COMET Informatics LLC
COMET helps parents and professionals, who work with children, improve child outcomes, evaluate programs, and reduce costs.
- Stage $500K in TTM Revenue
- Industry Internet / Web Services
- Location Rochester, NY, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded September 2007
- Employees 8
- Website comet4children.com
Company Summary
COMET was created in 2007 as a joint-venture between the Children's Institute (CI) and SophiTEC (ST). It became a LLC in 2011. COMET is a web-based SaaS system, which combines a "smart" database and numerous "plug-in" modules. It enables the easy collection of rich student information, individual and group assessments, attendance/dosage of services, recommendations for specific actions and interventions, program evaluation and accountability.
Team
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A. Dirk HightowerCo-CEO
Co-CEO of LLC, Executive Director of Children's Institute, a psychologist, and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Rochester since 1991. His primary interests include social/emotional and educational assessments and evidenced-based interventions. Hightower has been principal investigator on multimillion dollar state and federal grants. Presently, he serves on multiple local boards that focus on the success of children.
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Serge L. LossaCo-CEO
Co-CEO of LLC, the President of ST with 40+ years of experience in the design and development of complex databases, highly interactive web-based applications and experts systems in a large variety of application domains. Lossa’s education background as a mechanical engineer, an MBA and a Ph.D. in computer science allows him to combine the practical view with the business perspective when designing IT systems.
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Dan DraperPresident, Board of Directors
A business strategy and marketing consultant, Draper has been providing pro-bono coaching and implementation assistance to the COMET team for 4 years. With 40 years of experience managing and advising US and international new business development teams, Draper brings a strong cross functional perspective to COMET Informatics LLC.
Advisors
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Alan Lockwood, Boylan, Code LLPLawyerUnconfirmedMichael Doody, EFP Rotenberg LLPAccountantUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Children's Institute, Inc.UnconfirmedSophiTEC, Inc.UnconfirmedDan Draper, Lenny Gingello, Serge L. Lossa, A. Dirk HightowerUnconfirmed
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