Recognizing the importance of emerging technologies is a top priority for Astegic and is part of our service offering. Individuals with a vision and a business plan present their ideas to us and if they have the potential to provide expanded services to our current clients or provide a new technology we will partner with them to complete development, provide marketing and sales support, as well as process consulting. Currently Astegic has funded the following 4 companies.

EpicMD is an innovative, cost effective solution for small to medium size medical offices that provides practice management, EMR and Billing capabilities all in one online web portal. This HIPPA compliant package provides the ability for the physician's office to to be able to schedule appointments, record and maintain patient data, send the claims to insurance agencies and track the collections in a secure manner. In summary EpicMD software is designed to get "More Dollars Quicker" to the small and medium sized medical offices.

TaxScan is a software that manages scanned tax forms, extracts tax data and instantly imports it into existing commercial software for filing. TaxScan triples productivity,reduces time, errors, know-how and costs associated with preparing tax returns. TaxScan digitally saves tax forms.

JobZoomer is a cutting edge technological solution to recruiting. Like no other online recruiting site, JobZoomer has a patent pending matching system that matches job seekers with the right job every time. The model assures a double-blind input system, with maximum security and privacy. This cost effective solution will revolutionize recruiting in the technology industry.

MPTrax is a FREE to join "new music discovery website" whose sole mission is to uncover the best new, unknown, and undiscovered talent in the rock and hip-hop genres and bring it quickly to the masses. Listeners will no longer have to scour through hundreds of thousands of poor quality artists to find one artist that they like. MPTrax will enable its 18-24 year old target demographic to discover the "next generation" of major rock and hip-hop artists, thereby supplanting the traditional record company A&R (Artist Selection) model with its superior, democratic new music discovery process.

Gullivr is a web-based travel log where members can upload pictures and link them to specific locations using Google Maps. Using the concept of a personal web page and adding GIS capabilities, Gullivr provides an online record that members can share with friends and family members.