Demo Day 2023

​Demo Day showcases our fantastic founders and vibrant student entrepreneurship community to investors, mentors, and students. Join us for a lively event featuring pitches and posters from 30+ ventures spanning industries like climate, tech, and the arts. This high-energy event is free and open to the public — all are welcome to join!

​You'll hear from inspiring Summer Fellowship teams like:

​Carbon Loop
Perry Bakas (SOM '24), Harrison Meyer (YSE '24), Conor Rooney (Chemistry Ph.D. '24)
Carbon Loop creates a circular economy by converting CO2 emissions into liquid fuel and other high-value products.

​Chekhov’s Gum
Lillian Wenker (YC ’23), David Deruiter (YC ’24)
Chekhov’s Gum is a new work theatre and production company aimed at reestablishing the importance of live performance through rowdy comedy, experiments in form, and audience interaction for ourselves and a collective of artists.

​Corridor
Brendan Powers (DIV ’23), Oliver Creech (DIV ’24)
Corridor is an app that allows users to track the legislation they care about in both English and Spanish.

​Elevation Med Prep
Brendan Adkinson (MED '23)
Elevation Med Prep elevates medical school applicants from underrepresented, first-generation, and disadvantaged backgrounds by making admissions consulting accessible to everyone — regardless of their ability to pay.

​Freddy Freed 
Sophie Friedfeld-Gebaide (YSE '24)
Freddy Freed is a sustainable fashion startup out of the Yale School of Environment that uses innovative technology to mass-produce clothes without size tags that properly fit women's actual body dimensions and height. 

​HomySafe
Timothy Skalaban (YPH '23)
HomySafe provides services and technologies to reduce contaminants in the home environment by utilizing the most advanced technologies, services, and research.

​Karuna Foods
Shreshtha Jain (SOM ’23)
We make the world's first microbial protein-based dog food with the least carbon footprint, offering nourishment without any adverse effects.

​Youbio
Rakel Tanibajeva (YC '24)
Youbio is a sustainability startup manufacturing sustainable products out of fungi.

​NAOS
Renato Carregha (SOM ’23), Jorge Villalobos Lara, Marcos Cohen
NAOS is building a solution that will enable the 100M+ existing Latin American crypto users to have simple access to investments for products for seeking alpha.

​Pool
Nora Draper (YC '24), Kiran Sampath (YC '23)
Pool is a two-sided marketplace for creative and ordinary tasks; it functions as a mobile app, connecting you to others within your community on a feed of requests and offers.

​Sonadia
Jiayi Wang (SOM '24), Yusuf Doria
Building the listen-to-earn Patreon and AMEX for web3 musicians and super fans.

​Spiel LLC
Sylvie Goldner (YC '25)
Spiel LLC is the first interactive review platform for friends to share recommendations, expand interests, and deepen relationships.

​Studio Heartbreak
Alice Mao (YC '24)
Studio Heartbreak is an internet-based animation studio that produces independent stories with intensive creative marketing strategies. 

​Tiger College Advising Team
Michael Sanchez (YC '23), Elizabeth Aguirre
TCAT offers free college advising to students from high-poverty high schools. Through our grassroots approach to college advising, we empower students to become leaders within their educational communities and beyond.

​UMenus
David Foster (YC ’24), Erik Boesen (YC ’24)
UMenus provides 75% of undergrads with dining hall menus, schedules, and the ability to provide feedback, a feature set that the UMenus team plan to bring to other schools, aside from Yale, and expand into other verticals.

​The Tsai CITY Summer Fellowship program is a full-time accelerator designed for companies, non-profits, and initiatives that have demonstrated traction and have developed sustainable models for their ventures. — The fellowship includes a series of robust programming, pitch opportunities, mentorship, and $15,000 in grant funding.

​​NOTE: Accessibility arrangements can be made by contacting kassie.tucker@yale.edu ahead of the event.