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Antoinette Alexandre Adefela | Founder of Exp.Design

After more than 10 years of consulting, Adefela launched architecture and design firm Exp.Design at the start of the pandemic and quickly scored points with its first client, Apple’s Inclusion and Diversity team.

Nitine Agrawal | Co-founder and CEO of Interstride

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Interstria was inspired in 2016 by the real-life experiences of Agrawal and co-founder Christian Eder, who moved to the United States several years ago to pursue higher education. The result: an interactive portal to help bridge the opportunities gap for international students by putting community, employment opportunities and visa advice in one place. Today, Interstride is used at over 150 universities, including Duke University and UT Austin.

Tim Angelillo | Founder and CEO of Source Craft Cocktails

Austin-based Source Craft Cocktails came to life after the COVID-19 pandemic left the bar industry unusable for months with luxury cocktails delivered to your door. Source Craft Cocktails now serves over 900,000 customers a day in 10 cities and hosts virtual happy hours, called “Sourced Socials”.

Ruben Arias | co-founder of Beereaders

With co-founder Luis Gringas, Arias launched the Beereaders digital learning platform to help close the reading comprehension gap among Spanish-speaking students. The platform has helped 135,000 students improve in their native language and has raised more than $ 2 million in venture capital.

Heather Emerson | Founder of Prep to Your Door

The Prep to Your Door farm-to-table meal delivery service was founded by Emerson after completing a fashion career in New York City and cashing in his 401,000 savings. While the service is only available in Austin and Houston at the moment, the company plans to grow nationwide by 2024 and has doubled revenue every year since its inception.

Mbiyimoh Ghogomu | Co-founder and CEO of Tradeblock

Co-founded by Ghogomu, Tony Malveaux and Darren Smith, Tradeblock offers a social marketplace for sneaker collectors with barter-based transactions. Now with over 38,000 users and 180,000 pairs of shoes, Tradeblock charges a service fee of up to $ 60 for sales.

Christophe Jane | Co-founder of Proper Good

Another clean-consumer business, Proper Good is not Jane’s first entrepreneurial venture. Proper Good started in 2020, eight years after Jane’s organic condiment company, Montana Mex, and offers ready meals for all types of diets through its e-commerce platform.

Caren Kelleher | Founder of Gold Rush Vinyl

As the former head of partnerships for music applications at Google, Kelleher ordered vinyl records to sell as merchandise for an indie band she led and received them months too late. The late delivery prompted Kelleher to launch Gold Rush Vinyl, making the manufacturing process three times faster than the industry standard with energy efficient practices.

Ariel Lee | Co-founder of Remane

Custom hair care company Remane aims to disrupt the black hair care industry by delivering personalized recommendations based on machine learning to those with natural hair. Since starting the company during his first year of college in 2018, Lee has received funding from Target Accelerators and Blackstone x Techstars.

Charles Li | Founder of V2 Admissions

At only 21 years old, Li started V2 admissions to help students achieve high-level university acceptance. With its master class on college applications, 150 clients, and a three-step approach, V2 Admissions boasts that over 95% of enrolled students have attended one of their top three college choices.

Daniel Marcos | Founder of the Growth Institute

Marcos is a serial entrepreneur who founded several companies, including the Hispanic-serving mortgage lender Unika Mortgage. Most recently, Marcos founded the Growth Institute, an executive coaching company offering master classes and online programming. Growth Institute says it helps midsize businesses “grow with less drama.”

Julia Niiro | Founder of Milk Run

In the pandemic sphere, a trip to the grocery store can be a formidable task, especially as many home cooks are looking for local alternatives in the kitchen. Niiro’s company, MilkRun, provides a marketplace for consumers to buy produce, dairy and meat from local farmers and has since expanded to Portland and Seattle above Austin.

Victoria O’Connell | Co-founder of Golightly

After having his home broken into by some tenants in 2017, O’Connell launched Golightly, a members-only home sharing platform in 2020. Now with over 7,000 members in 90 countries, Golightly offers an online community and offline for members to log in.

Janice Omadeke | The founder of the Mentor Method

Having already raised over $ 1.5 million in seed funding, The Mentor Method is a revitalization of tired corporate mentoring programs and has clients like Deloitte and Chegg. Omadeke did this by creating a double-blind algorithm that connects mentors and mentees, combating unconscious bias, and helping to increase retention in the workplace.

Jen Pinkston | Founder of La Paloma

Pinkston wants children to be as comfortable at night as their parents, which is why she created La Paloma, loungewear for children and women with 100% cotton clothing. Today, La Paloma has over 700 clients, including Molly Sims and Meena Harris.

Porter of Alexandria | Founder of Mod Tech Labs

After spending 15 years in the entertainment business, Porter created Mod Tech Labs in 2020 to meet a need for realistic content. The company uses machine learning to accelerate the retail of digital content.

Scotty Reiss | Founder of Girls Guide To Cars

Giving women more agency in the auto industry, Reiss founded A girls’ guide to cars in 2013 and has since gained a digital audience of over 2 million people. Reiss works with brands like Volkswagen, Lexus, Toyota and Cooper Tire while providing advice on cars on his blog.

Yash Sabharwal | Co-founder of CherryCircle Software

As COO at Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Sabharwal discovered that data management issues were delaying product manufacturing and medical availability. Sabharwal co-founded CherryCircle with his partner Ryan Shillington to help bridge the gap, accelerate treatments and provide products to patients at cheaper prices. CherryCircle has since raised $ 4.6 million in funding.

Krista Sampson | Founder of Argument Driven Inquiry

By giving teachers the tools to create the classroom resources they need, Sampson founded the company in 2015 for teachers in Grades 3 to 12. Argument-Driven Inquiry Provides Educational Materials for Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Teachers Through a Browser-Based Application

Benjamin Smith | Founder of nightclub

After a long struggle for skin care, Smith launched the premium disco skincare line to provide men with comfort and confidence in purchasing skin care products. Its face wash, eye cream, face masks and more are sold at Nordstrom in gender-neutral packaging. The company has raised over $ 5 million in funding and approximately $ 10 million in revenue.

Mark Stern | Founder of the Custom Box agency

When Stern started a virtual events business in 2018, he didn’t expect personalized boxes to turn into his main offering two years later. When the pandemic struck, Stern began offering more than 100 types of packages to help onboard employees, foster business growth, and build business relationships. Custom Box Agency achieved sales of $ 450,000 in 2020.

Jean-Paul Udenenwu | The founder of JP’s Pancake

A former college basketball player, Udenenwu began experimenting with pancakes for his colleagues while working in a Mexican restaurant. The experience led him to launch the first luxury pancake food truck in 2019, featuring toppings like pecans, raspberries, bacon, and cookie butter. Since then, JP’s Pancake has served over 20,000 customers.

Lauren Washington | co-founder of Fundr

With a mission to provide equal opportunities in the investment world, quadruple entrepreneur Lauren Washington created Fundr in 2020. Fundr is an online marketplace that automates seed money investing by building startup portfolios AI approved for angel investors and institutional VCs. tested the algorithm in the Black Women Talk Tech pitch competition and correctly predicted the winner.