Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Accelerator Powered by Pegasus Tech Ventures
Announcing the 2024 Cohort
The Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Accelerator Powered by Pegasus Tech Ventures (HarvardAE Accelerator) is excited to unveil its 2024 cohort, comprising 12 pathbreaking startups founded by Harvard alumni.. These ventures span various sectors, demonstrating innovation and a commitment to addressing contemporary challenges with cutting-edge solutions.
The 2024 cohort includes:
Aimiable: An AI operating system designed for customer support teams, offering functionalities such as forecasting, scheduling, and intelligent routing for hybrid human and AI bot support teams. Founded in 2023 by Harvard Business School's Olga Gomonova.
Berilium: A digital wealth management platform that provides access to actively managed portfolios of alternative investment strategies, catering to individuals and financial advisors. Founded by Alberto Guillen Salas from Harvard Business School in 2023.
Delfino AI: Streamlines doctors' offices by automating repetitive calls to insurance companies, enhancing revenue and efficiency. Sneh Patel, a Harvard Business School graduate, launched the company in 2023.
FanEQT: A pioneering marketplace for monetizing sports assets, introducing fractional ownership in stadiums and enhancing sports teams' value. Usman Shuja, from Harvard Kennedy School, established FanEQT in 2023.
Fiduciary in a Box: Revolutionizes health benefits risk management by providing a structured fiduciary process, aiding employers to comply with new regulations and avoid potential fines and litigation. Jed Cohen, a Harvard College alumnus, founded the company in 2023.
GuardianSat™: Tackles debris hazard management and traffic infrastructure in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), crucial for sustainable space operations. Christopher Rohe, a Harvard Kennedy School alumnus, founded the company in 2022.
Inquisio: Targets data inefficiencies in public records request workflows, impacting numerous local governments across the US. Joshua Penner, from Harvard Extension School, founded Inquisio in 2023.
Kedi Labs: An innovative pet health company delivering cutting-edge diagnostic solutions. Their user-friendly, at-home testing kits and rapid assessments offer accurate health monitoring and early detection of common infectious diseases, all supported by expert veterinary advice. Kedi Labs was founded in 2023 by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health graduate Michelle Frye.
PathCision Medicine: A biopharma entity developing targeted therapies for currently incurable diseases, launched in 2022 by David Lee of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Platform: Revolutionizes the construction/real estate development industry with the Platform Method™, making building delivery more cost-effective and efficient. Adrian Washington of Harvard Business School initiated Platform in 2021.
Sugarwork: A knowledge-sharing platform utilizing generative AI to capture and distill expert "tacit knowledge." Sugarwork was co-founded by Vanessa Liu, Harvard Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School, and Judith Williams, Harvard Radcliffe College.
Vocadian: Groundbreaking predictive fatigue risk management to empower a safer, healthier, and more productive workforce with voice AI for organizations with high-safety risk operations., Founded in 2022 by Amelia Eginton, Harvard Business School and Yujie Wang, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
These startups will participate in an intensive ten-week virtual program, gaining access to mentorship, investor networks, and expert guidance to accelerate their growth and impact.
The culmination of the accelerator program will be a Demo Day, where each startup will showcase its innovations to a panel of investors and a curated audience, seeking further investment and partnerships to scale their solutions. The winner of Demo Day will go on to the Startup World Cup competition to pitch for a $1 Million grand prize.
This is the third cohort of the HarvardAE Accelerator.
The Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Accelerator powered by Pegasus Tech Ventures is made possible by the sponsorship of Yintai Investment.
About Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs
Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs (HarvardAE) is a non-profit organization with 20 chapters globally, connecting over 19,000 alumni, faculty, students, and friends, from across the university and around the globe.
The network is global, yet the entrepreneurial journey is local. Our chapters across the globe provide a variety of resources tailored to support and elevate alumni entrepreneurs and innovators.
Besides the Accelerator, HarvardAE offers a variety of programs to support entrepreneurs including events, bootcamps, the highly regarded podcast, HAE Invites as well as special initiatives such as the Council for Women Entrepreneurs.
About Pegasus Tech Ventures
Pegasus Tech Ventures is a global venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with over $2 Billion in assets under management. Pegasus offers strategic and financial capital to emerging technology companies around the world. In addition to offering institutional investors a top-tier venture capital investment approach, Pegasus also offers a unique Venture Capital-as-a-Service (VCaaS) model for large, global corporations that wish to partner with cutting-edge technology startups. Some of the 35+ corporate partners that have partnered with Pegasus include ASUS, Aisin, SEGA, Sojitz, Niterra, and Marathon. These corporations are able to have access to over 250 Pegasus portfolio companies such as SpaceX, GrubMarket, Airbnb, SoFi, Doordash, 23andMe, Color, Carbon, and many more. For information about Pegasus, please check out www.pegasustechventures.com
Pegasus also founded and sponsors the Startup World Cup, one of the biggest and richest startup competitions in the world. Startup World Cup extends to over 70 countries across six continents, with a Grand Finale in Silicon Valley featuring a $1 million investment prize. The goal of Startup World Cup is to support regional innovation ecosystems and connect them to Silicon Valley. For more information, please check out www.startupworldcup.io