Ventures

Idori (which stands for I Dream of Real Impact) is a movement about reconnecting kids with the outside world, inspiring a love for nature and sustainability, and empowering kids with the tools and knowledge they need to become the next generation of environmental stewards. We create fun educational content, resources, and experiences to help both parents and teachers engage children with environmental learning that leads to long term sustainable impact. We use whimsical storytelling, physical toys, and community based experiences to show children the beauty and magic in nature. Our first product line is a series of illustration books, plush toys, and learning roadmaps designed to teach kids about deforestation, ocean conservation, and climate change.

At Vitaliti, we aim to improve health and wellness by making healthy indoor air quality the norm, with Spore: an at-home mold monitor. We aim to revive and ignite vitality in our everyday lives by simplifying and increasing accessibility to health and wellness. We strive to empower people to take control of their health and well being, and it all begins with the air we breathe.

Our product is a holistic financial analysis platform, with tools including automated financial models with assumptions from AI-powered market research, saving hours for analysts and backing up assumptions with evidence.

WHO reported that close to 25% of the world's population, approximately 2 billion people, are still dependent on primitive mud stoves, biomass burning, or wood-burning stoves. Close to three million people die every year due to indoor air pollution caused by mud stoves and wood stoves. This means that every minute, close to three women are dying due to this problem, surpassing the combined death toll from HIV, Malaria, and Tuberculosis. The toxic fumes produced from the incomplete burning of wood in these stoves are the main issue. We have created the world's first heat-powered air blower called Chuliv. Our patented air blower is powered by the excess/waste heat produced by these wood stoves, and it has a fan inside that blows fresh air/oxygen towards the mud stove, improving combustion efficiency and significantly reducing toxic fumes. This product can potentially enhance the lives of 2 billion people worldwide who still rely on biomass stoves to cook their food. By saving the lives of women, we are not only securing the future of children but also empowering entire countries.

Circlez is a social goal-setting app. We seek to uplift Gen-Z to reconnect with their passions using accountability circles. Our app is the first gamified productivity app that allows users to join circles based on shared interests as well as set, track, and share goals collaboratively or competitively. About 80% of Americans give up on their New Year's Resolutions after just a month. We also noticed high rates of burnout in the transition from high school to college for a lot of our peers. We seek to solve these issues by creating motivational circles where users have access to digital accountability partners and can monitor their progress towards shared goals.

BOND is an AI-powered tool that acts as a founder or manager’s best friend. BOND helps virtual team leaders better understand their teammates and boost engagement, morale, and productivity by gamifying the employee engagement process. We spark COOPETITION (competition that leads to cooperation) through a daily gamified BONDing activity allowing remote teams to collaborate & build strong online company cultures.

Where Innovation meets Art: A Distribution Solution for Filmmakers. Hiike's mission is to revolutionize the Independent Film Market. Currently developing a festival research and submission platform, Hiike will enhance the festival experience for both filmmakers and festival organizers. The software leverages data-driven insights to give our users personalized recommendation lists, offering a solution for the uncertainty surrounding distribution for many film projects. 

A quality education is essential to human prosperity. Yet, in 2023, 7 out of 10 students in the United States tested below proficient levels in math and reading. Education in America is broken, and students need more attention then they are receiving. Despite the fact that practices like tutoring have been shown to yield consistent and substantial positive impacts on learning outcomes, data suggests only two percent of U.S children receive high quality tutoring. This comes as no surprise: Educators building tutoring programs are regularly constrained by dated internal management systems, logistical challenges, overwhelming administrative costs, and inadequate tools for measuring student progress and tutor efficacy. Tadpole is tutoring software, and we solve that problem. With Tadpole, running critical processes like scheduling, communication, billing, payroll and grade tracking is simple. Another way of putting it: With Tadpole, anyone, anywhere can start a teaching program, and work with lots of kids. By giving educators the tools they need to build massively scalable, world-class tutoring programs, our objective is to make personalized instruction a reality for students everywhere.

Current canine skin cancer diagnostics are broken. Biopsies are expensive for clients, costing between $300-2000 per lesion tested, and inefficient, taking vets around an hour to complete. While FNA tests are less costly, they are less accurate, producing many false negatives for patients. The status quo is also detrimental to veterinarians - time-consuming biopsies lead to veterinarians having less time to see other patients and expensive procedures can lead to lost revenue and possibly lost patients if clients decline testing due to the cost. Lynx is attempting to create noninvasive diagnostics for canine skin cancer to make canine skin cancer screening more affordable, accessible, and efficient. Lynx proposes to create an AI-based tool for veterinarians to diagnose canine skin lesions from a clinical photo of canine skin lesions they are diagnosing, as well as patient data (breed, age, sex, localization of the lesion, and symptoms) entered into a brief form. The diagnostic process for veterinarians would take less than five minutes, and as a cheaper alternative to FNA tests, we are hoping to see more clients opt for screening their dog's skin lesions with Lynx to then treat them adequately.