gBETA Chooses Six Alaska Businesses for Accelerator Support
Remote sensors are the foundation of beadedstream, an Anchorage startup that spun off beadedcloud as the data dashboard to collate the data.
Photo Credit: beadedstream
Six Alaska-based companies have been selected to participate in a statewide startup accelerator program. The cohort will participate in the gBETA Alaska program through national venture capital firm gener8tor.
Innovative Approaches
gBETA Alaska is a free, seven-week accelerator program that includes intensive coaching and access to gener8tor’s national network of mentors, customers, corporate partners, and investors. Since 2021, the program has graduated thirty-five Alaska companies that have raised more than $7.5 million in growth capital and sustained or created 147 jobs.
Members of the cohort were chosen based on growth potential, investor readiness, and innovative approaches. The six are beadedcloud, MyEyesAI, and SuprSketch in Anchorage; Tundra Electronics in Kenai; Bind in Wasilla; and EagleSong Alaska, a peony farm in the Susitna River valley.
Hardware is a specialty at beadedcloud, which compiles data from remote sensors, and at Tundra Electronics, maker of a heater for handheld electronics, such as barcode scanners used by the US Air Force. More than 700 sites currently use beadedcloud devices, transmitting live data from around the Arctic; it recently expanded into automated insights for pipelines cracking from wind-induced vibrations. Tundra Electronics has secured a micro purchase for three of its products from the Air Force for trials.
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Bind is a cybersecurity startup, piloting a system to verify a person’s data or identity without storing it where it might be stolen. Bind is in active pilot with vehicle rental platform DIMO, providing redacted driver data to insurance companies for more than 80,000 drivers.
MyEyesAI is a tool for ophthalmologists to triage patients and assist in diagnoses. Co-founded by Anchorage ophthalmologist Dr. Carl Rosen, MyEyesAI has been used with more than sixty patient visits since launching this year, and Rosen is setting up trials at local clinics this spring.
SuprSketch turns digital brushstrokes into performance art, recording the creation of graphics into a showcase experience. It has nearly 800 artists using it and is poised to reach a wider community on Discord.
Photo Credit: beadedstream
EagleSong Alaska doesn’t just grow peonies but extracts botanical extracts for food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. The farm is currently testing an extract for US Food and Drug Administration compliance and use in cosmetics.
At the end of the gBETA Alaska program, the startup founders will pitch to investors, community partners, and the public on April 21 at UAF. The program is made possible by a partnership with the UAF Center for Innovation. “The Center for Innovation is proud to partner with gener8tor’s gBETA Alaska to bring this accelerator to our business community,” says center director Peter Webley. “Together, we are committed to equipping founders and entrepreneurs with the guidance and resources they need to strengthen their strategies, scale their ventures and drive economic opportunity in Alaska.”
During the gBETA Alaska program, entrepreneurs in the cohort receive feedback weekly, if not daily, and establish relationships with mentors, both locally and from gener8tor’s national network.
“Alaska is home to driven, resourceful founders who are building solutions rooted in real-world experience,” says Kristen Gibbs, gBETA Alaska program director. “By challenging and supporting them with candid mentorship and focused guidance, we help clarify their vision, accelerate sustainable growth and turn local talent into businesses that expand opportunity across the state.”
gener8tor is a global venture firm and accelerator network that supports startups, workers, employers, artists, and musicians by partnering with companies, governments, universities, and nonprofits.
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