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Startup Yale 2023 Finalists

Meet the student venture teams who will be pitching for the Startup Yale 2023 prizes — and register to watch them pitch live on March 30-31st!

Black Venture Summit Prize

Halo BraidWe reduce hair braiding time from 6 hours to minutes, empowering hair stylists to double their business

InDeHealth: A smart patient healthcare data and resource aggregator that enables equitable access to care through its one-stop-shop solution

Lots of Berries: An environmental design company based in NY minimizing textile waste

PTH - Path: A design tool built for engineers to manage, share, and collaborate on large and complex engineering projects

Webquity: Empowering students with visual dyslexia and minor visual impairments by providing accessibility tools for equitable online education

Manolo Sanchez Prize

Fines & Fees Freedom Fund: We combat poverty-based incarceration through strategic payment of fines and fees, legal support, advocacy, and movement building

NAOS: NAOS will enable the 100M+ existing Latin American crypto users to have simple access to investments for products for seeking alpha

Sillable: A platform where customers can find, browse, and buy from local businesses online while enjoying the benefits of shopping locally.

WealthMeUp: A platform to provide cost-effective financial services via financial coaches and advisors

Miller Prize

Banofi Leather: Disrupting the leather industry by making Banofi (banana fibre leather), a vegan plant-based leather from crop waste

Cache DNARebuilding the backbone of precision medicine, starting at the most fundamental level: storing and accessing the biomolecules of life

Friday AI: Friday is every student’s personal academic assistant

Patient Controlled Dispenser & Deactivator​: A liquid oral medication dispenser that empowers patients to control their pain management and prevents abuse and diversion

New Haven Civic Innovation Prize

Corridor: An app that allows users to track the legislation they care about in English and Spanish

Mindful Kala: Helps teens foster cultural dialogue & well-being through evidence-based Indian Classical Dance & mindfulness practices

The Key Bookstore: An immersive technology platform for book lovers to connect, curate & engage beyond the singular trip to the bookstore

YEP!: A free entrepreneurship program for New Haven public school students that aims to create the next generation of changemakers

Rita Wilson Prize in Support of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Health Technology

Ensight-AI: AI technology to transform cardiovascular disease diagnosis

Equolity Bio: We use bacteria to create equol, a molecule which can mimic estrogen in the body and treat symptoms of menopause

Patient Controlled Dispenser & Deactivator​: A liquid oral medication dispenser that empowers patients to control their pain management and prevents abuse and diversion

Relievum: Offers a headache relief device that applies localized pressure to the suboccipital muscles to release tension and relieve pain

Sustainable Venture Prize

Carbon Loop: Creates a circular economy by cheaply sequestering carbon at low-temperatures from industry and produces high-value byproducts

General Biological: Makes mass-market chemicals from sugar instead of oil

Karuna Foods: We make the world's first microbial protein-based dog food with least carbon footprint, offering nourishment without any adverse effects

Tyree Tech: Convert CO2 from major emitters to high-value, carbon-negative products using microalgal fixation, AI, and synthetic biology technologies

Thorne Prize for Social Innovation in Health or Education

BUILD Nigeria: Provide free college counseling & financial resources to low-income and first-generation Nigerian youth

Carys Care: The award-winning social enterprise committed to stopping the pity party, and embracing our Down Syndrome community

MakeDeathsCount: Aim to empower local partners worldwide to develop mortality surveillance systems in hopes of addressing preventable causes of death

Mindful Kala: Helps teens foster cultural dialogue & well-being through evidence-based Indian Classical Dance & mindfulness practices

Yale Innovators Prize

Catala: Our technology employs a novel catalyst to completely destroy contaminants in wastewater with unparalleled efficiency

Clall: Transform textile waste into high-performance construction materials through the hydro press using agri byproducts as natural binders

Floe: A Yale & MIT cleantech startup that has built a smart, cost-effective, and eco-friendly solution for the $11.1B US ice dam market

Phigitals: Extends a fashion brand's existing e-commerce site into a resale marketplace, incentivizing sustainability with resale royalties