Innovate@BU 2019 Summer Accelerator Cohort Announced!
In just a few weeks, the spring semester will come to a close and the long-awaited summer break will begin. For most college students, summer break means internships or part-time work, traveling, spending time at home, or maybe taking a light course load.
But for some Boston University students, the summer is a time to dive into an entrepreneurial venture, whether it’s a physical product or service, a nonprofit or social impact idea, or a business focused on arts and culture. The Innovate@BU Summer Accelerator is a 10-week program that, for a select cohort of student ventures, provides the time, space, resources, and a $10,000 stipend to work on a venture full-time. During the summer program, students are expected to work on their venture at least 40-hours per week and utilize its mentors and resources to make meaningful progress on their idea, whether that’s by conducting customer interviews to validate an idea, launching a beta version, or developing a go-to-market strategy.
This spring, Innovate@BU received 73 applications from student teams hoping for a spot in the Summer Accelerator. After an intense application and interview round, the following teams have been accepted into 2019 Summer Accelerator beginning on June 3rd.
Apollos is a cross-platform medical record application built for patients to have privacy, portability, and controlled access for their records.
Bluebonnet Data: We make tools that allow Democratic campaigns and state parties to visualize, analyze, and understand commonly available but unutilized data.
BRÜZD Foods solves food waste by uptaking the typically wasted ugly produce at the farm level and then redistributing it to homes in a subscription model.
Coco College is an app that exclusively connects students within their own university, where they can buy and sell books, TV’s, couches and more.
Collaborative Prep: College counseling is expensive and limited. We provide online, live, group college prep services to families, making it affordable and accessible.
Community Connect is a web app that allows users and Social Workers to discover and share health resources in their area.
Dynamic Pantry uses positive psychology techniques to empower clients to live more joyful lives through improved dietary and lifestyle habits.
Every Hand is a Hero: A media campaign that links sex trafficking victims and bystanders to help and resources.
Healthy Gamer helps people struggling with video game addiction to regain control of their lives.
HigherPlace is a mobile app that lets the artists in a city be searched by their name and/or profession and hired through direct messaging.
Hirefive: We help early-stage US startups to build top tech teams remotely by connecting them with full-time senior engineers in Brazil at an affordable cost.
Juriscape: 37% of people cannot name a right protected by the 1st Amendment. Tech that issues accessible legal info grows user-autonomy. Juriscape does this.
Konbit Inovasyon teaches Haitians youths design thinking and how this process can be used for cultural competent problem-solving in their communities.
No-slosh Waterbottle by UNDEI: A water bottle which prevents sloshing, geared towards runners, but also applicable towards babies to prevents excessive air consumption.
ODE is a P2P service that allows you to get tasks done on demand from the convenience of your smartphone; we can help you save time, money, and peace of mind
Req Staffing permanently places formerly incarcerated people into highly skilled trade roles in the energy industry.
Rilla is an online platform that provides guidance to startups through ecosystems and organizations.
Script Solutions is a platform for the opioid prescription process saving doctors more than 3 minutes per prescription and adhering to CDC guidelines for abuse potential.
Step Up Magazine is an online destination for young people to voice their opinions and have a safe space to write about their passions.
UrbanBank is a mobile micro-donation platform that enables users to give the homeless access to essential items for health, like a toothbrush.
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