Startup Yale 2022 Finalists

Meet the student venture teams who will be pitching for the Startup Yale 2022 prizes — and register to watch them pitch live on April 28 through April 30!

Balma Health LLC: Balma Health LLC champions the creation of innovative and interactive public health education to empower children and families with an understanding of health and disease.

Midnight Oil Collective: Midnight Oil Collective is a Venture Studio that invests in creative-economy based businesses and assets validated through our incubator and accelerator.

PlanMemorial: PlanMemorial mission is to create an online platform that is navigable and beautiful, provides empathetic and informed guidance, and offers affordable options for memorial planning. We seek to reimagine memorialization as a personalized, accessible, and essential process that empowers individuals and celebrates life.

Pocketful: ‘Pocketful', is a vernacular, community-driven, stock trading and investing platform. It aims to democratize access to financial markets in India by making stock markets simple, safe and available in regional languages. It's targeted towards first-time and beginner investors/traders aged between 18-30.

Delph: Delph is a platform that allows citizens to purchase NFTs directly from political parties or NGOs with FIAT.

The Educator Wellness Project: The Educator Wellness Project supports wellbeing and retention in the teaching profession. We provide individualized wellness coaching, small group healing circles, and social-emotional learning resources to meet the mental health and wellness needs of teachers.

Panluminate Inc: Panluminate Inc is a Yale spin-off. Its proprietary pan-Expansion Microscopy will revolutionize biological research by enabling the average scientist to acquire high-end tD images of their samples at a fraction of the time, cost, and difficulty of current state-of-the-art methods.

Sweetgum Labs: Sweetgum Labs incentivizes everyone to promote a low-carbon lifestyle via a gamified mobile application on blockchain and build a Web3 infrastructure for environmental stewardship.

Healing by Growing Farms: Healing by Growing Farms is an urban farm addressing food insecurity by and for disabled people and trauma survivors centering BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and other marginalized groups to reconnect to themselves and their communities by reconnecting to the land, creating healing by growing especially for people who have historically been cut off from their land.

Inspired Centre of Infinite Learning: This project is an interior renovation with the clear intent to transform the use of an existing interior space into a training centre. The training centre will be designed to serve the Newhallville community seeking employment in New Haven and beyond. The space is intended to be flexible for varied uses. The space will have resources to support training such as: computers, study desks and flexible study areas for quiet reading and gathering.

On Memory: On Memory seeks to transform a brownfield into the Memorial Art Park, designed by and for New Haven community members to promote healing through the arts. By bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives, this park will serve to commemorate and amplify the stories of those most impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

SLEEC: Service-Learning Education, Engaging with Community (SLEEC) connects students and teachers directly with community organizations to provide authentic learning opportunities while addressing the needs of the community.

Adiona: Using novel analytics that predict onset of key dementia symptoms from consumer-grade, wearable sensors, Adiona uses a mobile app to alleviate the 24/7 worry that comes with caregiving, providing caregivers peace of mind and tools to provide better care, while providing clinicians/researchers valuable information about disease presentation/progression.

Bellowscope: This is an extremely cheap (<$30) endoscope.

SAKEENAH: SAKEENAH is a holistic solution that is a culturally competent online and mobile solution, answering the call of 1.8 million Muslims to deal with mental health issues.

VivorCare: VivorCare is the first virtual survivorship clinic providing targeted, whole-person care to survivors of critical illness, starting with cancer.

Cimu: A Gen-Z alterations company that intercepts clothes from landfills through a seamless approach to alterations. We envision a world where clothes find the consumers they fit and never enter landfills.

fresh'n: A produce ripening solution which allows users, via a smartphone app, to control and predict the ripening of fruits and vegetables. The app is connected to a box that controls moisture, airflow, temperature, and ethylene gas paired with ripening AI.

Aatma Leather: Manufacturing mango leather from mango peel and core waste while ensuring comparable quality to animal hide and selling B2B to fashion houses for products like belts, shoes, bags and car manufacturers for seats as we move towards more environmentally friendly, cruelty-free substitutes.

Phigitals: A blockchain based API platform that seamlessly extends a fashion brand's existing e-commerce platform into a verified fashion resale marketplace, incentivizing brands and resellers into the circular economy by distributed trail commissions through smart contract technology.

Balma Health: Balma Health LLC champions the creation of innovative and interactive public health education to empower children and families with an understanding of health and disease.

The Educator Wellness Project: The Educator Wellness Project supports wellbeing and retention in the teaching profession. We provide individualized wellness coaching, small group healing circles, and social-emotional learning resources to meet the mental health and wellness needs of teachers.

Innerlytic: Innerlytic's solution is an implicit and explicit bias analysis tech platform. Users will log on to an online assessment, receive personalized feedback about their bias, qualitative examples of how that bias might affect their lives, and resources to take the next step forward.

Thinking Huts: Thinking Huts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that leverages innovative, humanitarian-driven technology solutions to close the global education opportunity gap. We are building a future in which quality education is accessible by utilizing 3D printing manufacturing to construct more school buildings where they are needed most with less money and time.

Frailty Myths: Frailty Myths is a different kind of diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy that uses the power of practice, community leadership, and experiential learning to transform workplace culture and advance justice.

Invisible Hands: Invisible Hands is a volunteer-powered non-profit delivering food, medicine, and other necessities to those most in need, including the elderly, disabled, and immunocompromised. We partner with food pantries, mutual aid groups, and religious institutions to deliver free food to people in need and address the long-term injustice of food insecurity.

IvyTech Design LLC: IvyTech Design LLC.'s technology would give surgeons better access to joint and fracture surfaces than a traditional bone distractor when cleaning as well as more accurate alignment and uniform force distribution during compression. This advancement would reduce the potential for disability after surgery due to complications arising from improper bone healing.

NebulaLabs: Innovators generate ~700k patent applications in the US every year but 95% of this IP remains locked up and undeveloped. NebulaLabs is a marketplace that provides the legal and technical infrastructure to trade fractional patents. We bring liquidity to patents that lack capital for commercial development and give investors access to a new, impactful asset class.