MIT Delta V Demo Day
Cosplay, crime fighting, smart underwear, and more!
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Today I’m sharing the twenty-two exciting startups from this summer’s MIT Delta V Accelerator program. I really enjoyed watching the founders pitch at Kresge Auditorium about a week and a half ago, but since then they have also pitched to more intimate audiences of investors and special guests in Palo Alto (Friday) and in NYC (yesterday). What an exciting (and exhausting) week for these teams!
Before sharing the startups, some quick background on Delta V….
Delta V is MIT’s most well know startup accelerator. In it’s eleventh year, this accelerator brings student entrepreneurs from across the university and beyond for a summer long program that culminates with the famous Delta V Demo Day. The startups who participate have gone on to do some pretty great stuff — last year’s study looking at a decade of Delta V teams found that, across 181 teams:
61% of these companies were still operating or had been acquired
63% of these companies had raised money, totaling $1B raised
38% of teams were later accepted to private / for-profit programs like Y Combinator, Techstars, and Mass Challenge
Delta V participants had gone on to start 130 other companies after Delta V, with $2B in additional dollars raised by these ventures
This year was one of Delta V’s most exciting and diverse cohorts to date. In particular, it was great to see that for the first time in Delta V history more than half of the cohort was female.
Trying something new this time around and grouping the startups thematically (using carefully picked emojis). If you like this format let me know in the comments!
💻 Software / Internet
Eraverse is creating a new era of interaction. A mobile app for students to create and connect with their communities through fun virtual worlds, they’re putting the social back into social media (eraverse.org)
Kino helps filmmakers move faster to create magic. Kino is an AI assistant for tracking footage metadata and organizing your media assets (trykino.com)
Livvi is helping women prioritize their social lives. Livvi is a social discovery app for women that helps them find social circles as they enter new stages of life such as joining the workforce or moving to a new city (livvi.app)
Ontologic is accelerating discovery by making collaboration easier. Ontologic’s platform helps researchers analyze, share, and reuse data and code. It packages user-generated code that can run on the cloud with the click of a button (ontologic.ly)
Skinfluence is empowering women to make informed skincare purchases through predictive analytics. Their recommendation engine helps women navigate the landscape of over 20,000 different products on the market to find products that make them feel great in their skin (skinfluenceus.com)
Something Brazen is building a professional community for millenial women. Their initial offering features in-person professional support groups of 5-7 women guided by trained facilitators. These curated communities work through challenges, milestones, and transitions as women progress in their careers (somethingbrazen.com)
🚑 Healthcare
DaVinci Wearables is creating smart underwear that harnesses the power of the female cycle with precision measurements. Their underwear allows athletes to use cycle data to better understand and optimize monthly performance goals (davinciwearables.com)
Moshion is a pressure injury and fall prevention system designed to personalize care while empowering nurses. Using real-time sensor data and the power of Machine Learning, the system performs patient risk analysis to prevent these life- threatening events (moshion.care)
Oasis is helping healthcare providers uncover and act on previously undiscovered social needs. Focusing on social determinants of health, Oasis is enabling providers to efficiently identify and address patient social needs at scale (oasistogether.com)
Our Kaia is focused on ayurveda inspired period wellness. Dot. by Our Kaia is the first natural, Ayurvedic, non-invasive roll-on solution that helps soothe period discomfort (ourkaia.com)
PAIRA is proactively developing adolescent mental health. Rooted in behavioral science, PAIRA helps adolescents build mental fitness by developing resilience, productivity, and positive self-care habits (www.pairahealth.com)
Vizzhy is tackling the root cause of Type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, using its proprietary AI model. This model matches CGM data to the individual response to food and lifestyle resulting in a precision nutrition and diabetes remission care plan to reverse diabetes (vizzhy.com)
💸 FinTech
CashEx is bringing digital banking to African communities. They help African migrants get their first US bank account and debit card just before arriving in the US, move their savings to the US after arriving, and help with zero-fee remittances when sending money back to Africa (cashex.ai)
Catalan.AI is helping SMBs maximize their revenue potential. They bring models for data-driven pricing to millions of SMB owners worldwide, starting with B2C Fast-Moving-Consumer-Goods (FMCG) companies in eCommerce (catalan.ai)
Zumma is a money management platform that guides Latin American underrepresented groups through their financial journey from financial planning to smart investing, starting with women (www.tuzumma.com)
🌳 Energy / Sustainability
Mesophase is creating surface engineering for energy efficiency. Their technology’s heat transfer and anti-corrosion properties have extremely broad applicability: improving energy efficiency, eliminating scaling and fouling, and preventing corrosion in ovens, power plants, and anything in between (mesophase.org)
Pharmor is protecting microbes so they can protect the planet. Pharmor coatings are inexpensive, easy-to-apply protective shells that enable the production and transport of essential microbes, enabling food security and sustainable agriculture (pharmorbio.com)
🛒 Consumer
Congo Clothing Company is making an impact with style in the DRC. They’re unlocking the transformative power of fashion to raise awareness about the issue of rape in war and upskilling survivors through their novel C3 impact framework (congoclothingco.com)
Cosmosii is giving consumers access to custom creations from any universe. Starting with the cosplay community, they’re connecting artists with customers and providing digital tools to organize their operations (cosmosii.com)
💉 Biotech
Dapken is offering personalized pharmaceutical care for every patient through automations. Their scalable technology solution augments the health system’s clinical team and provides automated patient education, efficacy and side effect monitoring, and more (dapken.com)
📚 Education
Vizuara is creating interactive, personalized digital textbooks for schools. Their mission is to deliver the highest quality 3D, gamified, AR/VR augmented digital content to schools (vizuara.com)
🏛️ Government
Multitude Insights is creating intelligent tools for public safety. Their first product, BLTN (“bulletin”), automates information sharing between police departments, allowing officers to easily share information with other departments and quickly reach out for help on crimes they’re unable to solve (
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