Bold Spoon Creamery

Origin: Park Hills, MO | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

What is Bold Spoon Creamery?

Bold Spoon Creamery is a maker of small-batch, premium ice cream specializing in adult-focused flavors made with farm-fresh ingredients. Bold Spoon is sold in grocery stores in Missouri and Illinois, and in three professional sports stadiums (CITYPARK, Enterprise Center, and The Dome at America’s Center).

Company Leadership

Rachel Burns

founder

Rachel Burns brings a unique blend of entrepreneurial spirit and financial expertise to the world of ice cream. With over 20 years dedicated to institutional investment management industry, she honed her skills in financial management, strategic planning, and client relationship building. Rachel oversees all business operations and sets the strategic direction for the company. She leverages her strong leadership and client management background to foster deep connections with Bold Spoon customers.

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Hypno Loops Inc.

Origin: St. Louis, MO | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is Hypno Loops?

Hypno Loops is a mindfulness app that allows users to record and create their own meditations in seconds.

Company Leadership

MARLIN BONDS

founder

Marlin Bonds is a 7x platinum, Grammy-nominated, and BMI award-winning songwriter-producer from St. Louis, MO. His career in the music industry has left an indelible mark, with his work touching the lives of millions. After losing his father to COVID-19 and the tragic passing of his son, Marlin channeled his grief into creating Hypno Loops, a mindfulness app born out of personal need. Grateful for the support from Arch Grants, Marlin is fueled to make Hypno Loops a game-changer in mental wellness tech.

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MatchNP

Origin: St. Louis, MO | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is MatchNP?

MatchNP is a tech-enabled platform that matches Nurse Practitioner students with healthcare providers based on their unique needs and preferences for clinical placement.

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CECILIA RAVAS

founder

Cecilia is a St. Louis based board certified Nurse Practitioner turned entrepreneur. Her first venture, MatchNP, is dedicated to helping our next generation of healthcare students graduate on time, find the job they desire, build invaluable skills and develop relationships in healthcare. Cecilia holds a BSN from SIU-Edwardsville, MSN from Maryville University and is a member of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and AANP.

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Posie Pots

Origin: St. Louis, MO | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is Posie Pots?

Posie Pots is an innovative agricultural technology concept that revolutionizes plant care. The company provides sustainable self-watering planters through a unique water-once-a-month system.

Company Leadership

KAY WELLS

FOUNDER

Kay’s journey as an inventor and innovator in the agricultural industry is rooted in her extensive background and expertise. A graduate of St. Louis University, she holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree. Her twenty years of experience in the field has equipped her with the knowledge and skills necessary to develop groundbreaking solutions for the CPG and Agricultural Technology industries. Kay’s passion shines through as a visionary with a deep love for plants and a commitment to sustainability.

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Prezerv Technologies

Origin: Boston, MA | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is Prezerv Technologies?

Prezerv Technologies offers a breakthrough AI software technology that automatically creates accurate 3D maps of underground utilities to make infrastructure construction safer, faster, and greener.

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CAM RAUFI

Founder & CEO

Dr. Cam Raufi is a TechStars alumni with 12 years of experience in engineering and construction for civil infrastructure and energy projects. His notable affiliations include Bechtel, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, and Eversource Energy. Dr. Raufi holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from NYU, bringing a strong combination of technical expertise and business acumen to Prezerv Technologies.

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Words Liive

Origin: Falls Church, VA | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is Words Liive?

Words Liive is a futuristic EdTech startup dedicated to achieving a “Moonshot Goal” of reversing the literacy crisis by getting 2/3rds of the nation’s students to or above their grade-level reading proficiency by the year 2045. Words Liive converts real and popular song lyrics into literacy tools for middle and high school students struggling with reading and writing performance.

Company Leadership

SAGE SALVO

ceo

Armed with a patent-pending algorithm to convert song lyrics into literacy tools, Gil Perkins (doing business as Sage Salvo) developed a digital platform as a service (PaaS), called The Opus App, to facilitate the mass collaboration between music artists and classrooms for automating lesson plans for literacy instruction. Salvo is the award-winning social-entrepreneur founder of Words Liive and the 2022 Milken-Penn Education Business Grand Prize Winner! Sage is also a 2023 a16z Talent x Opportunity entrepreneur, receiving investment from Andreessen Horowitz, and also a 2021 Aspen Institute Tech Policy Fellow. As an ‘EdTech entrepreneur’, Sage was selected as a 2021 Elite 200 GSV Cup Startup, 2020 AfroTech World Finalist, 2020 Harvard Alumni Launch Lab Accelerator Fellow, 2020 Education Pioneers Fellow, and a 2018 AT&T Aspire Entrepreneur. He is a current graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) where he is completing a Master’s Degree in Literacy Studies and is also a 2017 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School where he earned a Master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) with a focus on Social Innovation. In 2019 and 2017, Sage was honored as a selection into the US Delegation of Entrepreneurs to represent the U.S. at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in The Hague, Netherlands and in Hyderabad, India, respectively. Sage was awarded the 2022 Educator Innovator of the Year by Montgomery College’s BOND Academy.

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DEMIblue Natural Nails

Origin: St. Louis, MO | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is DEMIblue Natural Nails?

DEMIblue is an award-winning clean and vegan nail polish with cruelty-free formulas for breast cancer survivors, vegan nail polish enthusiasts, and health-conscious women.

Company Leadership

MICHELLE ROBINSON

CEO & FOUNDER

Michelle is the Founder of the DEMIblue Clean and Vegan Nail Polish Brand. Michelle has serviced the St. Louis healthcare system at Washington University as a Clinical Administrator for over 11 years, and served as a Proprietary Educator for 10 Years. Michelle’s journey with the creation of Nail Polish was Inspired by her cancer-surviving mom. Witnessing her mom’s inability to express her bubbly personality through her usual nail routine because of the harsh chemicals that made nail polish, Michelle decided to act. What started as a desire to help her mom through the creation of this personal nail polish brand, “DEMIblue”, is now disrupting the nail care industry by not only educating women of the toxic chemicals found in many conventional brands and offering a healthier choice, but gaining retail placement as one of a few African American Female owned nail polish brands across the nation to do so..

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AirSeal CardioVascular

Origin: St. Louis, MO | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is AirSeal CardioVascular?

AirSeal CardioVascular is a medical diagnostic company revolutionizing the diagnosis and management of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) and other cardiovascular conditions.

Company Leadership

MOHAMED ZAYED, md, pHD, MBA

CO-FOUNDER & CEO

Dr. Zayed is a surgeon-scientist, serial inventor and entrepreneur, and discovered the cFAS assay technology. He routinely manages patients at Barnes Jewish Hospital and Veterans Affairs and leads an NIH-funded research laboratory at WashU Medical School.

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sTEPHEN WU, phd, mba

Co-founder & CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER

Dr. Wu is trained as a bioengineer. He has extensive industry experience in health care and biotechnology through professional occupations in manufacturing, product development, and market analysis across major biotech and health care companies.

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RICHARD CLARK

Ceo

Mr. Clark has over 40 years of life science innovation leadership and entrepreneurial experience with start-ups and major corporations (Medtronic, Genentech). He has two successful exits and joined AirSeal from BioGenerator EIR program.

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Avol

Origin: Brooklyn, NY | Grant Awarded: 2024 | Status: Active

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What is Avol?

Avol enables medical institutions to deliver blood, kidneys, and lab samples up to 11x faster for the same cost by providing a medical drone delivery service using novel autonomous blended-wing Avol drones and a network of mini droneports (“AvolPorts”).

Company Leadership

nathan poon

CEO

Dr. Nathan Poon spent the past 10 years building medical logistics products used by Amazon, Tesla, DHL, Delta, and 50+ hospitals and clinics in the US. He built 2 startups (1 exit), received his PhD in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley, and was awarded 3rd place at Amazon’s Global Startup Competition,1st place at the UC LAUNCH competition, 1st place National Occupational Research Agenda award, and others for his work.

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