Rock Accelerator Teams - Entrepreneurship

MEET THE ROCK ACCELERATOR 2021-22 TEAMS

Allo Health
Hay Teng Wong, HBS’ 22, Co-Founder
Esther Chiah, Co-Founder
Allo Health is building Southeast Asia's first all-in-one platform for the next-generation of family caregivers

Anise Health
Alice Zhang, HBS ‘21, Co-Founder
Nisha Desai, HBS ‘21, Co-Founder
A culturally-informed digital mental health platform for Asian Americans

BillMeter
Shachar Hirshberg, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Uri Preminger, Co-Founder
We solve usage-based billing. Helping companies translate billions of data points to a single bill per negotiated terms. We enable pricing of packages and pay-as-you-go, handling packages overuse, conveying the usage to the end-customer, and more.

Chord
Olutosin Sonuyi, HBS’22, Founder
Chord was built to remove the barriers to creating great communities– to make them more real, more impactful, and more valuable to their members– all while saving the people who manage them time & energy.

Darby
Charlotte Lawson, HBS’22, Co-Founder and CEO
Mariya Rivkin, HBS’22, Co-Founder and Head of Product
Jackson Stone, Co-Founder and Head of Business Development
Darby is the missing technology layer between virtual-first clinicians and last-mile vendors. We make hybrid care happen.

Fairshare
Rachel Drapper, HBS’22, Co-Founder
David Uhlmann, Co-Founder
Fairshare is an app to help households record, evaluate and allocate time spent on chores to make ‘invisible’ unpaid domestic labor visible, reduce relationship resentment, and diminish gender inequity in homes.

Gaia Ai
Michael Kelly, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Peter McHale, Co-Founder
Matt Carpenter, Co-Founder
Convallo Bio is developing the next generation of beneficial bacteria using our novel bacteria armor, to improve the health of humans, animals, and the planet.

Garage Mobility
Gwanygha’a Gana, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Armand Cedric Foudjet, Co-Founder
Tech enabled Autozone for Africa

Hibiscus Monkey
Naina Mehta, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Roshni Mehta, Co-Founder
Mona Mehta, Co-Founder
Your face makes up only 5% of your skin. Remaining 95% is on the body. Yet we put such little time & effort on bodycare vs facecare. We want to be India’s first body specialist brand. One that is powered by plants & ancient wellness rituals. It's time to put body center stage.

Hive Health
Camille Ang, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Jiawen Tang, Co-Founder
Digital health insurance for SMBs in the Philippines

Hue Beauty
Janvi Shah, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Nicole Clay, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Sylvan Guo, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Hue Beauty is a beauty tech platform that helps makeup shoppers find the perfect shade matches for their skin tone through our “Hue ID” technology and community of “Skin Twins“ - people who share the same skin tone.

Intellipay
Joseph Kim, HBS’22, Founder
Use the right payment method. Every time.

Jasper Cocktails
Vanessa Royle, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Mariah Wood, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Nicole Delany, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Jasper Cocktails is a creator of non-alcoholic cocktails for drinkers and non-drinkers alike.

La Huerta de Elisa
Rosalino Molina, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Roxana Antohi, Co-Founder
Angel Espinosa, Co-Founder
Healthy baby food in Mexico

Larsen
Alex Benoit, HBS’22, Founder
Building stronger teams through continuous feedback.

Lime Therapeutics
Shardule Shah, HBS’22, Founder
Imagine a world without cancer, Alzheimer's, and ALS. That's what Lime Therapeutics is aiming for. Our patented platform is discovering new medicines to target lipid metabolism, a key growth pathway for cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.

Maison XO
Ryan Yu, HBS’22, Founder
"The gift of good taste. Maison XO designs and manufactures umami-rich foods that add depth and complexity to meals of celebration. Inspired by the Cantonese tradition of gifting XO sauce, Maison XO transforms delicious food into profound acts of gratitude."

Mandala
Tarun Galagali, HBS’22, Founder and Organizer
Mental Health platform built by & developed for the BIPOC community.

Mudango
Andres Ossa, HBS’22, Founder
"Mudango is an on-demand logistic tech startup with operations in Mexico, Colombia and Chile. It is an end-to-end marketplace that combines an array of user-friendly tech products (charming bots + really cool algorithms), with a network of logistic partners like truck owners, moving companies, storage companies and freight services operators. This interconnection allows users to seamlessly book, coordinate and execute a complex move in an easy, 100% online and stress-free way. Moving stuff in Latam is hard. We are here to help ;)"

Night Inn
Rena Ogura, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Mike Wolkon, Co-Founder
Ryan Lane, Co-Founder
Night Inn brings togetherness to the home by serving as a marketplace for talented hospitality professionals to deliver exceptional experiences to consumers in the comfort of the consumer's home or office

PainFix
Kirsten Soong, HBS’22, Founder
At PainFix, our mission is to provide safe, affordable, and accessible healthcare solutions to people in underserved communities who battle chronic pain by providing a community-driven digital platform with personalized and clinically proven alternative treatments.

Pathlight
Lizzie Matusov, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Amir Ghowsi, Co-Founder
Pathlight is the career credit score for incoming software engineers. We give candidates a weekly score update with three actionable feedback items to improve their hirability.

PetterPaws
Cagla Kaymaz, HBS’22, Founder
PetterPaws empowers pet parents to train their dogs with ease and convenience by building a mobile-first dog training product that is customizable and bite-sized.

PicoGreens
Jesse Lou, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Max Schubert, Co-Founder
PicoGreens is engineering & cultivating single-cellular crop plants that produce simple food ingredients -- 1,000x faster, on a fraction of arable land, with stellar resource efficiency -- for a climate resilient food system.

Pienna
Giovanna Abramo, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Lorena Ostos, Co-Founder
Plenna is an O2O (online to offline) platform that provides affordable and comprehensive care to women in Mexico.

ProtectEd
Jake Ahle, HBS’22, COO, Director of Client Relations
Thomas Ankenbauer, CFO, CTO
Peter Facchini, Co-Founder and CEO
Tim Cahalin, Co-Founder, Chief of Product
ProtectED makes protective furniture for classrooms and workplaces that provides critical and immediate protection against active shooter violence and domestic terrorism

Riinx
Anna Trepekli, HBS’22, Founder
Safe, transparent and affordable access to preventative botox and fillers

Syrup
Ferdinand Stockmann, HBS’22, Co-Founder
James Theuerkauf, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Syrup.tech is a decision-support engine for inventory optimization. Our goal is to empower brands and retailers to be both more sustainable and more profitable by reducing excess inventory and waste.

Tabato
Taro Tomiya, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Daniel Baiz Cabal, HBS’22, Co-Founder
A B2B manufacturing marketplace that connects underutilized Latin American manufacturers with clients in need of better prices, quality, and shorter lead times, while increasing trust and transparency by facilitating the outdated procurement process.

The Cyclist House
Francisco Barroso, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Dmitri Hennion, Co-Founder
Christoph Falter, Co-Founder
Europe's largest and most trusted source of premium pre-owned bikes.

The Equity Network LLC
Kristina Hu, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Shelby Schrier, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Olivia Melendez, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Isa Oliveres, HBS’22, Co-Founder
The Equity Network helps Black, Latinx and Native American college students and recent grads book free 1-on-1 conversations with advisors in their dream jobs.

The Goods
Isabelle Lubin, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Jake Benedict, HBS’22, Co-Founder
"What if canned food was made by humans instead of machines? The Goods is waking up the sleepy canned goods aisle with a collection of elevated pantry essentials. We are delivering modern flavor profiles and real, clean ingredients with integrity to food-conscious consumers."

The Only Convoy (TOC)
Ashley McCray, HBS’22, Founder
86% of Americans are unhappy. We are on a mission to change that! The Only Convoy (TOC) is a digital platform that helps high achievers personalize their happiness.

Transcera
Hunter Goble, HBS’22, Co-Founder
Wayne Lencer, Co-Founder
Justin Wolfe, Co-Founder
Transcera is transforming chronic disease treatment through a new approach to biologic medicines. With our novel lipid-based platform, we are turning injections into pills and delivering large molecule drugs to previously unreachable tissues

Upscale.ai (TradeX)
Abhishek Chandwani, HBS’22, Founder
Upscale enables your sales and growth teams to discover knowledge and insights from enterprise wide structured and unstructured data. Best part? It's literally as simple as speaking into a 'command line'

FAQS:

Not everyone on my team is from HBS. Can they still participate?

We expect all HBS team members to attend the mandatory events. Outside team members are also welcome and encouraged to attend, but it is not mandatory. There will be one designated HBS lead per team. It is up to the lead to spread the word about events and opportunities for their team.

Can I be part of both the Rock Accelerator and i-Lab VIP program?

Yes, we encourage you to also apply to the VIP program to take advantage of the additional opportunities, resources, and workspace. While there may be some overlap with the program elements, our Rock Accelerator offers funding and is designed specifically for HBS MBA students.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us: rock@hbs.edu.