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Northwestern University launched its first summer accelerator program this year for student startups. The schedule and the curriculum of the program is completely flexible, as purposefully done by NU’s Farley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, so that students can meet their own personalized goals with the help of mentors and faculty. Here are the budding entrepreneurial teams working out of Farley’s incubator this summer:
Share a Transport Logistics: produces B2B service that focuses on eliminating empty backhaul among shippers and carriers. Our goal is to create an online platform that will facilitate the utilization of trucking shipments.
myPowr: is a device that captures a user’s kinetic energy throughout the day. Whether walking, running, cycling, etc., the energy from the user’s motion is inductively converted to electricity, charging up the internal Li-ion battery. When needed, the USB port supplies electricity like an external battery pack.
Standard Health: is a B2B health telematics initiative that provides SMS based streamlined communication between physician and patient with it’s core components are divided into three parts: health information lookup, broadcasting, and electronic health records services for developing countries with slow or no internet access.
Synct: is a social media mobile app that intends to revolutionize the way people interact locally with each other and their environments. There exists a problem we hope to solve with Synct, that is: the dilution of social media. There is a disconnect between information people receive and the information they WANT to receive. Additionally, there is a disconnect between the information people post and the audience they WANT for that post. Synct optimizes the information users send and receive based relevance.
Isisitive: an indoor navigation solution for people who are blind. The team currently works with The Friedman Place, a blind community, and has connected with several other support organizations such as the Hadley School for the Blind, and has collaborated with labs here at Northwestern University.
Debatable: services the 100,000 student extra-curricular competitive debate community with dynamic online learning resources, a marketplace for coaches & students to connect, and topic-specific resources.
Better Together: enables seniors to “age in place” (stay in their homes longer as they age) by helping them rent out spare bedrooms in their homes to younger, responsible adults. Seniors gain added income, companionship, and the stability of having another person in the home; younger adults benefit from reduced rent; and our company captures associated fees. Better Together is launching a woman-to-woman business model to minimize safety concerns.
Zicapack: helps packaging engineers at consumer packaged goods companies like PepsiCo, General Mills, Kraft, Element, etc. find new thin film solutions to their packaged products. The startup has a database of over 6,000 existing materials and optimization software to build and designs new films for packaging solutions.
MedCap: a computerized pill bottle cap that monitors patient drug intake times and frequencies, creating directly observable data for a healthcare professionals and family to monitor patient drug regimens. Our product will utilize an efficient, accurate mechanism to keep track of dispensed pills.
STIdentify: is a sex-positive venture aiming to reduce the risk of STI transmission. We promote frequent testing; and are creating technologies, services, and resources to make verifiably safe sex possible.
Juice: a social app that helps singles find potential partners through mutual friends’ suggestions. People with the app get to play Cupid and match their friends anonymously as well as receive updates on their own matches. Matched people can then message each other.
Scholarslist: an analog to Craigslist for the academic setting to support interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary ventures. Scholarslist is an online service that functions as an open--but structured--posting board requiring institutional credential for authorization. The goal is to achieve widespread usership resulting in increased collaboration between undergraduates-graduates and between individual graduate programs.
