Back in 2012, Andrew Konya was disturbed by the inability of Israel and the West Bank to communicate and work out their differences. He thought that if the conflict was between just two people, they would be able to talk out their differences. But there was no way for a group of people, let alone an entire country, to work out their problems.

The thought gave Konya an idea. In 2013 at a Kent State University hackathon, he began working on an app for group communications. The idea was to condense many voices into one singular voice. He then teamed up with Aaron Slodov and the two developed an app that takes comments from a group of people and translates it into one uniform message.

Of course, Konya and Slodov don’t expect to solve any Middle East crises with their startup, but they do hope their product will eventually help businesses easily and quickly conduct market research and gather feedback from groups of customers by filtering their comments into one cohesive statement.

The two joined the 2014 Flashstarts accelerator and formed <remesh. “<remesh is an app that turns a group of people into a single intelligence,” says Konya. “It works with any size group, a classroom or a country, and treats it like it was one person.”

The company officially launched in 2014. Konya and Slodov received $150,000 in funding from Flashstarts and $100,000 grant from GLIDE, created their headquarters in StartMart in the Terminal Tower and released a beta version of the <remesh app. They now have five employees.

In June <remesh was chosen to participate in the Barclays Accelerator, a 12-week program in New York that provides $120,000 in funding, networking and support in taking the company to the next level.  The additional funding will help <remesh validate commercial uses for its app.

Half of the <remesh team is in New York this summer, while the other half remains in the Cleveland headquarters running the company. “We’re taking the technology and searching for where the market is and where we can promote value,” says Konya, adding that a stint in New York also offers additional business networking.

“There are also other opportunities in New York to identify companies who can make use of the technology,” explains Slodov. “Even as we’re developing the product we’re getting feedback.”

Slodov and Konya are quick to point out that while their trip to New York will be instrumental in <remesh’s continued success, Cleveland is where they want to grow the business. “Every person on our team is an Ohio native,” says Slodov. “We built the business here and we got our technology to a place where it’s valuable.”