by Melissa Yee | Jan 15, 2019 | Interviews, Let's Talk, Video
tripBuddy is a carpooling platform that encourages employees within the same organization to carpool together to work. Growing up in Ghana, Tawheed struggled with commuting back and forth to school. For the past decade, he’s lived in MA and experienced firsthand...
by Melissa Yee | Nov 7, 2018 | Interviews, Let's Talk, Video
Abridge News helps people escape news echo chambers by providing quick facts and arguments from both sides for trending news stories. With distrust in media and political polarization being higher than ever before, Laura recognized that the way in which we’re...
by Melissa Yee | Oct 23, 2018 | Interviews, Let's Talk, Video
Food for All is a marketplace for restaurants to sell their left-overs at the end of their business day to customers, for up to 80% cheaper than their original price. Food waste is a huge environmental problem – 40% of the food produced in the US goes to waste...
by Melissa Yee | Sep 25, 2018 | Interviews, Let's Talk, Video
2 Birds No Stones is an indoor play space that provides children ages 3 – 10 years with a creative environment to engage in fun play time. In 2011, Maria was sitting in a park with her 5-year-old son on a cold day and was wishing for an indoor play space that was...
by Melissa Yee | Sep 11, 2018 | Interviews, Let's Talk, Video
Involved is a micro-polling software for local government, helping offices increase civic engagement and understand public opinion with single question surveys. In high school, Jacob wasn’t politically engaged and he wondered how do you get someone like himself...
by Melissa Yee | Aug 14, 2018 | Interviews, Let's Talk, Video
ReviveMed is an AI-driven drug discovery platform, translating data from small molecules into right therapeutics for right patients. Having a passion for both mathematics and medicine, Leila studied Biological Engineering at MIT. She realized the tremendous impact...
