Month: January 2026

  • Meet USC alum Tyler Binafard, Founder Green Generation

    Meet USC alum Tyler Binafard, Founder Green Generation

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    Tell us about your company: Green Generation is a sustainable products company on a mission to drive consumers from traditional products to sustainable alternatives by offering high quality, eco-friendly products at affordable prices, coupled with beautiful and elegant design. Green Generation is driven to create a world where consumers can convert their entire households to…

  • Meet MSU alum Angela Leach, Co-Founder Memory Sketch

    Meet MSU alum Angela Leach, Co-Founder Memory Sketch

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    Tell us about your company: Memory Sketch is revolutionizing the way we monitor Alzheimer’s progression—one drawing at a time. Through a sketch pad and companion app, patients engage with AI-powered prompts to create daily sketches. These drawings are then analyzed, quantified, and securely shared with physicians and care teams, providing more personalized insights into the…

  • Meet USC alumni Jessica Koosed Etting & Amanda Roessler, Co-Founders JAM 

    Meet USC alumni Jessica Koosed Etting & Amanda Roessler, Co-Founders JAM 

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    Tell us about your company: Jam is a family management platform that simplifies scheduling and coordination for busy working families struggling with the complex logistics of modern family life. Jam merges calendars, to-dos, driving schedules, and more into a single app, with AI-enabled scheduling and integrations, allowing for seamless coordination with family members, caregivers, and…

  • Meet UCSB alum Annie Combs, Founder ECPC Travel

    Meet UCSB alum Annie Combs, Founder ECPC Travel

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    Tell us about your company: ECPC Travel is an online marketplace that connects travelers to vetted eco-conscious, people-centered stays and experiences worldwide. By leveraging generative AI, we efficiently onboard, qualify, and screen independent providers worldwide, building a comprehensive dataset of qualified professionals while ensuring both environmental sustainability and social responsibility at a speed that was…

  • Meet USC alumni Erin Light, Co-Founder Architecture + Advocacy

    Meet USC alumni Erin Light, Co-Founder Architecture + Advocacy

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    Tell us about your company: Architecture + Advocacy equips everyday people to have a say in the design of their homes, businesses and neighborhoods. We hope that by doing so, residents can drive development that improves their quality of life, without displacement. What inspired you to start your business? I grew up in inner city…

  • Meet  UCSB alum Lisa Boek, Founder Black Bow Sweets

    Meet  UCSB alum Lisa Boek, Founder Black Bow Sweets

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    Tell us about your company: Black Bow Sweets is founded on the tradition of giving homemade gifts for the holidays. Because giving and receiving meaningful gifts is very special, we pledge to always surprise and delight with our rich, wholesome, subtly sweet handcrafted & slow roasted candied nuts, elegantly package our delectable creations, and deliver…

  • Meet  UCLA alum Boris Chung, Founder of A Better Treat

    Meet  UCLA alum Boris Chung, Founder of A Better Treat

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    Tell us about your company: A Better Treat is the first and only organic and single ingredient dog and cat treats. We use premium sourcing (wild caught, grass fed & finished, USDA organic), all made and sourced in the US. The freeze-drying process retains the most nutrients and keeps ingredients in their recognizable form, so…

  • Meet  MSU alum Lekha Vyas, Founder of ELVY Lab

    Meet  MSU alum Lekha Vyas, Founder of ELVY Lab

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    Tell us about your company: I’m an ex-L’Oréal and Estée Lauder executive with over 15 years in beauty and wellness, now building a new frontier in natural metabolic health. We’ve developed a patented oral dissolving strip, a natural GLP-1 alternative that mimics the effects of Ozempic and Mounjaro, but without injections or side effects. Our…

  • Meet UC Berkeley alum Rhonda Nassar, Co-Founder of Celia Chocolatier

    Meet UC Berkeley alum Rhonda Nassar, Co-Founder of Celia Chocolatier

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    Tell us about your company: Celia’s guiding principle is to create clean, premium, and natural chocolates — with a focus on both taste and ingredient integrity.Our chocolates are made with single-origin cacao beans from Ecuador (specifically Ecuadorian Nacional cacao), prized for naturally fruity and floral flavor notes.We avoid common “fillers” and additives. Our bars are…

  • Meet USC alum Juliet Kim Blake, Founder of ginsa

    Meet USC alum Juliet Kim Blake, Founder of ginsa

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    Tell us about your company: ginsa is a sparkling Korean red ginseng tonic with zero caffeine and only 20 calories from honey. We use a patented hydrolyzed Korean red ginseng extract that provides 15x the absorption at 4x the speed so you get all the benefits of the ginseng almost immediately with no bitter bite.…