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Meet the Forty Acres Founders Alumni
Each 20-strong Cohort of the Forty Acres Founders Pre-Accelerator Program, spends a semester rigorously establishing if a market need existed for their product or service. Some continue their projects with FAF-gained tools and funding, while others are use their entrepreneurial skillsets to develop new ideas.
Our founders have represented colleges across the university, including the McCombs School of Business, Moody College of Communication, Cockrell School of Engineering, and the College of Liberal Arts.
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Chinmay Pingale
Sprout Food Solutions helps restaurant owners optimize and automate the ingredient purchasing process using time series forecasting enabled by PoS data.
Jackson Glunk
Sprout Food Solutions helps restaurant owners optimize and automate the ingredient purchasing process using time series forecasting enabled by PoS data.
Vedant Nair
Clips AI helps marketing teams move faster by automatically repurposing podcasts into social media clips.
Alyssa Le
Locket is a menstrual and sexual health education platform for young adults by young adults; with easy-to-understand, medically-approved content and 1-on-1 support services, Locket is the modern health encyclopedia where menstruators can get their questions answered quickly.
Vedant Nair
Clips AI helps marketing teams move faster by automatically repurposing podcasts into social media clips.
Alyssa Le
Locket is a menstrual and sexual health education platform for young adults by young adults; with easy-to-understand, medically-approved content and 1-on-1 support services, Locket is the modern health encyclopedia where menstruators can get their questions answered quickly.
Paulina Ganem Chee
Locket is a menstrual and sexual health education platform for young adults by young adults; with easy-to-understand, medically-approved content and 1-on-1 support services, Locket is the modern health encyclopedia where menstruators can get their questions answered quickly.
Elliot Zak
MealBuddy is an application that helps families and individuals improve their nutrition by ordering healthy groceries for delivery to cook USDA-approved recipes while tracking their dietary goals.
Jackson Blacklock
ILUI builds touch-first smart fidget devices that enable connection without a screen, phone, or smartwatch. Through tactile prompts/cues, we hope to ease anxiety, help with time management, and provide discrete redirects and rewards for kids with ADHD.
Gabrielle Duhon
A unique platform that uses people’s excess privilege in order to help those who are less fortunate. We promote unity and wellness. By helping ourselves, this empowers us to help others as well.
Jackson Blacklock
ILUI builds touch-first smart fidget devices that enable connection without a screen, phone, or smartwatch. Through tactile prompts/cues, we hope to ease anxiety, help with time management, and provide discrete redirects and rewards for kids with ADHD.
Gabrielle Duhon
A unique platform that uses people’s excess privilege in order to help those who are less fortunate. We promote unity and wellness. By helping ourselves, this empowers us to help others as well.
Som Gupta
EdWorldo is a chrome extension that allows teachers to embed questions onto any public webpage that allows teachers to create one cohesive, interactive assignment, so students can answer questions related to an article with the natural cadence of the writing.
Aditi Kumar
An AI App that allows patients to be able to take a picture of their injuries and upload them to the app to be given immediate consultation.
Tuiana Omurbekova
A go-to app for professional women to connect, learn, and grow their careers through our powerful virtual networking assistant, expert female mentor matching, and a Q&A feature for anonymous peer support and legal advice.
Ryan Perez
Touch Away is an automation hardware technology company that improves individuals’ lives through accessibility and assistance.
Tuiana Omurbekova
A go-to app for professional women to connect, learn, and grow their careers through our powerful virtual networking assistant, expert female mentor matching, and a Q&A feature for anonymous peer support and legal advice.
Ryan Perez
Touch Away is an automation hardware technology company that improves individuals’ lives through accessibility and assistance.
Daniel Petroff
Roffan Tech is a web3 startup that helps provide security services for its customers.
Anjali Bathra Ravikumar
SPOT is a platform to promote menstrual equity by helping women and non-binary individuals find free period supplies in public restrooms.
Srikar Sadhu
Sensibed is a wireless product that prevents the formation of pressure ulcers in spinal cord injury or paralysis patients by alerting nurses when pressure reaches threshold levels.
Abigail Walker
FutureFoods develops bug based alternatives to traditional flours and protein powders used in commercial food and beverage products.
Srikar Sadhu
Sensibed is a wireless product that prevents the formation of pressure ulcers in spinal cord injury or paralysis patients by alerting nurses when pressure reaches threshold levels.
Abigail Walker
FutureFoods develops bug based alternatives to traditional flours and protein powders used in commercial food and beverage products.
Alana Wilcoxson
We're building a SaaS platform that utilizes the blockchain to help solve the wealth generation problem for content creators.
Not pictured: Trevor Brown, Mateo Delaguila (2022 Bank of America Scholar), Neha Donthineni, Brianda Fernandez (2021 Bank of America Scholar), Lance Ellis, Evan Fisher, Ahmed Hashmi, Boram Lee (2023 Thomas and Libby Mathai Forty Acres Founders Scholar), Daniel Munoz, Destiny Rawls, Tanay Rishi, Aradhana Sridaran, and Cheyenne Valdez.