Physical therapy is a 24/7 healing process. Once a patient leaves the clinic, both the physical therapist and the patient lose the ability to consistently communicate with one another and keep track of the patient's progress. Akeso bridges this communication gap with two simple interfaces: a mobile app for patients and a web app for physical therapists. Patients will have access to their home exercise programs along with a direct communication platform to their therapists, empowering patients to make significant progress. Akeso creates a positive feedback loop which allows patients to continuously share progress and heal knowing that they are fully supported, encouraged and motivated by their physical therapists.

Brevitē is an aspirational lifestyle brand focused on designing innovative products for the modern explorer and nomadic worker. Our signature product allows photographers and creatives to simply yet effectively carry their tools. Our goal is to allow you all to build more. Every craftsman needs their tools, so we designed our products to be functional and aspirational, facilitating the creator and explorer that live in all of us.

Che! is a Providence, Rhode Island-based snack company launched in Spring 2017 with the core belief that Quinoa is Good! Underestimated, but incredibly nutritious, the superfood —Quinoa— is Che’s! secret ingredient and provides wholesome nutrition with it’s delicious and crunchy snacks. Che! is for anybody who is looking for a healthy snacking alternative and attempts to make snacking much more savory and delicious with their complete line of quinoa-based snack flavors. Che’s! signature snacks are packed with protein, iron, and fiber which are key nutrients in daily diet. It’s not a chip, not a cracker, it’s Che!

In the current sociopolitical climate, consumers and producers of online content are more concerned than ever about the credibility of what they read and publish online. CrossCheck allows regular social media users, power news content consumers, and journalists to instantly verify the validity of their content by downloading and using our chrome extension. With this simple tool, users can cross check any online text: from full news articles to Facebook posts. With CrossCheck, we plan to fight the spread of fake news using our proprietary machine-learning algorithms.

Elythia believes women should not be held back by something they can’t control - in particular, their periods. Crippling menstruation pains lead to $6 billion dollars lost in productivity each year, with few effective and safe options for treatments. To combat this pain, women currently take highly inefficient over the counter drugs, such as Advil and Aleve etc., putting them at further risk for stomach pain and ulcers. We have developed a novel drug delivery system that increases the efficacy of treating menstrual cramps, while decreasing toxicity. This will allow women to feel and perform at 100%, 100% of the time.

There are millions of people who want to use their skills to earn supplemental income. This is often referred to as a “side hustle.” Pangea provides an easy and efficient peer-to-peer platform that empowers aspiring entrepreneur to start generating revenue from their expertise and skill sets. Pangea supplies these entrepreneurs with tools to efficiently establish credibility, access the local market, and begin earning money how and when you want, without a middleman dictating prices and offerings. In addition, Pangea provides a space for people to list goods or used items for sale. Our platform likewise makes it easy and rewarding to discover all the unique and life enhancing services and good everyone in your community has to offer.

Predictive Optics is developing the third eye of neurosurgery: a continuous imaging system to help surgeons better visualize brain vasculature. The current standard for brain vascular imaging requires intraoperative dye injection and can only visualize relative flow within the first 5-10 seconds of injection. Our technology applies deep learning to a novel optical technique to obtain continuous high resolution (1 mm spatial & 1 ms temporal) visualization of brain vasculature. We aim to integrate this technology with surgical scopes, allowing neurosurgeons to reduce time within the OR while providing better health outcomes. Additionally, we aim to provide a real-time augmented reality feature, allowing surgeons to accurately visualize tumor regions to be resected, epileptic regions to be stimulated, and aneurysms to be clipped.

ProjectLETS is an inclusive community for individuals with mental illness that provides peer support services, assists with self-advocacy, and strives for political change. Founder Stefanie Kaufman (‘17) and Molly Hawes (‘17) approach their work through the framework of intersectional feminism, and aim to break down barriers to quality mental health care by addressing issues of stigma and institutional ableism. While they are currently prioritizing the expansion of their Peer Mental Health Advocate program on college campuses, their ultimate goal is to facilitate peer support services within a variety of communities.

STA Technology is a wearable biomedical device company founded in Boston, Massachusetts. We are introducing the first cuffless wearable blood pressure monitoring device that allows 24 hour continuous BP monitoring at medical level accuracy in a home environment. Our device features remote monitoring with excellent portability and reliability. Our proprietary algorithm to collect data and interpret results will significantly assist medical decisions in outpatient settings, where often medical providers find frequent misclassifications and frustrations due to the current 100-year-old cuff based technologies. We aim to provide a device that improves early detection and diagnoses. With this wearable technology, we hope to prevent heart attacks and create change in the human healthcare market.

Taptronics aims to develop a VR and AR solution that provides a more immersive experience through a force feedback glove controller. Currently, most users interact with VR and AR through controllers which are not intuitive and realistic. Instead of using their hands to grab objects, users must push buttons on a controller. We are developing a glove that provides force feedback to users instead of vibration feedback. The glove will be less bulky and will provide value for VR and AR businesses, which require highly immersive experience, such as training and simulation.

Woveon is designed for businesses who have trouble keeping up with all their customers. It is difficult to scale your business while trying to manage the abundance of inquiries from social media, chat, email, text, and phone. Woveon uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help prioritize, suggest responses, and track history. You will no longer need to focus as much time towards these conversations, enabling you to use your time more effectively. Never miss the conversations most important to you. As VP of Digital Media at GV, Katie Bofshever crafts innovative and creative solutions for the digital space, specializing in minority consumers.