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beyou.
Entrepreneurs: Forty Amsel and Simon Amsel
By creating a cutting-edge skincare line aimed at protecting the skin from UV light, pollutants, and environmental aggressors, beyou has become a modern-day pioneer that’s revolutionizing the beauty industry.
BLANX
Entrepreneurs: Ariel Bacal and Alfredo Cottin
BLANX is brand that tells stories on sneakers. We collaborate with gifted creators to amplify our point-of-view with their unique voices on issues like racial equity, mental health, and gender equality. Each sneaker pair is numbered and contributes to an organization related to social causes.
MX Locker
Entrepreneurs: Ryan Amolis and Andrew Samole
MX Locker is an online, peer-to-peer marketplace that redefines the way people buy and sell riding gear, bike parts, and dirt bikes.
Opción YO
Entrepreneurs: Daniela Sichel and Mariana Morales
Behavior health and wellness platform offering individual and group sessions in Psychology, Coaching and Nutrition, catered specifically to Spanish speakers.
PHLEX
Entrepreneurs: Luke Torres, Marcin Cieslak, Ryan Rosenbaum, and Harrison Gibson
Phlex is a startup built by swimmers and triathletes with the mission of bringing accessibility, engagement and community to the swimming world. We put the tech in swimming.
SOAP Health
Entrepreneur: Steven Charlap
While artificial intelligence (AI) continues to improve, physician practice continues to deteriorate. Therefore, the convergence of AI into medical practice is inevitable. However, for that to happen, clinically validated applications must emerge that are viewed as indispensable by physicians and health systems. SOAP Health has developed an application that is now being rigorously validated at Stanford and elsewhere.
Squadroo
Entrepreneur: Valeria Postorino Suppan
Squadroo is a platform that empowers everyday consumers with the critical knowledge and tools to select, manage, and engage with the required trades for their home renovation or construction project. It provides clarity on construction workflows, project management and timing, and a highly vetted marketplace of qualified construction service providers (architects, engineers, etc.).
TEDU
Entrepreneurs: Nicolo Bates and Dmitry Osetrov
TEDU is an education technology company with an enterprise platform built to integrate and partner with universities and other educational institutions worldwide to provide a suite of out-of-classroom academic resource utilities. TEDU offers a hybrid B2B, B2C, and C2C platform that improves students’ access to their university academic resource systems while also providing universities in-depth data and analytics to fine-tune their business.
Virtual Badge
Entrepreneurs: John Simion and Georges Duplessy
Virtual Badge is a mobile “identification as a service” platform that provides ID badging, identity verification / vetting, compliance management, and workforce management capabilities for forward thinking, data driven organizations that want to reduce risk and make it easier to identify their people.
BandPay
Entrepreneurs: DeCarlos Garrison and Gleb Teper
BandPay’s platform eliminates having to chase down payments. Our app automates routine business admins tasks and secures timely payments up-front—easily allowing users to organize and scale their businesses.
BeLoved Box
Entrepreneur: Danie Spikes
The BeLoved Box is not a subscription box- it is a brand that focuses on connecting people with the best version of self-care and couple’s care. Gently fragranced with plant-based essential oils, our products can be used on the most sensitive of skin. #IncreasetheIntimacy. One of the simplest ways to connect with either your partner or yourself is through healthy touch. Through the BeLoved Box, we have created a brand that focuses on really honest products that are not only good but good for you.
GovLia
Entrepreneur: ShaKeia Kegler
GovLia is a business to government marketplace working to make government contracting simple, equitable, and more inclusive. GovLia’s software provides a unified platform, that streamlines supplier registration, diverse business certifications, and bidding on opportunities, by allowing businesses to create one profile, one time, to connect with multiple local governments, anchor institutions, and prime contractors.
Hopper Fit
Entrepreneur: Dionel Sylvester
The one stop shop to HOP everywhere for fitness. We are creating healthier lifestyles and healthier communities by providing #FitnessFreedom. Our goal at HopperFit is to help you HOP into a better life, so we offer a wide range of services from fitness, to prepared meals, to massage therapy in order to help you achieve your goals.
Kiddie Kredit
Entrepreneur: Evan Leaphart
Kiddie Kredit is a mobile app designed to educate children on the credit system by completing chores. Our mission is to empower credit healthy families. We want to educate about credit responsibly, especially to those who have limited access to capital all in the name of economic inclusion and equality. Our goal is aimed at building a responsible path to an individual’s first credit card. The premise of the app is that the better a child performs their duties, the better their “Kredit” score.
Koki
Entrepreneur: Tiara Miles
Koki improves the meal planning experience through personalized and fresh meals crafted by our experienced culinary professionals in your home. Powered by the local community all meals are prepared by vetted local chefs who arrive with locally sourced fresh organic ingredients to cook just for you, we even clean the kitchen when we finish!
RENDiet
Entrepreneur: Mercy Nzeakor
The RENDiet mobile platform allows users to eat, drink and be healthy! RENDiet offers renal patients and their caregivers affordable access to diet education and nutritional support throughout the kidney disease journey – from diagnosis to dialysis, transplantation and beyond. Providing convenient, personalized and on-demand connections to trusted clinicians, without the need of referrals or insurance, is part of our mission to improve the accessibility of health care for all renal patients.
Suite1Ten
Entrepreneur: Ultrina Harris
Conceptually, The Shops of Overtown LLC is a retail hub for outdoor vending for locals and tourists to experience the culture and history of Overtown. The Shops of Overtown LLC intends to own, lease, and operate Retail Carts in efforts to create a successful network of business operations. The Shops of Overtown LLC will utilize Retail Carts as a catalyst between Overtown-based entrepreneurs and their ability to build and sustain innovative businesses. This venture will draw out residents and draw in outsiders to populate spaces that will be secure and offer sufficient merchandise and activities.
Unified HINTS
Entrepreneur: Renae Patterson
Unified H.I.N.T.S Corporation is “PATIENT ADVOCACY POWERED BY TECHNOLOGY’. At Unified H.I.N.T.S, we offer an advocacy concierge service featuring PALS, (Personal Advocates & Liaisons) who work one to one with Patients and Caregivers to collect, organize, and manage vital health information and important documents in one secure location utilizing our secure web application. In addition, Unified H.I.N.T.S provides the necessary tools and resources to assist with navigating challenges within complex healthcare systems. Our mission is to empower YOU to take control of your health.
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.