Aaron
Washington
Abraxas
Higgins
Parish is a developer of credit-building financial technology that leverages recurring criminal legal system related payments
- Cohort Year: 2025
- Location: New York
- Impact Area: Financial Inclusion Justice System
- Business Type: Software
- Business Tag: AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Adrian
Devezin
Empowr teaches software development to high school students of color, establishing the school-to-career pipeline. Upon graduation, we work with our partners to help them secure six-figure careers.
- Cohort Year: 2024
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: Programs and Services
- Business Tag: Career Access STEM
Aimee
Eubanks Davis
Aimée Eubanks Davis is the founder of Braven. She was inspired to start this innovative nonprofit based on her deep passion and belief that our next generation of leaders can emerge from everywhere.
- Cohort Year: 2015
- Location: Illinois
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: Programs and Services
Aiyeshia
Hudson-Wong
Liberation Journeys partners with educators and students to co-design learning experiences and school culture initiatives that center student voice, identity affirmation, and racial justice.
- Cohort Year: 2023
- Location: Illinois
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: Programs and Services
Akeem
Allen
Admit is an AI-powered college and career navigation app. It offers goal tracking, deadline notifications, personalized advice from our AI “Coach Admit,” and direct access to colleges and internships.
- Cohort Year: 2025
- Location: Connecticut
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: Software
- Business Tag: AI (Artificial Intelligence) Career Access College Access
Alan
Hipólito
Suma believes community-led technology is required to advance financial independence and quality of life for low-income people, people of color and other frontline communities. Launching in Portland in late 2022 by providing affordable housing residents with low-cost, secure and easy to use access to clean mobility services, our proprietary, multi-sided, web-based suma platform grows to offer affordable food, transportation and utility goods and services to frontline community members in Portland and other cities.
- Cohort Year: 2023
- Location: Oregon
- Impact Area: Community and Civic Engagement
- Business Type: Software
Alexa
Simeone
Lele Art Lab is leveraging the power of art to unify and inspire young learners to care for the planet. We host pop-up art programs and run an outdoor art lab. We turn beaches into classrooms and marine debris into art. We use ART as a language of exploration and put the A in STEM education. We are the first South Florida art program to run a pop-up art lab using a special push-powered vehicle.
- Cohort Year: 2023
- Location: Florida
- Impact Area: Arts and Culture Education
- Business Type: Programs and Services
Alexandra
Ruiz-Olivo
Poder Capital is a fintech company focused on creating affordable financial products for Latinx small business owners (SMBOs). Our 1st product is a 50K – 500K loan that leverages social underwriting (i.e. borrowers will raise the 1st 5-10% of the loan from their community) to validate credit worthiness & risk. This approach tackles a major barrier – traditional underwriting.
- Cohort Year: 2023
- Location: New York
- Impact Area: Financial Inclusion
- Business Type: Software
Alicia
Williams
Alyson
Stoner
Movement Genius is a radically inclusive digital wellness studio providing movement classes to support mental and emotional health. Our programs provide stress relief techniques, mindful movement classes, and non-exercise activity thermogenesis to help manage anxiety, stress, poor sleep, and low self-esteem.
- Cohort Year: 2022
- Location: California
- Impact Area: Health and Wellbeing
- Business Type: Software
Amina
Yamusah
BLOC is a professional networking platform for black collegians on the rise. Connecting black collegians in a national bloc through the web and high power programming, BLOC works actively to close the black collegiate employment gap by 2025.
- Cohort Year: 2016
- Location: New York
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: Programs and Services
Andrew
Hill
LiftEd is a tablet academic & behavior tracking app for special education teachers & related service professionals, that saves educators time, accelerates student learning outcomes, and provides increased transparency to schools and parents.
- Cohort Year: 2016
- Location: Florida
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: Software
Angela
Lang
Alabama’s First HBCU Partnered Charter School, co-located on the historic campus of Stillman College, delivering a personalized and project based approach to college and career pathways rooted in student’s passion and interests.
- Cohort Year: 2025
- Location: Alabama
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: School
- Business Tag: Project Based Learning
Angelica
Jackson
Phoenix International is a nonprofit that manages innovative public charter schools in rural communities that primarily serve students of color. Our first school site is in Southern Maryland, Phoenix International School of the Arts (PISOTA). Learn more at pisota.org.
- Cohort Year: 2022
- Location: Maryland
- Impact Area: Education
- Business Type: School
Antionette
Carroll
Creative Reaction Lab is training Black and Latinx youth to design healthy and racially equitable communities. To create systems-wide change, we’re taking two approaches: 1) pioneering an equity-centered form of creative problem solving, and 2) creating a collaborative youth-led, community-centered movement challenging racial inequities in the education, media, health, and government sectors.
- Cohort Year: 2018
- Location: Missouri
- Impact Area: Community and Civic Engagement Education
- Business Type: Programs and Services
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