12 weeks of hard work, grit, and passion culminate in one unforgettable evening as the seventh WiSTEM cohort takes the stage to present their businesses to the Chicago community. Join us as we celebrate these twelve amazing companies over pitches, networking, and delicious food and drink from a few of our favorite ChiBuys caterers.
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WiSTEM is 1871’s 12-week pre-accelerator for female founders. WiSTEM now has 76 portfolio companies that have collectively raised more than $10 million in funding and created over 200 jobs. That success is due a variety of factors: a strong curriculum which focuses on capital, community and technology resources, strong partnerships with marquee organizations including Ms. Tech (Nicole Yeary, co-facilitator of WiSTEM is the founder/CEO of Ms. Tech), the Women’s Business Development Center, DyMynd Angels, InvestHER and Women Tech Founders.
WiSTEM was founded as part of the Google for Entrepreneurs’ #40Forward initiative. Since then, the program has also been supported by JPMorgan Chase, Katrina Markoff, the Lefkofsky Family Foundation, the Motorola Mobility Foundation, Microsoft, KPMG, Accenture, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Latham & Watkins, the Butler Family Foundation and Katten Law.
Agenda
5:30PM - Doors Open & Networking
6:00PM - Opening Remarks
6:20PM - Presentations
7:20PM - Networking
WiSTEM Participating Startups
7Qubes
7QUBES is a FINTECH company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) to improve financial platform speed, data integrity, reduce redundancy, and revenue enhancement. 7QUBES uses innovative technology to remove and reduce tech debts, reduce resource overload tasks, and improve the bottom line for businesses.
Ama La Vida
Ama La Vida is a leadership and career coaching company with a mission to help people love what they do. Ama La Vida's certified coaches support individuals to design fulfilling careers and teach managers to coach so they can become more empowering leaders. Through its innovative eCoaching platform, Ama La Vida is able to make coaching more affordable, scalable and results-oriented than ever before.
Atkco, Inc.
Atkco, Inc. is a Lean-Agile product management and coaching company providing advisory services, training, and course kits that support product development to the financial services industry. AtkCo, Inc., delivers Agile training across the United States to fortune 500, fintech startups, and diverse technology professionals across the U.S. and is currently working in financial services on a digital lean-agile transformation. Agile is in the DNA of what we do and we are committed to training the workforce of the future to meet customer needs amidst disruption.
Celebr8
CELEBR8 is the world's easiest way to plan and pay for group dinners. We make it simple for anyone, anywhere to book a restaurant that loves large parties and wrangle payment from all our flaky friends. From birthday brunches to rehearsal dinners – stress-free special occasions are now a swipe away.
Cora
Cora is the Kayak of furniture, where you can visually search 100s of furniture sites at once. Proprietary computer vision (AI / deep learning) technology is the magic behind our B2C and B2B experiences. By providing images of your aesthetic, Cora efficiently presents the best choices and banishes indecision so you can feel confident you made the smartest decision.
Culminate Health
Culminate Health is an InsurTech company focused on using Big Data, AI, and Blockchain to empower Employer Funded (ASO) health plans and Provider Led healthcare plans. The solution optimizes cost, risk, data security, and transactions in the $785 B ripe for disruption health insurance industry. Culminate Health was inspired by work from Culminate Strategy Group, a boutique Digital Transformation consultancy.
Five to Nine
Five to Nine is a culture engagement solution that increases workplace connectivity and inclusion while providing analytics to drive people strategy. Our vision is to break the status quo of the 9 to 5 by enabling organizations to leverage diverse employee interests and passions to drive organizational engagement, growth, and cohesion.
IRL Trivia
IRL Trivia is a next-generation mobile entertainment platform for teams and groups. IRL Trivia brings people together In Real Lifeto compete and create unforgettable moments captured in photos and videos.
PediaSource
PediaSource is a tech-enabled non clinical pediatric healthcare services company. We connect parent and educators by phone to experts in child and teen behavior, learning and development.
ReturnRunners
ReturnRunners™ is revolutionizing the way retail returns are made through their white-glove, on-demand pick-up service. Their App offers consumers an easy, convenient way to get unwanted, unworn merchandise back to the local store or online retailer. ReturnRunners works with retailers to provide the ultimate customer service experience, mitigate return fraud and uses data and technology to help streamline the reverse supply chain.
TasselTurn
TasselTurn addresses the foster youth drop out crisis through individualized educational coaching. Our web platform eliminates educational barriers to academic achievement by matching youth in foster care with a virtual education coach. Education coaches use our trauma-informed curriculum to champion youth to high school graduation and plan for life after foster care. With TasselTurn, youth in foster care graduate fully equipped with the tools to thrive in college, career, and in life!
WishYourPrice
WishYourPrice is a SaaS solution that helps retailers offer personalized prices to each individual shopper. The patent pending intelligent e-commerce technology gives an instant decision to a shopper's wish price while reducing abandon carts and converting more window shoppers to customers.
