Meet Cohort 1
🎉 ✨ #YepWeDidIt! ✨ 🎉
Introducing our Inaugural Cohort of purpose-driven founders.
(March-April Pilot)
Founder, Taonga
Taonga focuses on privacy and security for individuals, and provides an end to end encrypted app to allow people to securely store and share their personal documents, like their passport, drivers license or COVID Vaccine Card.
Founder & CEO, EmoteWell
EmoteWell is a self care journal that provides research backed solutions in real time. Guided journaling has been proven in psychology to provide a host of benefits including less anxiety, stress, depression and more life satisfaction. We aim to enable everyone's emotional wellness through research backed strategies. Less Anxiety. More Gratitude. Backed by Science.
Co-founder, SafeMeals / SimplestTerms
SafeMeals uses voice and AI technology to bring allergy-safe deliveries.
Co-founder, Ekolokal, Japan
Empowering individuals to make the right decisions for their health, their local community and the environment.
Founder, Aimily App
Aim high. Connect with like-minded people to support and inspire each other. Think of Aimily as your family. Always has your back.
Co-founder, Essteem
Essteem is a startup with a mission to challenge the tech hiring pipeline issue by uniting employers committed to inclusion with diverse tech talent overlooked by traditional recruiters through virtual DEI events.
Founder & CEO, NuNotions
NuNotions helps people of color and those with underserved skin & hair conditions with finding the right personal care products for them by providing inclusively tailored product reviews. We're making inclusive beauty accessible!
Founder & CEO, Kurrant
Public health begins on a personal level and Kurrant is the tool to help bi and gay identifying men manage their sexual health and wellness so they and the larger LGBTQ community can thrive. Our mission is to have 50% of bi and gay identifying men in the United States report to their doctor they are tracking their sexual health by January of 2026.
CEO, Hozhonigo Consulting
Hozhonigo Consulting provides grant writing and support services to tribes and indigenous-serving organizations to increase access to funding opportunities for critical services to historically marginalized communities.
Founder, Code Taxt
Our purpose is to provide additional tools for students unable to get tutoring or extra help by simplifying science topics with 3D technology.
CEO & Founder, B Beyond
An alliance of businesses going beyond B Corporation standards by adopting no less than 4 UN Sustainable Development Goals and allocating 25% of profits to highly rated nonprofits chosen by their customers.
Founder, Solo Wave
The mission of Solo Wave is to connect women with resources that resonate with them and help them plan their solo experiences, all while developing meaningful connections.
Founder, Seeds of Harmony
We help parents and educators harness the power of their preschoolers minds to bring out their latent musical genius.
Founder, Hozho Knitwear
Hozho Knitwear is a female-led and indigenous-owned fashion brand dedicated to promoting Navajo values shared amongst our indigenous relatives around the world. We aim to preserve and promote traditional herding lifestyles around the world through the creation of our products.
Founder & CEO, Round Robin Labs
At Round Robin Labs, our focus is to improve The Software Development Lifecycle, one process at a time.
We deliver tools to aid software development, every step of the way – from gathering requirements to software development to software quality to software maintenance.