VENTURE CAFE BLOG
Meet Adjoa Edzie, Founder at Gruuvv
Gruuvv is an online peer-to-peer marketplace platform where DJs and customers connect. While working as a receptionist at a local radio station, Adjoa Edzie would often receive requests for DJs, and created a DJ program there. She decided to return to school for her...
Meet Tuan Ho, CEO at ScholarJet
ScholarsJet connects college students/recent grads with internships and entry-level employment through fun and friendly hiring competitions that award scholarships and student loan repayment as prizes. At the age 10, Tuan Ho immigrated to the US from Vietnam with his...
Meet Stephanie Campbell, Co-founder at Thank You Tees
Thank You Tees is a T-shirt apparel company that brings awareness to the countless contributions of Black Americans. As a public health practitioner, Stephanie was aware that the vaccination process actually came from an enslaved person named Onesimus. However, when...
Meet Galen Karlan-Mason, CEO & Founder at GreenChoice
GreenChoice is a data-driven platform empowering consumers to make informed food choices and leading the industry to supply food that’s good for us and the planet. Growing up in rural Vermont, Galen learned the important impact our food choices have on the planet as...
Meet Arjun Mendhi, CEO at MOLTEN
MTonomy is now MOLTEN. MOLTEN is the underlying infrastructure for the next generation media industry - one that is transparent, instantaneous and equally accessible to all. As a computer engineer and musician, Arjun had an interest in exploring how the mechanics of...
Meet Leia Ruseva, Co-founder at EllisX
EllisX is the first online platform that helps early-stage startups connect with journalists and event managers based on mutual interest and fit. Having set out on a mission to help immigrant founders connect with visibility opportunities to showcase their value in...
Meet Jay Grayson, CEO & Co-founder at Surround Insurance
Surround Insurance builds customer-centric insurance products for modern consumers in an uncertain world. After leaving a long career at a major insurance company in Boston, Jay would spend his days biking around the city. Upon hearing news about a couple of biking...
Meet Regina Ye, Founder & CEO at ZIRUI
ZIRUI is a beauty packaging platform that serves the modern active lifestyle that is always on the go. After returning from her travels and experiencing another mishap with her beauty products leaking everywhere in her suitcase, Regina set out to create a better...
Meet Yosh Rozen, CEO of PartRunner
PartRunner is an on-demand delivery service in the trades and construction industries. With all the available on-demand delivery services, Yosh recognized that there wasn’t anything in the market for the trades and construction industries. Having always had an...