撸先生

2025 Cohort

Ventures

• The Creative Representation Empire, Naomi Winston
  is an educational resource company that specializes in culturally representative coloring books and programs.
• Fetal Therapy Technologies, Selena Shirkin
  Fetal Therapy Technologies is a pediatric microsurgical device company developing purpose-built surgical tools and training models that empower fetal surgeons to perform safer, more effective fetal surgeries.
• Monneah鈥檚 Engineered Materials, Aalliyeh Clinton
  develops durable, non-disposable, chemical-resistant lab coats that provide superior protection, comfort and style for STEM professionals.
• My Health Data, Collin Francis
  My Health Data empowers athletes to manage, share, and understand their health data鈥攐n their terms.
• Pancibus, Thomas Penaherrera
  Pancibus not only creates an all-natural condiment blending chutney and salsa, Chalsa, but is building an omnichannel platform that helps creators launch flavor-driven products through licensing and royalties.
• Premedly, Tasheema Prince
  is a platform that gives early-career healthcare workers the coaching, content, and connections they need to love their careers and deliver better care.
• Props, Logan Cundiff
  transforms passive members into active contributors for membership-based organizations.
• Psybr Health Inc., Eric Marshall
  Psybr Health Inc. delivers HIPAA-compliant XR and AI-powered therapy to help veterans heal through immersive, trauma-informed care.
• Share, Jay Bassich
  Share provides neighbor-to-neighbor short-term rentals for tools, leisure equipment and dozens of other items where it does not make sense to buy outright.
• Total Home Physical Therapy In A Bag, LLC, Hilda Emeruwa
  provides cost-effective and accessible physical therapy solutions designed for individuals with mobility challenges.

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2024 Cohort

Ventures

• AEAIS (Association for Elite Athletes鈥� Individual Success), Allison Benson O'Brien
  A social venture solving athlete transition with a scalable and empirical solution.
• Advanced Sports AI, Obafemi Ayanbadejo
  Predictive sports analytics.
• Antidote Haircare, Abigail Kuehl
  A plant-powered haircare brand.
• CERTIFIED BLLR, Justin Johnson
  A wearable device to improve basketball shooting accuracy and muscle memory.
• Hotlines Sports, Casey Jones and Stephen 鈥淪teve鈥� Haley, Supported by the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs
  Provides data and analytics for sports betting.
• JJ Innovative Materials, Taein Lee, Mark Wo and Chu Ding
  Reinventing construction materials to be carbon negative, stronger and less costly.
• JMD Innovations (DBA jbrds), Mike Gugat, Dr. Jay LeBow, David Hirshfeld and Sameel Osuri
  Creates patent pending shoes designed specifically for infants.
• LIMs+, Mike Gaumer and Dacian Florea
  Offers unique features that allow water testing labs to cut processing time in half.
• MIVA Recovery, Dustin Hux and Michael DeFeo
  A patent-pending combination sports roller and water bottle in one.
• NORAD LLC, Kumlachew Hirgeto and Diego Toledo
  A lost and found app.
• Revvl, Alexandra 鈥淟exx鈥� Mills and Livv Mills
  Rebelling against mundane mocktails with boldly crafted zero proof cocktails.
• Somnair, Mitchell Turley and Dr. Anders Sideris, sponsored by MedStar Health
  The first non-invasive neurostimulation solution for sleep apnea.
• TANTV SYNDEX, Adedayo Fashanu and Abolaji Omitogun
  The first AI-driven multicultural local news, information aggregator and creator platform for a global audience.  
• Truuce, Nancy Johnston and Kerry Roberts
  Reinventing the ever-frustrating duvet cover
• UfarmX, Andrea Kamara-Dunbar and Alexander Zanders
  Revolutionizing agriculture by integrating supply chain management and data collection.
• ZenJoy, Mack Anderson, Daniel Osborne and Tim Brumbaugh
  A proprietary iced tea blend that contains ingredients to help consumers relax.

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2023 Summer Cohort

Ventures

• Bettor Vision, Brett Lanier and Geoff Doyle
  Bettor Vision is a free mobile app that combines sports fans' traditional fantasy, daily fantasy, and sports betting accounts to allow consumers to have a better view of all their accounts, bets, and contests in one place.
• Celcy, Maxwell Wieder and Edward Holzinger
  Celcy, the automated Nespresso of food, is a patented IOT, autonomous, countertop robot that combines a freezer and an oven into a single compact device to offer unparalleled, on demand, quality food all from your phone.
• HelloTask, Mehedi Hasan Shoron and Mahmudul Hasan Likhon
  HelloTask empowers blue-collar workers by connecting them with better jobs.
• Fem Equity, Susan Ganz 撸先生 Fellows: Adeola Ajani and Chidera Egbuche
  Fem Equity is an HR tech platform that creates solutions for women and underrepresented professionals going through pay or professional gaps in real time.
• getGFTD, Nina Guise-Gerrity
  getGFTD is a fintech social app that makes sending and receiving gifts鈥攁nytime and anywhere鈥攕eamless, convenient, meaningful, and fun.
• CurveAssure, Antony Fuleihan and Evan Haas
  CurveAssure is optimizing spinal assessment and surgical selection with dynamic posture analysis to personalize patient pathways and improve clinical effectiveness.
• Inversion, Somto Nweke and Marlhon Jean-Michel
  Inversion is a financial technology platform revolutionizing housing solutions.
• Game4Good, Dexter Carr
  Game4Good is a gametech company, building auxiliary SaaS solutions for the video game and esports industry to help pivot gaming from just entertainment to social impact.
• Everybody Eats, Susan Ganz 撸先生 Student Fellows: Jared Hamlin, Bryce Carter and Bruno Verdonk
  Everybody Eats is a Food Truck Company providing a low-cost menu to tackle food insecurity on college campuses and in the surrounding community, while putting 10% back into community rebuilding initiatives!  

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2023 Winter Cohort

Ventures

• EriTea, Susan Ganz 撸先生 Student Fellows: Ruth Berhane-Williams and Mimi Campbell
  is a good for you brand that offers pure, simple and spiced brewed iced teas that do not sacrifice quality, taste or calorie count.
• Dental Desires, Takiel Gibson
  creates and sells innovative toothpaste flavors to put the fun in dental hygiene for children and adults.
• Sparen, Paris Dean
  is a real estate marketplace that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to streamline the home buying process. With Sparen, you can search for homes, get pre-approved for financing, schedule tours, and even close on your new home.
• Haven Cloud, Mahmoud Shalby and Faheel Kamran
  is the world鈥檚 most secure and privacy focused cloud storage platform. Haven lets you store photos, videos, and documents safely while giving you complete control over your digital privacy.
• Engage All, Geeta Raj and Chris Held
  Engage All creates a digital library offering interactive children's books and learning materials about social justice for youth from diverse backgrounds and youth with learning challenges.
• Athlytic, Ashton Keys
  is a platform that helps student athletes learn and connect with brands to accelerate monetizing their brand and capitalizing off their name, image and likeness.
• The Loop鈥揃altimore, Susan Ganz 撸先生 Student Fellows: Ryan King-White and Parker Bratton
  The Loop鈥揃altimore is a camp-based non-profit that provides youth with caddie and leadership training, academic support, and mentorship. Caddying is the perfect tool to build fundamental life skills, basic business acumen, and leadership qualities in our participants.
• Let鈥檚 Tap In LLC, Susan Ganz 撸先生 Student Fellows and Mentor Fellows: Conrad Brake, Ryan Rutkowski and Emerson Maggi
  is an app and events-based company that allows a community of users to provide and receive dynamic, accurate real time data about their local bar scene.

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2022 Cohort

Ventures

• Let鈥檚 Tap In LLC, Susan Ganz 撸先生 Student Fellows: Conrad Brake and Ryan Rutkowski
  Tap In is an app and events based company that allows a community of users to provide and receive dynamic, accurate real time data about their local bar scene. Small businesses now have a better two way communication channel with their community.
• Medsy, Joshua Wies
  Medsy helps reduce healthcare payor costs and improve outcomes by facilitating medication adherence for vulnerable people.
• Mint Print LLC, Susan Ganz 撸先生 Student Fellows: Emily Vogel and Michael Franz
  Mint Print maintains a platform that uses blockchain technology to solve the digital ownership problem in an intuitive way by offering consumers the ability to purchase, lend, give away, and even resell the books they buy digitally. Mint Print LLC provides a publishing platform as well as an easy-to-use marketplace platform for buying and reselling digital books, comics, and audiobooks.
• ORO Financial, Daniele Jean-Pierre and Cylton Collymore
  ORO Financial is a web3 fintech revolutionizing finance by building financial tools for communities across the world. ORO Financial is an early entrant in a new web3 sector called 鈥淒ecentralized Monetary Authorities.鈥�
• Pirl Technology, Kobby Osei-Kusi
  Pirl Technology builds next generation electric vehicle (EV) charging stations to accelerate the transition to electrified transport. Using the latest Internet-of-Things (IOT) technology, we deploy stations that charge rapidly, have a lower environmental footprint, and delight owners with an engaging user experience.
• Pro Theory LLC, Daria Lucchesi
  Pro Theory makes it really easy for anyone that wants to coach an athlete anything to set up, manage, and grow an in-person and or digital training brand. It combines a software tool, marketplace, and network to create a community optimized for the connected sports training space.
• Rebokeh, Rebecca Rosenberg
  Building modern, customizable assistive technologies for individuals with moderate vision impairments.
• inso, Veena Radhakrishnan and Patrick Dempsey
  Learner-centered, data-driven. Inso is an online discussion platform that creates student-driven discussions with easily accessible insights into trending ideas and emerging themes generated by students, turning ideas into knowledge.

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2021 Cohort

Ventures

• Minutes 4 Moms, Delaney Fox
  Minutes 4 Moms brings families the sweetest local care providers in a snap. We help young people grow professionally through our unique work experiences and team 鈥減erks,鈥� while fueling our clients, career-loving parents, with the resources they need to excel in all that they do.
• Plugged Technologies Inc., Victor Ehienulo and Madiagne Sarr
  Plugged is a SaaS diversity recruiting venture that democratizes the way opportunities are shared to diverse candidates through our web app, mobile, messaging and interview platform. Plugged University partners with HBCUs to connect their school departments and the career center with large companies to offer internships, full time opportunities and streamline information session scheduling to their students. In essence, we help HBCUs increase student engagement with recruiters by 80% and convert companies to donors, therefore creating a new line of revenue for HBCUs.
• Good Choice Productions, Terrel K. Hunt, Wayne Morgan and Jeremiah Kobena
  Good Choice Productions is a 501c3 nonprofit founded by three Syracuse University football players who all grew up in the boroughs of New York City. As former D1 athletes we know first-hand the pain athletes face as their sports career comes to an end and they are left to fend for themselves. Our mission is to ensure these athletes receive the much-needed mental health, financial literacy, life planning and career guidance so that they may flourish after the end of their sports career.
• inso, Veena Radhakrishnan and Patrick Dempsey
  Learner-centered, data-driven. Inso (formerly Pretzl) is an online discussion platform that creates student-driven discussions with easily accessible insights into trending ideas and emerging themes generated by students, turning ideas into knowledge.
• RENNDVOUS, Brendon Mellinger 鈥�21, Michael Wyman 鈥�21, Jack Bauerle and Josh Bloom
  Renndvous is an online vehicle sales marketplace and social site for modified and collector vehicles. We create a place for owners of such vehicles to showcase and sell them more effectively. We strive to create a marketplace where these niche vehicles can be both sold for more by sellers and more easily found by buyers. Our ultimate goal is to act as a one-stop-shop from buying to selling a collector or modified vehicle.
• CAMSKNS, Colin Dougherty 鈥�17
  CAMSKNS is a direct-to-consumer company focused on the protection and customization of end-users' cameras, drones, lenses, and GoPros. Our goal is to allow individuals the ability to express themselves through their own gear while using unique patterns that best suit their personality.
• Flave, Jal Irani 鈥�15 and Derek Battle
  Flave, returning as a mentor company, is a mobile app that incentivizes foodies to eat local instead of at chain restaurants. This happens through gamification and getting personalized friend recommendations.

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2020 Cohort

Ventures

• StoCastic, Eric Hamrock and Dr. Scott Levin
  StoCastic is transforming the delivery of healthcare through ground-breaking products and services that harness large-scale electronic health record (EHR) data to give care teams real-time predictive insight for smoother, more affordable care. Our products are rooted in data science and operations research developed at Johns Hopkins Medicine. 
• Halal Beauty Cosmetics, Adeel Afshar
  Halal Beauty Cosmetics is a 100% halal certified consumer cosmetics brand working to help Muslims both look and feel beautiful without compromising on their faith. Their products contain no pork or alcohol, thereby meeting the demands of millions of Muslims around the world.
• Flave, Jal Irani, Derek Battle and James Soldinger
  is a mobile app that incentivizes foodies to eat local instead of at chain restaurants. We do this through gamification and getting personalized friend recommendations.
• Lockbox Adventures, Ben Ferry
  Lockbox Adventures is a challenging, puzzle-solving game where players get a locked box, without a combination. Players must solve a series of puzzles to reveal the combination to ultimately gain access to the box and receive their prize.
• The Shark Market, Drew Anawalt 鈥�20, Jake Guy 鈥�20, Cullen Joyce 鈥�21, Tommy Parker 鈥�21, and Ben Hollingsworth 鈥�21 
  The Shark Market is a sports betting platform. Creating a new and unique sports betting game, Shark Market allow users to feel the competitiveness of sports betting and compete against friends while also saving their money in the process.
• SmartBridge Health, Hua Wang
  connects patients, caregivers and survivors with top cancer doctors remotely for phone consultations, expert second opinions and clinical trial navigation.  We offer a seamless experience that saves time and money and also leads to better health outcomes and happier lives.

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