Our community of prospective student entrepreneurs, educators, and seasoned business leaders comes together to develop entrepreneurial mindsets, refine business models, and launch innovative ventures. Our hands-on approach to learning enables AU entrepreneurship students to gain practical experience in marketing research, financial management, and venture growth. A representative sampling of our current ventures include:
Ageovisa
Ageovisa is a personalized language learning platform that focuses on providing resources so that learners can determine how and what they want to learn. We provide the space to learn languages in a new way and connect with individuals around the world in both a personal and professional manner.
AK Aveksha
AK Aveksha is a family run Ayurvedic business manufacturing and serving unique, high-quality, natural pain relief products, education, and integrative wellness consulting. Our mission is to Revive Ancient Healing Tradition, and to improve Global Health.
Budget Mentor
Budget Mentor provides software services to help researchers draft complaint National Science Foundation research budgets.
Canvas Wear
Canvas Wear is a platform that supports veteran and first responder artists by showcasing and selling their art as physical and digital assets. Our goal is to provide a unique opportunity for art collectors and enthusiasts to own meaningful and valuable pieces while supporting those who have served their country and communities.
Cassette
The Cassette Music Network is a phone application that integrates many music streaming services into one music marketplace. Platform users will be granted the ability to listen, curate, and share music with customers of differing music streaming services.
Culturally Arts Collective
Culturally Arts Collective is an arts advocacy non-profit organization working on tangible reform for arts accessibility and representation through education, exhibitions, and outreach. We provide professional development resources through an online community for emerging contemporary artists to network and grow their careers globally.
Energy Democracy Coalition
The Energy Democracy Coalition is a 501(c)(4) that organizes public support for a just transition to clean energy by amplifying the voices of those on the front-lines of the clean energy transition and environmental justice movement through documentary film, policy discussions, community organizing events, and lobbying efforts. The Energy Democracy Docuseries follows Max Rubin, Cody Rogers, and other high-level personalities on a cross-country journey to find America’s most ambitious and innovative climate-leaders, and amplify their visions for a renewable future.
Fem Equity
Fem Equity was founded in February 2021 as a SAAS platform that provides financial education and professional development to women and underrepresented professionals for them to thrive in tangible ways and make empowered decisions for accelerated career success and financial stability. Raising pre-seed of $500,000.
FindMyClinicalTrial
FindMyClinicalTrial is a patient centered tool that connects patients - hospitals - and clinical trial sites together in one seamless platform. Our hope is to bring relevant stakeholders together and increase diversity and enrollment in clinical trials everywhere.
Greater Works
Greater Works LLC is a multimedia children's entertainment company that creates books, dolls, toys, music, apparel, games, and animated television shows for kids who long to see themselves represented. Our motto is: "All children deserve to see themselves represented in the books they read, the toys they play with, the television shows they watch, and the games they play."
Hydronomy
In an effort to address the global water crisis, Hydronomy has developed a solar powered atmospheric water generator that captures moisture from the air outdoors and converts it into clean water for individual household use.
LarvaLoop
Through our larva-based transformation process, we turn food scraps into organic soil conditioner and quality animal feed. At LarvaLoop, we will revolutionise farming to build stronger soils, stronger foods, and ultimately, stronger communities.
Lexboxing
Lexboxing facilitates personal training nationwide by connecting clients with trainers at the client's desired location and time. Lexboxing provides an opportunity for trainers to expand their client base and provides on-demand services for clients to connect with personal trainers at an affordable price.
Mend a Hand
Mend a Hand: Built with (Re)Purpose is a flexible workshop that meets bulk hardware store. MAH provides people with the knowledge and tools they need to repair the furniture and clothes that they love and already have.
Mending Wounds
Mending Wounds is a safe space for women to recieve therapeutic beauty services holistically catered to their needs.
Pawfect
Using AI and data analysis, Pawfect aims to build North America's largest pet adoption and information platform, enhancing connectivity among businesses, experts, and users.
Public Health Data Hub
Public Health Data Hub (PHDH) is a cutting-edge platform that allows users in the cancer research field to search and find solutions for their inquiries using advanced AI analysis tools and data visualization. Our platform provides analyses in various formats, supported by published data, and streamlines research by saving time, enhancing efficiency, and standardizing research methodologies.
REAL Action Inc. (formerly Gen Z Runs)
REAL Action Inc. is a youth-led, non-profit organization that works to recruit, aid, and elect members of generation z to political office.
Sign-Speak, Inc.
There are minimal solutions for businesses looking to serve their Deaf and Hard of Hearing clients in a customer-friendly and ADA-compliant way. Sign-Speak is an AI sign language interpreter for non-signers to easily communicate with Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals.
Sikhona Rescue Center
Sikhona Rescue Centre is an international nonprofit dedicated to ending gender-based violence in Kitengela, Kenya. Operating as a recovery shelter and empowerment centre, Sikhona Rescue Cente houses two women (and up to four dependent children) for a four-month enrichment and agency building program.
SkyLounge Inc.
Better automation for software organizations: SkyLounge extends the GitHub platform, enabling platform teams to easily build, manage, and maintain organizational automation, including CI/CD, security scans, and more. This frees developer teams to focus solely on application-specific configuration, dramatically reducing toil and repetitive work.
Sourced Economics Group
Sourced Economics is an applied research firm, building the bridge between business and economics with well-curated and time-tested intelligence for strategic decision-making. We combine private sector business economists with esteemed university professors to support teams across supply chain, finance, and technology to tackle their most significant and complex challenges.
Sugarloaf Rare Coin
Sugarloaf Coin is a numismatic, or rare coin outlet, where collectors and dealers alike can find a large variety for sale. Founded by Curt Gammer in 2021, Sugarloaf now seeks to expand its operation in the greater DMV area and elsewhere.
Surgicure Technologies, Inc.
The underused system for licensing and commercializing patents is suppressing innovation. Surgicure Technologies is taking advantage of high-quality patents that come out of academic institutions and hospitals with significant funding for R&D by identifying and acquiring these technologies that otherwise have no outlet. We are developing a proprietary replicable screening and commercialization process with our first project, an intubation assistance device, forging the path.
Talia and Nasya
Talia and Nasya is a clothing company that uses fashion to present innovative African storytelling. Our storytelling through fashion aims to disrupt the global narrative of Africa, and instead reveal the daring, bold, and creative spirit of the continent.
The Brooks Curriculum
The Brooks Curriculum is a series of workshops created to ensure high schoolers are equipped with essential skills that are not taught within the normal curriculum. It will aim to instill the ability to ask for help when necessary, specifically in an academic setting. Additionally, the workshop will focus on preparing participants for interviews and navigating job applications.
The Extraordinary Library Adventure®
The Extraordinary Library Adventure® is an innovative media company and edutainment brand sharing untold chapters of our nation's history to inspire the next generation.
The Food for Thought Foundation, Inc.
The Food For Thought Foundation is a nonprofit organization aimed at eradicating food deserts. They create vertical farms that double as grocery stores in order to provide access to produce in low-income food deserts.
Theodore
Theodore is personalizing politics, defying party precedent, and optimizing outcomes by analytically aligning interests with impact. By providing small donors and impassioned voters with tailored insights every candidate and issue can make it on the ballot.
Thinzar NYC Candles
Scents, memories, and emotions are intertwined. Thinzar NYC Candles brings intuition, innovation, and inspiration for how scents are used for emotional well-being, storytelling, and meaningful connections.
Willemstad Holdings
Willemstad Holdings is a next-generation High Altitude Platform Vehicle company operating above weather and commercial aircraft routes in the stratosphere, providing a next-generation 5G+ broadband high-speed non-terrestrial network (NTN) coverage to mobile handsets.