services need to improve their customer acquisition and retention through improved customer support, community building, and social networking. The UserLink cloud-based service platform and proprietary client software give developers the ability to cost-effectively outsource their customer relationship management so they can focus on building their core value. The UserLink system can operate on the full range of web-enabled mobile devices from smartphones such as the Apple iPhone and Google Android-based phones to the next generation mobile tablet devices such as the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle.