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Meet the B-Lab 2021 Venture: The Reem Company
The Reem Company offers U.S. consumers a sharia-compliant insurance product based on cooperation and mutuality. The company aims to be the most trusted sharia-compliant insurance brokerage in the United States. Tell us more about The Reem Company. I am working to...
Meet the B-Lab 2021 Venture: Dangy
Dangy is a mobile app that uses AI to assess the user’s taste profile, find users with similar taste profiles, and analyze ingredients in various restaurant dishes to recommend new dishes that the user would love. What inspired you to start Dangy? “Cheat Day!” It’s...
YEP! Thesis by Audrey Shapiro ’21
On Tuesday, April 27, I presented my senior policy thesis, a program evaluation on Young Entrepreneurs of Providence (YEP!). YEP! is a completely free entrepreneurship incubator program for Providence public high school students hosted at the Nelson Center. Every...
Van Wickle Ventures Looks Toward the Future
The last two and a half years have been an exciting, challenging, and extremely rewarding journey for the Van Wickle Ventures team. Van Wickle Ventures is a student-run venture capital fund under the auspices of the Nelson Center that invests in companies across all...
Congratulations to the 2021 Hazeltine Mentoring in Entrepreneurship Award Recipients
Professor Barrett Hazeltine has been mentoring and inspiring Brown University students for decades. In honor of his dedication to student mentoring, and in particular, his mentorship of aspiring entrepreneurs, a group of alumni came together to start the Hazeltine...
Building a Healthcare Incubator from the Ground Up: Brown Hatch Health
By Madison Frye ‘21 and Trisha Thacker ‘21 Brown Innovation for Health was established in 2016 with the goal of promoting collaboration in the realms of healthcare, business, and technology. To that end, our student organization hosted an annual hackathon ‘Brown Hack...