Seventh Cohort Startups
Spring Cohort 2024
Qiqo
Qiqo helps small businesses increase brand awareness through a network of hyperlocal marketplaces. Qiqo already has paying customers on an MVP and is raising $500K in the next three months.
AreaHub
AreaHub is a risk management platform that provides extensive climate and environmental intelligence across 30+ topics for organizations, including local government and multi-location businesses, anywhere in the U.S. AreaHub already has product traction and is looking for business development growth to achieve revenue targets in the next year.
Groopl
Groopl is an app that helps people get together with friends and family by making it easier to plan events and activities. Groopl has an MVP and is looking to launch a beta this summer. We are seeking investors and advisors to support the launch and growth of Groopl.
Khonsu
Khonsu is a travel planning platform that combines artificial & human intelligence to help visitors save time during the trip planning process. Their goal is to help people visiting NYC do more of the things they love with the people they love. Khonsu has a beta in the NYC market with more than 1k paying customers and looking to raise $900k to accelerate their growth.
LEVEL
LEVEL is a video-on-demand learning platform for kids that takes the stress out of instruction in dance, music, sports and other after-school activities. LEVEL is launching this fall with a pilot program before going wide in early 2025. The company has raised $100k to date and is seeking an additional $650k.
Chivy Inc.
Chivy Inc. is a premier dating app startup that provides a secure and exclusive platform for single professionals looking for a long term meaningful relationship. Chivy Inc already has raised 475k with a growing customer base upward of 130 and are looking for a $2.5 million dollar seed raise in the next 3 months.
SafeStops Global, Inc.
SafeStops Global, Inc. (Tuckahoe) is a tech company that's helping to re-imagine how traffic stops are conducted from behind the wheel. Streamlining the process for drivers who feel uncomfortable after being pulled over. Its app is designed to help make each stop equitable providing drivers with everything they need to complete a traffic stop electronically. SafeStops Global, Inc. currently has over 40 customers and is looking to scale to 5,000 users in the next 18 months.
Foretold
Foretold accelerates decision making for real estate investors by accurately predicting market conditions and zoning trends. Using Data & AI, our tools facilitate the creation of housing by unlocking insights from 1,000 of data points. Foretold data is already being used to model rents on 1,000s of new apartments in Westchester. We are looking for $2M to build out our platform in the next year.
DTX Medical
DTX Medical helps patients and providers solve for communication errors after treatment and care by implementing remote therapeutic monitoring. DTX Medical already has a number of customers engaging 364 providers and 750 patients per day and looking at an investment of $500,000 over the next 6 months.
Project Vara
Project Vara helps police departments and other public service professionals solve the shortage of personnel by providing a streaming technology that allows for an instant connection with the public to efficiently triage their demands and reallocate the personnel they do have to more critical tasks. Project Vara's TelePolicing has growing customer traction with departments and mental health providers and is looking for $3 million in the next six months.
Recognition Technologies, Inc.
Recognition Technologies, Inc., established in 2003, is a research and development organization providing a single comprehensive software engine for enabling Speech, Speaker, Face, Object, Emotion Recognition, and much more, using a unified set of APIs designed for Integrators and Software Developers -- works standalone (Android and Linux) and in client/server mode. The vision is for an expanded marketing effort to reach the unlimited relevant clients who may be unaware of these alternative solutions for providing higher security, edge-based deployment, full behavior control, etc.
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