The Lang Center is excited to announce the newest grant awardees from its summer incubator programs (Summer Startup Track and the Summer Entrepreneurship Immersive), following a competitive pitch process. These incubator programs foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship for rising second-year Columbia Business School students who are dedicated to advancing their ventures over the summer.
The programs provide tailored advisory, a network of peers, talks with industry leaders, and as well as the opportunity to pitch for grants of up to $10K. To compete for the grant awards, student founders presented their startups and the progress they made over the summer to a panel of alumni judges.
"The Lang Center is thrilled to have provided technical and financial support to these thirteen CBS student-run ventures. We look forward to seeing them build and grow” said Angela Lee and Jorge Guzman, Faculty Directors for the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurship Center.
Congratulations to this year's grant recipients!
(Companies listed in alphabetical order)
Amavia Health - Abby Tse ’27
Amavia Health is a postpartum care platform that helps mothers and their families navigate life after birth through personalized guidance, trusted support, and coordinated care.
Kernel - Timothy Gutowski ’27
Kernel is an AI system that resolves conflicting physician and hospital data across fragmented pharma datasets, replacing manual data verification with faster, more reliable decisions.
Khoobi - Sabeen Khan ’27 & Vincent Li
Khoobi is a beauty discovery and data platform. Users find treatments near them and upload receipts from beauty services to verify their spend, earning rewards in return. Each verified receipt builds a profile of real, offline purchase behavior that Khoobi uses to connect users with beauty brands offering personalized products and deals.
MDE19 Skin - Melissa Baena ’27
The skincare recovery brand for the moment after you pick.
Nola - Charlie Nelson ’27 & Alan Arjona ’27
Nola is an AI-native care management service that gives older adults and their families an ongoing care team to help manage chronic conditions. We combine our human experts with AI to coordinate healthcare, benefits, and everyday needs to make this traditionally premium service financially accessible to Medicare families.
PollenPal - Robert Schulte ’27
PollenPal is physical AI for beekeepers. We outfit beehives with vision, acoustic, and other sensors to dynamically understand and predict beehive health, helping them manage at scale and combat the 40% annual colony loss rate.
Ramble - Sophia Shade ’27
Scenic walking navigation app for NYC.
Retriever - Andrew Oestreicher ’27
Retriever helps everyday people with tax planning; identifying up to thousands in potential savings.
Savoir - Jacqueline Minor ’27
Savoir is an AI-powered e-commerce platform that translates personal taste into a curated shopping experience so fashion lovers can spend more time choosing from products they love, instead of searching for them.
Swyft - Elise Adreon ’27
Swyft is a social shopping platform where friends decide together. Small groups drop into real-time Ask Rooms to vote on a purchase before anyone buys, turning the friend cluster, not the individual shopper, into the unit of decision.
Tangramio - Kai Wright ’27
Tangramio is a learning platform for an AI age, when content and answers are abundant but visibility into the learning process is not. Built initially for higher education, Tangramio unifies fragmented online course content into one interactive experience and measures student preparation in real time, giving instructors immediate insight into engagement and comprehension so they can adapt the next class.
Varanic - Ryan Stenquist ’27
Varanic is an AI portfolio monitoring platform for private equity and private credit firms. We take manual reporting work off the analyst's plate, things like pulling financials and compliance certificates out of whatever formats portfolio companies send, reconciling restatements as prior quarters get revised, and tracking covenants across the book. The analyst still reviews and confirms every number.
Verra Research - William Little ’27
The investment research platform for serious investors.
