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 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…

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…

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…

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.

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. …

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.

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…

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…