Useful software addresses real problems: the kind that slow businesses down, cost money, create unnecessary risk or make important decisions harder than they need to be. Those are the types of solutions the founders in the JumpStart Trailblazer Software Accelerator are building.
The Trailblazer Software Accelerator is a three-month program for pre-seed and seed-stage Ohio founders who are ready to grow. Participants work with JumpStart’s services team and seasoned founders to refine their products, validate their markets and prepare to scale. They also gain access to JumpStart’s Preferred Partner Program, a vetted network of more than 200 providers across legal, engineering, marketing and finance. The program comes at no-cost to participants and requires no equity.
Please join us in welcoming the 10 startups participating in Cohort 5 of our Trailblazer Software Accelerator:
CentSight Inc. | Gerald Hetrick
Most businesses in the $1M–$50M revenue range don’t have a CFO. They have spreadsheets and educated guesses. CentSight’s AI virtual CFO platform changes that by integrating bank, invoicing and payroll data into real-time cash flow forecasting, runway analysis and plain-language financial narratives, giving business owners the clarity to make confident decisions without a full-time finance hire.
Construction Risk AI | Jeremiah Woods
Construction projects are complex, data-rich and notoriously difficult to manage. Construction Risk AI ingests data from any construction tech stack and applies more than 100 proprietary KPIs to forecast operational outcomes and insurance risk for owners, contractors and carriers. The result is actionable intelligence that helps all parties see risk coming before it becomes costly.
Dwarpaal Inc. | Sudhanshu Patki
For economy and mid-market hotels, energy costs, outdated access systems and aging infrastructure add up. Dwarpaal’s smart-room platform combines edge-AI energy management, access control, and mobile and wallet keys with rebate-backed retrofits, giving hotel operators a path to modernization that pays for itself over time.
Everywai Inc. | Jonathan Hooper + Colin Hooper
Everywai is an AI-powered Bible app designed for people who want to go deeper during a church service. Using a device’s microphone, it follows live sermons in real time, automatically turning to referenced scripture, transcribing and summarizing the message, and surfacing related passages for personal study. It turns a listening experience into an active one.
Greenlight Grocery | Matt Vann
Independent restaurants pay more for food than national chains, not because they buy less, but because they buy alone. Greenlight Grocery is a food purchasing operating system that aggregates demand from independent operators and channels it to aligned distributors, unlocking chain-equivalent pricing for the restaurants that need it most.
Kuddo Inc. | Wenyi Zhu
In behavioral health, ensuring that evidence-based therapies are actually being delivered the way they’re designed to be is a persistent and costly challenge. Kuddo’s AI fidelity measurement platform ingests clinical protocols and analyzes therapy sessions to give supervisors system-level quality oversight across their entire provider network, at a scale that human review alone can’t match.
LTCareNav LLC | Lindsay Friedman and Shannon Lyons
Deciding how to care for an aging parent or loved one is one of the most consequential and confusing decisions a family can face. LTCareNav is a decision-intelligence platform that gives families the planning tools to navigate long-term care with confidence while connecting them to a curated network of senior living, home care and benefits providers best matched to their needs.
Motiv | Nida Aslam and Jaden Walton
High school athletic departments run on a tangle of spreadsheets, group texts and paper forms, all while navigating an increasingly complex landscape of student-data privacy requirements. Motiv is a compliance-first operating system that brings coaches, parents, students and athletic administrators together in one platform, reducing administrative burden and keeping programs running smoothly.
Ordermatic | Dan Mizener and David Boone Jr.
Across the $11.9 trillion U.S. wholesale distribution industry, a significant share of orders still arrives by email, fax or handwritten purchase order and gets processed manually, one line item at a time. Ordermatic’s AI platform extracts and validates those orders in seconds, giving distributors a straightforward path to faster, more accurate operations.
Velocity AI Partners | George Granchi
In fitness and wellness franchises, the difference between a lead that converts and one that goes cold often comes down to response time. Velocity AI Partners responds to new leads in 11–14 seconds, reactivates dormant prospects and surfaces retention analytics, helping franchise operators grow membership and reduce churn with less manual effort.
The program concludes with the Trailblazer Software Accelerator Cohort 5 Showcase on August 27th, 2026, an opportunity to meet these founders, see their work and engage with Ohio’s startup community.
