At Central Piedmont Investment Group, we’re passionate about investing in promising entrepreneurs, startups, and businesses in Central Georgia and throughout the Southeastern United States.
Press Sports
Press Sports is the fastest growing social media application designed to give athletes a comfortable platform to self-promote their athletic achievements. The user experience resembles Instagram while serving the purpose of LinkedIn for athletes, coaches and fans from all sports. Unlike anyone else in the space, Press Sports publishes individual player rankings that are algorithm-driven, based on each profile’s engagement inside of the app. These rankings have become highly popular and feature many of the most renowned high school baseball, basketball, football and volleyball players from around the country. Athletes are sending their profile link to college coaches using it as a recruiting tool, as well as a space to connect with other athletes and grow their fan base.
Z Beans Coffee
Z Beans Coffee is a local business dedicated to creating sustainable solutions for Ecuadorian coffee farmers. Z Beans offers local businesses gourmet coffee for their breakrooms at fair prices, sells farmer validated coffee on Amazon and through its website, wholesales roasted and unroasted coffee beans, and has its own retail store where it creates a unique experience for customers. Z Beans plans to open a central roasting facility in downtown Macon, establishing itself as a premier importer and roaster of gourmet, Ecuadorian coffees.
Situation Room
Located in downtown Macon, Situation Room is the area’s first escape room experience. A unique aspect of Situation Room is that each scenario is themed, incorporating elements of video games, movies, board games, and role-play. Each of the available rooms is planned with fine attention to detail. Players must be observant and use critical thinking skills to successfully escape. The rooms are designed to evoke an emotion and tap into a real sense of excitement. Situation Room also offers corporate team building situations designed to challenge, inspire, and outwit even the skeptics. These situations focus on core competencies needed to succeed in today’s business environment including involvement and a deep commitment to working across organizational boundaries. Following their experience, corporate groups will receive constructive feedback to help employees reach their full potential.
Reservoir
Reservoir is the developer of Spoke™, a wireless irrigation for landscapers and horticulturists. By using its accommodating app, Spoke™ users can manage a simple irrigation system without conventional hardware by site and zone from anywhere in the world. The Spoke™ system carries numerous benefits and advantages for its users – it uses no clock or wires, is quick to install, and is simple to troubleshoot. Because it stores locations via GPS, it can find valves quickly and shut off leaks as soon as they’re reported. Because it’s wireless, the system provides extra protection from lightning damage and allows users to automate their irrigation.
Medicare Pathfinder
Medicare Pathfinder helps seniors optimize their health coverage so they can maximize benefits, minimize cost, and personalize their medical coverage to their individual preferences. Through a series of simple questions, seniors are matched to the most cost-effective and personalized combinations of plans and supplements. Medicare Pathfinder eliminates the headache of evaluating thousands of combinations of Medicare plans. The premise is simple – it should be as easy to find a Medicare plan as it is to buy a plane ticket. Medicare Pathfinder is an Accelerate Member of the Advanced Technology Development Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Borrowing Magnolia
Borrowing Magnolia is a digital brokerage service for wedding dresses, brokering rentals and sales between dress owners and brides-to-be. They utilize technology and the share-economy to answer an unmet need in the market for both the modern bride and former brides. They developed a proprietary fit technology, MyFit, which uses basic information about a woman to match her to wedding dresses that will fit with a high degree of accuracy, resulting in an e-commerce shopping experience where traditional sizing becomes obsolete. At Borrowing Magnolia, women appreciate the simple, straightforward, and practical approach to not only finding the right dress, but also providing a place where their wedding dress can continue on a journey to fulfill other bride’s dreams of looking stunningly perfect on their wedding day.
Piedmont Brewery and Kitchen
Piedmont Brewery & Kitchen prides itself on on being a family-friendly environment where the young and young-at-heart can relax and have a great time with their friends and family. Piedmont offers both familiar beer styles as well as cutting edge experimental beer styles with unique ingredients and the newest/freshest hop varieties. The kitchen is a nearly 100% scratch kitchen that uses high-quality ingredients. The Piedmont menu is small yet well-planned, offering patrons unique and flavorful meals. The basement houses a 5-barrel brewery as well as Middle Georgia’s largest urban arcade, with classics like skeeball, pinball, foosball, darts, Golden Tee, and classic arcade games from the 1970s and 1980s.