ConnXus

ConnXus is an online service that connects diverse and small businesses with companies seeking to expand and diversify their supplier base.

The tech startup helps major corporations manage all aspects of their supplier diversity initiatives, using patent-pending technology to move a historically paper-based process online.

Corporations can also register as buyer members on the ConnXus platform and indicate which of the more than 400 products or service categories they need. Small, woman- or minority-owned businesses register as supplier members, indicating the products or service categories they provide as well as their size, areas of expertise and representative customers.

Registered buyers represent leading global companies that purchase billions in goods and services each year. In addition, the ConnXus database conatains more than 1.6 million diverse minority- and women-owned supplier companies.

The company was founded in 2010, and is based in Mason, Ohio, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ConnXus was founded by Rod Robinson, founder and managing partner of Accel Advisors.

By 2013, ConnXus® began working with major U.S. corporate buyers including McDonald's, Brown-Forman, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and The Coca-Cola Company.

In March 2014, ConnXus expanded, opening a Portland office.

ConnXus met a startup milestone in 2015, entering its fifth year of business.