Eleventh Cohort Startups
Spring Cohort 2026
Averent
Averent helps indie game developers get discovered and build, scale, and monetize communities centered around their games and their content, while giving gamers a personalized discovery platform to find, follow, and support emerging indie games and digital creators. The platform is one of the first dedicated to personalized discovery and promotion of digital indie creations.
TaskFixer AI
TaskFixer AI helps K-12 teachers and homeschool parents solve the problem of AI-generated student work undermining learning and academic integrity by providing an AI-resistant lesson design, grading, and parent communication platform built specifically for the AI era. TaskFixer AI already has 35 active beta teachers across U.S. public, private, and international schools, 100-plus lessons generated, and is looking for $300K pre-seed investment to hire a full-time developer and launch 10 to 15 paid pilot schools in the next 12 months.
App'd
App’d supports small business growth by reducing their costs to manage operations and customers. With our mobile-first solution business owners can quickly and affordably create branded, app-like experiences optimized for customer engagement, conversions, and retention. App’d has several customers and is looking to onboard additional brick & mortar businesses in the fitness or grooming industry in the next 3 to 6 months.
MassLogic Labs
MIMO is the intelligence engine for enterprise marketing. It orchestrates a CMO's Owned Intelligence: their data, operating model, and trusted third-party knowledge, as a governed API for their people, agencies, and AI agents. In design partnership with MASB and active beta with enterprise clients. The Americas' Best 100 Latino Early-Stage Startups by LTW. MassLogic Labs, Inc. · New York City metro area · Pre-Seed · $750K.
The Desk
The Desk is the first editorial platform for creating high-quality executive thought leadership content. It's built for communications professionals who want to research and write faster without compromising on quality. The Desk is onboarding its first beta customers this summer and is looking for introductions to communications agencies and practitioners.
Zuzlab Inc.
Zuzlab works with underwriters to help municipal bond issuers reduce the cost of raising capital by opening up new markets for their bonds. Zuzlab tokenizes municipal bonds and remains compatible with traditional systems, providing underwriters, issuers, and investors alike a frictionless path to the blockchain. Zuzlab is looking to partner with underwriters and issuers to launch a municipal bond on our platform this year.
The Story Vine
The Story Vine is a community-owned platform shifting social media from consumption to participation. Stories are shared openly and anonymously, organized by common streams of human experience called “vines.” The Story Vine is live on web and mobile, with thousands of stories already published. The company is raising a $1.5M seed round to deepen the product, grow the community, and scale participation.
Floating Fleet AI
Floating Fleet AI helps private jets operator solve aircraft and crew assignment problem by providing scheduling intelligence software. Floating Fleet AI already has over 50 planes on the platform and are looking for seed funding in the next 3 months to scale the business.
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