Our Corporate Innovation Process
This provides a more powerful vehicle for deal sourcing, technology selection and access than could not otherwise be achieved alone.
Strategic partners leveraging our resources
At the intersection of innovation and capital, we’re helping our corporate investors disrupt their industries.
American Financial Group is a holding company engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance businesses. The Company, through Great American Insurance Group, focuses on commercial products for businesses, and is engaged in the sale of fixed and fixed-indexed annuities in the retail, financial institutions and education markets.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1872
Website
https://www.afginc.com/
Founded in 1896 on the original Cincinnati produce terminal market, Castellini Company is one of the oldest members in the produce industry. Our visionary growth and expansion forming the Castellini Group of Companies is based on supplying the freshest and safest produce to the foodservice and retail industries.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1896
Website
http://castellinicompany.com/
Cincinnati Bell provides integrated communications solutions—including local and long distance voice, data, high-speed Internet, and video entertainment services—that keep residential and business customers in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, covering more than 2,400 square miles connected with each other and with the world.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1873
Website
https://www.cincinnatibell.com/consumerbusinessselection
Caring for infants to adolescents, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is an international leader in pediatric medicine, research and education.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1883
We are one of the largest electric power holding companies in the United States, supplying and delivering electricity to approximately 7.4 million U.S. customers. They have approximately 52,700 megawatts of electric generating capacity in the Carolinas, the Midwest and Florida – and natural gas distribution services serving more than 1.5 million customers in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1904
Website
https://www.duke-energy.com/home
As the region’s leading community foundation, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation connects people with purpose in an eight-county region in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. As a trusted and connected partner, they inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region, now and for generations to come.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1963
Website
https://www.gcfdn.org/
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati invests in high-impact, transformational initiatives that enhance the cohesiveness and culture of our Jewish community.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1995
The Kroger Co. (Kroger), incorporated on April 3, 1902, manufactures and processes food for sale in its supermarkets. The Company operates supermarkets, multi-department stores, jewelry stores and convenience stores throughout the United States.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1883
Website
https://www.kroger.com/
Messer specializes in managing, developing and performing complex commercial construction in the communities in which people live and work, and delivering value to clients through quality construction experiences.
Location
Cincin
Year Founded
1955
Website
https://www.messer.com/
Michelman, Inc. develops and manufactures materials for coatings, printing and packaging, and industrial manufacturing markets worldwide.
Location
Blue Ash, OH
Year Founded
1949
Website
https://www.michelman.com//
Northern Kentucky University is a public, co-educational university in northern Kentucky located in Highland Heights, seven miles southeast of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio.
Location
Highland Heights, KY
Year Founded
1968
Website
https://www.nku.edu/
Procter & Gamble Co. (P&G) is an American multi-national consumer goods corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, founded in 1837 by British American William Procter and Irish American James Gamble. It primarily specializes in a wide range of cleaning agents and personal care and hygienics products.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1837
Website
https://us.pg.com/
A vertically integrated company, Standard Textile is a leading global provider of end-to-end solutions for the institutional textile and apparel markets. Leveraging textile design, manufacturing and laundry expertise, as well as global infrastructure, they serve customers in the healthcare, hospitality, decorative products and industrial apparel marketplaces worldwide.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1940
Website
http://www.standardtextile.com/
The University of Cincinnati, founded in 1819, offers success by providing a balance of academic excellence, real-world experience and collaborative research.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1819
Website
http://www.uc.edu/
Western & Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern), a Fortune 500 company, is the parent company to a group of diversified financial services businesses. Collectively, they provide a broad range of life insurance, investments and retirement solutions customers as well as a variety of financial solutions to our institutional clients.
Location
Cincinnati, OH
Year Founded
1888
Website
https://www.westernsouthern.com/
What our Partners are Saying
Kroger's investment in the Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund has unlocked an innovation avenue our company has been able to leverage across several swim lanes. Personally, I've built relationships and gained exposure to several VCs across the country and gained valuable insight from some of the most innovative companies in the world.
Kevin Willey
Director of Enterprise Architecture / The Kroger Co.
At 84.51 strives to make our customers’ lives easier, we partner with Cintrifuse to assist in both broadening our exposure to and deepening the relationship with external companies. We believe that innovation comes from within as well as through external collaboration and Cintrifuse plays an integral part of that for our community.
Stuart Aitken
CEO / 84.51