The Harvard Undergraduate Capital Partners are excited to announce the Innovation Fund grant winners for the Spring 2020 Cohort:
Bonzai
Bonzai is on demand out of home advertising with a simple goal: to make it as easy to get an ad in Times Square as it is online. We combine state of the art data analytics with exceptional customer service, which allows companies to effectively quantify the impact of an OOH ad and better target campaigns. We do this through integration with analytic engines such as Google Analytics and AdWords and development of image recognition software to track when pictures of the ad are shared on social media. Furthermore, we are establishing a gamified Pokemon-Go style reward system to encourage direct interaction with ads, which will lead to a better understanding of which and to what degree individuals engage with OOH ads.
Breen Technologies
Breen Technologies extends the life of legacy devices connected to critical infrastructure. It is a security tool used by Chief Information Security Officers to increase visibility and reliability across their network operations. It was started by Mollie Breen, Harvard Business School MS/MBA 2020, after her time in the Department of Defense. The company is based out of Boston.
My Dental Key
My Dental Key is an online educational platform that transforms clinical dental learning through original video demonstrations, innovative illustrations, and step-by-step procedural guidelines to advance the quality of oral health care worldwide. Our team of future dentists is proud to lead the charge of integrating modern technology into clinical dental education. As current students, we are intimately familiar with the pain points in dental education and see tremendous opportunity to improve the educational experience of tomorrow’s oral health practitioners. We’ve made this passion our mission and are excited to launch My Dental Key to better prepare dental learners to address the world’s growing oral health needs.
ShelfLife
ShelfLife, founded in 2020, is a Boston-based company building a software-enabled marketplace for specialty food and beverage manufacturers. From craft beer to breakfast bar producers, we design communication and ordering tools that enable small-batch manufacturers to discover, track, and receive raw materials through a single user-friendly platform. Lillian Cartwright (HBS ’20) founded ShelfLife after learning of the constant difficulties food and beverage entrepreneurs face to procure the inputs for their products.
Gryps
Gryps was founded in 2020 by Dareen Salama and Amir Tasbihi, inspired by their own careers in construction technology and the challenges they faced in scaling their consulting work. Gryps is an AI powered document data extraction and analysis platform for building and infrastructure owners and operators.
HiHome
HiHome is illuminating the path to homeownership by untangling the homebuying process. We are developing the "TurboTax" of homebuying, the first workflow management tool that guides a buyer from budgeting to move-in and assists homebuyers, their agents, and other 3rd parties manage tasks, paperwork, and communication. HiHome was founded by Tony Shu, a junior at Harvard College and a licensed real estate agent, and James Parker, an MS/MBA dual degree student at SEAS and Harvard Business School.
Troav
Troav is a company that provides its users with a library of things. One membership can give you access to the latest, coolest technology, and the best part? There is no charge per checkout. Explore anything your heart desires, and embrace the new access based economy. Troav is run by Harshal Singh and George Moe, two undergrads at Harvard that are passionate about building things, and want to revolutionize the way we own products.