https://www.harvardundergraduatecap.org/if-winners-fall-2020 daily 0.75 2024-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058287-JZKCFT1Y2EMGOUSMIO5E/image-asset.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Alloy Financial Alloy Financial is a leading cloud-based wealth experience platform making it easy for everyone to compare financial products and services, all while building their own personalized fintech app. The Alloy Onboarding process connects users with a human financial expert, providing them with everything they need to create a fully personalized pathway to growing their money. The platform was founded in 2020 by Jordan Topoleski and Marwan Refaat, inspired by their difficulties navigating the overly-complex financial products and services landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058344-RT0PX1GSJTY0HFGEQ66P/Alloy.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Alloy Financial Alloy Financial is a leading cloud-based wealth experience platform making it easy for everyone to compare financial products and services, all while building their own personalized fintech app. The Alloy Onboarding process connects users with a human financial expert, providing them with everything they need to create a fully personalized pathway to growing their money. The platform was founded in 2020 by Jordan Topoleski and Marwan Refaat, inspired by their difficulties navigating the overly-complex financial products and services landscape. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058330-Z8MIDMPOE3ANSLU70JN3/Almond.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Almond Finance Almond Finance makes financial inclusion possible for entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Traditional banks fail to serve approximately 2B people worldwide, hindering economic development in rural communities. In much of the developing world, mobile phone connectivity has far surpassed banking coverage. Leveraging emerging technologies, Almond brings financial services, fueled by novel data science, to the fingertips of the underserved. We empower local entrepreneurs to combat global poverty using a platform that offers micro loans, marketplace mapping, and digital transactions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058320-E0MRBOA8XDAAIJVH7DUU/BarakatBundle+copy.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Barakat Bundle Barakat Bundle is a nonprofit that believes it is unacceptable that mothers and their children continue to die from causes the world has already solved. Through the use of relatively inexpensive and feasible public health interventions around the time of birth, more than 80% of maternal and infant deaths are completely preventable with appropriate care and education. Barakat Bundle creates lifesaving bundles of health and education to support mothers and newborns in need for the first year of their child's life. Each Bundle includes proven health items, health education, and our patented safe-sleep Giving Cradle. The Giving Cradle is also available for purchase in North America and with each purchase, an entire Barakat Bundle will be donated to a mother and newborn in need in South Asia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058352-IUKJGROLMNAIREDQWOYA/BodhiParts.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Bodhi Parts Bodhi Parts is an Asian American streetwear brand inspired by culturally Buddhist iconography. Follow us on instagram @bodhiparts and visit our new collection on www.bodhiparts.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058336-6GFC922BWP34VL7RALQR/Congregate.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Congregate Congregate is an online events platform for social, business, and classroom gatherings. Congregate brings in-person event experiences online through creating virtual spaces which users fluidly move between. Congregate is used by over 20,000 users across business schools, K-12 classrooms, and university social spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058304-PL8DS0RPMZE1VKSIHIXD/57bf428981b9-DiDact_Logo.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - DiDact DiDact is a virtual platform, website and app, that harnesses natural language processing and machine learning to help users get the most out of their meetings via “smart” note-taking. DiDact transcribes conversations, identifying recurring thoughts and topics, as well as allows users to easily search and sort all other discussed content. Using an interactive and manipulative user interface, DiDact helps to make meeting content more concise, comparable and easy to recall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058313-N8BUT9OFNGQF8NRRZTIN/ba61de19f930-Group_12120.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Finary Finary is an investing discussion site where millennials can interact with other investors over the latest market events, join forums on a wide range of investing topics, and make trades. Think Reddit + Robinhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753058359-QRFC6HU48KZ2FOQ7S8TE/Oak.png IF Winners Fall 2020 - Oak Oak is a company that is devoted to delivering Black people the best Black-owned products for their specific hair. We have created an algorithm that utilizes chemical research to match users to Black-owned products best fit for them. https://www.harvardundergraduatecap.org/home daily 1.0 2026-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753060267-GFOY29ZWUS3LRSX29RFF/4Z9A5126.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753068091-M3LOV1P65A4LDBJ0NYO3/Untitled+design+%281%29.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753089119-CKDNCCM51UVVQP4KA3LL/4Z9A4271.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753119568-PZVPX22T56SJX2FKNABO/4Z9A4080.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753062231-ZU6D11LJXLSVMYLIGGBR/HUCP%2525252BNumbers.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753062235-SUR15SI5J8AMU301AJ90/HUCP%2BNumbers.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753062240-1ACP7IJSU8OKCBKFUEV9/HUCP%2BNumbers%2B%25281%2529.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753068099-KIP2YWT6EK81L2W73JKK/Screen+Shot+2020-08-08+at+10.18.49+PM.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753071852-ZLABBBDS37SDZ6D44PN4/logos.jpg Home - Validated by some of the world’s top VCs Our clients, supporters, mentors, and more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753071858-PIZLXLFIZSPLWV6VWZX1/HUCP%2Blogos%2B%25281%2529.jpg Home - Our alumni go off to do great things Our Alumni have worked at these companies and more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753073788-8ZI38X3YI0EI1667XGVT/4Z9A5111.JPG Home - We bring together innovators, entrepreneurs, and strategists. https://www.harvardundergraduatecap.org/if-winners-f22 daily 0.75 2024-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075574-SIMMSYRJIMDLERE9JC6D/image-asset.png IF Winners F22 - Oban Market Credit is essential to build resilient financial systems for underbanked people. Currently, microlending services block access through predatory lending rates and blackbox underwriting ML algorithms. Oban is connects lenders and borrowers through a transparent marketplace where users can shop for fair rates and guarantee they get the best deal. We allow borrowers to empower their data and get a one-stop quote for all lenders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075591-K52FXW0SKA32YO8SDXN9/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+7.13.47+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Mineral Forecast "Finding a mine is hard. The average drilling success accuracy is 3%. What is more, a greener economy requires 4X more critical metals like copper, lithium, cobalt, etc., than those produced today. Hence, more discoveries are urgently needed. In Mineral Forecast we’re democratizing the use of Machine Learning in the mining exploration industry to achieve a greener economy sooner. For mid-market mining exploration managers interested in using data to improve their discovery rates, we bring a drill hole targeting solution that dramatically improves drilling success using machine learning. Our clients achieved a drilling success accuracy of 10%, 3X more than the industry average (3%), equivalent to unleashing a potential value-added of $17M per exploration project. The use of Machine Learning in mining exploration is in the early stages. Only 2% of exploration teams claim to use it today. What is more, is cost-prohibitive for all but the largest mining companies. Our value proposition is to be the off-the-shelf solution for mid-market mining and exploration companies. Through a SaaS platform with a low cost of deployment and high usability, we'll enhance the discovery rates, making the exploration process more efficient for many, not just for a few. This value proposition will endure mainly through the leverage that data gathering gives us. A SaaS business model will enable us to gather data from different mines and exploration projects, and from different types of metals, which can then be aggregated to build stronger and more accurate algorithms." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075600-IDY3EEJ1OSH3L36VVSLV/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+5.54.07+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Oban Market Credit is essential to build resilient financial systems for underbanked people. Currently, microlending services block access through predatory lending rates and blackbox underwriting ML algorithms. Oban is connects lenders and borrowers through a transparent marketplace where users can shop for fair rates and guarantee they get the best deal. We allow borrowers to empower their data and get a one-stop quote for all lenders. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075609-UYV4FGEUJWQDXCNDYSU9/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+5.59.13+PM.png IF Winners F22 - AllStreet AllStreet is a digital wealth platform that constructs thematic portfolios of top-performing private funds (i.e. PE, VC, RE) for the qualified retail investor. I founded AllStreet with a mission to allow more people to participate in the outperformance frequently generated by alternative assets. By providing minimums as low as $1, the potential for early liquidity, and mobile-first onboarding and investment performance monitoring, AllStreet is the first alternatives platform built for the retail investor. AllStreet is backed and advised by senior professionals from Apollo and Blackstone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075628-7FPE9VTRA9KGPCOA0T6Y/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+6.00.49+PM.png IF Winners F22 - BlockCarbon "BlockCarbon is a remote sensing + AI technology-driven marketplace for voluntary carbon credits, with a mission to connect Asia's carbon-zero efforts with the rest of the world. The platform uses deep learning algorithm to generate critical information and insights from a variety of data sources including satellite images, near-earth aerial data, and other asset-based sensors, helping Asia-based carbon credit project developers to identify and verify to-be-developed targets, predict the carbon storage volume, monitor the developed projects, and sell the credits in the international markets. We are unique as we are using the most advanced technology to digitalize the development of carbon credits, and we are the first in Asia market to do this." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075644-WTCE4SFUPT3K27850VGM/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+6.01.33+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Quantiscope QUANTiSCOPE is uniquely commercializing universal machine learning models. These models are inspired by those first developed at the Broad Institute in connection with pioneering cell painting techniques. We are automating them as a cloud service that allows researchers to upload phenotypic images of cells and tissues for screening of drug activity based on phenological data analysis. Prior collaborations with the biopharma industry at the Broad have shown that automating these models increases cellular analysis accuracy and drastically reduces time and investment necessary for teams to implement imaging potential into their workflows.We are developing a SaaS platform for high-throughput, automated AI imaging analysis that can easily be implemented into applied and basic research workflows. AI imaging has the potential to vastly supplement if not completely replace more mechanical methods in hit selection and optimization. QUANTiSCOPE will further develop proprietary models for different cell types and structural morphologies, and ultimately will be positioned for clinical implementation as the regulatory landscape shifts in response to technological advances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075635-0EUTE09XRKVB63117P1V/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+6.02.42+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Ntu-Konected "Our technology will be disruptive; it will open up a new segment of customers for renewable energy usage in multi-tenant buildings (apartments & flats, offices, and small retail). Through our innovation and service, we will enable landlords to be able to sell renewable, cleaner, and cheaper power (e.g. solar or lithium-ion battery) directly from their buildings to their tenants. We are moving buildings from being unpaid power intermediaries for the utilities to being actors and participants in power provision. On P&L, we are moving renewable energy in buildings from just a cost-savings play (saving on power for common property managed by the landlord) to a cost-savings and revenue generation play (now sell excess power directly to tenants who are natural and available off-takers). This innovation will be a game-changer for how we think about 1) power provision in dense cities (democratizing power) and 2) turning roofs from being liabilities to assets. Our company is unique; it will be the first to open up this opportunity. We anticipate quick go-to-market and development, as our innovation (IoT device) builds upon and increases the use case of existing in-market solutions (i.e. we are not introducing unheard of technology per se to the market, instead, we are bringing features that we’ve seen in the market in one offering). Existing solutions / alternatives (which inspired us) include energy meters, smart circuit breakers & devices, and solar system monitoring devices. These devices individually provide some of the functionality our solution proposes but not all." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075650-MWY9JHYU8BBVXD0V4F4W/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+6.03.41+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Simply "75% of employers today struggle to find the talent that they need, with millions of unfilled jobs hampering the growth of companies and economies at large. Demographic declines in developed regions of the world like North America and Europe will only exacerbate the problem in the coming decades. We urgently need to find a way to enable talent to “digitally migrate” across borders. Enter Simply. Simply is a future-of-work start-up that connects companies to vetted and trained remote team members in emerging markets. We’re uniquely focused on overlooked markets that can provide excellent talent at a fraction of the cost. You can think of us as helping employers tap into the next India of global talent – before everyone else gets there. We’re starting in Kenya, one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa and an emerging tech hub, with pipelines out of top-tier universities. Unlike bootcamps or talent marketplaces that frustrate employers with the hit-or-miss quality of talent, Simply provides a premium, end-to-end service that guarantees employees who are vetted and properly trained. Our proprietary assessment tool identifies the top 2% of applicants, who are then tailor-matched with employers based on their skill profile and cultural fit. Once selected, our training platform combines effective online learning with hands-on practice and targeted coaching to deliver talent that’s ready to go in a matter of weeks. Simply is the no-hassle, radically affordable new way to hire." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075658-8EOOLH1H8YXXR88BEVAE/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+6.05.17+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Lockbox "Lockbox streamlines managing shared funds. DAO treasuries, investing syndicates, VC firms with token portfolios, etc. all involve multiple individuals managing a shared pool of funds. Too often, these groups resort to disorganized spreadsheets (obviously insecure) or multi sigs (that can get locked out) to keep track of spending requests, approvals, and wallet permissions. We wanted to build software that was intuitive, secure, and flexible enough as organizations change (their membership, hierarchy, etc.). Setting up a Lockbox is simple: the address creating the contract (first to interact with Lockbox) is automatically made admin. From that point forward, those with admin roles can add/remove regular members from the organization. Any member or admin can deposit funds for a category or submit proposals that either 1) modify admin privileges (promote a member or demote an admin) or 2) propose spending decisions. Proposals require a simple majority from admins to be passed, with each admin provided 1 vote per proposal (can be withdrawn before approval). Regardless of how decentralized your organization is, we believe that this structure of admins and proposals is the most fundamental way of making decisions." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075665-XMMRK6OLPXZISH18QSLQ/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+6.06.10+PM.png IF Winners F22 - MiKashBoks "400M people use informal saving groups as an alternative to banks since many don’t have access to them. These groups can have tens of thousands of transactions from a decade of saving but their financial lives are invisible outside of their group. Saving groups are global: known as Chit Funds, Tandas and Susus. They save small amounts weekly, into a cash box, borrow from that pool, and earn interest when others borrow. Yet, their impact has been limited by paper ledgers, which are hard to manage and siloed. Their community powers their financial lives, but banks don’t see these communities. MiKashBoks brings these groups online, harnessing the power of community and making transactions easier and safer. We enable them to build financial profiles and be connected to formal finance. We are the only end-to-end solution for savings groups. We not only remove the pain points involved with manual record-keeping, but also enable users to build a financial profile that was previously unobtainable. This allows for access to better financial products, like lower interest loans, bespoke insurance and lines of credit." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075671-M6XYSEWZ5SAKO6SB8ME0/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+6.07.01+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Zeph Zeph assesses lung health and creates highly personalized and precise training exercises that strengthen and improve lung fitness for people responding to a respiratory dysfunction or hoping to optimize their breathing behavior. Our Zeph system captures respiratory biomarkers and use that as a unique baseline. From there, our platform uses AI to design the most effective therapy plan and provides feedback along the way to ensure better training adherence and personalized attention. Unlike other RMT devices, Zeph’s combination of a smart Bluetooth enabled device, AI and mobile app promotes longer usage time and offers precise longitudinal data to help users understand their health and create sustainable habits for their long-term lung health and recovery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075694-VWDM981S648E1V87OEI5/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+7.13.02+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Basys.ai "basys.ai is a SaaS platform for both hospitals and payers. We use proprietary AI technology (patent pending) to track, predict, and intervene to improve health outcomes for patients with cardio-metabolic conditions. We were recently covered in Forbes. Within a year of inception, we have achieved unparalleled tractions. We already obtained a 5-year partnership with Joslin Diabetes Center (the largest diabetes institute in the world) with recuring revenue ($172K for year 1), along with a pilot with the cardiology department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. We are also establishing a partnership with a MI-based payor (Beaumont Health Spectrum Health System and Priority Health) in order to scale the business further. We are uniquely positioned as the autoML for cardiometabolic health, providing predictions on diagnosis and treatment using AI 3-6 months before doctors normally do. We have access to the largest diabetes dataset in the world (300K patients), and have also filed a patent on our technology." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753075702-19HB3ZJQGIIPMAWIIS2N/white-Screen+Shot+2023-02-08+at+7.15.19+PM.png IF Winners F22 - Tetrix "Tetrix is a SaaS platform that small-medium enterprises can leverage to manage and improve their upstream/downstream supply chains. We provide a host of data integration capabilities, user actions and automations that enable supply chain practitioners to operate their supply chains with ease. By taking on much of the heavy lifting, Tetrix also frees up time for these practitioners to focus their efforts on business-critical and value-added tasks. We offer an intuitive UI dashboard, as well as API interfaces that allow for further extensibility. Having interviewed over 100 supply chain officers, attended over 10 supply chain conferences and events as well as recruited 4 pilot customers with whom we are iterating the product with, we have a solid understanding of customer pain points, and are well-positioned to capture the market. We also have done in-depth competitor analysis and have found our solution to be more affordable, easy to implement, tailored and comprehensive given its plug-and-play and all-in-one nature. 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Bonzai Bonzai is on demand out of home advertising with a simple goal: to make it as easy to get an ad in Times Square as it is online. We combine state of the art data analytics with exceptional customer service, which allows companies to effectively quantify the impact of an OOH ad and better target campaigns. We do this through integration with analytic engines such as Google Analytics and AdWords and development of image recognition software to track when pictures of the ad are shared on social media. Furthermore, we are establishing a gamified Pokemon-Go style reward system to encourage direct interaction with ads, which will lead to a better understanding of which and to what degree individuals engage with OOH ads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753095066-1GKNHKNWEMGAQOIBKR35/bonzai-1.png Past IF Winners - Bonzai Bonzai is on demand out of home advertising with a simple goal: to make it as easy to get an ad in Times Square as it is online. We combine state of the art data analytics with exceptional customer service, which allows companies to effectively quantify the impact of an OOH ad and better target campaigns. We do this through integration with analytic engines such as Google Analytics and AdWords and development of image recognition software to track when pictures of the ad are shared on social media. Furthermore, we are establishing a gamified Pokemon-Go style reward system to encourage direct interaction with ads, which will lead to a better understanding of which and to what degree individuals engage with OOH ads. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753095095-9SST7HEA6LKY26YNXJX3/image001.png Past IF Winners - My Dental Key My Dental Key is an online educational platform that transforms clinical dental learning through original video demonstrations, innovative illustrations, and step-by-step procedural guidelines to advance the quality of oral health care worldwide. Our team of future dentists is proud to lead the charge of integrating modern technology into clinical dental education. As current students, we are intimately familiar with the pain points in dental education and see tremendous opportunity to improve the educational experience of tomorrow’s oral health practitioners. We’ve made this passion our mission and are excited to launch My Dental Key to better prepare dental learners to address the world’s growing oral health needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753095102-G20TVI5V3NI3QM365UQB/5e37b456a3d85b44552787cd_shelf-life-logo.png Past IF Winners - ShelfLife ShelfLife, founded in 2020, is a Boston-based company building a software-enabled marketplace for specialty food and beverage manufacturers. From craft beer to breakfast bar producers, we design communication and ordering tools that enable small-batch manufacturers to discover, track, and receive raw materials through a single user-friendly platform. Lillian Cartwright (HBS ’20) founded ShelfLife after learning of the constant difficulties food and beverage entrepreneurs face to procure the inputs for their products. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753095074-GN729C1SQ559H499SNKN/hihome_logo.png Past IF Winners - HiHome HiHome is illuminating the path to homeownership by untangling the homebuying process. We are developing the "TurboTax" of homebuying, the first workflow management tool that guides a buyer from budgeting to move-in and assists homebuyers, their agents, and other 3rd parties manage tasks, paperwork, and communication. HiHome was founded by Tony Shu, a junior at Harvard College and a licensed real estate agent, and James Parker, an MS/MBA dual degree student at SEAS and Harvard Business School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753095081-2W7RIMRKKJ05VLH4P7GB/image002.png Past IF Winners - Gryps Gryps was founded in 2020 by Dareen Salama and Amir Tasbihi, inspired by their own careers in construction technology and the challenges they faced in scaling their consulting work. Gryps is an AI powered document data extraction and analysis platform for building and infrastructure owners and operators. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753095109-59CP9GA7K1VBJVB7G0G0/logo-01+%281%29+%281%29.png Past IF Winners - Perigee Perigee extends the life of legacy devices connected to critical infrastructure. It is a security tool used by Chief Information Security Officers to increase visibility and reliability across their network operations. It was started by Mollie Breen, Harvard Business School MS/MBA 2020, after her time in the Department of Defense. The company is based out of Boston. The company is one of 20 startups that was selected for TechCrunch’s 2020 Startup Battlefield. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753095088-8DIKQHBI7YALUS8TP4E7/troav_icon_square.jpg Past IF Winners - Troav Troav is a company that provides its users with a library of things. One membership can give you access to the latest, coolest technology, and the best part? There is no charge per checkout. Explore anything your heart desires, and embrace the new access based economy. 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Sylphi is an early-stage healthtech company developing software and hardware products to improve medication adherence. We are seeking to revolutionize the way patients take their meds by tapping into social forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753129366-GC41NYF6WD2BK6B46VSO/6ecf63b77a9f-Blue_on_Clear_H.png IF Winners S21 - Sylphi Inc. Sylphi is an early-stage healthtech company developing software and hardware products to improve medication adherence. We are seeking to revolutionize the way patients take their meds by tapping into social forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753129373-QRF0OXR2L83X0UKXGF75/176af318826a-red_logo_dark_text.png IF Winners S21 - Candelytics Candelytics is a LIDAR & 3D analytics startup founded by a team of engineers, military veterans, and graduate students from Harvard & MIT. 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Mark Gainey (Co-founder/CEO of Strava) Mark Gainey has been building successful companies for 20+ years. He currently serves as the co-founder and executive chairman of Strava, the world’s leading platform for athletes. Founded in 2009, millions of athletes worldwide have joined Strava for the competition and camaraderie found in tracking and sharing their fitness activities. Mark also co-founded Kana Communications, an enterprise software firm, in 1996 and served in various capacities, including CEO, president, and chairman. He has offered his expertise to a wide array of companies over the years, joining the boards of Alter-G, BoardVantage, Daum, Clari, and Coaching Corps. Mark holds an AB from Harvard University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083439-8S7V8MC2UXVPU27L7B3E/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.21.54+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Gary Swart (Former CEO of oDesk/Upwork, Parter at Polaris) Gary is a partner at Polaris Partners, investing in technology and healthcare companies, out of our San Francisco office. He represents Polaris on the boards of Quantcast, SimplyInsured, FloQast, Falkonry, Faro Health, Qstream, and Foresight. He also served on the board of CliQr (Cisco). Previously, Gary was the CEO of oDesk (now UpWork, NASDAQ;UPWK), the world’s largest online workplace. He guided the company to industry leadership and through a merger with Elance, while serving as a leading voice for the future of work and the emerging online work industry. Prior to oDesk, Gary was the Chief Revenue Officer for Intellibank, and was an executive for IBM’s Rational Software Product Group. Gary serves as a thought leader on marketplaces, sales leadership, the future of work, how best to lead effective teams, and on the rise of the “freelance economy.” Gary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Maryland. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his family and is an avid outdoor enthusiast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083482-DTT2HXG4GS5BX4GHW42W/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.50.03+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Crystal Huang (Principal at New Enterprise Associates) Crystal joined NEA in 2018 as a Principal focusing on enterprise software, infrastructure, security and tech-enabled services/marketplaces, as well as consumer internet. Prior to joining NEA, Crystal started her venture capital career at GGV Capital, where she focused on US and China-based investments in enterprise software and consumer internet. She was closely involved with the firm’s investments in Aptible, BigCommerce, Bitsight, BrightWheel, HashiCorp, Headspin, NS1, OpenDoor, Slack, Tile, Unravel Data, and Wish among others. Previously, Crystal was a member of the technology M&A team at Blackstone in Silicon Valley as well as a sales & trading intern at Goldman Sachs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083373-TJR4VFF0T29CW7B73K3D/5f6113b98d41b1c5e7bbbd11_Natalie_Sandman_Early_191028_PP_SparkCapital_0658-Peter-Prato-Final-p-1080.jpg Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Natalie Sandman (Investor at Spark Capital) At Spark, Natalie focuses on early-stage, enterprise software companies reinventing the way people work. She likes to back product-led companies with bottoms-up adoption and vertical software companies that are reinventing legacy industries. After studying applied mathematics and economics at Harvard, Natalie joined Zenefits as one of the first product managers, where she built insurance, payroll, and HR products during the company’s hyper-growth from tens to more than 1,000 employees. From there, she led the product team at Ravelin, a London-based machine learning fraud detection startup, and founded Dabble, a mobile shopping app. Her venture career began at Shasta Ventures, where she developed an appreciation for supporting founders at the earliest stages of their journey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083382-MWUDSQ28HTGFWJCXS8BT/1_uj17SvpoO77YEbVhfUBRXA.jpeg Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Medha Agarwal (Principal at Redpoint Ventures) Medha Agarwal is an investor on Redpoint’s early stage consumer team. Prior to Redpoint, Medha worked at Thumbtack, skedge.me, and Bain & Company. She also co-founded Roomidex, a social roommate finding website to help people find roommates within their network. Outside of work, Medha is a founding Board Member and current Advisor to Project HEAL, a non-profit that funds treatment for those with eating disorders and promotes healthy body image. Medha earned her M.B.A from Harvard Business School and her A.B. from Harvard University, where she was on the lightweight crew team and graduated with high honors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083392-XXRO7NMUWKTXE757GUZH/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.18.18+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Brandon Farwell (Partner at XFund) Brandon Farwell is a General Partner at Xfund. Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments including Box (NYSE: BOX), Yammer (acq., MSFT), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Newsle (acq., LNKD), SugarCRM, and Insight Squared, in addition to other frontier investments like Planet and SpaceX. After DFJ, he helped build the 150-company portfolio at Rothenberg Ventures nearly from the beginning, including companies like SpaceX, Planet, Robinhood, Gusto, Matterport, Bustle, Revel Systems, Boom Supersonic, Kespry, Andela, Dronebase, Nearpod, Patreon, Vicarious Surgical, SweetIQ (acq., GCI), Accelo, Customer.io, and others. This portfolio was awarded #1 in VR /AR and frontier technology by Goldman Sachs, CB Insights, and Pitchbook. Brandon received a B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Stanford University. He helped run BASES (Stanford’s leading entrepreneurship organization) and was awarded Pac 12 All-Academic Team honors as a varsity rower. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Rock Ventures Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083402-HNXZVU4YQZ5CQPLZVLTU/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.20.12+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Freddie Martignetti (Principal at Highland Capital) Freddie is a Principal at Highland Capital Partners, a 33-year old early stage technology investment firm. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School, Freddie works most closely with Highland investments Everlywell, RapidSOS, Vecna Robotics, and Bitwise. Prior to joining Highland Freddie founded Suffolk Equity Partners, through which he invested in Warby Parker, Grab, FIGS Scrubs, and Drizly. Over the first nine years of his venture investment career Freddie has had the pleasure of investing in 5 companies that have gone on to achieve $1bn+ valuations. Freddie is also the Co-Founder of Mezcal Rosaluna, one of the nation’s hottest new beverage alcohol brands, available through Drizly, Total Wine, and Soho House locations nationally. Freddie, his wife, 1-year old son, and corgi live in San Francisco, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083413-VE4DFU6CZWBOECHY3Q4W/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.20.46+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Przemek Gotfryd (Co-founder/COO at Capchase) Przemek Gotfryd is a co-founder, COO at Capchase which provides non-dilutive financing for SaaS companies by bringing to the present cash flows tied up in monthly and quarterly paid contracts. Przemek was a strategy consultant at OC&C and a tech investor at TCV in London prior to enrolling in the MBA program at HBS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083423-09F81MKBSTBXYNPDGNFJ/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.21.20+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Tracy Dooley (Partner at Avestria Ventures) Tracy invests in women’s health and life science at Avestria Ventures. Prior to Avestria, Tracy spent several years in healthcare M&A, then moved to Novartis Diagnostics. As Chief of Staff to the President, she led strategy and built out the innovation pipeline, then headed global operations. More recently Tracy has been focused in digital health, where she advised a range of organizations, from early-stage startups to the Novartis Digital Accelerator Lab and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, before joining Avestria. She is also a member of the Women’s Health Executive Committee at Springboard Enterprises. Tracy majored in biomedical engineering at USC and went to medical school at Stanford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083431-57HN1VRQQ3800LJBDAIE/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.21.38+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Dr. Monique Smith (Founding Director of Health DesignED) Dr. Monique Smith is the Founding Director of Health DesignED: The Acute Care Design + Innovation Center in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University, an emergency physician at Grady Memorial Hospital, and a thought leader on design thinking in healthcare and health equity. In addition to founding Health DesignED, Dr. Smith has worked to create tech-enabled care for seniors, develop digital vaccines, and address inequity in maternal outcomes for women of color through virtual health initiatives. Dr. Smith obtained her Bachelors in Medical Anthropology from Harvard; Masters in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing at the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; and her MD from Harvard. Prior to Grady Memorial Hospital, Dr. Smith practiced emergency medicine at Kaiser Permanente and safety-net hospitals in Oakland and Atlanta. Her research has been published in Health Care Policy and Health and Social Care in the Community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083447-0X23KSPPEERL2ROVANY9/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.22.17+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Simeon Simeonov (Co-founder/CTO of Swoop) Sim Simeonov has a unique perspective on the startup ecosystem as an entrepreneur, VC, angel investor and TechStars mentor. He’s been a co-founder or founding investor of successful startups across many industries--deep enterprise tech, security, adtech, health, AI and even consumer social media--on both coasts. Sim is currently co-founder and CTO of Swoop, where he improves patient outcomes by accelerating promising therapies using large scale privacy-preserving AI. Connect with Sim at https://linkedin.com/in/simeons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083456-XVPL2CT1HDQ7WT2YKBZW/Screen+Shot+2020-10-26+at+7.22.39+PM.png Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Ha Nguyen (Founding Partner at Spero Ventures) Ha is a founding partner at Spero Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that invests in the things that make life worth living: well-being, work & purpose and human connection. She acts as a thought partner to founding teams, helping them incorporate design-thinking and user empathy into product development and corporate strategy. She also leads the firm’s early stage investments in diverse founders. She is on the Board of Women In Product (non-profit organization of 16k female product builders) and co-founded the Product Leader Summit (invite-only conference bringing together founders and VP-level product leaders). She previously was a product executive at several early and mid-stage startups. She started her product career at eBay during a period of hyper-growth. She received her MBA from Harvard and BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6644505e11afbb10e338aeba/1715753083466-DFCWVM1YYE1XY1ETP149/5db769e78e571b8eba2e890a_Ben_05.jpg Innovation Fund Bootcamp - Ben Gilbert (Co-founder of PSL and Co-host of Acquired) Ben is the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and early-stage venture capital fund. He is a technology investor and entrepreneur, and currently represents PSL on the Boards of Glow and an unannounced investment. He has a background in product management from Microsoft where he shipped the first version of Office for iPad and ran The Garage, the company’s grassroots innovation program. Ben also co-founded Madrona Venture Labs. Ben was named the 2017 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by GeekWire and 40 Under 40 by Puget Sound Business Journal. He is the co-host of the popular venture capital podcast, “Acquired,” which analyzes landmark acquisitions and IPOs in the technology sector. Ben sits on the board of the Microsoft Alumni Association and the Pacific Northwest Anti Defamation League. He has a long history and passion for entrepreneurship beginning as a global facilitator of Startup Weekend while he was in college. His first entrepreneurial venture was creating SeizeTheDay in 2008, an iPhone app which was used by over a million people. 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