Meet Our 2022 Fellows!
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Wenjun Zhang Ph.D., MBA
Founder, SalivaTek
Medical device startup for non-invasive disease detection and monitoring.
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Meet Our Past Fellows
2021 Fellows
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Jess Podgajny
Co-Founder, LLUNA
A B2B platform that enables companies to design, manage, and analyze personalized employment arrangements.
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CL Tian
Founder, Phiex Technologies Inc
Broad-spectrum self-sterilizing packaging and fabrics for healthcare, food, and beyond.
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Chrissy Glover
Founder, Imago Rehab
Digital health and wearable robotics for physical rehab.
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Charmain Jackman
Founder, InnoPsych
Dedicated to eradicating the negative stigma around therapy and opening doors for people of color.
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Pauline Roteta
Co-Founder, Pasito
Pasito is on a mission to equalize access to financial planning for families through technology.
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Lindsay Kuhn
Founder, Wingspans
A career platform that helps diverse youth see themselves in different fields through rich, personal stories.
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Kerlyne Jean-Baptiste
Founder, Kerly Girl
An organic 100% plant-based hair care venture uniquely formulated for the needs of curly, and coily textures.
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Elsa Chi Abruzzo
Founder, Anuncia Inc
Focus on developing better solutions for patients with Hydrocephalus and Peace-of-Mind.
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Loewen Cavill
Founder, Aurablue
The first smart mattress topper that helps maintain your ideal sleeping temperature.
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Aarabi Balasubramanian
Founder, EmTech Care Labs Inc
Care Technologies for Independent Living and Aging In Place.
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France Crespin
Founder, Môme Care
A wellness brand for children, pre-teens, and teens that creates products good for the body, the mind, and the planet.
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Baiyun Tao
Founder, MyFlexLearning
A software that allows K-12 schools to easily manage their flex blocks, RTI time, WIN time, or enrichment time.
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Stefania Di Bartolomeo
Founder, Physis Investment
An Investment platform that provides investors with sustainable investing opportunities.
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Kaitlin Maier
Founder, Reia LLC
Reia is focused on improving the treatment experience for people with pelvic organ prolapse.
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Heather Fraser
Founder, Synthera Health
Developing a digital health & novel therapy solution for iron deficiency anemia leveraging synthetic biology and AI/ML.
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2020 Fellows
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Anne Kim
Co-Founder, Secure AI Labs
Secure AI Labs (SAIL) makes sharing critical business data safe and easy by protecting it during analysis.
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Kelly Wannier
Co- Founder, Little Pickins
Freshly made, organic kids’ food delivered monthly.
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Adjoa Edzie
Founder, GRUUVV
GRUUVV is an online booking system designed for customers to search and hire DJ services.
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Lynne Becker
Founder, Power of Patients
A traumatic brain injury support and awareness organization that offers services designed to empower TBI patients and caregivers.
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Jungah Lee
Founder, Aura Intelligent Systems
A stealth-mode company developing mmWave imaging system.
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Robyn Parets
Founder, Pretzel Kids
Pretzel Kids offers a subscription program allowing members to teach our branded kids yoga classes in their communities.
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Ida Pavlichenko
Co-Founder, PionEar Technologies
A medical device revolutionizing the biomaterial design of conduit-like implants for drainage and drug delivery.
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Allison Byers
Founder, Scroobious
A video-based platform for investors to efficiently source the diverse deal flow and a humanized way for underrepresented founders to establish investor relationships.
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Mai Le
Founder, Haystack Diagnostics
Haystack Diagnostics has developed a full diagnostic solution that improves the diagnosis, monitoring, and therapeutic treatment of patients with nerve and muscle disorders.
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Victoria Prete
Co-Founder, Thistle Medical Technologies
Creating innovative instruments for tissue banks so their recovery technicians can recover high-quality tissue that surgeons and their patients deserve.
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Alejandra Tejada
Founder, Enlingos
Helping parents raise bilingual readers through a discovery service for Spanish and bilingual books.
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Sherina McKinley
Director, The Runway Project
A financial innovation firm that builds emergent financial practices that closes the racial wealth gap for good.
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Liat Racin
Founder, Tamim Teas
We’re the nation’s first tea company dedicated to organic medicinal mushrooms, 100% caffeine-free with no artificial/processed powders.
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Becky Pleat
Founder, Protein Power Ball
Plant-based snacks that fuel you–real ingredients, no preservatives, delicious taste.
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2019 Fellows
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Shiri Dori-Hacohen
Founder, AuCoDe
An AI-based Fintech startup that detects controversies and misinformation online and turns them into actionable intelligence.
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Afreen Allam
Founder, SiNON Therapeutics
Patented Carbon NanoDots are a drug delivery system with a novel release mechanism that allows for targeted treatment for brain tumors & other neurological diseases.
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Claudia Zayfert
Co-Founder, EverMind Digital Health
Our interactive digital therapist uses NASA technology to make expert mental health treatment accessible to everyone.
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Bianca Harris
Founder, Skinary
A digital health company to help you understand your habits and skin.
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Sonal Singh
Co-Founder, Spatio Metrics
Provides the design analytics software you need to scale a consistent, evidence-based workflow across your firm.
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Julie Moir Messervy
Founder, Home Outside
Home Outside simplifies landscape design with digital tools and a network of remote design experts.
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Jayme Coates
COO, Lactation Innovations
Develops technologies to encourage optimal breastfeeding experiences for infants and mothers.
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Unique Hodge
Co-Founder, Oak Systems
One of a kind hair. One of a kind system. Using AI to unlock the science hair behind your natural hair.
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Minmin Yen
Co-Founder, PhagePro
An early-stage biotechnology therapeutics company that develops bacteriophage-based products to help the world’s most vulnerable communities.
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Kerry Gould
Founder, Hello HealthyBox
Hello Healthy Box is an effective weight loss program for today’s on-the-go lifestyle.
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Kruti Kanojia
Co-Founder, Healthy Gamer
Healthy Gamer provides mental health support for the internet generation through coaching, content, and community.
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Roya Khosravi-Far
Co-Founder, InnoTech Precision Medicine
Pioneering a precision diagnostics technology to aid in the early detection of diseases, such as COVID-19.
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Evelyn Chan
Founder, Smileyscope
Improving needle experiences through innovative virtual reality technology.
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Catherine Smart
Co-Founder, Not Just Co.
Modern, multi-purpose pantry staples and online cooking content to help busy people cook better at home.
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Zainab Sumu
Founder, Zainab Sumu Primitive Modern
Zainab explores the diverse culture of Africa, capturing the wonders of the places she travels and turning them into textile art.
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Maureen Fidler
Founder, FilingMate, Inc.
A regulatory compliance platform for property and casualty insurance carriers.
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Elizabeth Wu
Co-Founder, Scismic
The talent matching platform for the sciences. Get the career you deserve, make the impact that you desire.
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Marlena Carter-Diaz
Founder, Care Management Temporary Staffing Agency
Care Management Temporary Staffing Agency, Inc. serves as a vital link between the Health Homecare employers and Health Homecare job seekers.
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Johae Song
Co-Founder, Lulu
A hands-free smart assistant app for people with communication challenges.
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Ahfeeyah Thomas
Founder, The Workroom
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2018 Fellows
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Michelle Dalzon
Founder, The BOM (Black-Owned Market)
A curated shopping destination that makes buying black convenient.
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Leena Pradhan-Nabzdyk
Co-Founder, Canomiks
Genomics, bioinformatics, and AI-based product superiority platform that enables companies within the functional food and beverage, dietary supplement, and skin care industries to create safe and efficacious products.
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Lauren Abda
Founder, Branchfood
Branchfood seeks to cultivate community, inspire innovation, and support food entrepreneurs with space, events, and capital.
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Kate Westervelt
Founder, Mombox
On a mission to democratize postnatal care in America.
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Kate Terry
Co-Founder, Surround Insurance
Helping consumers navigate the uncertainty of life with smarter insurance, offered through independent agents and brokers.
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Chloe Hill
Co-Founder, Hypnap
Hypnap has a mission to create elegant, high-quality products that facilitate comfort, relaxation and well-being.
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Lu Valena
Co-Founder, Raveler
A platform for small-batch food businesses to get clarity and boost efficiency in their operations.
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Shironda White
Founder, CauseEDU
On a mission to democratize the college financial planning process.
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Carol Fassino
Founder, Fair Trade Caravans
Making a world of difference through fundraising.
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Shiva Kashalkar
Founder, Green Pinata
An online toy rental subscription service offering young children a new way to learn and play.
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Beth Porter
Co-Founder, Riff Analytics
Helping teams collaborate more effectively by surfacing insights on individual behaviors through AI-enabled tools.
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Michele Courton Brown
Co-Founder, Quality Interactions
Quality Interactions offers a complete suite of online courses to meet the continuing education needs of the healthcare community.
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Amanda Drobnis
Founder, Hilltop Biosciences
We are helping our animals heal faster and stronger by Reimagining Regenerative Therapies.
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Stacy Chin
Co-Founder, HydroGlyde Coatings
By providing uninterrupted superior lubrication that becomes activated with water, HydroGlide effectively eliminates the need for supplemental personal condom lubricants.
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Adriana Mallozzi
Founder, Puffin Innovations
A portable product that utilizes bluetooth technology, and is self-powered with a lithium battery to help people with physical disabilities access computers.
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Courtney Wilson
Founder, DropZoneForVeterans
Connecting our veterans with the private businesses and organizations that support them.
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Grace Li
Co-Founder, Tactile Medical
A leading developer of therapy devices, such as the Flexitouch system, for at-home treatment of lymphedema.
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Karthy Chandra
Founder, Goalden Hour
A goal-driven productivity tool that empowers people to bring their goals and good habits to the forefront of their planning process.
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Rachel King
Co-Founder, EditMate
Crowdsource user-generated video and create authentic marketing content with Editmate’s software and video editing service.
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Karolina Starczak
Founder, Nutrimedy
We are defining telenutrition through our novel online wellness platform based on the integration of leading-edge science, technology, and behavioral health.
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2017 Fellows
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Abiche Dewilde
Co-Founder, InVitroMetrix
We develop and manufacture a multi-well whole-cell quartz crystal microbalance biosensor for the pharmaceutical and research industry.
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Amanda Curtis
Co-Founder, N.A.bld & Nineteenth Amendment
A production management software helping brands launch products sustainably and manufacture quick turn. Nineteenth Amendment is an independent designer direct, inventory-free marketplace for ethically made fashion.
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Tish Scolnik
Founder, GRIT
We design and sell adaptive equipment that allows every person, regardless of their physical ability, to get beyond the pavement and back to enjoying outdoor adventures.
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Rajia Abdelaziz
Co-Founder, Invisawear
Designs, manufactures, and markets wearable technology and mobile application software for applications such as fashion and safety.
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Sandhya Murali
Co-Founder, Solstice
Solstice connects businesses and households to local clean energy sources with guaranteed annual savings.
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Kimberly Smith
Founder, Learning Beautiful
Learning Beautiful creates hands-on toys for young children to learn the basics of computer science, without computers.
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Wafaa Arbash
Co-Founder, WorkAround
The simple way to label data: scalable solution for adding human input to your data.
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