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Meet our Cohort 15 Startups

Capital Matchmaking

We are delighted to introduce you to the newest founders of LBAN's Business Scaling Program at Stanford. We will use your input to best match you and introduce you to the companies you select.

We appreciate your willingness to build an ecosystem supportive of Latino and Latina founders. If your matches are not the perfect fit, please continue to open windows by introducing them to others in your network and providing valuable feedback.

ToDooly is a social platform that allows homeowners and business owners to hire local students to help with simple outdoor/indoor tasks.

Rate each startup on a scale of 1 to 5 stars, with 1 being “not interested” and 5 being “very interested” in having an introductory meeting with them. Please keep in mind that your ratings should be based on your investment criteria and preferences. Based on your investment criteria and preferences, rate each startup from 1 to 5 stars, with 1 being “not interested” and 5 being “very interested” in having an introductory meeting with them. If you are unsure about a startup or need more information, feel free to skip it and move on to the next one. Once you have rated all the startups, please submit your responses.

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Califronia | Educational Services

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Lawgic® offers an alternative educational option in novel legal topics with its own format and methodology, which is different, fresh, agile, and well designed, so that you can enjoy learning through a totally different and improved experience.

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Blueberry AI

Illinois | Management of Companies

A feature rich, all-in-one operations management solution with all the features necessary to manage day-to-day operations so that you can focus on business growth. Via day to day operations we capture critical business data points.

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CHUZA Inc.

California | Manufacturing

CHUZA is spicing up the snacking game with a range of spicy dry fruits (spicy mango, pineapple, cranberry, apricot, and strawberry) and a standalone chili seasoning. We are on a mission of sharing our flavors, culture and flair!

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Ares Materials, Inc.

Texas | Other Services

We develop new polymer materials for its use in flexible displays such as foldable phones, tablets, and other flexible electronic devices. We own proprietary chemistry and software techology to create materials faster and better than traditional materials.

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Cliqa Inc.

Oregon | Finance and Insurance

We built a financial inclusion platform that provides domestic and international payment access to immigrants in the U.S. and connects them directly with services their relatives use in their countries of origin.

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L5 Automation Inc

California | Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing

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We provide automation services for non-traditional tasks, starting with strawberry harvesting.

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MISALUD HEALTH

California | Healthcare

MiSalud Health is a Spanish-first virtual care platform created to serve the LatinX community. We provide health and mental health services, prescriptions, and personalized preventive programs, all easily accessible from the phone.

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Airluum

California | Information

Airluum is a digital time capsule app that helps you preserve family memories to pass on to your children. Namely, if you could speak to the adult version of your child, what would you say? What stories would you share?

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Gritly

Colorado | Educational Service

Gritly empowers upskilling programs to scale and succeed. With our customizable learning management system, you can deliver effective training programs and track progress in real-time. Our platform provides in-depth reporting, giving the insights needed to optimize training efforts. When placing candidates in their next roles, we offer placement assistance within our network of employers. With our software, trainers can confidently scale upskilling programs and help their candidates succeed. For hiring managers, we offer improved hiring accuracy: by tracking a learner's performance in upskilling programs, employers gain a detailed understanding of their skills and abilities and make more informed hiring decisions.

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Alchemy Vision

California | Educational Service

Alchemy Vision is the Masterclass for training healthcare staff. We are an LA based, B2B, e-learning company helping medical practices and hospitals provide on-the-job structured training for their employees. We are a team of medical doctors and industry professionals who saw a problem affecting our own medical practices and formed a team to solve it.

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Factored

California | Professional Services

Factored builds high-caliber AI, data science, machine learning, data engineering and analytics teams for US tech companies. We rigorously vet the best engineers, and provide them best in class training delivered by Stanford and MIT instructors.

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BloomsyBox.com

Florida | Other Services

BloomsyBox is a subscription commerce business. We offer flowers on a weekly, bi-weekly, and monthly basis in all of the US and we ship them from sustainable farms all over the world.

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Third Coast Hospitality

Illinois | Renewabe Energy

Maximize your renewable energy generation while increasing uptime and reliability. Energy storage makes power from renewable sources dependable and available on demand.

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Sanarai

Illinois | Health Care

Sanarai is an online mental health platform for the Latinx community. We work with mental health professionals in the US and Latin America to provide culturally sensitive, Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices.

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Latin Goodness Foods

Maryland | Manufacturing

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Latin Goodness Foods keeps you going by providing a better-for-you, clean take on convenient food options inspired in Hispanic tradition. Offering delicious, authentically Latin-inspired, modern recipes from a Colombian founder with a compelling personal.

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Rolli

California | Information

Rolli solves widespread resource and efficiency issues while contributing to fact-based journalism through the first and only Newsroom as a Service™ platform. This “newsroom of the future” connects Experts and Journalists in a two-sided marketplace.

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EmpiricaLab

Texas | Health Care, Social Assistance

EmpiricaLab is a cloud-based platform helping teams in healthcare organizations conduct peer to peer training, streamline knowledge sharing and accelerate digital transformation.

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Bloomi

California | Other Services

Bloomi is a sexologist-led intimacy company that offers clean, plant-based intimacy essentials.

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Latina Podcasters, LLC

Texas | Arts and Entertainment.

Latina Podcasters is a global podcast network that offer a wide view to conversations, storytelling and interviews through the lens of US Hispanic and Latinx podcast hosts. With a platform reach of over 300+ impressions monthly, we streamline the ad buying process for brands on these podcasts through host read ads, dynamically inserted ads and baked in ad that directly effect the US Hispanic market.

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ALES GREY

California | Wholesale Trade

ALES GREY™ Foot-Tech company : Functional. Lightweight Everything. Certified Sustainable Footwear. On a legacy mission is to eliminate single-use footwear. ALES GREY™ unites the legacy of Italian craftsmanship with future-focused recycled and bio-base.

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ToDooly

Michigan | Other Services

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ToDooly is a social platform that allows homeowners and business owners to hire local students to help with simple outdoor/indoor tasks.

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SweetBio

Tennessee | Health Care

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With 90% of wounds undertreated, and most of the burden falling on our communities of color, SweetBio’s FDA-cleared and Medicare-covered products are the first to combine affordability with top performance.

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Otrafy

Illinois | Other Services

Otrafy helps companies automate supplier compliance and risk identification by optimizing the collection and revision of certificates and food safety documents. While doing that, our AI modules can extract data from (Kosher, Organic...).

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Luna Magic

California | Retail Trade

LUNA MAGIC is an fast-growing indie beauty & lifestyle brand founded by Afro-Latina & Dominican-American sisters Mabel and Shaira Frías. By combining their passions for beauty and lifestyle, they created a vibrant brand that celebrates their mutual love.

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Owners

Florida | Other Services

Owners is a business in a box platform for home service entrepreneurs. We give aspiring business owners in home services the training, vertical SaaS and support they need to launch, manage and grow their companies at a fraction of the cost and the effort.

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Pawtrip, Inc.

Texas | Trassportation and Warehousing

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Avvinue (d/b/a Pawtrip) is an enterprise software that provides pet reservation systems to airlines and the travel sector. Currently, millions of pets and animals (livestock, lab animals, equestrian, etc.) are reserved for transport around the world.

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Simbiosis

Oklahoma | Information

Software platform that help tech companies in the US to find, vet, hire and pay full-time remote talent from Latin America.

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Michroma

California | Professional Services 

Next-gen ingredients made by fungi — Michroma is a foodtech startup revolutionizing the way ingredients are produced by developing fungal-based biofactories to produce natural ingredients in a sustainable, scalable, and cost-effective way.

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Redress

Florida | Retail Trade

Redress allows exchanging quality used garments for pieces in our inventory, which is constantly nourished by our users. We provide a familiar e-commerce experience but use clothing as trading currency.

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