Lab Dispatches

Welcome to the 2023-2024 Cohort of the Columbia Startup Lab Soho!

Every year, the Columbia Startup Lab in Soho welcomes 71 alumni entrepreneurs from all of Columbia’s schools into this coworking space with dedicated mentorship and programming.

Meet the 10th Cohort below!

 

433

Hilary Jacobs, CBS

433 reimagines the art ecosystem by fostering community-driven events, experiences, and education, offering members access to exclusive activities, global resources, and a network of passionate professionals, cultivating a sustainable and equitable future

 

AkraTax

Brandon Delijani, LAW

AkraTax is a boutique accounting firm providing professional services to blockchain-related clients.

 

Alexandria Lab

Amelie Lasker, CC

Alexandria is a suite of creator tools for digital books.

 

Art in Res

Allison Chou, CBS

E-commerce marketplace for original art

 

BeWise

John Mihovics, CBS

BeWise helps adults 50+ meet new friends and participate in social activities, like in-person events and online classes across a range of categories.

 

Bucephalus

Nicholas DeGiacomo, Engineering

The Supply Chain OS for a Greener Future

 

Campaign Brain

Nathaniel Levin, SIPA

Campaign Brain is an artificially intelligent political campaign management SaaS product that inserts AI into all aspects of a political campaign and provides individualized campaign strategies at a fraction of the cost of consultants.

 

Changing Room

Jeremy Yao, Engineering

Sustainable ratings for fashion

 

Ciphorama

Lixia Zhu, CBS

The crypto fraud and AML risk management for crypto startups.

 

Clarified GTM

Graham Rowe, CBS

Fractional CRO for B2B Software Companies

  

Climate Kick

Edoardo Francesco Sabatino, CBS

Climate Kick connects green investors with infrastructure developers to make the sustainability transition a reality.

 

CollabWORK

Summer Delaney, CBS

CollabWORK is creating the first transparent gig marketplace to help production staffers find legitimate, short-term jobs in both traditional media and web3.

  

Daps

Jake Klores, CC

A social platform for professional and collegiate athletes to monetize exclusive content and experiences directly to fans

 

Fitmakesenz

Asenso Ampim, CC

A digital fitness platform that provides monthly personalized workout programs and one-on-one video support from healthcare, fitness, nutrition, and mental wellness experts.

 

Folio

Amy Tang, Engineering

Folio is a digital front desk solution powered by AI that automates guest management for the $120B short-term rental (STR) industry.

 

Gen E

Kristen Kammerer, CBS

Gen E is a micro-philanthropy app for funding climate solutions.

 

Graphiti

Andrew Magid, Engineering; Ketan Jog, Engineering

We are the Cloudflare of Web3, a CAPTCHA service that runs on zero-knoweldge proofs to prevent spam and bots on blockchains.

 

hippo

Kevin Moses, CBS

Hippo provides an online marketplace (order & pay) and hardware-free POS services to food trucks.

 

HOST

Kat Grimes Moynihan, CBS

HOST is a sustainable, technology-based service designed to take the hassle out of hosting and elevate everyday events.

 

Infinite Goods

Lee Aileen, Engineering

Infinite Goods is sustainable fashion retailer curating brands and providing transparency in the fashion industry.

 

InstaLabel

AadilMehdi Sanchawala, Engineering; Ayman Talkani, Engineering

Instalabel is an AI data platform that creates production-grade voluminous, privacy-preserving datasets by utilizing a combination of AI with humans in the loop.

 

Inward

Ying Laohachewin, CBS

 

Female focused mental wellness platform leveraging peer to peer support.

 

 

KRIASH

Neetika Ashwani, MPH

A wearable device that keeps a track of vitals (Heart rate, Respiratory rate, saturation, temperature) and contact duration in newborns to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality.

 

Layman

Esosa Ohanba, MPH

We turn social media into Legal Documents to promote access to justice.

 

Light RFP

David Barakchian, CBS; Karlo Dobrovic, CC

eBay for commercial service contracts like trucking, cleaning, and construction

 

Local Civics

Beverly Leon, CBS

Local Civics streamlines civics, college, and career education for K-16 schools. 

 

LogTrack

Hidayat Hamidov, CBS

We bring information symmetry for the trucking industry

 

Managirr

Scott Mongiardo, CBS

SaaS solution for small landlords that enables them to self-manage and optimize their rental portfolios

 

May Lake Capital

Taylor Adam, CBS

Maridea provides investment advisory services and pursues inorganic growth through a rollup strategy.

 

Meadow

Alfredo Brillembourg, CC

The first fintech platform for higher education.

 

MOBY

Yoni Ronn, Climate School (Engineering accounting)

MOBY is a smart closed-loop filter designed to capture and upcycle petroleum-based microfibers from the laundering of synthetic clothes before they pollute the environment, enter food supply chains and affect people’s health.

 

Mushroom Packaging

Thomas van Haren, CBS

Mushroom Packaging is a compostable protective packaging made with mycelium and agricultural waste to replace EPS/styrofoam.

 

Ophycare

Etizaz Shah, SIPA

Improving access to care for non-English speaking patient through powerful AI, telehealth, and EHR technology

 

Paymon

José  Cordero, CBS

We are transforming the traditional cafeteria experience by leveraging the power of digital technology and AI to enhance convenience and efficiency for cafeterias while offering a digital wallet and financial education tools for students

 

Pelican

Alexandra Bono, CBS

Pelican offers a digital platform designed to help your loved ones reach their savings goals.

 

Ploomber

Ido Michael, Engineering; Eduardo Blancas, GSAS

We’re the Heroku for Data Science. We help data scientists build faster and deploy their work into production without a single code change.

 

Puebla

Hunter Craft, CBS

Puebla is the first fully integrated digital merchandizing application for the coffee industry

 

Range

Houtan Fanisalek, Engineering; Steve Gilman, Engineering

Range is a personalized lifelong learning technology platform 

 

Radia

Joe Donino, CC

Mobile app for discovering and sharing local entertainment

 

RECOVERIE

Conor Corrigan, CBS

Protocol-led, community-based physical recovery and wellness club

 

RestAssured MD

Arianna Galbraith, MPH; Ashley Privette, MPH

RestAssured MD is a digital health platform that connects cancer patients to expert oncologists across the country, reducing cancer misdiagnoses by empowering patients to make informed decisions about their care.

 

Rockhopper

Sebastian Perez Lawrence, CBS

Rockhopper is enterprise planning management cloud solution for collaborative business case modeling.

 

Servimed US

Andrea Napolitano, CBS

R&D and manufacturing of ophthalmic medical devices and drugs

 

Shaker

Rafael Canario, CBS

MatchEd is a Lifelong Lifewide Learning Management System that links EdTechs in one platform

 

Sharp Performance

Benjamin Curley, CBS; Andrew Sakmar, CBS

Mental training and wellness platform for professionals in high-risk occupations

 

Skolay

Samantha Greenspan, Barnard

Mobile platform for 1:1 office hours between authors/readers, podcasters/listeners & more

 

Social Closet

Micaela O’Herron, SIPA

Social Closet is a peer-to-peer clothing rental platform: the Airbnb for clothing

 

Sortile

Constanza Gomez, CBS; Agustina Mir, SIPA

We develop AI-driven and data analytics solutions to enable textile waste recycling

 

Sourceable

Lena Arkawi, SIPA

Sourceable is an online platform and mobile application that empowers, supports, and connects citizen journalists from conflict and crises zones to document, verify, archive, and share critical data with media, human rights groups, and prosecutors.

 

StorySavor

Joseph Quaderer, Journalism

StorySavor is a biography writing services company.

 

Subby

Chris Picerni, Engineering; Rachel Wu, Engineering

Subby is a shared payments platform that lets you split recurring expenses and subscriptions with friends and family.

 

Terra

Tom Higgins, CC; Raymond Heimann, CC

Revolutionizing ‘minimulti’ real estate to bring authentic workforce housing back to the heart of America at scale

 

Toscana USA

Cindy Salazar, CBS

Toscana USA is direct to consumer brand offering high quality handcrafted leather shoes and accessories for men and women made in Florence, Italy.

 

Understory Technologies Corp

David Fine, CC; Eric Shapiro, CC

Understory’s mission is to build modern software that will eliminate the manual data entry work that financial analysts do every day.

 

Universe Platform Inc.

Mike White, SPS

Empowering businesses of all sizes to create web3 loyalty programs that increase customer allegiance, activate superfans, and grow their bottom line.

 

UpdateAI

Joshua Schachter, Engineering

Conversational intelligence platform (on top of Zoom) that helps customer teams scale white-glove relationships with their SaaS enterprise clients.

 

 

 

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