EndeavorLAB is a two-month accelerated growth program designed to support local early-stage companies leveraging Endeavor’s methodology in mentorship and peer support and expertise in scaleups. The program is specifically designed for women and minority founders.

What Makes EndeavorLAB Unique?

• Multiplier effect: Join Endeavor Miami’s flagship initiative for early-stage startups and be part of the emerging entrepreneurship movement in Florida. 
• Practical methodology: Endeavor helps entrepreneurs focus their time and energy in finding the path towards the next level of growth through highly curated mentor matchings, meaningful exchanges with subject matter experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs who have trailed the path before you. Endeavor’s methodology encourages you to dissect your challenges on a granular level to find tangible solutions. 
• A community of like-minded people: Be part of a group of top-notch entrepreneurs with whom you can share the entrepreneurial journey and its struggles with, develop meaningful relationships, and together work towards building better, bigger, and stronger businesses. 
• We invest in you: Unlike other accelerator programs in the market, Endeavor Miami’s program is non-dilutive. We invest our time and resources in you so that you can, in turn, invest in yourself. Be supported by a team crazy about entrepreneurship who are there to look out for you, hold you accountable, and cheer you on through challenges and successes alike. 

What do companies get out of this?

• X-Ray: Companies go through an assessment to identify key challenges to their scale and identify areas of opportunity to be addressed during the program.
• Virtual Retreat: Entrepreneurs take part in a “retreat” to build trust, transparency and vulnerability amongst cohort participants, pushing the envelope of peer-to-peer learning, exchanges and mentoring.
• Group Modules: Participants attend 5 half-day group sessions in which they are exposed to subject matter experts to deep dive, discuss and learn about best practices related to scaling up a company. Entrepreneurs also have the opportunity to exchange lessons and experiences through structured presentations, forum-like discussions and curated 1-1 conversations.
• Individual Mentoring: Participants are assigned a mentor with whom they meet 3 times throughout the program to work through the business challenges identified in the X-Ray. Mentors hold entrepreneurs accountable for results as they navigate the problem-solving process that is individual mentoring.
• Demo Day: To wrap up the program, entrepreneurs take part in a public Demo Day in which they pitch their companies to a panel of judges made up of Endeavor mentors, entrepreneurs, investors and/or community partners. The Demo Day is an excellent practice for entrepreneurs looking to fine tune their storytelling skills as well as an opportunity to present your brand to a segment of the Miami entrepreneurial community. 

Selection Criteria

• Cohort Two is for Black entrepreneurs only 
• Based in South Florida. 
• Market-tested business model
• Companies can range from pre-revenue up to $200K ARR

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EndeavorLAB’s Cohort Two is supported by the Simkins Family Foundation. Thanks to their support, all participants are eligible for a scholarship covering the full cost of the program.

EndeavorLAB Cohort One participants: 

Aerosens

Entrepreneur: Maria Esther Martinez

AEROSENS wants to increase visibility, simplicity and flexibility in the aviation industry by using technology. Throughout the history of business, people use data to make more informed decisions. AEROSENS goal is to develop technology solutions to make the aviation industry more transparent, smarter and cost efficient. Today, they provide solutions that transform the way information about parts, products, equipment and even people is gathered and analyzed.

Approvely

Entrepreneur: Chelsie Cooper

Approvely provides payment solutions for businesses that operate in high risk environments. Through proprietary software and a partnership with Visa it can reduce fraud and chargebacks by up to 65%.

Bridge

Entrepreneur: Adrienne McWilliams

BRIDGE allows you to connect to a city and see what’s happening around you. Our platform broadcasts video of businesses, products and experiences in a city, where you can search by map or calendar. It’s like a local channel in your pocket on mobile and the ‘Netflix’ of your city on TV.

  Deepblocks 

Entrepreneur: Olivia Ramos 

Deepblocks aggregates all the math and data around real estate development to optimize real estate investment. Their SaaS software provides a holistic view of real estate development with a user friendly, intuitive interface. Deepblocks platform integrates financial, market and building assumptions, combined with a 3D model to visualize your specific development potential, in real time.

Event Village

Entrepreneur: Melissa Frantz & Susan Frantz

An e-commerce platform to support local artisans, makers, designers, curators and chefs. There will be live virtual marketplaces that we will stage all on the site. The vendor will be live in their e-commerce shop and will be able to interact with customers in real time, post videos, and showcase their wares. No need to leave the “shop to make the purchase, it all happens in each shop. People move from one shop to the next. Vendors will also be able to host their own events as well. They can sell, do demos and workshops etc.

Lean Orb

Entrepreneur: Anastasia Mikhalochkina

Lean Orb is a biodegradable food packaging company with one big mission – to provide a solution to the problem of plastic pollution. Teir full product line of disposable tableware and catering supplies is made of an agricultural by-product as well as plant roots, grass fibers, and highly sustainable wood. In order to promote the circular economy globally, Lean Orb also helps monitor and measure client’s environmental advancement in plastic reduction.

Lifetime Omics

Entrepreneur: Patricia Buendia & Gabriela Sabaté

Lifetime Omics studies the dynamics of people’s system biology in health and disease, and packages that knowledge into omics-based AI screenings and diagnostics for health systems, for employers and for communities of people with a joint health concern. In collaboration with a network of scientists, partner laboratories, and the University of Miami, Lifetime Omics is working on a Phase I NIH project to develop a metagenomics platform to predict disease progression in COVID-19 patients admitted to a hospital. Lifetime Omics is launching a shared laboratory at the Converge Miami, home to Miami’s Cambridge Innovation Center, to run research on genomics, metagenomics, epigenomics and transcriptomics biomarkers related to immune health.

Lifetime Omics was founded in September 2018, and was selected to participate in two renowned Miami accelerators, the Babson WIN Lab, and EndeavorLAB by Endeavor Miami. It also won first prize in the HERImpact competition sponsored by the Ford Motor Company Fund.

Luxe Fete Social

Entrepreneur: Nathalie A. Cadet-James

Luxe Fête Social is an in-home dinner party rental experience unlike any other. We’re bringing the art of the dinner party back with ONE click. Luxe Fête Social invites consumers to host the luxurious in-home dinner party of their dreams without the lift of a finger. No set up, no serving, no cooking, no breakdown – leave the hassle to Luxe Fête Social. Hosts may choose one of six crafted stories (table settings) and watch it come alive through the inclusion of a private chef, innovative menus, butler service, designer table settings, fresh florals, centerpiece décor, personalized name cards and menus, a music playlist and conversation starters – all for a price that won’t make you cringe.

Stow Simple

Entrepreneur: Silvia Camps

Stow Simple is a next-generation, full-service storage company designed to take the pain out of using traditional self-storage. Stow Simple will pick up, store and photo-catalogue items, which can be delivered back with the click of a button. Users can see and access their stuff without ever having to visit a storage facility.

VIEWN

Entrepreneur: Areeya Lila

ViewN makes enterprise data actionable for marketers with our insights-driven customer data platform. We work with brands to unlock useful data needed to drive successful customer campaigns. Architected for the new era of data privacy, ViewN keeps customer profiles, performs autonomous segmentation with AI and provides predictive analysis. We deliver real personalization and customer empathy, at scale with synchronized list creation with marketing automation.