MA Social Impact Program Alumni

Amie
Guivens Andre, Founder

Amie is a work based training solution that uses AI and sales skills to equip public school students with essential business & workforce skills.

Coils to Locs
Dianne Austin, CEO
Pamela Shaddock, COO

From their inception in 2019, Coils to Locs has been no stranger to evolution and transformation in an industry that has historically overlooked minority women. Cofounders, Dianne and Pamela, created a solution to this by providing a unique wig source for women of color with highly textured, tightly coiled hair and everything in between.

Graduate of Spring 2024 Growth Cohort

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Demi Health, Inc.
Quinnie Lin, Founder

Demi Health is a platform in development that helps connect pregnant individuals to tailored mental health resources and therapy for healthier pregnancies.

Graduate of Fall 2024 Early Cohort

Dox Health
Maya Gurung, COO
Rajiv Shrestha, President

Dox Health, Inc. has developed a revolutionary consumer digital health platform, QPER Health, that will solve the problem of adherence to lifestyle change as medicine and democratize and transform self-healthcare. The platform weaves together an iOS app, a dynamic web app, and connected medical/health devices with proprietary Health Map, Digital Twin, and Health Age features. It helps users reverse, prevent, and/or manage diabetes, hypertension, and obesity with healthy lifestyle change. The predictive health maps make the health outcome tangible at the outset. Competing with user’s idealized self, the digital twin, gamifies the health journey making it fun and relatable.

Graduate of Spring 2025 Growth Cohort

Ethos Admissions
Lani Willmar, Founder
Leo Liu, Assistant

Ethos Admissions is a social impact enterprise that provides student, family, and community-centered postsecondary readiness including college, career, and workforce development. Through one-on-one expert mentorship, small student groups, and multigenerational programming with a community focus, their mission is to close the equity gap on education and postsecondary success by helping students find their purpose, path, and pack.

Graduate of Spring 2024 Growth Cohort

LymeAlert
Michelle Ewy, COO
Erin Dawicki, CEO

LymeAlert is the first home tick testing kit for Lyme disease. It tests the tick at the time of exposure, allowing people and pets to receive faster treatment if needed. Their paired app reads the results providing clear guidance on results and next steps.

Graduate of Spring 2025 Growth Cohort

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Purposely Social
Karen Kelly, Founder

Purposely Social helps busy parents overcome stress and isolation by simplifying social planning. Their solution integrates effortlessly into users' existing behaviors, using personal calendars and location as a way to quickly coordinate low key meet-ups. By making it easy to build deeper relationships in real life, they'll reduce risks of depression, anxiety, diabetes and early death by up to 50%, while saving billions in healthcare costs, and lost productivity.

Graduate of Spring 2025 Growth Cohort

RequestFOIA
Herbert Myers, Founder

RequestFOIA is a digital transformation cloud-based software application for government agencies. Their software provides workflow automation for agencies to respond to the rising number of FOIA/public records requests that they're mandated to respond to by law. RequestFOIA's application provides transparency and accountability for both the requester and the agency responding to requests. They bring compliancy and security to government agencies.

Graduate of Spring 2024 Growth Cohort

SAMIS AI (Aviasnug, Inc.)
Peter Abosede, Founder

SAMIS is an AI-powered platform that automates and simplify aircraft maintenance documentation, diagnosis, and reporting workflow through integrated software and wearables.

Graduate of Fall 2024 Early Cohort ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Self-Advocacy Wins
Kelsey Oates, Founder

Self-Advocacy Wins is connecting users with intellectual disabilities with each other and the world. We are a positive social ecosystem that is fun, safe, and empowers self-advocates in their daily lives.

Graduate of Fall 2024 Early Cohort ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Solecit
Nazr El-Scari, CEO

Solecit is the only digital styling solution that sustainably assists aspiring fashion-conscious individuals in maximizing their existing wardrobe. By seamlessly integrating new and potential purchases with items already in their closet, we allow them to visualize their enhanced personal style with effortlessly curated outfits they can wear in real life.

Graduate of Spring 2025 Growth Cohort.

Snaark AI
Rosemary Ajuka-LeCroy, Founder

Snaark AI is your AI-powered small business marketing co-pilot, continuously analyzing every aspect of your online presence—websites, social media, and ads—to identify what’s working and what isn’t. It doesn’t just uncover opportunities; it provides clear, actionable steps to optimize your digital marketing strategies and drive growth. By replacing guesswork with data-driven insights, Snaark AI transforms your digital footprint into a customer magnet. From identifying high-performing strategies to automating key optimizations, every digital interaction becomes a strategic advantage and a catalyst for measurable growth.

Graduate of Fall 2024 Early Cohort

SplitBrick
Vaibhav Anand, CTO
Pedro Ojeda, CEO

Empower yourself to control your financial future. With SplitBrick, you can own and control your real estate portfolio starting with an investment of as little as $1. SplitBrick lets you purchase a share of investment properties nationwide, earn a share of the profits, and democratically manage its future. Be a part of the real estate revolution, one brick at a time!

Graduate of Spring 2024 Growth Cohort ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Tactus
Nicholas Chow, System Designer
Jeremy Chow, Co-Founder

Tactus has developed a wearable technology that translates music into vibrations for the Deaf community. By seamlessly integrating advanced signal processing and conductive materials into comfortable garments, they provide a unique and inclusive way for Deaf individuals to experience and connect with music. Their mission is to bridge the gap between Deaf and hearing communities, enhancing accessibility and connection through the universal language of music.

Graduate of Fall 2024 Early Cohort

Graduate of Spring 2025 Growth Cohort

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ThriveIEP
Elizabeth McWhorter, Founder

There are over 7 million kids in the U.S. special education system and there are at least 5 million more whose parents are fighting to access services from their public schools. To advocate for their kids, parents need to rapidly become experts in special education law, neuropsychology, educational benchmarks and practices, education policy, medicine, and organizational politics to navigate a painfully complicated system, all while holding onto the hope that their child will learn the skills they need to thrive today and in the future. ThriveIEP is changing how parents manage the special education process, empowering them with a robust platform that provides generative AI-driven insights, information, and assistance to improve educational outcomes for kids.

Graduate of Spring 2024 Growth Cohort

Yoku AI
Vasha DuTell, CEO
Anne Harrington, CTO

Yoku combines expertise in human vision with cutting-edge computer vision and AI to help inform critical design choices, optimizing visibility of content in peripheral vision. They specialize in applying vision science modeling to predict the visibility and legibility of marketing material and packaging for CPG brands.

Graduate of Spring 2024 Growth Cohort

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