Demo Day 2023
Demo Day showcases our fantastic founders and vibrant student entrepreneurship community to investors, mentors, and students. Join us for a lively event featuring pitches and posters from 30+ ventures spanning industries like climate, tech, and the arts. Reception to follow. RSVP now — all are welcome to join!
You'll hear from these inspiring teams:
Carbon Loop
Perry Bakas (SOM '24), Harrison Meyer (YSE '24), Conor Rooney (Chemistry Ph.D. '24)
Carbon Loop creates a circular economy by converting CO2 emissions into liquid fuel and other high-value products.
Chekhov’s Gum
Lillian Wenker (YC ’23), David Deruiter (YC ’24)
Chekhov’s Gum is a new work theatre and production company aimed at reestablishing the importance of live performance through rowdy comedy, experiments in form, and audience interaction for ourselves and a collective of artists.
Circle Match
Michael Sanchez (YC '23), Elizabeth Aguirre
Cirlce Match offers free college advising to students from high-poverty high schools. Through our grassroots approach to college advising, we empower students to become leaders within their educational communities and beyond.
Corridor
Brendan Powers (DIV ’23), Oliver Creech (DIV ’24)
Corridor is an app that allows users to track the legislation they care about in both English and Spanish.
Elevation Med Prep
Brendan Adkinson (MED '23)
Elevation Med Prep elevates medical school applicants from underrepresented, first-generation, and disadvantaged backgrounds by making admissions consulting accessible to everyone — regardless of their ability to pay.
Freddy Freed
Sophie Friedfeld-Gebaide (YSE '24)
Freddy Freed is a sustainable fashion startup out of the Yale School of Environment that uses innovative technology to mass-produce clothes without size tags that properly fit women's actual body dimensions and height.
HomySafe
Timothy Skalaban (YPH '23)
HomySafe provides services and technologies to reduce contaminants in the home environment by utilizing the most advanced technologies, services, and research.
Karuna Foods
Shreshtha Jain (SOM ’23)
We make the world's first microbial protein-based dog food with the least carbon footprint, offering nourishment without any adverse effects.
Youbio
Rakel Tanibajeva (YC '24)
Youbio is a sustainability startup manufacturing sustainable products out of fungi.
NAOS
Renato Carregha (SOM ’23), Jorge Villalobos Lara, Marcos Cohen
NAOS is building a solution that will enable the 100M+ existing Latin American crypto users to have simple access to investments for products for seeking alpha.
Pool
Nora Draper (YC '24), Kiran Sampath (YC '23)
Pool is a two-sided marketplace for creative and ordinary tasks; it functions as a mobile app, connecting you to others within your community on a feed of requests and offers.
Sonadia
Jiayi Wang (SOM '24), Yusuf Doria
Building the listen-to-earn Patreon and AMEX for web3 musicians and super fans.
Spiel LLC
Sylvie Goldner (YC '25)
Spiel LLC is the first interactive review platform for friends to share recommendations, expand interests, and deepen relationships.
Studio Heartbreak
Alice Mao (YC '24)
Studio Heartbreak is an internet-based animation studio that produces independent stories with intensive creative marketing strategies.
UMenus
David Foster (YC ’24), Erik Boesen (YC ’24)
UMenus provides 75% of undergrads with dining hall menus, schedules, and the ability to provide feedback, a feature set that the UMenus team plan to bring to other schools, aside from Yale, and expand into other verticals.
The Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship program is a full-time accelerator designed for companies, non-profits, and initiatives that have demonstrated traction and have developed sustainable models for their ventures. — The fellowship includes a series of robust programming, pitch opportunities, mentorship, and $15,000 in grant funding.
NOTE: Accessibility arrangements can be made by contacting kassie.tucker@yale.edu ahead of the event.