Happy Holidays from Innovation Works!
As you choose thoughtful holiday gifts for everyone on your list, consider supporting the Pittsburgh tech startup community. We’ve included a list of consumer products developed by IW portfolio companies for your perusal:
4Moms mamaRoo4 Infant Seat
The 4moms® mamaRoo®4 infant seat bounces up and down and sways from side to side, just like parents do when comforting their babies. It features five unique motions and five speed options for a total of 25 different combinations.
Anglr Bullseye
The ANGLR Bullseye is a Bluetooth enabled remote that pairs with ANGLR’s free fishing app. One-click privately records catches. Two-clicks marks private waypoint. Press and hold records specific gear changes. It’s that convenient to keep your phone tucked away as you just go fishing.
Aurochs Brewing Gluten-Free Beer
Naturally gluten free beer. It starts with brewing great tasting, naturally gluten free beer from great tasting, naturally gluten free ingredients at their dedicated gluten free facility. Now available for pickup and shipping.
CHELA Marketplace
CHELA Marketplace helps emerging designers that serve niche markets by connecting them to consumers in locations previously inaccessible. Purchase clothes, accessories, and even masks.
Diamond Kinetics Swing Tracker, PitchTracker Baseball, and PitchTracker Softball
The Diamond Kinetics suite of baseball and softball products enhance the learning and training experience for players of all skill levels, from youth to professional, and helps you take your training to the next level. Whether it’s in the batter’s box or on the mound, there’s an app built for you.
Digital Dream Labs Vector 2.0
Vector is a robot made to explore and react. His tech array allows him to intuitively interact with his surroundings through sight and sound. He can recognize people and objects while detecting and avoiding obstacles.
Farm Jenny Horses Starter Kit
Farm Jenny provides farmers and horse owners with freedom and peace of mind with affordable do-it-yourself solutions to monitor farm animals 24/7 and identify problems early to save animals, reduce veterinary costs and improve productivity. This IoT solution provides behavior-tracking wearable sensors for animals, sensors around the farm, and a subscription app that provides alerts based on machine learning. Use code “IW2020” to save 25% on everything.
Flexable Virtual Childcare
Give the gift of childcare. Flexable is now offering gift cards that you can purchase for the moms and dads in your life who need a little time to themselves. Let our loving caregivers entertain the children, while mom and dad get a much-deserved break over the holidays to sip a nice glass of eggnog or cuddle up with a good book.
Foxblossom Co. Custom Holiday Gift Boxes
Foxblossom creates completely custom gift boxes, shipped directly to the recipient and topped off with a handwritten note! Shop their pre-curated holiday collection on the site, or create your own gift box using our Custom Gift Box Builder tool. Looking for holiday corporate gifts? Email corporategifting@foxblossom.com to work one-on-one with a gifting specialist and create a custom, branded gift box today!
FutureDerm Specialist Skincare Line
A personalized line of products with optimized levels (medium-to-high) of powerful ingredients + the right level of hydration for your skin. The perfect line for reaching your skincare goals. Can be used with other brands’ products (ask a FutureDerm Skincare Specialist for help).
Gender Reveal Game
Why not turn a Gender Reveal into a fun, competitive game? Raise money for a bundle of joy by having friends and family (or the whole dang internet) guess the baby’s gender.
GusGear Central Line Vest
Gus Gear’s mission is to improve the safety and quality of life for those facing medical challenges. They create custom covers for central lines, ostomy pouches, feeding tubes, and more.
Kin of Duncan
Kin of Duncan was the youngest participant ever in IW’s Startable program. Kin of Duncan is a pet brand that believes in “spoiling fur kids just like human kids!”
Modcloth
Did you know that IW was an early investor in Modcloth? Head to their site to buy clothes, accessories, and home goods.
Module House
Whether you’re looking for a home for yourself or want to build as an investment, Module has you covered. To get started, tell them about yourself and they’ll point you in the right direction. Currently, their house at 5454 Black Street in Pittsburgh, PA is for sale.
Nollapelli
Give a great night’s sleep with Nollapelli sheet sets and pillowcases. Their bedding is designed with bodies in mind.
Optikal Care Contact Lens Subscription Box
Optikal Care breaks up the cost of an eye exam, contact lenses, and contact care supplies into monthly payments.
PittMoss
PittMoss® manufactures revolutionary products from organic, recycled paper. Carefully and locally sourced, their products are the result of decades-long research into the use of recycled paper fibers. The result? The best performing, most environmentally-friendly gardening mixes on the market, that also require less water!
Rapid TPC Kerf Case Wireless Charging Pad
Rapid TPC has focused on the details to design the best wireless phone charger, making an elegant complement to your device. Natural wood or leather provides an ideal rest stop for a smartphone, while the MaezioTM Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Composite (CFRTP) molded unibody elevates your device. The machined billet aluminum base gives the pad just enough heft and stability to keep it in place.
Romeo Delivers Date Bucket List & Family Fun Bucket List
With these bucket list kits, you’ll never find yourself asking “what should we do for date night?” “what should we do next?” Printed on a cute collection of birch wood sticks, the prompts run the gamut from romantic reverie (pack blankets and pillows and go stargazing someplace secluded) to family fun-fostering like amateur astronomy (learn three constellations, then spend an evening stargazing). Once you’ve shared each experience, note the date on the back of the stick with the official bucket list pencil (provided). Made in the USA.
Showclix Tickets
Use Showclix to purchase tickets for a virtual event or an in-person event in the future.
Spand-Ice Maternity Relief Wrap
Natural ice and heat therapy designed to help eliminate back pain caused by pain, inflammation, recovery or pregnancy.
Subtl Beauty Stack
A beauty brand designed for busy women, inspired by busy women. Shop the limited-edition Subtl Set, a 3-in-1 gift set that is packed with everything you need to achieve confidence and beauty from the application to storage.
Switcheroo
It is a problem that exists in over half of all American households — a wall switch in a room that turns on an outlet, but not the outlet that you want it to activate. Whether it is a single lamp that you want to move, several lamps that you want to turn on with one switch, or holiday lighting that you want to sync up on one switch or timer, there is an easy way to fix it: the Switcheroo. Lighting Made Easy. No app. No Wi-Fi. No configuration.
Thread (aka DayOwl) BackPack
A better way to carry your day, carefully designed with First Mile™ canvas.
Toaster Pets Cartoons
This all-new animation studio will capture imagination and expand creativity. Record your Toaster Pets coming to life, give them a voice, and customize everything to make your story unique!
Whitethorn Games & Merchandise
Whitethorn is an indie game publisher focusing on pleasant, cozy games that can be played in pieces, that require no special skills or knowledge, and that anyone can pick up and play. They’re believers in accessibility, inclusion, and widening the audience that gets to play.
Zoobean Badge Books
Badge Books are high-quality reading logs and sticker books that unite with the online experience to better engage young readers, all year long.
Zumantra Quilted Pouches
Zumantra participated in IW’s Startable program in 2019 and 2020 and has since been designing handicraft masks. This season, they launched a new product — quilted pouches!
