Incubator Cohort Archive
Fall 2024 CoHorts
Boost
At Boost, we’re on a mission to transform hotel operations through AI and automation. We believe technology should drive efficiency and excellence in hospitality. Our AI-powered platform revolutionizes housekeeping management by automating scheduling, task assignments, and real-time communication, reducing human errors and cutting labor costs. With Boost, hotel staff can focus on what truly matters—creating unforgettable guest experiences—while we handle the rest. We’re passionate about ushering in a new era of productivity and seamless operations, making hotel management faster, smarter, and more efficient.
Fashion Exchange
The Fashion Exchange revolutionizes how wholesalers and retailers connect with its B2B membership platform, emphasizing collaboration, convenience, and sustainability. Featuring a user-friendly interface and a commission-based marketplace, it offers tools for brand innovation, trend forecasting, early fabric access, and market insights, enabling informed decisions ahead of seasonal launches. With cutting-edge 3D technology, members can visualize fabrics in lifelike detail from anywhere, complemented by optional sample books for diverse preferences. More than a marketplace, it fosters community through its Career Hub and exclusive events like virtual fashion week highlights. By providing real-time data and sustainability-focused tools, The Fashion Exchange empowers smarter, more sustainable industry connections.
HotelHeroes
Housekeepers are the heroes of the hospitality industry. Without them, cleanliness and comfort would fall short, guest satisfaction would decline, and the reputation of hotels would suffer. Our platform, HotelsHeroes, is a revolutionary online booking platform that is on a global mission to empower housekeepers, the true engine of the hospitality industry by rewarding their hard work and enhancing their essential role within the industry.
Mosaique
Mosaique is transforming marketing with its AI-powered platform, enabling brands to test and optimize campaigns quickly and affordably. By simulating target audience reactions with large language models, we provide rapid insights, solving the industry's challenge of costly, time-consuming traditional testing that consumes up to 10% of budgets and causes weeks of delays.
Our accessible solution empowers agencies and in-house teams to validate strategies at a fraction of the cost, eliminating barriers to effective decision-making. With a tiered subscription model, Mosaique supports over 14,000 agencies and 200,000 medium-sized businesses, redefining marketing validation in today’s complex media landscape.
PacknGo
PacknGo is a travel planning app designed to bring ease and efficiency to group trips by consolidating all the essential tools in one place. With PacknGo, users can collaboratively create itineraries, vote on activities, chat with tripmates, and track shared expenses, making the often overwhelming process of planning a group trip straightforward and fun. The app offers everything from destination recommendations to real-time collaboration, eliminating the need for scattered documents and multiple apps. With PacknGo, travelers can streamline planning, ensure everyone’s voice is heard, and focus on making the most out of their travel experience together.
Rural Tourism Network
Rural Tourism Network (RTN) is on a mission to strengthen rural communities across the United States by helping them harness tourism for sustainable economic growth. Founded by Briana Konecke, a travel and tourism entrepreneur with a deep appreciation for rural life, RTN is dedicated to connecting small towns and rural businesses, creating a collaborative network that fosters economic resilience, cultural preservation, and community pride. Driven by Briana’s passion for supporting local economies and her extensive experience working in rural and international settings, RTN seeks to bridge the gap between urban and rural communities, bringing travelers closer to the heart of America’s rural heritage.
Fall 2023 CoHorts
Hazelicious
Hazelicious is a company that’s obsessed with making the most delicious hazelnut products, in the most sustainable way. Naturally rich and creamy, our hazelnut milk has everything you want and nothing you don’t. Ridiculously rich and smooth or chunky, our hazelnut butter is oh-so spreadable and ready to reinvent toast. It all starts with premium hazelnuts.
At Hazelicious, we believe it’s not enough to be delicious—it also has to be sustainable. That’s why we source our hazelnuts from the Black Sea Coast of Turkey, where 600,000 small family farms produce 70-80% of the world’s annual crop. Our premium variety is handpicked and thrives on rainfall alone. That’s good news for people and the planet.
Hinoki
Hinoki is a financing platform helping freelancers and other visionaries access property homeownership. We're developing asset-based funding solutions and related tools for independent investment property and hospitality buyers.
Mova*
*live your best life on your terms
Corporate and Individual Furnished Housing Solutions: Fully equipped and beautifully designed homes for mid-term stays on demand.
Introducing Mova: Where Innovative Design Meets Flexibility in New York's Finest Furnished Apartments!
Are you searching for a flexible and design-forward solution to your stay in the city that never sleeps? Look no further than Mova, your gateway to a new era of furnished apartments and corporate housing in New York, where innovation and style harmonize to offer you a tailored, hassle-free experience.
Mova invites you to reimagine your stay in the city with the perfect blend of flexibility and design. Elevate your corporate housing experience with Mova, where every apartment is a masterpiece of modern living.
Sobat Bolang
Sobat Bolang is an integrated digital platform to accommodate travelers to discover rural destinations as well as interact with other fellow travelers, connect them to the reliable local travel suppliers, and secure the transaction. Initially, Sobat Bolang will be launched and focused on Indonesia rural destinations market.
The mission of Sobat Bolang is providing solutions for tourists to find and access rural destination experiences to be more seamless, informative, trust, and affordable as well as supporting sustainable locals business growth.
Starship
Welcome to Starship Reststop: Revolutionizing Road Trips with Fun and Sustainability!
At Starship Reststop, we’re redefining the highway experience with state-of-the-art electric vehicle (EV) rest areas designed for both drivers and their vehicles. Whether you're recharging your EV or taking a break, we offer lightning-fast charging stations and modern amenities for a refreshing pit stop.
But we’re more than a rest stop—we’re a movement. Embracing the EV revolution, we support both personal and commercial EVs, including fleets, with dedicated fast chargers and tailored facilities.
Join us in shaping a greener, cleaner, and more exciting future of travel. Starship Reststop: It’s not just a pit stop—it’s a pit start!
Fall 2022 CoHorts
Anonymous Agent (Winner)
We are the FIRST ever decentralized marketing marketplace, that connects influencers like you and l with merchants, primarily for generic and in depth social media marketing.
We offer every social media user a streamlined approach to monetize their online presence, just as Airbnb did with physical spaces. At the same time, our groundbreaking process offers merchants continuous exposure on social media with minimum effort.
We aim to be the Web 3.0 answer to marketing (compared to Google and Meta for Web 1 & 2), that blurs the line between influencers and consumers.
Cultura
Cultura is a large capacity cultural hub for dance music opening Fall 2023 in Brooklyn. We bring together a performance venue, music education programs, world class music programming, and rotating exhibitions by visual artists. Featuring multiple distinct indoor spaces with an intimate feel and an outdoor area, Cultura elevates the roots of dance music, originally created and championed by marginalized communities - people of color and the LGBTQIA+. Cultura is DEI-focused, committed to leaving the smallest environmental footprint, and plans to scale with branded tours and national gatherings.
Gulch
Human rights include the right to housing and a healthy environment. Gulch believes that addressing the affordable housing crisis and climate resiliency should be done together for all communities. Through the production of high-tech, customizable, and recyclable housing units, Gulch are able to address the root causes of the issue. Through the development of sustainable and energy-efficient communities, such as the Gulch ADU, Gulch can help create jobs and provide opportunities for disadvantaged communities.
Powdrinks
Powdrinks, now Beyond Water, wants to revolutionize the new way of fitness drink by offering a convenient and better texture fitness drink. We hope to create a product that is not available in the market.
Shred NY
Shred NY is the first of its kind, Shred Bar, a fast casual location serving healthy menus where fresh ingredients are prepared to order using our state of the art food processors. Our unique process reduces food waste and maximizes the freshness and nutritional benefits of the food we serve. Our mission is to create a global community and lifestyle brand for anyone who shares a passion for shredding.
Spring 2022 CoHorts
ArtForm
ArtForm is founded by Danielle Shubsda, Katrina Chan, and McKenna Woodlan. Born in Professor Garland’s Entrepreneurship & Business Development Class, ArtForm is an easy-to-use platform, both a website and an app, for event planners and entertainment artists with 24/7 customer service support. Throughout our verification process, we eliminate the need for artists to have an advocate and open artists' eyes to unique performance opportunities. We also enable event planners to gain access to a variety of performers who are affordable, accessible, and high quality. Focusing on corporate, social, and personal events, ArtForm is the Bumble for connecting event planners and entertainers.
Camp Snack
Camp Snack is a service that helps plan your camping trip and provides hassle-free pre-packaged and tailored meals to accompany the incredible experience. Camp Snack clients choose from a menu matrix their preferred meals per day. The meal packages get delivered to their preferred location. The client heats the meal according to CS instructions and enjoys the meal. Once done, the client returns the used equipment. Fantastic food to pair the perfect surrounding. Easy to plan. Ready to order. Camping made simple.
Chixa (Winner)
Chixa is a ready-to-drink (RTD) tepache cocktail made with all-natural ingredients, Mexican rum, and prebiotics. Our teach cocktails sit at the rapidly growing intersection of functional beverages, RTDs, hand-crafted rums, and culturally inspired drinks. Chixa is a low-ABV and low sugar cocktail offering all-natural ingredients without sacrificing taste. Health-conscious drinkers can enjoy a good time without sacrificing taste or feeling guilty about what they put into their bodies.
Go Gig
Go Gig is a service that brings the gig economy to the hospitality industry by connecting hotels with verified and trained housekeepers. Our service was developed with the purpose of addressing the labor shortage in the hospitality industry and creating more favorable working conditions for employees. It provides individuals with direct control over their pay, schedule, and work setting, while also providing them with an option to receive the benefits of a full-time position. Simultaneously, our service provides hotels with a network of independent on-demand workers to contract with on an as needed basis without the hassle or cost of hiring and maintaining full-time employees. Go Gig matches trained housekeepers with open hotel gigs... on your schedule.
The Local Hotel
The Local Hotel is a mid-upscale hotel that offers middle income millennials and gen-z interested in cultural tourism and beach vacation with an authentic local experience while being environmentally conscious.
Fall 2021 CoHorts
Dinesurf
Dinesurf helps diners in Nigeria and across Africa to discover, research and make reservations at restaurants in their city based on real-time data. We also provide restaurants with reservation and guest management tools to help improve their guest experiences, increase ROI and optimize their processes to reduce overhead costs.
Hotel+
Hotel+ is a subscription based program where users have unlimited access to select hotels during the day. Members can book hotel rooms for 6 hours and benefit from unlimited access to hotel amenities like gyms, business centers and gain discounts in room rates and the hotel restaurant. Forget long waits at coffee shops and lounges at airports. Instead users can book hotel rooms to have a place to rest, work, eat at your favourite restaurant, and work a sweat at the gym.
Kenta Ramen (Winner)
Autonomous micro-retail for ramen - reinventing authentic gourmet ramen dining. All delivered within 45 seconds.
Our Vintage Earth
Our Vintage Earth creates and curates experiences for the environmentally nostalgic, with a goal of reviving cultures and the natural environment. Our clients will be able to book ethical ecotourism, gastro-tourism, agro-tourism, and arts and cultural excursions through our website. Each purchase will help implement technology and processes to benefit the ecosystem and communities involved in the project. Through education, regenerative practices, and community-based activities, we are creating a tourism space that will benefit our planet.
Swagger
Swagger is a new sports prediction platform with a unique, points-based format that empowers all sports fans, regardless of skill level and experience, to predict live sports outcomes with confidence in their ability to win based simply on their love of sports. Currently, Swagger is in-market with a free-to-play sports prediction game, featuring sports memorabilia prizes, that's an ideal fan engagement platform. Shortly, we will be launching a real-money Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) game that provides sports fans with a fun, low-risk, and friendly way to engage with their favorite sports. It is estimated that the DFS and the legal sports wagering markets will be $140B by 2025.
Urban|Safe
Urban|Safe’s mission starts with sustainability. In a world where environmental concerns are gaining an increasingly critical importance, making tourism sustainable has become one of the most critical goals for the hospitality industry. With that in mind, Urban|Safe aims to make shared-ride bike transportation a more viable option both for visitors and locals who also travel as tourists. In doing so, Urban|Safe focuses on one of the bottlenecks in using these services: the risk associated with riding a bike on the road and the high cost or lack of insurance coverage for minor injuries resulting from bicycle accidents. Since shared-ride bikes are becoming more popular among visitors, by mitigating the perception of risk through minor injury protection at an extremely affordable cost, Urban|Safe removes a mental roadblock for potential users and increases the attractiveness of a destination wherever it is available.