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Goalsetter is a goal-based savings and gifting platform designed specifically for children, allowing families to contribute to their kids' future aspirations instead of purchasing additional consumer goods. The platform integrates features from both savings tools and gift registries, aiming to engage millennial parents. It encourages healthy financial habits by providing a first savings vehicle for kids, allowing automatic deposits on a weekly or monthly basis. Additionally, Goalsetter offers debit cards with parental controls and incorporates financial literacy quizzes to help young users make informed financial decisions. The platform is centered around making saving engaging through games, memes, and elements of pop culture, fostering a culture of saving among the younger generation.

myGini, Inc. is a technology company that has developed an integrated payments and shopping application designed to connect cardholders, retailers, and banks. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, myGini's platform enhances the shopping experience by offering a loyalty system that allows retailers to launch promotions aimed at attracting repeat customers and boosting off-peak sales. Cardholders can earn promotional points or cash back while shopping, track their spending, and redeem rewards. Additionally, the application facilitates increased transaction activity for banks and financial institutions by engaging customers through real-time notifications that unify banking and retail rewards. By leveraging artificial intelligence, myGini aims to provide a seamless experience that benefits all parties involved.

Zogo, Inc. is a Newark, Delaware-based company that specializes in a mobile application designed to promote financial literacy among young users. Founded in 2018, the app offers educational content in the form of over 300 bite-sized modules, covering a range of personal finance concepts from basic budgeting to more complex financial topics. Users engage with the material by learning five key concepts per module and taking a quiz to reinforce their understanding. As they complete these modules, they earn points represented as pineapples, which can be redeemed for rewards such as gift cards. Zogo collaborates with financial institutions to co-brand the app, helping them to engage with Generation Z and complement their financial products. The app has received recognition in the industry, including winning a notable competition in 2019. Zogo is developed by a team of Generation Z members, ensuring that the content is relevant and appealing to its target audience.

Zogo, Inc. is a Newark, Delaware-based company that specializes in a mobile application designed to promote financial literacy among young users. Founded in 2018, the app offers educational content in the form of over 300 bite-sized modules, covering a range of personal finance concepts from basic budgeting to more complex financial topics. Users engage with the material by learning five key concepts per module and taking a quiz to reinforce their understanding. As they complete these modules, they earn points represented as pineapples, which can be redeemed for rewards such as gift cards. Zogo collaborates with financial institutions to co-brand the app, helping them to engage with Generation Z and complement their financial products. The app has received recognition in the industry, including winning a notable competition in 2019. Zogo is developed by a team of Generation Z members, ensuring that the content is relevant and appealing to its target audience.

Genivity, Inc develops an artificial intelligence software platform that help advisors to engage clients and retain them through health risk, life stage, and care cost planning. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Genetrainer Limited, based in Aldermaston, United Kingdom, specializes in creating personalized fitness plans tailored to individual genetic profiles. Founded in 2013, the company offers a comprehensive online platform that combines genetic information with real-time fitness data from various devices and apps. This integration allows users to receive customized training plans, exercises, and advice that adapt to their current fitness levels and body conditions. By leveraging both lifestyle factors and genetic insights, Genetrainer aims to guide individuals efficiently toward their unique fitness goals.

2Gether is a community app-based service that uses music to reduce loneliness. 2Gether is helping Alzheimer's caregivers take care of their loved ones.

ThinkGenetic is a cutting-edge tool empowering patients who want to know about possible genetic causes for their medical issues or obtain real-life answers to their questions about the impact of living with a genetic disease. ThinkGenetic will help you understand what questions to ask doctors in order to improve your medical care. Their goal is to help speed time to diagnosis and reduce chances of diagnostic error — two things that can make a significant difference for millions around the world.

SensoGenic strive to enhance our users’ every day experiences with our innovative and insightful technology. Founded in 2016, their incredible team of engineers, programmers, designers, and marketing experts have worked tirelessly to bring SensoGenic to the forefront of the Startup world. They strive to provide excellence to all of our users; SensoGenic researches their habits, their motives, and what they really want in a product. They then internalize and synthesize all of this information to improve upon our own business and product. They have, and will continue to work relentlessly to become the technological standard, providing big picture insights which industry leaders not only approve of, but depend on as well.

Y2Y Harvard Square, a student-run overnight shelter, employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe and affirming environment for young adults experiencing homelessness. Y2Y guests will have opportunities to collaborate with service providers, other youth experiencing homelessness, and student volunteers to create sustainable pathways out of homelessness and develop skills for long-term success. Y2Y provides opportunities for both guests and volunteers to become the next generation’s leading advocates for youth-driven solutions to homelessness.

eggXYt is a biotechnology company focused on the early detection of chick embryo sex immediately after eggs are laid. The company has developed a non-invasive technology that utilizes a gene-editing method to add a genetic marker to eggs, which allows male embryos to glow under a scanner. This innovation enables poultry farms to identify and incubate only female eggs, thereby optimizing resources and reducing the need to wait several weeks to determine the sex of the chicks. By facilitating the immediate repurposing of male eggs, eggXYt’s technology aims to enhance efficiency in poultry production while keeping the eggs within the food industry.

Yonward is a new mobile app for sharing beautiful, location aware guides that tell stories, share knowledge, and create unique experiences. Much of their content is created by their users, not curated, because they believe no one knows a place better than those who experience it every day.

Genoox, Ltd. is a company that develops a cloud-based big data platform designed for storing and managing genomic data. Founded in 2014 by Amir Trabelsi and Moshe Einhorn, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The platform enables medical professionals to deliver genetic diagnostics and personalized treatments by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. These technologies help analyze rare genetic mutations and assess their potential role in various conditions, thereby improving the efficiency and accuracy of genetic screening processes. By streamlining the management of genomic data, Genoox enhances patient outcomes in clinical settings.

Genoox, Ltd. is a company that develops a cloud-based big data platform designed for storing and managing genomic data. Founded in 2014 by Amir Trabelsi and Moshe Einhorn, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The platform enables medical professionals to deliver genetic diagnostics and personalized treatments by leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. These technologies help analyze rare genetic mutations and assess their potential role in various conditions, thereby improving the efficiency and accuracy of genetic screening processes. By streamlining the management of genomic data, Genoox enhances patient outcomes in clinical settings.

Small Fry creates economic opportunity in urban communities by employing talented lower-income youth, aged 17-24, to drive local small business growth online. They harness virtual apprenticeship to train and employ youth to optimize the web presence of small businesses through a spectrum of services including social media and search engine marketing. Youth earn income and gain skills that lead to career mobility while small businesses get affordable online marketing to save time and build revenue.

Genesis DNA is taking a fundamentally new approach to gene synthesis, the process of turning digital text like ACTG into physical DNA. Their proprietary method circumvents the cost, turnaround time, and sequence limiting factors of existing synthesis methods. Genesis was founded by a team of students at Stanford and MIT that have experienced the pain of current DNA construction methods first hand. They started Genesis DNA with the vision that every researcher should have fast, affordable, and secure access to any DNA sequence they need. They believe the next technology revolution will be a biological one.

GradTrain started when five people from five different countries (The United States, Israel, France, Switzerland, and Norway) met in the United States while studying abroad. They all faced similar challenges while moving to study abroad and decided to create a technological solution that will help the future generations of international students through their journey. They have all been successfully enrolled in various graduate programs at leading universities worldwide, and cover the fields Computer Science, Law, Engineering, Organizational Behavior / Business, Public Health, and Sociology. They are passionate about helping aspiring international students fulfill their personal and professional goals.

Goodwall SA is a social development platform designed for students and young professionals, facilitating connections over shared interests while providing access to various opportunities. Founded in 2014 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, Goodwall allows users to create profiles that highlight their academic achievements, skills, and ideas, making them visible to universities and employers. The platform boasts a database of over 5 million job and internship opportunities, along with more than $1 million in scholarships and awards, as well as numerous volunteer events. Goodwall specifically caters to the needs of Gen Z and millennials, positioning itself as a leading community for personal and professional development.

GG's Original is a manufacturer of Gluten-Free gourmet potato pancakes and bakery items for retail and food service organizations.

g2gConnect is a providing senior-friendly touchscreen kiosks and services to visually link seniors to their remote family members. Visual communication via computers could provide significant quality of life improvements to seniors in assisted living centers. But a very large segment of todays population in senior communities cannot or will not use computers. g2gConnect connects the generations, allowing seniors and their families to richly engage in each others lives.