Stanford Founder Peer Group #0


Companies

BlockScore

Type: Identity verification as a service

Founder(s):
John Backus: CEO
Alain Meier: CTO 

Website: blockscore.com

ID verification and anti-fraud solutions are inaccurate and cumbersome. BlockScore makes a unified set of APIs for easier, more accurate anti-fraud.

 

NeoReach

Type: Marketing platform

Founder(s):
Jesse Leimgruber: CEO
PJ Leimgruber: COO
Misha Talavera: Sales & Marketing
Dan Isaza: Content & PR

Website: neoreach.com

Influencer referrals show huge ROI but buying them is difficult, costly, and time consuming. NeoReach is a Cost Per Click SaaS platform for companies to launch and scale organic influencer referrals.

 

Clyde

Clyde

Type: Home automation platform

Founder(s): 
Case Sandberg
Chris Gervang

Clyde provides a platform for developers to build connected home applications.

 

 

Deck

Deck

Type: Social network

Founder(s): 
Josh Beal
Matt Ivester

Deck is changing the way people share emotions.


205

205

Type: AI as a service

Founder(s): 
Jay Hack
Ankit Kumar
Sam Beder

205 Consulting is a data science firm that provides services to early- and mid-stage startups that are struggling to make sense of their data. We specialize in natural language processing and machine learning algorithms that leverage aspects of graph structure. We have provided/are currently providing services to Chatous (Chatous.com), SpotOn (SpotOn.it) and mCash (mCash.no).

 

 

Nomkind

Nomkind

Type: Instant meals

Founder(s): 
Louis Topper, Stanford MS Mechanical Engineering and Product Design '14

People are busy, but want to connect with friends and planning sucks. Nomkind is a way to create pop-up meals and see your friends without the planning.

 
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Schola

Type: College prep

Founder(s): 
Shubham Goel
Ray Zhou

Website: schola.io

Parents want their kids to attend elite schools. Schola enables people to purchase resources of admitted students at elite schools.

 
 

TryBTC

Type: Bitcoin education

Founder(s): 
Matthew Rials: CEO
Patrick Briggs: CTO

Website: trybtc.com

Bitcoin is very hard to understand and even harder to buy. TryBTC solves the problem of introducing people to bitcoin.

 

CodeCamp

Type: Programming education

Founder(s): 
Shadi Barhoumi: Stanford CS '17
Rafael Cosman, Stanford CS '15

Website: epacoding.com

High-schoolers in East Palo Alto don't have access to quality computer science resources. CodeCamp provides an intense, four-week programming summer camp for high schoolers in EPA. For free.


Mindset

Mindset

Type: College prep

Founder(s): 
Nina Church
Whitney LaRow

Parents want to educate their kids in the best way possible. Mindset has partnered with Carol Dweck (Growth Mindset) to create an interactive iPhone app to help parents use best practice

 

Xinspire

Type: Mentoring Software

Founder(s): 
Xuan Wu: CEO, Stanford BS, MS, PhD EE '06, '08, '13

Website: xinspire.com

Mentoring program coordinators need to grow their programs. Xinspire Mentoring Software is a web application that enables administrators to scale.