2025 Entrepreneurs
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Emergency departments face record staffing shortages and overcrowding, disproportionately impacting patients with complex social needs—those facing housing instability, food insecurity, or limited transportation. These patients often slip through rushed triage and delayed discharges. Vita Innovationsoffers a care-automation platform that streamlines triage by capturing clinical and social determinant data, while coordinating real-time follow-up services like community referrals, transportation, and home care. Our solution improves clinical efficiency, reduces avoidable revisits, and advances health equity. We are raising capital to expand our go-to-market strategy and serve a broader network of hospitals, FQHCs, and urgent care clinics. We have already partnered with New York Presbyterian on a 385-patient pilot, engaged a large physician practice clinic, and won the Stanford Healthcare Emergency Department business competition last year.
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SignUp is a media-accessibility tool providing sign language interpretation for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing on streaming and educational platforms. Developed with the Deaf community, it enhances accessibility for an underserved group. With 432 million people (5%) worldwide identifying as Deaf or Hard of Hearing, SignUp gained 20,000 website visitors at launch and now serves 25,000 weekly active users across the US, UK, India, and Canada on platforms like Disney+ and Netflix. To support scalability, we are developing a cutting-edge AI model trained on SignUp’s proprietary database—the largest collection of sign language interpretations in the world—enabling high-accuracy, real-time interpretation across multiple sign languages.
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Penguin Health transforms behavioral health care for Medicaid populations with a two-part solution: a Case Management Platform that automates workflows, streamlines documentation, and improves revenue cycle management; and a Patient Engagement App that drives adherence, gathers real-time data, and supports treatment goals. Built for underfunded, understaffed community health clinics, Penguin Health reduces administrative burden, enhances care coordination, and empowers teams to deliver more efficient, effective, and equitable care.
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NutriLink is an AI-powered platform transforming how healthcare addresses food insecurity, a critical social determinant of health. Seamlessly integrating with electronic medical records (EMRs), NutriLink identifies at-risk patients and connects them with localized food resources and assistance programs in real time through a closed-loop referral process. By bridging the gap between clinical care and vital community resources, NutriLink improves patient outcomes, reduces healthcare costs, and advances health equity at scale, it improves patient outcomes, reduces healthcare costs, and advances health equity at scale.
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Equipoise revolutionizes gait training by providing affordable, personalized mobility solutions. Walking stability declines after age 50, contributing to falls in 30% of adults over 65, resulting in $80 billion in healthcare costs. Traditional physical therapy can be inconvenient and inaccessible, but Equipoise, a smartphone app, measures gait asymmetries and offers real-time audio and visual feedback as well as personalized exercise prescription. Users can improve walking stability and confidence through training sessions, progress tracking, and goal-setting from home, promoting healthier aging.
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DART-Met is creating a revolutionary platform for early liver disease diagnostics, focusing on metabolic dysfunction-associated conditions and GLP-1 therapy monitoring. Our solution integrates advanced biosensing with AI-driven analysis to provide a non-invasive, rapid, and affordable point-of-care diagnostic tool. DART-Met aims to empower healthcare providers with actionable insights for timely interventions across various liver conditions. By addressing under-diagnosis and limited access to comprehensive screening, DART-Met has the potential to transform liver disease management.
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DropSense closes the nitrogen management gap to secure cleaner water. DropSense's innovative platform simultaneously detects key nitrogen pollutants (ammonium, nitrate, and nitrous oxide), and transforms the data into proactive, actionable insights for ensuring water pollution and emission compliance, while delivering unmatched accuracy with minimal labor input. Hydrosun Technologies is combining the power of voluntary carbon markets (VCM) with purpose-built renewable technologies to serve clean water to millions in need.
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LacTrax is a subcutaneous sensor that monitors lactate levels in the interstitial fluid of postoperative pediatric patients, a key biomarker for low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS). LCOS, a common complication following heart surgery, can lead to severe health issues such as organ failure if undiagnosed. By providing real-time data, LacTrax supports early diagnosis and management, aiming to improve outcomes and reduce complications in vulnerable pediatric populations.
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Student Productions addresses America’s twin crises of student disengagement and teacher recruitment. Through our Community Champion Fellowship, high school students teach lessons, lead classrooms, and mentor peers in under-resourced schools—experiencing firsthand the joy and impact of teaching. We’re turning student leaders into the educators our schools desperately need.
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Journify Learning is an AI platform for special education compliance and instruction in U.S. schools, enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of special educators. It helps students meet their IEP goals by generating classroom assessments, identifying future focus areas, and enabling real-time progress updates among stakeholders. Over 400 students are on the platform, with teachers actively addressing more than 1300 IEP goals.
2024 Entrepreneurs
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Allswell delivers affirming, community-based therapy for LGBTQ+ adults through a tech-enabled platform built for scale. We combine proven clinical models with group-based care, AI-supported tools, and moderated digital communities to drive better outcomes at lower cost for LGBTQ+ people who are often overlooked by traditional systems. Our platform is designed to meet people where they are, expanding access through Medicaid as well as commercial plans and creating a trusted destination for holistic healthcare.
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Avanza Education is a tech-enabled social impact venture that transforms college access for undocumented students. Undocumented individuals face unique financial, legal, and sociocultural barriers to higher education, resulting in only five percent of undocumented students graduating from college. Avanza tackles this problem by delivering a virtual, cohort-based college-access advising curriculum that is family-focused, research-backed, and specifically tailored to the needs of undocumented students. Our holistic approach equips students to pursue affordable higher education and break intergenerational cycles of poverty and precarity.
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Beaker provides a SaaS platform that uses brands’ data to produce transparent and compliant sustainability reporting on the company or product level. Beaker’s platform helps brands create digital product passports, which show individual products’ footprints and are being mandated in the EU by 2030, as well as impact reports or marketing materials for public consumption or certification applications (like B Corp). Beaker began as a popular consumer tool to help shoppers identify brand sustainability but has since found the most value in providing its rating/footprinting services to businesses.
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Frontdoor is an end-to-end application and recertification tool for SNAP (i.e. food stamps). We make it simple and easy for low-income families to access food assistance and unlock billions in unclaimed revenue for grocers and EBT retailers.
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MedHug is on the mission to make medications more affordable and accessible, by helping doctors prescribe medications faster and find cheaper solutions for patients. MedHug's innovative approach assists healthcare professionals in swiftly identifying and prescribing the most cost-effective medication options. Our platform ensures that patients receive optimal care without the burden of high medication costs. At MedHug, we are driven by the belief that people with love are making a better and healthier world.Description text goes here
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FoundHer is a digital marketplace that connects unemployed women in India to workplaces where they will thrive. FoundHer incorporates the overlooked and sidelined skills and work needs of women into the match process, and using AI & ML, facilitates efficient job search and talent acquisition using exclusive data points.
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BloomBox Design Labs is dedicated to improving access to high quality education and sustainable energy for the next generations of scientists, innovators, and creative problem solvers, no matter who they are or where they come from, by engaging deeply with seemingly impossible challenges, and relentlessly innovating across disciplines to solve them.
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CircuBat's battery diagnostic solution is revolutionizing EV battery repurposing for on-grid storage. Traditionally, only 3% of these batteries are reused, hindered by lengthy and inaccurate cell-level testing required for UL certification. Our magnetic sensor array slashes diagnostic time from days to minutes, increases accuracy to over 95%, and accelerates certification tenfold. This innovation efficiently scales battery repurposing, delivering warrantied second-life systems at 25% lower cost than new ones, promoting energy equity and a greener battery value chain for a sustainable future.
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Flex Therapeutics is a Stanford spin-out leveraging advanced computational technologies to develop safer, more accessible medicines for blockbuster indications. Our innovative platform designs highly precise and selective small molecules targeting cryptic pockets and specific protein states, aimed at reducing side effects or providing alternatives to costly antibody therapies. Central to our approach is a proprietary computational technology we developed, which is over 1000x more efficient than conventional computational drug screening methods. Our lead program targets chronic pain and migraine, building on a cryptic pocket and lead molecule discovered by our team at Stanford and recently published in Nature.
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Hydrosun Technologies is combining the power of voluntary carbon markets (VCM) with purpose-built renewable technologies to serve clean water to millions in need.
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PangeAI is the Canva for spatial data—an AI-powered platform that makes spatial land, climate, and nature data accessible to non-technical users through natural language. Today’s geospatial tools are complex, fragmented, and built for experts. PangeAI replaces slow, consultant-led workflows with an intuitive AI interface, enabling sustainability teams, consultants, and climate investors to ask spatial questions and get instant, actionable answers. We’re building the spatial intelligence layer for climate and nature decision-making—starting with land-use, biodiversity, and restoration planning.
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Peachy Day is the first integrative migraine care app to help patients with personalized health tracking, access to neurologists, lifestyle coaching with vetted experts, and peer community.
2023 Entrepreneurs
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Transforming the economic model of fashion to a demand-driven one with a deep data-analytic understanding of consumers and their needs. Vrinda aspires to undertake one of the toughest challenges - change consumer behavior to break the vicious cycle of fashion carbon waste stemming from supply-demand production mismatch due to manual fashion prediction analysis
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Oleo Sustainable Palm Oil Solutions is an early-stage biotech company that transforms biomass waste streams into a second-generation bio-oil, which can be used as a sustainable replacement for palm oil in the consumer goods and biofuels sectors.
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Atreides is a digital platform for water management that is powered by blockchain technologies. Water Inefficiencies and waste are the result of mismanagement, which perpetuates at global scale because resource data is neither accurate, transparent, nor accessible. Atreides enables water to be monitored and manipulated with granularity, transparency, and automation.
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Understory is a geospatial SaaS platform that employs AI and remote sensing to revolutionize environmental management and biodiversity tracking. Our platform offers highly actionable data, providing up to 500x higher resolution compared to conventional methods. This enhanced resolution enables more accurate assessments and reduces project costs by 2-100x and time expenditures by 10-100x. Our mission is to reinforce environmental compliance, improve biodiversity outcomes, and support nature-based solutions that minimize the impacts of climate change such as warming, fires, and floods.
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We believe no family should have to walk alone throughout her baby's first 1000 days. That is why we have built Mi Tribu, a digital platform to support parenthood from fertility, through pregnancy and postpartum into early childhood, by matching groups of 12 women in the same stage of motherhood with the support and guidance of a healthcare specialist through group chat and one-to-one video calls. This enables growing families to access medical and emotional support cheaply whenever and wherever they need it.
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Bent is a co-living as a service platform that makes shared living seamless for residents and landlords alike. Economic uncertainty, ever-rising housing costs, and remote work are creating a once in a generation paradigm shift in the way we live. By solving the core frictions that have prevented co-living from scaling in the past, we can lower rents, increase housing supply, and revitalize local community.
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Spect AI is a web platform that helps the construction industry reduce waste and deliver projects on time by automatically reviewing building products against design documents to ensure they meet requirements before procurement. In the US, new construction produces 60 million tons of material waste each year largely due to inaccurate material/product procurement and rework due to construction mistakes. Spect AI’s platform allows engineers and contractors to catch mistakes before materials are ordered, and therefore reduce waste and money lost to rework.
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Vanilla AI is an AI co-pilot that enables sales and installation for clean-tech OEMs and contractors. Selling and installing clean-tech today is expensive and slow as it requires many non-repeatable activities. Vanilla AI makes selling and installing clean-tech repeatable, increasing sales velocity for businesses, and improving energy efficiency for consumers.
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We are Mizu, a climate enterprise software startup, offering next-generation water risk analytics for agricultural banks and asset owners. It integrates water and temperature projections to evaluate risk exposures for agriculture financiers, asset owners, food & ag businesses, inputs suppliers, and farmers. The climate risk analysis platform integrates advanced modeling and simulation technologies across climate, water, crop, and finance, immediately deployable for food company CXOs, ag-focused investors, and farmland owners managing agricultural assets along the food supply chain.m description
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Reset provides an employer-portable financial health platform that couples daily access to income with streamlined budgeting and financial planning.
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AI Merch, is a computer vision technology revolutionizing the food and retail industry. The company's mission is to reduce waste, promote sustainability, and ensure resource security, particularly in the food sector. AI Merch offers advanced analytics capabilities to consumer goods businesses, providing real-time intelligence to operate more efficiently.
