Companies & product portfolio
Wild Manta has created and commercialized technology across very different markets. The common thread is the business-factory model: solve an enabling problem, turn the solution into a product or product line, surround it with the right team, and create durable enterprise value.
Seafarer Exploration (SFRX)
Business factory story
Seafarer demonstrates how technology can be reused across generations of companies. Core concepts trace back to earlier NASA work and were recombined with new sensors, software, engineering, and market requirements to create a new underwater exploration capability.
Product: The Seasearcher
The Seasearcher is an AI powered underwater exploration drone that combines a series of technologies and sensors in a way that has never been done before.
Hovering over the ocean floor, the Seasearcher can pin-point the location of both ferrous and non-ferrous metal, discriminate between each type, and send back real time data with coordinates, depth, hardness, and more, without ever disturbing the ocean floor.
This quantum leap in archeological technology will allow Seafarer to discover and conserve precious cultural resource deposits in a new predictable repeatable process that, prior to the Seasearcher, has been a process that's relied on luck and time.
Customer quote
“Our confidence increases with every site we scan with the SeaSearcher. Because the SeaSearcher is based on AI machine learning algorithms, The more it learns, combined with known training sets, the more its abilities increase and the more it focuses our efforts towards high-precision, surgical archaeology."
- Kyle Kennedy | CEO, Founder
Swift Paws
Business factory story
Meghan Wolfgram had a show stopping product idea that ended up landing her the "Golden Ticket" on ABC's hit show "Shark Tank! But when we started working with Megan, she was still running production out of her business partners garage. We helped the Swift Paws team re-design their flagship product in a way that caught the eye of a few LA Executives and brought her company to the biggest stage in start-ups as well as a Golden Ticket!
Business outcome
The Swift Paws Home Kit was designed to make Lure Coursing a fun, safe, and a healthy at home activity for dogs in the comfort of their own backyard. We worked with the Swift Paws team to develop a product for the market that was an affordable at home Lure System, with built-in Safety features that keep Pets Safe while playing.The results were a extremely successful kickstarter campaign, Shark Tank Special, ESPN coverage, and a nationally recognized Brevard-based export.
Customer quote: Amazon Review
"Our rescue dog Maggie suffers from fear and anxiety. It was not until we found Swift Paws that we saw quite a remarkable change in our dog Maggie; she is now more relaxed and mentally satisfied after a Swift Paws session."
-Karen W.
Avancen
Business factory story
Avancen is a patient care & reporting enterprise that partnered with us looking for a better way to manage the patient medication and pain care process.
Product: The Avancen Mod 2.0
Our solution was the Avancen Mod 2.0, a safe and reliable medication control unit that revolutionized the process for both patients and healthcare providers.
This award winning integration ensures medication is always dispensed on time, and records patient pain data that is automatically synced with the larger MOD Trac Reporting System.
Safer, More Cost Effective Care
The MOD® 2.0 device may help hospitals reduce costs in materials, equipment and staff time.The MOD® 2.0 device is an easier, safer, non-invasive PCA device. There is less risk of medication error since eight doses of the same medication are validated at one time.
A portfolio, not a project list
HOW WE BUILD
Wild Manta is structured around creating durable value, not accumulating disconnected engineering projects. We may originate the opportunity ourselves, team with an entrepreneur, or partner with an established company seeking to commercialize something new. Each opportunity is evaluated for its ability to support a focused product line, defensible advantage, capable leadership, and a realistic path to market.
We are not a traditional incubator. We do not begin by asking whether a founder fits a program or whether an idea looks fashionable. We begin with the opportunity itself: Is there a real problem? Can we create a meaningful advantage? Can that advantage support a product line or focused business? The opportunity may originate with Wild Manta, an entrepreneur, or an established company. When the fit is right, we team around the opportunity and bring technology, product-development discipline, commercialization experience, leadership, capital relationships, and long-term commitment to creating value together.
There are several ways to work with Wild Manta. We create companies around opportunities we identify ourselves. We team with entrepreneurs and inventors who want to build a product and business around an opportunity. We also partner with established companies that want to commercialize a technology, create a new product line, or pursue a new market. These are teaming relationships built around shared success and value creation — not simply engineering work for hire.
Our portfolio can span high technology and deceptively simple products. What matters is the conversion efficiency: how effectively can Wild Manta combine a market opportunity with existing knowledge, reusable designs, proven teams, new engineering, and capital to create something customers will buy and a company worth owning?
We create the most value at the beginning, when the market, product architecture, intellectual property, manufacturing strategy, leadership model, and company structure can still be shaped together. That is where a good technical idea becomes a coherent business.
Intellectual property is part of the company-building process. We document inventions, designs, software, know-how, and product roadmaps so the operating company owns a clear and defensible technology foundation.
Our experience includes government, defense, commercial, medical, industrial, and consumer markets. The business factory is intentionally domain-flexible; the reusable asset is often the engineering discipline, product-development process, team cohesion, and leadership rather than a specific technology.
New opportunities begin with a discussion of the problem, market, available technology, and why a focused company should exist to solve it. From there we determine what must be proven, what can be reused, what must be invented, and what team and capital will be required.