Past Cohort Entreprenuers
Marissa Ferola
Nine Winters
Nine Winters is a bakery combining traditional Korean flavors and ingredients with American style pastries.
Paige Pasley
The Social Butterflies Events
The Social Butterflies Events is an event planning company, specializing in corporate celebrations and weddings. With over 6 years of experience, co-founders Paige Pasley and Valerie Francois have successfully orchestrated more than 200 events.
Valerie Francois
The Social Butterflies Events
The Social Butterflies seamlessly navigate the entire event process, from conceptualization to execution, ensuring ideas become reality within the specified timeframe and budget. Their full-service approach encompasses the development of creative concepts and themes, meticulous oversight of operations, day-of coordination, and the curation of decor aesthetics.
Sika Sedzro
Uncut Lab
Uncut Lab builds custom web and mobile applications, strategically bridging technological gaps in the economic development space to foster connectivity, inclusivity, and empowered communities.
Pamela Aimee Leins
In the Cut Barbershop
In the Cut Barbershop is a family-owned barbershop with a mission to provide its community with top-notch service while staying true to the “old school” barbershop culture.
Mishell Brookins Ekunsirinde
PLAY & OAK
At PLAY & OAK, discover the best kids wall art, kid's wall decor, nursery decor, and playroom decor to transform any space into a whimsical wonderland. From charming prints to vibrant wall decals, find unique designs that inspire creativity and joy in your child's room.
Nancy Daniel
Madhrasi
Madhrasi brews authentic South Indian chai, delivering warmth and flavor.
Laury Lucien
Cami Flower
Cami Flower is a socially conscious, heart-centered, social equity cannabis brand that mindfully crafts the finest pre-rolls, including cannagars, blunts, and joints.
Kalpana Kethineedi
Kay’s Curries
Kay’s Curries offers authentic Indian meal kits for easy, flavorful, and healthy cooking in 15-20 minutes. Just add water!
Hla Hla Win
360ed Tech
360ed pioneers accessible AR tools for K-12 digital learning, transforming ESL and science education globally. Their solutions support teachers, cater to low-cost devices, reshaping education with innovative technology.
Marie LaFontant
Lost Art Cultured Foods
Lost Art Cultured Foods produces traditional fermented vegetables that are naturally raw, probiotic, and gluten free.
Gabriela Follett
Artemisia & Acupuncture
Artemisia & Acupuncture offers East Asian Medicine-based healthcare with focus on radical healing and trauma-informed care.
Joyce Onyango
Informatix Health
Informatix Health connects quality healthcare providers with facilities at reasonable rates, bridging the employment gap.
Adwapa Asenso
DoudouKare
DoudouKare is a perinatal service company offering love, education, and emotional and physical support to expectant and new parents.
Elizabeth Than Soe
Designs by Elo
Designs by Elo is an interior design studio, specializing in luxury residential designs and boutique commercial design services. Designs by Elo offers a tailored approach to interior design, cultivating sanctuary spaces in the midst of the bustling and chaotic world.
Suman Shah
Fork on a Road
Fork on a Road is a vegetarian meal kit company with ingredients inspired by Indian cooking. Fork on a Road provides versatile spices, blends, and recipes.
Karla Morales
Bohio Clean
Bohio Clean provides high quality cleaning to commercial and residential services by connecting clients with partners. Bohio Clean uses fair work practices at honest prices.
Sue-Ellen Anderson-Haynes
360Girls&Women
360Girls&Women is a holistic health and wellness company that provides evidence-based information and nutritional consult services to maximize women's Complete Health, reproductive health, chronic diseases, and general health and lifestyles, focusing on Black maternal health disparities and Diabetes.
Yin Guan
Broken Cup Teahouse
Broken Cup Teahouse specializes in single-origin, hand-crafted, full-leaf teas from China, Taiwan, and Korea, and brings people together over tea to experience beauty in a cup.
Ella Wechsler-Matthaei
Soca Fusion
Soca Fusion offers a range of dance classes, workshops, performances, and wellness programming for people to learn and reconnect with their bodies while vibin’ to Soca music, one of the many sounds of the Caribbean.
Insa Elliott
Market2day
Market 2day provides busy people direct access to local, seasonal, fresh food through a commerce platform and delivery service for Boston farmers markets.
Angela Hofmann
Nüssli118°
Nüssli118° is a plant-based food company offering nourishing, raw, vegan, gluten free, and organic savory snacks and sweet treats, as well as weekly plant-based dinners. Nüssli118° uses refined sugar and sprouted, nutrient-dense nuts and seeds.
Allyson Allen
Vibrant Beauty Salon
Vibrant Beauty Salon hosts luxury kids spa parties on the go, offering high-quality services in a clean and comfortable atmosphere – one of only two nail salons in Boston with the highest "Clean & Green" rating!
Madeline Cabrera
Emmaty
Emmaty is an engineering, construction and technical services firm that leverages organization processes and dynamic resources to solve clients’ most complex challenges and deliver quality, savings and scheduling efficiencies.
Tonya Winston
B.Royal Boutique
B.Royal Boutique is a curated ecommerce fashion retailer of women’s clothing.
Sabrina Vixama
Discover Vegans
Discover Vegans, home of the vegan patty, produces vegan comfort food with Haitian roots.
Smita Das
Giant Gorilla Greens
Giant Gorilla Greens is an organic microgreens company. Giant Gorilla Greens sustainably harvests microgreen seedlings in an indoor, vertical farm, and delivers right to you.
Nikia Londy
Intriguing Hair
Intriguing Hair provides hair extensions and hair replacements for women in the Boston area.
Angela Sison
Conrado
Conrado is a sustainable clothing brand dedicated to upcycling deadstock fabrics and is produced in small batches by Filipino artisans in a family-run workshop in the Philippines.
Eunice Charles
Natralee
Natralee provides skincare products using all-natural ingredients produced entirely with sustainable energy.
Saron Mechale
goTeff
goTeff produces snack, cereal, and topper crisps with the superfood, teff, a grain long used by champion Ethiopian runners.
Cheryl Shao
Sympal
Sympal offers an orthodontic clear aligner system that aims to cover all case severities.
Ellana Stinson
Safo Hair
Safo Hair is a natural wellness hair-care company with sustainable, plant based, and restorative benefits from CBD.
Keisha Greaves
Girls Chronically Rock
Girls Chronically Rock supports individuals in the disability community through inspiring and adaptive tees, hoodies, accessories, and swimwear.
Maggie Allard
Community Health Design Corps
CHDC advances a connected, culturally fluent community health workforce through training, program design/development and technology solutions.
Briana Azier
Bri’s Sweet Treats
Bri’s Sweet Treats is home of the giant peanut butter cup and produces hand-crafted and branded chocolates and treats.
Fania Alvarez
Kafanaj
Kafanaj produces a variety of healthy alternatives and essential cooking products, especially bouillon, to prevent chronic health conditions.
Sarah Fox
So Zen Spa
So Zen Spa offers in-home or office massage, skincare, nail, and makeup services in Greater Boston. Relax and refresh without leaving your home!
Sharon YoungDunn
PatriciaLincoln
PatriciaLincoln is a USDA certified, organic and premium CBD brand focusing on health and wellness, and aiming to alleviate stress, anxiety, pain, muscle aches, and sleep struggles.
Nadine James
Unique Café
Unique Café is a Jamaican-American cafe offering authentic food, natural juices, smoothies and more.
Manisha Sethi
WhoozCooking
WhoozCooking is a digital marketplace where busy consumers and corporations connect conveniently with amazing local food creators.
Jessica Pang
Pangs of Design
Pangs of Design is built on one belief: your authentic perspective is your greatest asset. Jess helps clients design products and creative careers their way and navigate AI on their own terms.
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