Seventeen student-led startups out at Washington University, St. Louis Olin School of Business each landed a $1,000 grant from the Holekamp Seed Fund.
Cliff Holekamp, co-founder and managing director at Cultivation Capital, says this super-early pre-seed micro funding is about helping students develop skills rather than a firm bet on a winning team.
“We are the first check in – helping WashU students turn their ideas into actual startups,” Holekamp told bizblip. “We hope to nudge these budding entrepreneurs from inaction to action.”
This year’s startups include:
- St. Louis Consulting Group
- bonhome Business tools for home daycare providers.
- Ice Cream For Bears Ice cream made with honey
- ClosetSwitch a clothing trading app
- Vulvopedia, a mobile application for treating women with bacterial vaginosis
- NXTUP Marketing, data-driven influencer marketing
- SpanAbility, technology for cognitive rehabilitation
- SpeakIT Speech recognition technology for clinicians
- VertiGreens, hydroponic vertical farms from shipping containers
- Got Sure Saas platform for e-commerce insurance
- Utter a Twitter trivia game for friends
- Lyfe Health a health and wellness platform
- The pcBee by uFab, a circuit board printing device
- Pool a dating app
- Sobriety Hub a platform supporting sober living homes
Holekamp started the fund in 2018.
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