Your journey doesn't have to end at Transcend
What started as a one-click campus job app at UW–Madison is now a full creator marketplace. SideShift lets brands recruit, manage, and pay hundreds of content creators at once — powering a network of 1M+ creators and $6M in annual recurring revenue.
Competed: 2024
Award: Best Future Prospect
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Allowing users to skip the line and reserve spots at their favorite venues, LineLeap has grown into a company valued at $200M, serving venues in cities across the country. LineLeap was part of Y Combinator's S19 batch — the accelerator behind Airbnb, Stripe, and Dropbox.
Competed: 2018
Award: First place
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Madison-based Atrility Medical builds the AtriAmp, an FDA-cleared device that gives care teams continuous, real-time heart-rhythm monitoring for patients recovering from cardiac surgery. Used in pediatric hospitals across the country, the AtriAmp has captured over 300,000 hours of cardiac data — now powering the company's next act: AI-assisted cardiac monitoring.
Competed: 2017
Award: First place
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