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VIP-X Alumni
The Venture Initiation Program - Accelerator (VIP-X) is an intense, three-month accelerator program tailored for the most dedicated student entrepreneurs and advanced startups. Our alumni are a testament to the rigor, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit that define VIP-X. Learn more below.
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Over $968M raised by 196 ventures since 2016. 80% still in business.

PHILADELPHIA ALUMNI

Graduates of VIP-X have not only survived but thrived in an environment designed to challenge and elevate. They’ve pushed boundaries, tackled complex problems, and brought groundbreaking ideas to life. Our alumni are change-makers, innovators, and leaders in their fields, continuously driving progress and making impactful contributions to the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Check out our alum below!
Fall 2024
  • Horus Health:Horus Health streamlines and accelerates healthcare billing compliance workflows with AI and automated tools. (Akhil Peddikuppa C'27)


  • Sync Labs: Sync Labs a comprehensive AI platform for senior care and assisted living businesses. (Melanie Herbert ENG'25)


  • Shelflife:Shelflife is the AI-powered automated markdowns system to tackle grocer food waste.


  • Capivara: AI business networking platform to take the work out of networking. (Chris Stolte WEMBA'25, Scott Ogden WEMBA'25, Mandy Chen WEMBA'25, Tommy Glenn WEMBA'25)


  • Lucy: Lucy is an AI academic advisor for university students. (Mathieu Perez, SEAS'24)


    • Too Collective: Too Collective is a lifestyle brand that helps ambitious women self-care smarter through community, unfiltered wellness content, and innovative loungewear products. (Alexis Barber WG'25)

    • Felicity: Felicity is an AI product expert that automates software QA and customer support through its deep understanding of complex software. (Saahil Madge WG25)
    Summer 2024
    • Flipkit: Flipkit is an omni channel sales automation software tool for apparel resellers. (Haley Kang ENG'24, Octavius Kim C'23, Agustin Garcinuno W'23)

    • SphereUs:SphereUs is a B2B platform helping brands launch and manage successful brand ambassador campaigns end-to-end. (Ace Kim W26)

    • Fleeted: Loyalty programs for ingredient-conscious CPG brands and their in-store customers. (Alexander Bardwell ENG'24)

    • CFO 4 ALL: CFO 4 ALL is an AI-powered financial management platform providing early-stage companies with tailored financial insights and educational content to improve decision-making and optimize business outcomes. (Rachel   League WG'25)

    • Revise Robotics:Pioneering a more circular electronics industry through intelligent robotics. (Rupesh   Jeyaram WG'24)
    Spring 2024
    • GoodRun: A digital home for the basketball community and ecosystem. (Brandon Huang (WG'25))

    • Seadrop Skincare: Reinventing skincare with our zero-waste, “just-add-water” tablet. (Serena Advani (W'17 C'17 WG'22))

    • Jolt Education: Short-form educational videos that seamlessly integrate into lesson presentations. (Jade Peterson (GED'24))

    • Veggie Vice: The clean vegetable chip designed for health-conscious snackers. (Riddhima Kapoor, WG'24)

    • MediMint: Blockchain-powered medical image-sharing platform for healthcare providers and patients. (Avanthika Ramesh, WG'25)

      • Amoureux Beauty: luxury skincare brand redefining sensitive skincare products. (Jeanine Mojum (WG'24))

      • Padel Blue: A padel club focused on uniting communities in health and social connection. (Abigail McCulloch (WG'25))
      Fall 2023
      • Nirby: Nirby is a real-time soil analytics and farmland management tool for large agricultural enterprises, leveraging satellite data and proprietary drone systems to deliver actionable insights within minutes.

      • BetterBasket: BetterBasket provides competitive merchandising intelligence and recommendations on pricing and product assortment for food and beverage businesses.

      • BrainFood: BrainFood is a mental wellness brand launching a brain-specific micronutrient beverage and educational support for busy young professionals and students, promoting focus, stress resilience, and brain health for a more fulfilling life.

      • Fitalyst: Fitalyst is on a mission to re-humanize campus data to help close the achievement gap for First-Gen students.

      • Snowlake: Snowlake redefines affordable housing, using technology and ethical management to revitalize buildings.

      • Caboodle: Caboodle brings the circular economy to life via our luxury, sustainable DIY craft kits for adults
        • Founders: Rachel Snyder (WG'24), Megan Burke (WG'24)

      • LCKR: A sports and activities rental marketplace that turns curiosity into adventure
      Summer 2023
      • Alopex Golf: Technologies enhancing the indoor golf training experience, optimized for accessibility with high-speed video recording, cloud-based remote coaching, and AI-powered 3D analysis.
        • Founders: Lindsay Smith (SEAS'23), Ryan Hosler (SEAS'22)

      • InvenTABLE: InvenTABLE is a kid-safe power tool that teaches valuable STEM skills by giving kids ages 8-12 the ability to cut through cardboard and build 3D models with ease.
        • Founders: Kausalya Raman (GEng'23), Max Liechty (SEAS'22)

      • Munch Industries: is building food automation for quick-service dining areas. Our first product is Orble, a customer-facing automatic bubble tea machine for dining areas to get into the 4 billion dollar boba market.
        • Founders: Nastassja Kuznetsova (SEAS'23), Lada Korotaeva (SEAS'23), Sophie Takahashi (MT'23)

      • MineMe: MineMe enables everyday internet users to own, control, and monetize their data while providing companies access to robust, ethically sourced consumer data. MineMe is built on the following tenets: You own your data. You are in control. And with MineMe, you can monetize.
        • Founder: Archana Somasegar (WG'24)
      • Pairfect: Pairfectis a modern-day matchmaking service that introduces single people to other singles through a combination of technology and matchmakers who screen each user and suggest matches.
        • Founder: Annie Xu (SPP’24 WG’24)

      • Airalux Medical: Airalux is a smart, digital incentive spirometer and companion app designed to address unmet needs in incentive spirometry (IS).
        • Founder: Joshua Freedman (GEng'23)

      • Aimless: Aimless is a platform allowing retailers and firms to turn their data into revenue-generating machine learning insights. Instead of hiring engineers to navigate the process of building ML infrastructure, Aimless wraps this technology into a platform requiring no code and no prior knowledge.
        • Founder: Joshua Weiner (SEAS'23)
      Spring 2023
      • ALL-in Eduspace (Devi Kasih, ENG'10, W'10, GED'23) ALL-in Eduspace is an education consulting firm that offers personalized mentoring.
      • BUILD Nigeria (Claire Utomi W'23) Creating social change through education for Nigerians.
      • Clédo (Joseph Han, WG'23) Clédo offers clinically proven skin and hair care products to fight public enemy no.1: aging.
      • NEPRI Pasta (Jessica Ramses, ENG'22, GEN'23) NEPRI pasta is a nutritious pasta for the health-conscious consumer.
      • Odyssey Notebooks(Rainbow Yeung, WG'24) Odyssey Notebooks uses special papers to create premium and sustainably crafted paper products for fountain pen users, artists, and every-day writers.
      • SecureFlow (Evan Adamo, WG'23; Conor Brown, WG'23; Aayush Garg WG’24) SecureFlow is the first-ever web-based platform that streamlines the workstreams required to exchange cash in mergers and acquisitions.
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      Summer 2019

      • Air23: (Sieva Kozinsky, WG’20; Vishnu Rachakonda, ENG’18, GEN’19) Helping Pharma Companies Recruit For Clinical Trials
      • Avior Analytics: (Ryan Wosick, ENG’19; Joseph Scheidt) Improving Patient Engagement in Physical Therapy
      • BioAlert Technologies: (Marc Rosenberg, C’18, GEN’19; Soleil Carrero, GEN’19) The First Continuous Infection Monitoring System
      • ConnectED Mobile: (Andie Kaplan, WG’20) Cell phone service made easy
      • Frutero Ice Cream: (Mike Weber, WG’20; Vedant Saboo, WG’20) Sweet Treats Straight From The Tropics
      Spring 2019

      • Elix: (Lulu Ge, WG’20) Personalized Plant-Based Healing Formulas
      • Cobare: (Jelece Morris, WG’19) Sustainable Solutions For Feminine Care
      • Keaton: (Melina Flabiano, WG’19) Carefully Crafted Office Workwear For Women
      • Polyview: (Amreeta Gill, WG’19; Tyler MacBroom, WG’18) Enhancing Operational Productivity with Management Software
      • Synovium: (Elston He, L’20, WG’20; Rajiv Patel-O’Connor, C’19; Evan Zou, C’19, W’19) Leveraging Data For Treating Autoimmune Diseases
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      Summer 2017

      • brEDcrumb: (Scott Elfenbein, WG’17) Getting Low-Income Kids to Great Colleges
      • E-Health Now: (Kelly Xu, WG’17; Vinayak Kumar, C13, G13, M18, WG18; Ram Prasadat) Bringing Hope to Chinese Cancer Patients
      • Eager Academy: (Chris Hanson, C’17)  Teaching Students How To Learn
      • Fellow Hunter: (Parker Barnett, GEN’18A) A Sharing Economy for Hunters
      • Neuroflow: (Chris Molaro, WG’17; Adam Pardes, GR’19)  Curing PTSD with Wearables
      Spring 2017

      Fall 2016

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