Cincinnati/Southwest Ohio: Growing Companies

Blackbook EMG's Compass online platform identifies an individual's or family’s personal  needs and outside interests and helps connect them to resources like places to eat, shop or catch a live show. The idea is to keep talent in the region by increasing satisfaction with their communities.

250 E. 5th St., 15th Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45202

859-803-9499
1220 Vine Street, Suite 5
Cincinnati, OH 45202

1776 Mentor Avenue, Suite 240
Cincinnati, OH 45212

435 Martin Luther King Drive East, Suite A
Cincinnati, OH 45229

Cincinnati's Mammotome now has a product to lessen discomfort and scarring in breast biopsies using a minimally invasive device known as a mammotome.

513-864-9000
300 E-Business Way, Fifth Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45241

Some of the nastiest environmental problems have the smallest remedies. That's where CL Solutions comes in.

877-257-6588
3130 Highland Ave., Third Floor
Cincinnati, OH 45219

Maverick Corp., which develops and produces high-temperature polymer materials for a wide range of applications, has steadily grown since it's formation in the Hamilton County Business Center incubator in Norwood in 1993.

513-469-9919
11379 Grooms Road
Blue Ash, OH 45242

In the biomass research business, AdvanceBio Systems, of Milford is gaining energy -- and attention from everybody but the U.S. Department of Energy to Penn State University.

513-864-6688
5405 DuPont Circle, Suite A
Milford, OH 45150

SparkPeople was founded in 2001 by University of Cincinnati graduate and former Procter & Gamble employee, Chris Downie, with a central mission: to spark millions of people to reach their goals and lead healthier lives.

4392 Marburg Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45209

When every dollar counts, smaller companies can benefit from a system that tracks productivity and sales numbers too. Cincinnati entrepreneur Ben Moore created xRP to do just that.

513-942-9444
8216 Princeton-Glendale Road, Suite 191
West Chester, OH 45069

In a competitive industry where it's hard to keep your footing, MilAIR has developed and manufactured cooling units for military use since 2006.

513-576-0123
501 TechneCenter Drive, Suite B
Milford, OH 45150

SignTrak has developed user friendly software that cuts down on headaches and errors in the alcohol beverage industry's sign selling process.

800-513-9194
2943 Riverside Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Schools strapped for space and cash can provide science students with adequate, up-to-date laboratory equipment if they have access to a specialized system that enables resource sharing. That's MeasureNet's business.

866-396-6765
4240 Airport Road
Cincinnati, OH 45226

Austin Allison began selling real estate in high school, and by 24, anticipated a technological need in his business that soon could pay big dividends.

888-368-5667
4445 Lake Forest Drive, Suite 415
Cincinnati, OH 45242

Starting this summer you may see them zip past you on the road, glide up to parking meters and idle at the corner stop sign. But never at the gas station.

513-360-4704
4540 Alpine Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45242

Tulong is taking what might otherwise go into the waste stream to make sustainable clothing.

877-488-5664
6443 Lewis Road
Loveland, OH 45140

Besse Medical Supply in West Chester has accomplished what many small, family-run startups dream of: becoming part of a Fortune 26 company while holding onto family tradition.

800-543-2111
9075 Centre Pointe Drive, Suite 140
West Chester, OH 45069

Innotech Products Ltd., of Cincinnati, is known to scores of soldiers and survivalists as the Heater Meals company, but recently has begun offering a self-heating beverage kit.

1-800-503-4483
311 Northland Blvd.
Cincinnati, OH 45246

CKS Solution, Inc. in southwest Ohio's Batavia Township, is a fast-growing, innovative manufacturing startup founded in February 2008. Since its founding, CKS has more than doubled its U.S. workforce from 26 earlier this year to 57 today.

513-947-1277
4101 Founders Blvd.
Batavia, OH 45103

Butler County-based Kaivac has found a way for janitors and other personnel to not just clean but sanitize the most grungy items without directly touching them -- all with use of "green" chemicals.

1-800-287-1136
401 S. Third St.
Hamilton, OH

Deploying new technology for growing the world's longest carbon nanotubes has created a world of possibilities for Cincinnati-based General Nano LLC in the aerospace/defense, biomedical, electronics and sensor industries.

513-309-5947
1776 Mentor Ave, Ste. 170
Cincinnati, OH 45212

Meridian makes, markets and distributes a broad range of diagnostic test kits, purified reagents and related products and technologies for a variety of biomedical customers in more than 60 countries.

513-271-3700
3471 River Hills Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45244

Akebia Therapeutics is banking on two revolutionary drugs for treatment of anemia, blood vessel leakage and cancer.

513-618-0931
10151 Carver Road, Suite 205
Cincinnati, OH 45242