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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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Startup concept: Quantum Frontier aims to close a gap in quantum technologies and knowledge by providing

Tejal Bhika
Startup concept: Musée Beauty is a beauty brand created for the on-the-go person that wants quick-application quality makeup for creative daily wear.
2020 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Startup concept: The Collector is an autonomous golf ball picker vehicle that simplifies operations and reduces cost for golf courses.
2020 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Startup concept: CajetitaMX aims to provide consumers with an alternative to the traditional confectionary spread ‘cajeta’ and introduce it into the vegan industry.

Amaya French
Startup concept: Germ-X disinfects our hands, but it's not intended to disinfect our products. Amaya's startup addresses sterilization of products quickly and with ease.
Startup concept: The Atlas Organisation is a platform that encourages interdisciplinary collaboration within the space industry.
Startup concept: An easy-to-use, time-effective, and blockchain-based recruiting platform that allowing users to effectively leverage previous experiences, skills, and references.
2020 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Winner
Startup concept: boxEDu is an edtech startup focused on increasing accessibility, affordability, and quality of standardized test prep.

Murtaza Neemuchwala
Startup concept: Park Scout is a platform for parking merchants that creates a new market for private parking spaces and allows users to rent them out.

Kim Nwareni
Startup concept: App development is extremely expensive and less than 1% of venture capital-backed founders are black. Thus, Kim's aim is to create a startup that support's minority-created tech.

Jesus Ortiz Palencia
Startup concept: A mechanical pencil that supports three different lead diameters, for artists looking for travel-friendly tools.
Startup concept: A medical device with which hospital patients can learn how to better take care of themselves after they are discharged to lower the rates of readmission.
Startup concept: An on-demand service that will move any large item to a specific location of your choosing without having to hire a moving company or renting a truck.
2020 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Startup concept: Vrify Health believes in providing everyone a safe and affordable way to get the most effective mental health care.
Startup concept: Prolitfic is a literary platform for writers to improve, find community, and get discovered by readers and publishers.
2021 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Winner
Startup concept: Re:sole is a modular footwear system that allows runners to repair as they wear and consume footwear more sustainably.
2021 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Startup concept: Hibachi.ai is AI software that enables intersection infrastructure to become a node of visibility and communication.
Startup concept: A service that streamlines the pet search process for prospective dog owners.
2021 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Winner
Startup concept: ModernTrial is a virtual clinical trial platform with a mission to optimize operations for patients and providers around the world.
Startup concept: Platform to connect creative talent to produce high-quality media while allowing people to develop their own skills and personal brand.
Startup concept: An online platform where high school students are matched with college students attending a university of interest to ensure true mentorship via a distinctive matching algorithm.
2021 Bank of America Scholar
Startup concept: My startup idea is a bracelet that contains hand sanitizer, allowing the user to have sanitizer with them at all times without having to worry about misplacing it.
2021 Bank of America Scholar
2021 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Startup concept: El Maletín allows you to stay informed, entertained and learn more about the business world in 5 minutes or less for free.
Startup concept: At Terra, we are recirculating local byproduct waste back into the economy through the creation of new products.
Startup concept: A website designed to help people receive the mental health support they need, but not at the expense of having to go to multiple different sources and also help them navigate the workplace a bit better in terms of stress and mental disabilities.
Startup concept: appRISE Health's goal is to empower mental healthcare outpatients by providing a measuring platform that helps patients track their treatment progress.
Startup concept: A revolutionary initiative aimed at refining the college application process by leveraging centralized domains, professional assurances, and streamlined operations.
2021 Bank of America Scholar
Startup concept: I aim to reduce the channels of communication between a source and its users via the Internet.
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Startup concept: An app called GiveASip that makes donating pocket-sized amounts daily as simple and routine as ordering a cup of coffee.
2021 Bank of America Scholar
Startup concept: a contemporary fashion house, conceptual lifestyle brand, and design studio that showcases sustainably- and ethically-made entry-luxury collections.

Snehaa Arya
Startup concept: A teen wellness program that equips middle school students with mental health coping exercises, resources, and education to help them accept themselves and thrive.
2022 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Startup concept: An online service that empowers churchgoers to find the perfect church in a matter of minutes.
2022 Bank of America Scholar
Startup concept: A web application for employee recognition and contactless gratuity. Think what Yelp does for businesses, TipX does for the employees of those businesses.
2022 Bank of America Scholar
Startup concept: Episeo is a new online marketplace connecting you with locals from wherever you wish to go based on your interests, personality, and age, for the purpose of creating a personalized trip that will fit your exact wants and needs.
Stephen Maeker Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: Food products infused with microalgae for a healthier and more sustainable future.

Luis Manuel Leyva
2022 Bank of America Scholar
Startup concept: Connect individuals and businesses with unused space and real estate.

Angela Liu
Startup concept: An on-demand service that enlists UT students as couriers to deliver products to other UT students.
2022 Bank of America Scholar
Startup concept: Kelped is a startup that aims to solve climate change by optimizing cattle's diet with seaweed.
Startup concept: Crib is a native application focused on streamlining the student housing process for students and agents.
2022 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Winner
Michael Tucci Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: The necklace that holds your favorite memories and digital content, accessible with a tap of your phone.
Startup concept: Boundless Yoga, was founded as a means to offer classical hatha yoga in its purest form to the community as a tool for health and wellbeing.
2022 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Startup concept: A B2B consulting firm that integrates food production and green spaces for public spaces.
2022 Forty Acres Founders Pitch Competition Finalist
Gwen and Frank Gordon Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: JCN Farms is an indoor vertical farm that aims to use AgTech and sustainable practices to help fight against food insecurities and malnourishment. At JCN Farms, our mission is to bring healthy, affordable, and sustainable superfoods to our local communities.
Startup concept: Building a centralized billing, scheduling, communication, and project management platform to streamline and connect the residential construction community and its processes.
Stephen Maeker Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: 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.
Brian Cruver Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: 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.
Startup concept: 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.
Startup concept: A direct subscription service that provides lawncare in the form of automated mower, edger, and weeder robots to resolve long-term issues in the landscaping industry.
Startup concept: 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.
Startup concept: 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.
Startup concept: 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.
Kim and Michael Tucci Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: Clips AI helps marketing teams move faster by automatically repurposing podcasts into social media clips.
Gwen and Frank Gordon Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: 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
Jay Steinfeld Forty Acres Founders Scholar
Startup concept: Touch Away is an automation hardware technology company that improves individuals’ lives through accessibility and assistance.

Daniel Petroff
Startup concept: Roffan Tech is a web3 startup that helps provide security services for its customers.
Startup concept: Salt AI helps restaurant owners optimize and automate the ingredient purchasing process using time series forecasting enabled by PoS data.
Startup concept: SPOT is a platform to promote menstrual equity by helping women and non-binary individuals find free period supplies in public restrooms.
Startup concept: 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.
Startup concept: FutureFoods develops bug based alternatives to traditional flours and protein powders used in commercial food and beverage products.
Startup concept: We're building a SaaS3 platform that utilizes the blockchain to help solve the wealth generation problem for content creators.
Startup concept: 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.
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 Mathi Forty Acres Founders Scholar), Daniel Munoz, Destiny Rawls, Tanay Rishi, Aradhana Sridaran, and Cheyenne Valdez.