Welcoming 13 New Teams to the Innovation Pathway!

Each month, student innovators pitch their ideas for a chance to be accepted into the Innovation Pathway. Check out this month’s successful teams below!

Cause Connect

Cause Connect addresses the challenges international students face in securing visa-friendly job opportunities and gaining practical experience in the U.S. Many students struggle with restrictive visa regulations and lack accessible resources, hindering their professional growth and creating uncertainty about their future. Cause Connect seeks to empower these students by helping them build skills, expand networks, and enhance employability.

Minibots

Setting courses for remote control sailboat racing can be a hassle with traditional buoys and anchors, ultimately leading to frustration and a less enjoyable racing experience. Minibots aims to solve this problem by developing robotic anchorless buoys to allow remote control sailors to set and change their courses easier and faster than ever before

UniSub

In Fall 2022, over 66,500 university students in the Boston metro area faced challenges with off-campus housing, particularly struggling to sublease during breaks. A survey found that 75% of students identified finding potential sublessees as their main issue, leading to financial strain. UniSub offers a solution with an intuitive platform for students to list their apartments and rooms for sublease, streamlining the process and enhancing the rental experience while helping to keep their spaces occupied.

Hi, Jack

Small businesses and local governments often cannot afford their own cybersecurity departments or their departments are overworked. Hi, Jack provides tailored solutions for clients based on their industry needs and organization size.

MakeAI

MakeAI aims to lower barriers to entry in the data science field by creating a block-based AI learning platform that empowers students to be creative in the field. From a block-based AI builder to an informational video series, MakeAI hopes to help students with zero data science knowledge develop a deep mathematical understanding of the topics.

Rubie- Wellness for PCOS

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal disorder affecting millions of women, often leading to difficulties in accessing accurate information and connecting with others. To tackle these issues, Rubie is developing an interactive app, “Rubie: Wellness for PCOS,” which will offer reliable information, workout guidance, dietary recommendations, and a mentorship program. The app will also identify PCOS-friendly establishments and create a supportive community for women to share experiences and support each other.

Telemate

Restaurants are an extremely busy and stressful work environment, offering restrictive profit margins. Telemate is building an AI-powered dynamic receptionist for small businesses that takes calls, answers questions, processes orders, and schedules appointments—letting people spend less time talking and more time doing. We’re building a very intuitive human-like interaction that leaves the end user feeling happier and our businesses with more free time.

Neura

Neura addresses a critical issue faced by college students and working professionals: the overwhelming demands of a fast-paced life, leading to stress, decision fatigue, and a lack of clarity. Neura is a personalized self-help and productivity platform designed to tackle this problem. By allowing users to log their daily thoughts, Neura analyzes these entries to provide actionable insights into their mental well-being. The Train of Thought feature tracks progress over time, offering clear statistics on user goals, and personalized advice for improvement.

Mori Kutsu

The fashion industry is the second largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. The waste of sneakers, specifically from children is drastic. Children’s feet grow very quickly and parents end up buying and throwing away multiple pairs of sneakers. Mori Kutsu is working to alleviate this environmental burden because children’s shoes often end up incinerated or left in landfills where they cannot biodegrade.

Lua Labs

Startup founders face a fragmented journey when trying to manage their early-stage processes, such as ideation, customer interviews, persona development, and progress tracking. These tasks often require downloading random templates for ICP, personas, lean canvas, plus using multiple tools and platforms, making collaboration inefficient and error prone. Additionally, incubators, VC firms, and business schools lack real-time visibility into the progress of the startups they support, which limits their ability to provide timely guidance and resources. Lua Labs is developing innovative solutions to these issues to make the startup journey more streamlined for founders.

SentiEdge Investment

In financial market, one of the biggest challenges for traders is converting a large amount of information, such as news articles and social media posts to trading strategies. To tackle this challenge, SentiEdge is developing AI-powered sentiment analysis to help traders summarize this information and convert them to multi-scale sentiment scores, which can help them make a better investment decision.

Regal Rain

Too often, young adults face a common issue of dealing with cheap, flimsy umbrellas that break within a few months of purchase. Alternatively, some umbrellas on the market are durable yet unfashionable, leading customers to view these products as tools rather than accessories. This has prevented umbrellas from becoming a staple in modern pop culture and dissuades customers from purchasing one. Regal Rain Co. strives to embrace the fashion of rain gear while mantaining protection, durability, and portability.

MOK Sports

Modern Fantasy Sports struggles with season retention, as well as other difficulties like a steep learning curve and stale gamification. MOK Sports is team-based and has weekly gamification features for more constant engagement offering a new way to play Fantasy Sports.

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