2021-2022 STARTUP Cohort
Learn more about the inaugural Hatchery alumni startups of the 2021-2022 cohort and all the great things they've accomplished!
Navattic.com
Manatee, formerly known as Quandry at their time in the Hatchery, built an impressive interactive demo platform to help sales teams create scalable, personalized, no-code demos, all without engineering effort. In Apiril 2023, co-founders Ryan and Bryan were guest speakers at Bitcamp. In June 2023, the Manatee team (YC S22) joined forces with Navattic (YC W21) to accelerate the product development of Navattic’s interactive demo platform. Read the press release here.
The team includes:
Ryan Downing (Computer Science & Finance, ‘22)
Bryan Houlton (Computer Science & Robotics, ‘23)
Company formerly known as Quandry in 2021 and formerly known as Mantee until 2023.
MINDGRASP
Mindgrasp strives to bring efficiency to the classroom by making course material comprehension easy. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to break down course material into its key points to use as a supplemental tool for a student’s learning process. Students can enter documents, textbooks, handwritten notes or even video lectures into the website, and easily comprehensible notes are right at their fingertips. Since launching in December 2022, Mindgrasp amassed more than 10,000 users around the world and more than 34,000 followers on social media. It is now available in multiple languages and accessible to students of varying learning abilities. Read here to learn more about Mindgrasp.
The team includes:
Thai Cao (Computer Science, ‘23)
Rushil Joshi
Jake Scarbath (Finance, ‘23)
ATHENUS FINANCIAL GROUP, LLC
Athenus Financial Group is a fintech application that allows its users to easily trade foreign exchange. It is powered by Machine Learning AI, which allows users to analyze price data in seconds, where users can then place successful trades without having to learn the market themselves. Co-founders, Damian and Cameron, participated in New Venture Practicum during the Spring ’21 semester and the team also competed in Pitch Dingman Competition 2021 Semifinals where they were the recipients of the Jason ’96 & Jamie Cohen Entrepreneurship Fund Award of $1,000. The team also recently raised over $11,000 through a crowdfunding campaign.
Damian Shaw (Computer Science, ‘24)
Cameron Williams (Mechanical Engineering, ‘21)
SHELLTER
Shellter is a cross-platform app that allows students to connect with one another by finding and joining course group chats simply by entering their course schedules. The app updates the course chat rooms every semester and automatically places students into chat rooms according to their schedules. Shellter also has social features including a confessions page and a profile social feed. Read here to learn more about Shellter.
The team includes:
Daniel Park (Computer Engineering, ‘24)
Zach Zhao (Computer Science & Finance, ‘24)
