Almaworks Demo Day XVII
Columbia University's premier student-led startup accelerator is back with a brand new cohort of 6 exciting startups for Almaworks' Spring 2024 Demo Day.
Hear from renowned founder / investor keynote speaker, the "Gatsby of Silicon Valley," Andrew Yeung & gain insights from our esteemed panel comprised of investors and VCs like Bain Capital Ventures and NEA!
Special thanks to our panelists:
Aya Somai (NEA)
Angela Liu (Bain Capital Ventures)
Timothy Hoffman (Columbia Tech Ventures)
Daniel Ahmadizadeh (Marathon Laps / YC / Columbia)
Andrew Yeung (Andrew's Mixers)
Sarf is a cutting-edge blockchain platform that revolutionizes peer-to-peer lending and contract management using AI technology to facilitate secure, interest-free loans. Their system democratizes access to fair financial solutions, simplifying and reducing the costs of traditional lending processes while ensuring all agreements are legally enforceable.
Tavern Community Coworking leverages underutilized space in hotels, bars, and restaurants to create communities for remote workers. With $0 in real estate expenses, Tavern is the world's first financially sustainable, inherently social, technology-enabled, scalable coworking business model.
Woven Stories are dedicated to crafting luxurious, handcrafted home textiles and decor using organic, naturally-dyed, chemical-free materials. From their studio in Boston to small, women-led cooperatives around the world, they're using design as a tool to create remarkable change.
Tarmac is the first AI-powered assistant for trucking, streamlining cargo bookings in just five seconds. It offers unparalleled efficiency, analyzing and optimizing routes and rates 100 times faster and 1000 times more accurately than traditional methods.
Climate Kick democratizes investment in climate-friendly real assets, making them accessible to smaller private investors. This blockchain platform not only facilitates financing transactions and smart contracts, but also enables real-time monitoring of investment performance and impact, ensuring transparency and the potential for a liquid secondary market.
Azoth AI creates fully automated dataset labeling solutions for AI-integrative companies and founders seeking to get from idea to MVP as soon as possible. By taking humans out of the loop, they offer dramatic improvements in cost efficiency and timelines with minimal impact on labeling accuracy.