by Jonas Clark | Sep 17, 2022
Founded by Jessica Kim, ’00, ianacare is a virtual app that consolidates and streamlines resources to encourage, empower, and equip family caregivers. Inspired by Kim’s own struggles with caring for her mother, the app seeks to alleviate the financial and emotional burdens of caretaking. Users can organize and mobilize friends and family onto one team for easy coordination of everyday errands, such as groceries, picking up medication from the pharmacy, and arranging transportation. The app is also compatible with employers. “iana” stands for “I am not alone.”
Kim has previously served as an Entrepreneur in Residence for the Nelson Center in 2018 – 19. The firm recently raised $12.1M in funding. You can read their Forbes profile here.
Photo Credit: Jessica Kim
by Jonas Clark | Sep 13, 2022
Intus Care is a healthcare analytics platform that synthesizes financial, clinical, and administrative data to identify, correlate, and visualize trends in long-term care facilities. Their algorithm integrates electronic health records, claims, and accounting software to highlight clinical risks in patients and intuitively display organizational data. In this way, clinics can predict which patients are at the most risk, providing them with personalized and timely care, while reducing caretaker burnout.
Recently, Intus Care raised $3.1M in its second round of seed funding (having previously raised $2.3M) bringing its total to $5.4M. The investment round included Preface Ventures, Jumpstart Nova and Collab Capital, Concrete Rose Capital, Brown Angel Group, Green Egg Ventures, and strategic angel investor Brynn Putnam. Intus Care was a 2020 B-Lab First Place Winner and founded by (from left to right) Sam Prado, ‘21, Evan Jackson, ‘21, Robbie Felton, ‘21, and Alex Rothberg, ‘21.
Read more here.
From left: Samuel Prado, Evan Jackson, Robbie Felton and Alexander Rothberg. Photo Credit: Nick Dentamaro
by Jonas Clark | Sep 8, 2022
oneKIN is a curated online marketplace focused on uplifting diverse indie brands and BIPOC creators. Categories include skincare, jewelry, home decor, grooming products, and books. The retail-tech company seeks to level the playing field for the solopreneurs, micro-merchants, and mom-and-pop shops in a highly saturated industry. In addition to their website, oneKIN hopes to launch oneKIN LIVE, a live stream shopping app. In 2020, oneKIN was featured in Refinery29’s “Beauty Innovator Awards.” The company was co-founded by Jasmine Gomez, ’08 and Marvin Francois.
Read their Forbes profile here.
Photo Credit: oneKIN
by Jonas Clark | Sep 6, 2022
When it comes to summer opportunities like internships, college students face challenges not only in securing these professional opportunities but also in financially supporting themselves–especially in metropolises with high costs of living. Pangea is a marketplace startup connecting college talent with companies, ensuring students can access funded entry-level opportunities and build professional experiences. Jobs are flexible and remote. The Y-Combinator backed venture has raised over $3 million.
Since the company was founded in 2017, Pangea has now expanded to 1500 college campuses. Pangea was founded by Adam Alpert, ’17 and John Tambunting, ’17, both members of the 2017 B-Lab cohort.
From Left: Adam Alpert and John Tambunting
Photo Credit: Pangea
by Jonas Clark | Sep 4, 2022
Due to the laborious, time-intensive, and expensive nature of soil testing, farmers typically only sample their soil once every four years. Perennial (formally Cloud Agronomics) leverages machine learning, ground observations, and remote-sensing to measure and map soil carbon and land-based emissions at continent-level scales, providing innovative best practices to assess and predict global agricultural production health.
Recently, they raised $18M in their Series A funding round, bringing their total amount of funding to $25M. Its product that measures the amount of carbon in global farmland soils was also recently selected by the United Nations as one of the Top 100 Global Projects using AI to solve UN Sustainable Development Goals. Perennial was founded by Brown alumni Alex Zhuk, ’20, Jack Roswell, ’20, and David Schurman, ’20. Read their Forbes profile here.
From Left: Alex Zhuk, Jack Roswell and David Schurman
Photo Credit: Brown University
