Meet the 2021 Founders
2021 Inaugural Cohort
Meet the 2021 HBCU Founders Summer Acceleration Program Companies and Their Founders
Bull AI
Bull AI is a data platform that integrates AI into the finance sector by providing financial research tools to individual investors for stock market and financial sector research purposes without the brokerage aspect.
Naveed Mian
Howard University
Ahmad Karim
University of Maryland
GABA
GABA is a career development platform and peer learning community that matches students aspiring to STEM and health careers to peer support services based on their learning preference and desired career.
Candice Blacknall
Morehouse School of Medicine
The HBCU HUB App
The HBCU HUB App is the world’s first app to connect students to admissions recruiters at HBCUs.
Jonathan Swindell
Grambling State University
“This has truly been a life-changing and mindset-altering experience!”
— Jonathan Swindell, CEO and Founder, The HBCU Hub App
Idhini.co
Idhini.co is a digital health platform that rewards people of color for increasing their health literacy and interactions with clinical trials.
Gerard Charlot
Morgan State University
Trevor Alexander
Morgan State University
Mel X Studio
Mel X Studio is a gamified social learning platform that helps GenZ’ers learn entrepreneurship.
Jovante Ham
Prairie View A&M University
Darsha Carter-Ham
Texas Woman’s University
Monocle
Monocle is a collaborative e-reader designed to organically connect the global community of readers through shared perspectives.
Leslie Winston
North Carolina A&T State University
“I'm walking out of the program with a strong plan of how to take the business forward and confidence in what we'll need to ask for to achieve these goals.”
— Leslie Winston III, CEO and Founder, Monocle
Now Open App
Now Open App reduces the financial barriers experienced by business owners, underbanked, and unbanked customers and employees.
Imani Hinton
North Carolina A&T State University
Ajané Hinton
Florida A&M University
Theia.AI
Theia.AI leverages machine learning and human analysis to offer codeless solutions that enable DoD & commercial organizations to quickly create and deploy models that help them reduce blind spots.
Gerald Bellot
The University of the Virgin Islands
Aaron Bellot
Colorado State University
Trameter
Trameter is a cross-platform application that uses your budget and preferences to create personalized travel packages in under a minute.
Perewari Polk
Lincoln University
Victoria Polk
Cornell University
“I’ve never felt this much support before and the love is real. It felt like the world stopped for 8 weeks for us and that feeling makes a founder never give up.”
— Perewari Pere, Trameter
