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The company already serves thousands of customers in more than 40 countries across a variety of industries.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EBrightWhistle is a first-in-class digital patient acquisition solution designed for health care providers. Its technology helps providers quickly find high value patients through search and social media.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EKontrolFreek is a leading designer of ergonomic, game-enhancing products to improve comfort and performance when playing video games.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPatientco helps patients pay, track, understand and manage their healthcare costs. The company helps patients reign in healthcare costs and allows providers to receive payments more quickly.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUrjanet offers tools for tracking and reporting energy use for large-scale consumers.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe graduates joined some 35 other ATDC technology startups in exhibiting their innovative technologies at the showcase.\u0026nbsp; The companies demonstrated applications and hardware for a wide range of industries, including health care and medical devices, financial services, clean tech\/energy, information security and gaming.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAmong the technologies on display were cabled robotics with balloon lifting devices to provide broad surveillance over a large area, shoe inserts to capture electrical current to charge mobile devices while a person is walking, a repositioning device to allow a caregiver to lift the torso of a patient with one finger, and software automation for cutting and sewing garments and other items at costs less than foreign producers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EATDC, just ranked by \u003Cem\u003EForbes\u003C\/em\u003E as one of the 12 business incubators that are changing the world, helps technology entrepreneurs in Georgia launch and build successful companies. 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