The company creates a plan based on your soil test, and delivers liquid fertilizers and soil conditioners to your door
The Problem
Lawn care is a frustrating experience for many American homeowners, and up until now, their choices for a better lawn have been limited. They can stumble through the process and use products they buy at a home improvement stores, which are often time consuming and ineffective, or they can hire a lawn care service to come do it for them, which is expensive and also often ineffective. Furthermore, the mainstream products that are available are often laden with harsh chemicals.
What The Company Does
Lawnbright seeks to make DIY lawn care easy, more effective and more eco-friendly. The company creates a plan based on…
A curated mobile catalog of seafood producers for professional chefs.
The Problem
American seafood is a $5 billion industry that depends on middlemen who provide services like marketing, product aggregation, and transportation. This fragmented supply chain leaves money on the table for seafood producers and leaves buyers disappointed with quality, service level, or both. Oysters, for example, can change hands seven times before they are shucked, and farmers sacrifice about 30% in price in exchange for middlemen getting their oysters to market. Restaurants buying seafood are presented with a dilemma too: Maximize quality of products by working with several specialty vendors or maximize convenience by sourcing all seafood through one large distributor…
We’ll update you each month on how former startups profiled in Storied are doing, and also touch on accomplishments
Going forward, we are going to provide monthly updates on past startups we’ve profiled to let our audience as well as investors know what they are up to. We will also announce new hiring needs as well. Too often, startups only make the news when they have closed a big round of funding. We have tried to address this by letting the community know when startups are raising, but now we think more infrequent updates will help. After all, perhaps the launch of a new product or technology, or the addition of a new customer is just what an investor…
The pandemic was challenging, but the industry may be better positioned than ever before.
I first wrote this article for the GoingVC blog on May 19
When the coronavirus pandemic struck the economy last year, investors braced for significant fallout in almost all asset classes.
Between the middle of February and late March of 2020, the S&P 500 Index dropped nearly 32% as the equities market took a beating. Investors in commercial real estate thought market values might plummet and loans would go into default given that much of the world had to stay home to avoid contracting the virus. …
Electives provides live virtual learning experiences for employees delivered by unique and interesting experts.
The Problem
If you’ve ever had training at work, where you watched hours of videos and took a quiz every 30 minutes, you know they are not very engaging. When companies look for external teachers to facilitate live, interactive classes, it’s also challenging to find quality instructors in a highly fragmented market.
What The Company Does
Each month, Electives matches your company with unique experts such as FBI agents, pro athletes, Hamilton performers, and professors to teach classes to employees about learning and development and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Electives tracks employee interest data, company objectives, and teacher review data to provide data driven recommendations…
Platform that identifies and accelerates development of multiple novel drugs addressing high value clinical needs
The problem
Drug discovery is highly inefficient and current drugs only address roughly 1% to 2% of the human genome. In addition, finding new, successful drugs has become so much harder. The average cost of bringing one to market is $2.6B, a number that has nearly doubled between 2003 and 2013. There is an urgent need to rapidly discover and develop drugs for new disease targets, whether it’s to address the current COVID-19 pandemic, or for the large number of diseases that still lack effective treatments today.
What The Company Does
Kumuda effectively leverages the wealth of large-scale orthogonal and multi-faceted data sets available to generate…
The student venture investment fund at the University of New Hampshire.
Mission Of The Organization
The purpose of the Rines Angel Fund is to fuel undergraduate students’ direct involvement in private equity markets and entrepreneurial finance. A student-driven, multi-disciplinary team, with the supervision of the director of the Center for Venture Research, manages the Rines Angel Fund program.
History Of Organization
In 1978, William Wetzel, then a professor at the University of New Hampshire and founder of its Center for Venture Research, coined the term “angel investor.” The fund was made possible by the generous donation of S. Melvin Rines, UNH class of ’47, with the support of Dr. Jeffrey Sohl, director of the Center for Venture Research…
An intuitive app to manage high-cost auto loans and expensive car ownership, truly saving time and money.
The Problem
America’s auto debt problem is massive, today holding a record $1.36 trillion in loan balances. These vehicle loans make up 9% of all household debt and have staggering average interest rates over 7% even in this low-rate environment. People are increasingly saddled with inappropriately expensive auto loans. Because of this, drivers will continue to lose money during ownership. The industry is designed to lock in drivers to a litany of ongoing expenses including insurance, servicing, repairs, parts, add-ons, media and communication services.
What The Company Does
PayDownHero is a fintech platform that rounds up your normal daily transactions and puts the money toward paying…
An app enabling people with traumatic brain injuries to track their symptoms and prepare for clinical trials.
The Problem
Football players are at an increased risk of developing traumatic brain injuries (TBI), and they are just the tip of the iceberg. Falls are the leading cause of TBI and the age groups most affected are those zero to four years old and then older than 60. The number of cases are increasing. There are 1.5 million new cases every year and 5.6 million people living with this invisible, chronic health condition. And these numbers are underreported by as much as 57%.
What The Company Does
Power of Patients is a digital health app that lets people with brain injuries track their symptoms and…
Bringing one of the first room temperature, easily accessible, and regenerative therapies to veterinary medicine
The Problem
Veterinarians have many solutions to treat the symptoms of inflammation in the body. Those solutions, while effective, have long recovery times, inconsistent dosing, and lower efficacy rates. Despite current therapies, over $1B is lost each year in the equine industry due to injury or disease. Revenue is not as important for our dogs, but the quality of life and cost of care is. Of the 90M dogs in the U.S., 20M will have an injury each year that requires expensive treatment.
What The Company Does
Hilltop Bio’s revolutionary treatment allows veterinarians to have an off-the-shelf, effective product, that does not require a large capital…
Bram Berkowitz
Writing about banks, stocks, and startups. Frequently published in The Motley Fool and Rhode Island Inno. Co-founder of The Buzz.
