VENTURE CAFE BLOG
Meet Tawheed Abdul-Raheem, Founder of tripBuddy
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 the...
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Meet Laura Carpenter, CEO and Co-Founder of Abridge News
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 engaging...
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Meet David Rodriguez, Sabine Valenga, and Victor Carreño, Co-Founders of Food For All
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 and is...
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Meet Maria McKnight, Owner of 2 Birds No Stones
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...
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Meet Jacob Dansey, Co-Founder and CEO of Involved
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...
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Meet Leila Pirhaji, CEO and Founder of ReviveMed
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...
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Meet Eran Orr, Founder of VRHealth
VRHealth creates Medical & Wellness Applications using VR/AR technology. While going through rehab for cervical disc herniation, Eran Orr discovered flaws in the healthcare system like a lack of access and the difficulty in quantifying the rehabilitation process....
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Meet Chris Tolles, CEO of Sundots
Sundots is the world’s first gummy for sun protection! As a designer by training and with a background in healthcare innovation, Chris Tolles was in search of a co-founding role at a startup that focused on the intersection of health challenges and consumer products....
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Meet Cathy Yee, CEO and Founder of Incluvie
Incluvie is the IMDB for diversity in film, giving you the power to rate the racism out of Hollywood! One night, while watching a movie, Cathy Yee found herself tired of the poor portrayal of diversity in movies and TV shows. She felt compelled to bring attention to...
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