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.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalists Navid Zahraie, Steven Klavier, and Monica Stewart Tell Us about Their Startup, Cultura

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.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Zihan Yan Tells Us about His Startup, Gulch

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.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Cheong Chun Li Tells Us About His Startup, Beyond Water

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.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Aviva Wolf Tells Us about Her Startup, Shred

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.

ArtForm: An app startup for event entertainment booking helping to connect performing artists and event planners

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.

CAMP SNACK helps you plan your trip and provides hassle-free pre-packaged and tailored meals to accompany the incredible trip experience.

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.

Go Gig: A startup aimed at connecting hotels with verified gig workers and offering convenient services for both parties.

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.

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.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Martins Udotai Tells Us about His Startup, Dinesurf.

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.

Hotel+ is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Bernardo Zorrilla, founder, tells us more about the business.

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.

Our Vintage Earth is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Yasmin Yusuff, founder, tells us more about the business.

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.

HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Ranel Castro Tells Us about His Startup, Swagger Gaming, Inc.

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.

Urban|Safe is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Founders Anjie "Jeff" Dong, Alp Ozaman, and Burkay Alpyildiztells us more about the business.