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From: MIT Ventureships Club <ventureships_executive at mit.edu<mailto:ventureships_executive at mit.edu>>
Subject: MIT Ventureships Pitch Event
Date: February 25, 2019 at 1:01:53 PM EST
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A rapid-fire pitch event from top startups

At our Startup Pitch event, we invite students interested in entrepreneurship (from any course background!) to join us and hear the exciting pitches from our Spring cohort of startups. Dinner and refreshments will be provided, and students will be able to submit interest to startups that they would like to collaborate with over the course of the semester. If you have ever had that entrepreneurial itch, or are considering going corporate but want a taste of the startup culture, come by and hear from our startups that are looking for students like you!

Date: Wednesday, February 27th 5:30-7PM
Location: Martin Trust Center (E40-163) - "The Garage"

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Our Spring '19 Cohort:

SQUIGGLE

Squiggle is a matching platform that connects beginning financial advisors to low- and medium-income clients to make quality financial advice accessible to everyone.

ALOHA

Aloha is sparking the social mindfulness movement with a mobile app that helps you keep in touch with the people that matter most to you. Our MVP addresses the problems of prioritizing who to keep in touch with, visualizing the current state of relationships, and helping seamlessly reach-out to contacts.

LINDHEALTH

Clinical trial enrollment is a complex, time-consuming and costly process. Using Machine Learning and Conjoint Analysis technology, our recommendation engine predicts the best next-in-line treatment options, anticipates toxicities and incorporates patient preferences to match patients with the most suitable clinical trial for improved patient satisfaction and better completion rates.

SIRMIXABOT

Robotic Bartender for the “Drinker Tinkerer”!  With a few hand tools a fun weekend project results in a unique home automated bartender capable of mixing thousands of cocktails.

CONTACK

Contack is the first global virtual distributed contact center in the BPO industry. It is a two-sided platform with agents working remotely from home leveraging cloud technology and SME and Corporations who want to outsource customer services with a cloud BPaaS model

PEEPSHUB

PeepsHub is a personalized relationship management tool that empowers you to track social connections, manage future interactions, and stay engaged. It enables users to build more meaningful relationships through outsourcing logistical challenges and avoiding static communication.

FLOE

Floe is creating a safe, cost-effective, automated, and environmentally-friendly solution that prevents the extensive damage caused by ice dams to buildings in the winter.

QNTAFI

Qntafi is a financial intelligence venture that aims to empower average individual investors to leverage the stock market for generating profits, without taking on too much risk. Our advanced algorithms and data products use big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) to predict stock market movements and generate stock recommendations with guaranteed profits, for our customers.

BLKSAIL

96% of accidents in the ocean are due to human error and cost billions to companies on top of the environmental cost and the potential loss of lives. blkSAIL’s mission is to change the maritime industry as we know it to make it more environment friendly, cost effective, and risk-free. Our beach-head market is autonomy and captain assistance software that reduces collision risks and cognitive load on the crew.

HOMETRUST

Hometrust is a p2p home financing startup based out of Harvard University. Our web-based model gives sellers the option to cut banks out of the financing of home sales. Hometrust’s growing team consists of experienced attorneys, software engineers, economists, and university professors.

EMERGING RESPONSE

Emerging Response’s IncidentAlly monitors First Responder activity and communications to provide Emergency Management and Public Safety officials with enhanced situational awareness during an emergency – such as three-alarm fires, medical calls, and downed power lines.

YOLITI

Yoliti is a unique hardware device that combines play with learning to reinforce science, technology, engineering and mathematics concepts in children aged 6-10.

POINT

Point predicts what you’re likely to say and helps you write it immediately in your own voice. We help customer support agents, sales reps and recruiters re-use their old emails to reply to their emails.

DRAG

A Techstars Boston 2019 company, Drag is a universal shared inbox, in G Suite, for teams to manage emails, tasks, sales, customer support and other workflows from one single place.

INSTACAM

Instacam is a live video streaming company founded by graduates of MIT and Carnegie Mellon. Our mission is to give anyone with a smartphone the ability to see or experience anything without physically being there.

AIRDOOR

AirDoor is helping young professionals transform the way they connect by providing a platform that allows them to build transparent communities and bring the world closer together. At AirDoor we aim to build meaningful relationships that drive effectiveness, enhance relationship productivity, and allow users to share and discover new products. This is the platform for people who want to get off networking apps.

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