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.
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.