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  • Westchester County's Element 46 Tech Accelerator Announces Members of New Cohort
  • Join the Element 46 Team Today, September 26, for a Virtual Community Event on Leading a Purposeful Life
  • Four Element 46 Graduates Selected to Participate in Hudson Valley Venture Hub's Pitch Competition on September 27
  • Launch1000 Alum Featured in Westchester Magazine
  • Sheperd AI Adds Carolina Di Tella as Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
  • Upcoming Events & More

Westchester County's Element 46 Tech Accelerator Announces Members of New Cohort


Westchester County’s Element 46 Tech Accelerator Powered by Cela has announced the 11 companies who have been chosen to participate in this fall’s accelerator program. Each startup selected will experience a world-class accelerator program that features key curriculum, connections to entrepreneurs, investors and mentors and full-time support from the Element 46 staff. The program will culminate with a Demo Day in November 2023, where each participant will have the opportunity to pitch their venture to a room full of investors, technology experts, press representatives, government officials and other key contacts.

 

 Members of the fall 2023 Element 46 Tech Accelerator cohort include:

  • Adro (Yonkers): Adro provides university-supported financial services for international students studying at American colleges. We deliver a one-stop, fit-for-purpose solution for managing their finances, paying tuition, and accessing student-curated services, like commonly-needed purchases.
  • Anodet (Hastings on Hudson): Anodet captures security and data analytics in multi-family dwellings by consolidating CCTV camera feeds into a single node and utilizing computer vision technology to analyze feeds in real-time. Our innovative solution offers actionable insights to building owners, property managers, and the Police Department all while safeguarding individual privacy.
  • CheckRare (Hastings on Hudson): CheckRare is a leading web and learning platform focused on rare diseases. Our mission is to improve patient outcomes through awareness and education. We work with respected physicians, researchers, and rare disease experts to create content that reaches physicians and the rare disease community. We leverage our web platform and database of 500,000 physicians to sell pharmaceutical-sponsored marketing and educational programs that address specific rare disease challenges.
  • FMR Wellness (Scarsdale): FMR Wellness offers customized online nutrition libraries for medical practices whose patients do not have access to a Registered Dietitian. While both practitioners and patients know the value nutrition education plays in both prevention and healing, many barriers, including financial, behavioral and time, prevent access to proper care. FMR Wellness offers a solution to all of these barriers.
  • Jotto (Pleasantville): Jotto’s patent-pending technology invites residents to answer a prompt anytime inspiration strikes, then instantly summarizes these contributions into easily digestible reports, delivered to the administrator best suited to act on it.
  • Latte (White Plains): Mentorship is crucial to career development, but difficult to access. Latte is an AI-driven platform that instantly connects users with career mentors.
  • LifeStream Digital Innovations, LLC (Rye Brook): Our mission is to embrace individuality as our driving force, empowering people to harness their unique value through state-of-the-art technology. Our innovative platform revolutionizes the high school, college, and job application experience, streamlining an authentic, holistic evaluation process to improve and simplify the journey for all.
  • Livdao (New Rochelle): We offer affordable, hassle-free furniture solutions. Partnered with local stores, we streamline renting for students, fostering sustainable and stylish living spaces, while empowering students to focus on their education and personal growth.
  • Paypa Plane (Mamaroneck): Paypa Plane helps banks and enterprises create prime and enduring relationships with their business banking customers or direct clients through our proprietary Smart Payment Agreement™ technology. Smart Payment Agreements™ - regardless of the method of payment- mean payments are more safe, reliable, transparent, appropriate and fair. We believe that everyone's financial lives can be improved with Smart Payment Agreements™ - from the exchange of value with solo fruit sellers in local markets through to large, institutional insurance conglomerates.
  • Picsello (Larchmont): With 9% US growth and 2.3 million globally, independent professional photographers face a common challenge of running a profitable business. Picsello’s holistic platform streamlines client communication, invoicing, pricing, and marketing, so photographers can be successful.
  • Westchester Therapy (Scarsdale): Finding the right therapist-client match is more difficult than it should be. At Westchester Therapy, we offer a better match process to help you get the clients you need right here in our local community.

 

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Join the Element 46 Team Today, September 26, for a Virtual Community Event on Living a Purposeful Life


Today, September 26th at 5 PM, the Element 46 Tech Accelerator will host a virtual session open to all members of Westchester County's entrepreneurial community.


The Entrepreneurial Path: Your Unique Opportunity to Lead a Purposeful Life will feature guest speaker Andrew Hapke, who coaches founders of technology companies as they take on the challenges of building a business from the ground up. Before he became a coach, Andrew spent 15 years building products and leading teams at American Express, Etsy, and Splice. Having been a start-up founder, a product leader and a mentor to technology executives, he has worked at the intersection of entrepreneurship, technology and social impact for his whole career. 


This will be an engaging and interactive session. Whether you are building a massive business or running a one person shop, being an entrepreneur is an unparalleled way to learn about yourself. And, being your own boss - in control of your time and talent - gives you an unique platform on which to build a purposeful life. In this workshop, you will zoom out from the business you are building and understand more about how an entrepreneurial approach can lead to a purposeful life.


Register here

Four Element 46 Graduates Selected to Participate in

Hudson Valley Venture Hub's Pitch Competition on September 27


Twice a year, the Hudson Valley Venture Hub hosts a pitch demo and competition showcasing incubating startups and the region's most promising and young companies. The next pitch competition will take place tomorrow, Wednesday, September 27 and four graduates of the Spring 2023 cohort of the Element 46 Tech Accelerator Powered by Cela have been selected to participate. These ventures represent 40% of the participating startups.


Diadem Capital: A B2B funding platform for VC-backed startups to access capital

Clubgrub: Golf's #1 app to order food and drinks

Greenfire: The "Quickbooks" for the cryptocurrency ecosystem

Chuck Sports: The social app for sports fans


At the event, ten companies will deliver a 5-minute pitch for capital and the Angel Venture Hub will grant $10,000 in cash prizes to 3 winners. Best of luck to all!

Launch1000 Alum Featured in Westchester Magazine


Congratulations to Parveen Sikder-Rahman, who was able to utilize the skills she gained participating in our Launch1000 program to start her newest venture, The Builder Project. Learn more about the company, which aims to help small to medium-sized businesses in the area become more environmentally friendly, in this great article from Westchester Magazine.


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Sheperd AI Adds Carolina Di Tella as

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer


Sheperd AI, a graduate of the Element 46 Tech Accelerator Powered by Cela, has announced the addition of Carolina Di Tella to the company. Carolina will serve as Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer.


Prior to joining Sheperd, Carolina earned her PHD in neuroscience from NYU where she specialized in neuroeconomics and social decision-making. In this role, Carolina will lead Sheperd's efforts to expand its AI capabilities, including decision predictions, preference modeling, and synthetic consumer behavioral data.


Sheperd AI is a personalized recommendation engine that helps people make better decisions. The program gets to know your preferences and what motivates you so it can generate relevant recommendations and advice based on similar users who’ve already made the same decision.


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UPCOMING EVENTS

Venture Hub Fall Pitch Competition

Hudson Valley Venture Hub

 

Date: September 27

Time: 6:00 PM

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Grow Your Business with AI

WEDC

 

Date: September 28

Time: 6:00 PM

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Women's Small Business Symposium: Beating the Odds

SCORE

 

Date: October 3

Time: 7:45 AM

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Loans Grants and Other Funding Options

for Women-Owned Businesses in 2023

SCORE

 

Date: October 5

Time: 1:00 PM

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