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Sure-Grip is the leading manufacture of high end and recreational roller skates and roller skate accessories. Since 1937 Sure-Grip has been the foremost developer in roller skates. Our product range stretches further than any other roller skate company to include wheels, bearings, plates, trucks, toe stops, artistic boots, speed boots, derby boots, hockey boots, hockey frames, and protective gear. Throughout the years we have continued the tradition of many companies such as Kryptonic, Hyper, Power Trac, Nova, Snyder, and Rock just to name a few. A family business that spans 4 generations tells you our dedication to the roller skate industry.

BaseKit offers super lean white-label e-commerce, bookings and website software to resell to small business customers for everything they need – and nothing they don’t – to thrive online. Effortless, reliable and mobile-first by design - our software gets a thumbs up from happy users on the go. That means loyal customers and low churn for our 60+ partners. SaaS or on-premise, white labelled or branded, we can make our software easy to integrate with your infrastructure and provide exceptional account managed support. That means there’s little demand on your ecosystem, your customers, time or resources. Leaving you to deliver lots of sales to many happy customers. Join industry leaders including Telefónica, Etisalat by e&, SLT Mobile, Local Line, Miss Group and more and let’s drive the global tech democracy for small businesses together.

Company History: Engineering PhDs from the University of Maryland’s Chemical Engineering Department teamed up with former Terps' and Ravens' Tight End Matt Furstenburg, and Entrepreneur Businessman Harry Geller in Summer 2012 to tackle one of the biggest problems with football gloves—the rapid decline in tackiness/grip of the gloves (especially after a trip through the washing machine!). Most football gloves lose their tackiness/grip quickly due to intense frictional contact (e.g. glove-jerseys, glove-ground) experienced throughout practices and games during the football season; usually the grip on a pair of brand-new gloves wears down after just a few days of practice. Two years of iterative product development between football players and chemical engineers led to the creation of Grip Boost Football Gel—the first product ever to restore grip to football gloves without leaving any residue on the ball. Grip Boost is a patent-pending invention and currently licensed by Grip Boost Inc. from the University of Maryland’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC). The development of the Grip Boost Football Gel has been supported by seed grants from the Maryland Innovation Initiative, The VOLT Fund, The University of Maryland OTC, TEDCO's Technology Commercialization Fund and private investment. Additionally, in Spring 2014 the Grip Boost technology was chosen from over 150 inventions as a Finalist for UMD's Invention of the Year.