Inclusive Ventures Lab

New technologies are opening up mental health services to previously overbooked and underserved populations.

Mental Health Tech

<div>
 
 Hurdle is a B2C telepsychiatry platform with a focus on addressing the behavioral health needs of culturally diverse populations, particularly people of color. 
 
 
 Founded in 2018, the company uses a proprietary, John Hopkins evidence-based tool to measure its therapists’ cultural responsiveness and provides appropriate training to effectively tackle culturally sensitive issues such as race, ethnicity, class, and culture. Hurdle’s suite of mental health services includes a self-care app, wellness workshops, and therapy. 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 In June 2022, the company and Oscar Health 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11128">
 expanded their partnership
 </a>
 to provide mental health services to all of Oscar’s Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) members. The two companies initially partnered in 2021 to bring Hurdle’s mental health services to Oscar’s members’ in Texas. 
 
 
 Funding and financials
 
 
 In January 2021, the company raised USD 5 million in a seed funding round. 
 
</div>

Pet ownership is at an all time high in the United States and the pet care economy is booming.

Pet Care Tech

TeleTails is a veterinary telehealth platform that allows pet owners to obtain advice from veterinarians and behaviorists when needed. The company’s software provides care teams with the ability to offer live video consultations, flexible messaging, and cross-team communication. In May 2020, the company launched TeleTails Instant in response to the Covid-19 pandemic to make veterinary services available at no cost during the crisis.

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

Telehealth

Health In Her HUE connects women of color with culturally competent healthcare providers for customized care. As of January 2024, Health In Her HUE notes its platform had around 13,000 members who have access to a network of over 1,300 healthcare providers across 60 specialties. Funding and financialsIn January 2024, the company raised USD 3 million in a seed funding round led by Seae Ventures, along with participation from other venture capital firms and angel investors, including Johnson &amp; Johnson's Impact Ventures and Morgan Stanley's Inclusive Ventures Lab. The company set aside the funds to drive growth by securing more talent and developing novel programs and product offerings.

Generating, collecting, and analyzing enterprise data will never be the same.

Edge Computing

Adapdix is known for its “EdgeOps'' platform, which optimizes the use of AI and machine learning (ML) for edge applications.The platform is noted for its innovative approach in identifying anomalies and automating solutions, catering to companies seeking AI-enabled performance improvements. It incorporates three main offerings: EdgeOps Core, EdgeOps Site, and EdgeOps Sphere, all built on the foundation of the Adapdix DataMesh. This combination aims to facilitate seamless scaling from a single piece of equipment to thousands of geographically distributed manufacturing processes across multiple factories and cloud endpoints. The platform is distinguished by its multi-source distributed data collection, storage, analytics, integrated MLOps with edge-native AI/ML inference, and ControlAI for autonomous, ultra-low latency anomaly correction.Unlike most AI and ML offerings, Adapdix offers a predictive analytics solution, which enables enterprises to use AI to control and automate self-correcting actions, in addition to more common offerings that just help detect and prevent faults as they happen.In August 2021, Adapdix acquired Edge Intelligence, developer of the first geographically distributed data management platform for analytics built for both edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.Key customers and partnershipsAdapdix’s technology alliances provide platforms and applications that integrate with ADAPDIX to accelerate the value delivered by the EdgeOps Platform. Partners include AWS, Google for Startups, Microsoft for Startups, Siemens, Harvard University, and Intel. The company also has solution partnerships with BISTelligence and Grandview APM.Funding and financialsAdapdix raised USD 6 million in a Venture round in August 2021. The round saw participation from X2 Equity, SoftBank, Micron Ventures, and Celesta Capital.

Modern tools to train and motivate staff, and bridge emerging skill gaps.

EdTech: Corporate Learning

<div>
 
 Founded in 2019 by Elise Smith and Heather Shen, Praxis Labs is the developer of an immersive virtual reality learning platform that aids corporations with training employees on, and measuring, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). The simulations depict incidents of bias and discrimination in the workplace from the perspective of an employee who experiences it first-hand or of a coworker who is complicit in the incident. Employees practice their responses to the incident, reflect on it, and provide anonymous feedback on their JEDI experience in their workplace. Praxis Labs uses the data gathered to provide companies with insights on their JEDI practices and interventions to make the workplace more equitable. The platform also provides employees with a dashboard to set goals for behaviors and interventions, revisit certain incidents, and review their progress. Praxis Labs offers 6-month and 12-month program packages containing 30-minute learning modules. The platform was beta tested by eBay, Amazon, Google, Uber, Zoom, and Target, among others.
 
 
 The Praxis Labs platform and its proprietary curriculum, Pivotal Experiences, were launched in February 2021, following a year of beta testing. 
 
 
 Funding and financials 
 
 
 In June 2023, the firm 
 secured an 
 <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/19443">
 undisclosed investment
 </a>
 from Accenture Ventures. 
 
</div>

Reinforcing recycling, rerouting refuse, and reducing wasteflows

Waste Recovery & Management Tech

Based in California, ByFusion works with material recovery facilities (MRFs), municipalities, and corporations to collect wasted plastic of all types and recycle them into blocks that can be used in the construction of walls, terraces, sheds, and more. The company’s ByFusion system, which converts plastic waste into construction-grade building material called “ByBlock”, comes in two forms. One is designed for communities (Community Blocker – smaller version, processes 30 tons per month) and the other for industrials (Industrial Blocker – processes up to 90 tons per month).BuFusion partnered with Ocean Voyages Institute (OVI) in August 2020 to convert 20 tons of marine debris and plastic waste into 4,000 construction-grade building blocks to be used in projects, exhibitions, and products. The company’s target is to recycle 100 million tons of plastic waste by 2030.

Information to create a more efficient, cleaner and safer way to travel in the city of the future

Smart Mobility Information

<div>
 
 Stak Mobility is a provider of comprehensive parking inventory management solutions through mobile software and automation. Its primary offerings include space-saving infrastructure integrated with fully scalable Level II electric vehicle (EV)-charging capabilities. The combination provides a sustainable and scalable solution for urban, residential, commercial, and fleet management. Stak's key product differentiator is its approach to maximizing space efficiency and promoting sustainable parking practices. It provides services such as compact vehicle storage, 24/7 service and monitoring, and compliance with parking and EV charging regulations. Stak's products are designed to reduce waste, improve stormwater management, and contribute to LEED certification through recyclable materials and clean electrical energy.
 
 
 The platform claims to offer significant environmental benefits over traditional parking garages, including a 77% reduction in carbon monoxide, 81% reduction in nitrogen oxides, 83% reduction in carbon dioxide, 83% reduction in fuel consumption, and an 85% reduction in parking footprint.
 
</div>

Marketplaces and related solutions for selling goods and services online

Ecommerce Platforms

Cult Mia is an online fashion marketplace founded in October 2019 by Nina Briance, offering a curated selection of sustainable and conscious luxury fashion from independent designers around the world. The platform connects shoppers with unique, limited-edition pieces that align with their values, such as environmental sustainability, social consciousness, minority empowerment, and the protection of local crafts and heritage.
Cult Mia operates as a marketplace, partnering with over 400 brands from 42 countries across 14 product categories. The company vets and onboards brands through a rigorous two-step process, evaluating operational excellence, product quality, exclusivity, and sustainable sourcing strategies. Cult Mia has developed a rewards system to incentivize brand partners to continuously improve their sustainability and ethical scores across four core value pillars established during onboarding.
Cult Mia's business model focuses on made-to-order and made-to-measure offerings, which account for nearly 50% of the products available on the platform. This demand-led approach eliminates overproduction and waste, ensuring that items are only manufactured after a customer's purchase. Additionally, the made-to-measure service allows shoppers to receive bespoke, tailored pieces based on their individual measurements, fostering inclusivity and further reducing returns.
In June 2022, Cult Mia earned the Butterfly Mark Certification from Positive Luxury, a recognition of its commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. The platform has also implemented initiatives like the Green Black Friday sample sale in partnership with Loop Generation, promoting mindful consumption and zero-waste practices.

Tools for streamlining or improving one or more aspects of contractual agreements

Contract Management Tools

Advocat provides a range of technology solutions to protect the rights and privacy of individuals from potential harms caused by automated systems and artificial intelligence (AI). The company's offerings aim to ensure that AI systems are safe, effective, and free from discrimination or bias. Advocat's tools help organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with automated decision-making processes, ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards.
One of Advocat's key products is a risk assessment platform that allows organizations to evaluate the potential impacts of their AI systems on civil rights, equal opportunities, and access to critical resources or services. This platform enables pre-deployment testing, risk identification, and ongoing monitoring to ensure that AI systems are safe and effective based on their intended use and domain-specific standards.
Another offering from Advocat is an algorithmic auditing solution that helps detect and prevent algorithmic discrimination. This solution involves conducting proactive equity assessments, using representative data, and performing disparity testing to identify and mitigate any potential biases or discriminatory impacts.
Advocat also provides data privacy solutions to protect individuals from abusive data practices and ensure agency over how their personal data is used. These solutions include privacy-by-design features, consent management tools, and enhanced protections for sensitive data domains such as health, education, and finance.
In addition, Advocat offers solutions for transparent AI, ensuring that individuals understand how automated systems contribute to outcomes that impact them. These solutions provide clear explanations of system functioning, notice of system use, and meaningful explanations of outcomes.

Technologies and processes that revolutionize the traditional construction industry

Construction Tech

GigBridge is a UK-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that aims to revolutionize staffing in the construction industry. Founded by Gabriel Makinwa, GigBridge addresses one of the sector's most pressing challenges: finding and hiring skilled workers. The platform connects construction contractors with vetted freelance construction workers and subcontractors, streamlining the entire staffing process. GigBridge's technology allows construction companies to source, manage, and pay subcontractors efficiently, resulting in significant time and cost savings. The platform's intelligent matching system utilizes a comprehensive database of construction workers, considering various data points to pair the right workers with suitable projects. GigBridge's solution goes beyond traditional recruitment methods, offering features such as digital management of the entire rental property cycle, from pre-lease communication to ongoing management and lease termination. The company's innovative approach has garnered attention, leading to a pilot program with one of the largest steel building manufacturers in the US, which will encourage its network of 2,000 contractors across the country to use the GigBridge platform.
Key customers and partnerships
GigBridge has secured a significant partnership with BlueScope, a global steel company. In June 2023, GigBridge participated in the "Buildings of the Future" global accelerator program hosted by BlueScope Buildings North America and its venture arm, BlueScopeX. As a result of this participation, GigBridge was awarded a USD 100,000 USD prize and initiated a pilot project with BlueScope. This collaboration aims to leverage GigBridge's platform across BlueScope's extensive network of contractors in the US, potentially impacting up to 2,000 businesses in the commercial construction sector. The partnership with BlueScope represents a major opportunity for GigBridge to expand its reach and demonstrate the effectiveness of its solution in addressing labor shortages and improving efficiency in the construction industry.

Health In Her HUE is a digital platform that connects Black women and women of color to culturally sensitive healthcare providers, and offers culturally resonant, evidence-based health content. Health in Her HUE's mission is to reduce racial health disparities by leveraging the power of technology, media and community to improve health outcomes for Black women.

FLUIX AI is an Enterprise AI CoPilot that saves critical facilities such as data centers up to 40% in energy costs by integrating and optimizing fragmented facility systems (HVAC, IT, Water, etc)

Gigbridge is a resource management platform for construction contractors to procure, manage and pay their suppliers.

MEDIjobs is the fastest growing career marketplace for healthcare professionals. Our mission is to positively impact healthcare industry as a whole by helping doctors and nurses navigate through their careers successfully. We are experts at building digital communities for healthcare professionals and we help them develop professionally through career resources, access to medical events or by matching them with relevant employers who are interested in hiring them. We work with 150+ active customers from EU and US and our offices are in Bucharest, ROMANIA & New York City, NY.

Tall Poppy builds tools and services to help companies protect their employees against online harassment and abuse. It combines proactive security training, threat monitoring, and detection with incident response when an individual comes under attack. In addition to its standard service, it also offers additional capabilities for high-profile or executive staff who face increased risk.

DotLab provides biomarkers and the power of machine learning to deliver the first non-invasive tool to diagnose endometriosis, resulting in a paradigm shift in the identification and management of the disease GitLab will also pioneer data-driven management.

OKO uses satellite information to define risk and create insurance products for farmers in emerging markets. They use mobile technologies to distribute insurance, collect premiums, help farmers and pay claims.

Partsimony helps Hardware Companies turn designs into products with less time, capital, and frustration than ever before. Partsimony is revolutionizing the way physical products are made to create a better future.

Encounter AI  through a Voice AI system that handles orders at drive-thrus, kiosks, and over the phone, Encounter AI augments the operational frontlines of restaurants. The company is developing its own technology stack, based on technology developed by SRI International, the research institute behind Siri and Nuance.

eBanqo is a customer engagement SaaS provider that helps organizations automate customer-facing services and speed up the resolution of customer issues. It helps businesses extend their services to every digital channel their customers use - webchat, in-app chat, social media, USSD, and SMS - promoting connectivity and quick issue resolution. Equipped with the latest technology in AI, businesses using eBanqo’s platform provide a consistent personalized interaction across all digital platforms, leading to repeat customers and high brand affinity. eBanqo substantially lowers cost, while providing automated customer support, self-service, issue resolution, and multi-channel live chat on diverse messaging platforms.

Ad Auris is a narration tool designed for independent publishers to transform written work into a sophisticated audio experience. Maximize Reader Engagement Unlock habitual and frequent reader engagement with scalable narration for written work. Transform words into a sophisticated audio experience.

Bidrento is a software that automates the management of rental units and renters for landlords, property managers, and letting agents.

Ridelink turbo charges cargo delivery for small businesses in emerging markets at unbeatable price and speed.

serviceMob is a company which helps in how people access and interact with companies when they need customer service.

Cult Mia is the online luxury fashion marketplace of tomorrow, dedicated to discovering sustainable & conscious independent brands.

Automated Architecture provides the technological infrastructure for a distributed robotic micro-factory network producing sustainable timber housing.

Stak is a parking solution enabled through a mobile app. It streamlines the parking process for drivers and focuses on tower automation, integration of EV charging, and management of distributed energy. This addresses issues related to limited space, insufficient infrastructure, and grid challenges.

Inicio AI is a SaaS platform that builds the conversational AI driven tool that helps in income and expenditure assessment.

Twipes aim to tackle the ever-growing issue of single-use items and their damaging effects on our environment. The biggest contributor being,  plastic-filled wet wipes. When these products are flushed or thrown away, they leave behind micro-plastics as they slowly break down. These fragments contribute to the pollution in our oceans and ourselves. With Twipes we have created a simple solution to the ever growing micro-plastics problem. Truly flushable and biodegradable wipes. Made with wood pulp cellulose (zero plastic), Twipes will fully disintegrate in water in 3 hours and will completely biodegrade within 7 days. Compared to our closest competition which takes 180 days to break down.

Oppos is a provider of cybersecurity solutions and IT audit preparation.

Nopalera creates Mexican botanical products such as moisturizers, soaps, cleansing creams, and other related products for baths and body that celebrate and elevate Latino culture.

Unfabled is a women’s health consumer platform that delivers curated and personalised solutions.

ByFusion partner with material recycling facilities, governments, municipalities, and corporations. ByFusions zero waste blocker system transforms non recyclable plastic waste into byblock building material. They collect waste plastics, including marine debris and fishing nets.

Cleanster connects you to top-rated cleaners, and we also ensure the perfect guest experience! We integrate with Airbnb and 15+ property management software systems for cleaning automation. Trusted by the world's top property managers.

Here Here Market is a boutique marketplace for foodies and the next generation of culinary creators.  It is a creator platform focused exclusively on culinary talent (think Etsy meets Patreon but for Food). The platform provides a centralized cockpit to help culinary creators (chefs/bakers/ emerging CPG brands) generate additional revenue, build omnichannel brand exposure, scale and create unique collaborations.

Advocat is an AI that handles, creates, negotiates, e-signs, stores, analyzes, understands, and tracks legal documents.

imagi is developing fun and accessible coding education for teachers and students ages 8-13+. Our products are gender inclusive by design, making them uniquely inclusive of girls who are typically underrepresented in tech

Kinhub (formerly Kami) is a generative AI SaaS health and wellbeing platform that empowers employees to thrive at work and home by offering convenient, personalised coaching and support. We’re on a mission to make exceptional health and wellbeing care accessible to everyone.

If you’re confused and frustrated by your building maintenance contracts, you’re not alone. (In fact, we think it makes you perfectly normal.) Maintenance contracts make it difficult for just about everybody to understand. At AuditMate, it’s our job to cut through the confusion.  Imagine if handling contracts were the easiest part of your job. You’d automatically know when to expect repairs, how to file disputes, and who to contact. You’d save time, money, and energy. It’s not too good to be true—it’s simply the next step in building maintenance technology.    Built by veterans of the elevator industry, AuditMate is a first-of-its-kind SaaS product for property owners and managers. We take the mystery out of maintenance contracts so you can get the most out of what you signed up for. Maintaining your building can be a hard job, but understanding your contracts doesn’t have to be.  AuditMate gives property owners and managers a leg up on their jobs—not just because it saves them time and money, but because it’s the right thing to do.

Gentreo is the web-enabled software solution that makes estate planning easy, affordable, and accessible. The company lets families do their own eldercare and estate planning. From legal documents to the Gentreo Digital Vault, Gentreo makes preparing wills, power of attorney, pet powers of attorney and more easy, fast, and affordable.

Physician 360 is creating the first virtual urgent care by combining at-home tests and a telemedicine platform for minor medical illnesses.

A social publishing platform empowering Pan-African creators to reach a global audience and earn through subscriptions, events and more.

Perse is a single data technology platform that uses energy and carbon data from all British meters to report and reduce each person's, household's, and company's energy and carbon footprint.

Influencer Marketing Simplified! Wearisma is a  premium influencer marketing solutions meets visual commerce, supporting end-to-end campaign management, social sales enablement, and analytics.  Wearisma helps brand create real and long lasting connections with new audiences at scale. Wearisma gives brands the power to discover the right influencers who tell the most authentic stories and the platform to measure that impact over time.  Wearisma is currently seed funded by angel investors from Dectech, Hearst Media, Deloitte and Guggenheim Assets Management.

Cognitive Talent Solutions (CTS) is a leading provider of AI-powered Organizational Network Analysis (ONA). CTS has been acknowledged as a leading People Analytics vendor by ReadThread Research and Everest Group, and it has been recognized as one of the top vendors shaping the ONA space by David Green. Additionally, CTS was awarded Emerging Innovator of the Year at the 2020 NWA Tech Summit. With funding from institutional investors such as Morgan Stanley and Starta Ventures, CTS stands out as one of the few vendors offering both active and passive ONA capabilities. CTS counts with an experienced advisory board, which includes academics from Harvard and Stanford, as well as former C-level executives from Fortune 500 companies. The company has developed patent-pending ONA technology, which is integrated into its cloud-based platform, Cognitive Network Analyzer™. CTS serves a diverse clientele of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, CBRE, and Securitas, among others. It has also established partnerships with technology and consulting firms like ServiceNow and Facthum.

Virtual i lets insurance industry see the risks. We believe EACH risk should be seen and assessed before it is insured. We bring a simple answer to a complex, unsolved current problem. We believe that EACH AND EVERY risk should be seen and assessed, either by computer eye or by human eye. We prefer by both. Our mission is to democratize high-quality and normally expensive services such as risk engineering and loss prevention and to allow business owners to access loss prevention advisory services, thus ensuring their business continuity in difficult times. We trust that small and medium enterprises are the basis of sustainable growth and want them to survive and prosper. We do not use big words, but do big things. We enable the insurance industry to move from good faith-based underwriting to data-based dynamic decision making. Our solutions are unique and affordable, tech-based, bringing your business immediate, visible results. We achieve cost savings for insurers, that will be able to work with any risk engineer anywhere in the world without the need to travel to the site of the project. With our tools our clients manage to highlight more risks during the underwriting process and thus the probability of picking up a bad risk is reduced. Loss ratio dropped by up to 12% after using our proprietary platform - Virtual Risk Space™. Clients who tested us could measure up to 40% workload efficiency improvement in their technical team (underwriters, risk engineers etc). They managed to obtain up to 100% visibility and control over their portfolio. To implement Virtual Risk Space™ in your company, no change management and no change/ adaptation of IT systems is required. A simple training of your staff will do. Our tool is very smart and friendly. Our service is available immediately. It takes about a week to have it working in your company. See here details of Virtual Risk Space™, that allows structured data collection and quick objective scientific risk assessment: https://virtualitechnologies.com/vrs Virtual i is now developing capabilities powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning and has filed patents that will transform the way the insurance industry carries out risk engineering assessments.

SongTools.io is the all-in-one toolkit for creators to launch their music.

Unreal Estate helps people buy and sell homes at a fraction of the cost of traditional brokers. We charge low, flat fees nationwide, enabling sellers to rapidly list thousands of homes on the relevant Multiple Listing Services (MLS). Leaving one-dimensional real estate search engines behind, we simplify the home buying and selling headache by packaging all services in one user-friendly location and guiding people through the step-by-step process with ease. Our clients save 3% of the home cost and over $11,000 on average. Their team learned from personal experience that this process was simply too painful in its current form. They saw enough up close and personal to know that much of the stress and confusion could be solved by creating easy-to-use software to guide everyone in the process and enable buyers and the professionals to collaborate in real-time.  Throughout the history of real estate, people have used more and more data to make better decisions. Yet in the past, most of that data has been hard to access or even understand as it was held in the hands of the few. Their mission is to make this data more transparent and easy to understand for everybody (not just real estate agents).

The Fashion Bomb is a daily style destination for the multicultural fashionista. The platform provides daily doses of chic to savvy stylists. Recognizing there were few print and online sources for multicultural fashion, Claire took her interest in style and writing to create the number one online destination for global chic seekers with a penchant for all things fabulous.

SecondKeys unlocks the true potential of proactive property maintenance. Our property management platform is the first to provide a predictive maintenance system that includes 3 simple steps to help owners and tenants: WorkBetter, ManageBetter, LiveBetter. First, we provide every property an automated schedule for preventive maintenance. Then SecondKeys software monitors each task and requests, from notification through completion. Finally, we track repair frequency and identify smaller fixes that are proven to minimize larger, more expensive property costs.

The Rheaply Platform is a cloud-based resource exchange technology application for connecting people and organizations with resources to those who need them, improving reuse outcomes and catalyzing the circular economy. As the only market solution that combines an asset management system with an online marketplace, Rheaply’s platform enables organizations to exchange materials and resources more effectively, eliminating unnecessary waste and spend. To learn more about Rheaply, visit rheaply.com or follow @RheaplyInc.

Founded in 2013 in Atlanta Georgia, Lillii is a Woman-owned, IT Company specializing in retail consulting and integrations. As one of the top System Integrators in the retail industry, their current clients include some of the largest Tier 1 and Fortune 500 retailers in the world.

Zirtue, a relationship based mobile lending application that allows friends & family to easily lend & borrow money with each other on their terms by automating the payment process and taking the awkwardness out of the loan process.

SoHookd is a health-oriented curated marketplace offering wellness experiences and products. It imparts wellness into its loyalty and engagement programs and partners with organizations to offer health plan benefits, rewards, and gifts.

MedHaul platform connects hospitals and clinics to the right transportation providers in their communities and offers a single place for healthcare providers to schedule and manage rides for their patients, giving patients safe and reliable transportation.

Hurdle offers people, couples, and families from various backgrounds care based on online mental health services. They help them match with the appropriate therapist and fill out the registration form with the objectives and therapist preferences.

Adapdix provides an innovative software platform for enterprises that optimizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at the edge. The company's customer-centric Adapdix EdgeOps™ platform provides previously unmatched performance increases in uptime of equipment, reduction in supply chain and logistics cost and increases in remote worker control and productivity. Adapdix software automates operational and business decisions reliably in real-time and allows scaling of AI technologies across the enterprise. The company has launched its products at leading industrial firms and OEM/machine equipment partners, contributing significant operational improvements.

Organizations are finding that data is flawed, requiring costly, disjointed, and time-consuming data cleansing efforts. The success of any company is dependent on its ability to understand, use, and integrate data and technology throughout its business processes. BaseCap’s software platform simplifies and speeds the way organizations identify and remediate low-quality data, yielding better data-driven decisions.

Increasing consumer access to high quality, great-tasting, nutritious meals without the hassle of preparation.

Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology. Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias training.  It was established in 2019 and is based in Stanford, California.

TeleTails is a veterinary telehealth platform that provides live video, messaging, and payment capabilities for pet owners with their veterinarians digitally. Its telemedicine platform integrates into workflows, giving teams a solution to extend relationships and improve care outcomes. It is also vet-friendly, flexible, and secure. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Windpact is a provider of impact protection solutions designed for sports, military, and automotive applications. The company's protection solutions are empowered with refined machine learning principles, FEA modeling, and a Crash Cloud system that automatically adjusts to manage a wide range of impact rates, protecting people anywhere exposed to the risk of impact. Windpact was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia.

Hurdle is an app that helps people find healthy ways to manage stress from all parts of life and create routines that promote wellness. Hurdle's digital platform provides a comprehensive suite of mental health services and self-mastery tools to employers and payers to meet the needs of their employees and members. Their therapists are trained in an evidence-based approach that improves cultural humility and responsiveness.

Gappify is a provider of automation software for corporate accounting teams. Gappify's automation software equips accountants with solutions to face today's business challenges by automating time consuming, repetitive tasks and streamlining processes. The company was founded in 2016 by ex Big-4 accountants with a mission to advance the accounting profession through technology.

Jenzy is a foot-sizing app for parents available for IOS. It offers a mobile app that ensures kids get the right fit in the right shoe every time. It was founded in 2016 by Eve Ackerly and Carolyn Horner and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

BeautyLynk is transforming the beauty experience at home.

At myLAB Box we believe the way we think, talk and test for STDs is long overdue for a change. Our new service, the Safe Box, is the first-ever e-commerce service empowering users to take control of their sexual health with easy and affordable at-home screening solutions.

COI Energy Services provides energy technology solutions to electric utility companies. It develops an energy optimization platform intended to eliminate energy waste, save on energy costs and protect the environment through artificial intelligence. The company's platform provides two-way communication between utilities and their customers and provides them with engagement systems to utilities that focuses on energy optimization and demonetisation opportunities that put cash in the pockets of its customers at the same time of increasing utility earnings while optimising the electric grid, enabling customers to become more energy efficient by getting custom alerts on energy wastage.

Shoobs is the online discovery & ticketing platform for urban nightlife events. From celebratory club nights, concerts, to comedy nights, networking events & more; Shoobs has you covered.

Inclusive Ventures Lab is an accelerator focused on companies founded for multicultural and women-led startups. The Lab building a community of technology-enabled startups and early-stage technology led by multicultural and women entrepreneurs. It provides early-stage companies with a wide range of benefits, including an equity investment from Morgan Stanley. Multicultural Innovation Lab also provides curriculum customized for each startup including branding & marketing, sales & finance & strategy, and provide sessions with industry experts. it also brings other elements to help the entrepreneurs scale and grow their companies. The Lab's goal is to provide these founders with additional contributions toward their future success by leveraging their resources, expertise, and expansive & global networks that will attract the capital needed to scale and grow.

Inclusive Ventures Lab

Portfolio

About EDGE

Contact Us

Resources

Area of Focus

Technology Research Made Effortless