Portfolio Archive

Portfolio Archive

Meet the Desai Accelerator portfolio


Meet the Desai Accelerator portfolio

2017 Cohort

2016 Cohort

2015 Cohort

2017 COHORT

2017 COHORT




Ascape Audio >

FOUNDED BY PAUL SCHREMS, DEAN CLANCY

Ascape Audio is making audio products that bring music to your ears, no strings attached. Our first product, Ascend 1, is truly wireless earbuds with a patented "Twist-to-Lock" design that securely tucks the earbud into your ear to lock it in place. Soundflow, our second product, is a phone case that charges both your phone and wireless earbuds embedded in the case.





Find Your Ditto >

FOUNDED BY BRIANNA WOLIN, PARISA SORAYA

Find Your Ditto is a mobile application that combats chronic illness isolation -- and the resulting poor health outcomes -- by connecting people with the same chronic illness for on-demand, in-person peer support. Pharmaceutical companies and healthcare institutions can sponsor patient access to an illness-specific peer support community. The Find Your Ditto vision is to create a world where no person living with chronic illness ever has to feel alone.




Gwydion >

FOUNDED BY DUNCAN ABBOT, PAUL STEFANSKI

Producing advanced virtual reality and augmented reality software for post-secondary research and education. Arthea, our upcoming product, allows users to upload files and convert them into an interactive experience. VR/AR has the ability to completely redefine how humans interact with technology and with one another.




TwoScoreTwo >

FOUNDED BY SAM SAVANT, MANUEL TENORIORIOS

Creating the enterprise blockchain technology of the future. We develop products for secure data storage, payments/money transfer, and unhackable identity and access management that enable faster, more secure, and lower friction commerce for organizations.




Ascape Audio >

FOUNDED BY PAUL SCHREMS, DEAN CLANCY

Ascape Audio is making audio products that bring music to your ears, no strings attached. Our first product, Ascend 1, is truly wireless earbuds with a patented "Twist-to-Lock" design that securely tucks the earbud into your ear to lock it in place. Soundflow, our second product, is a phone case that charges both your phone and wireless earbuds embedded in the case.





Find Your Ditto >

FOUNDED BY BRIANNA WOLIN, PARISA SORAYA

Find Your Ditto is a mobile application that combats chronic illness isolation -- and the resulting poor health outcomes -- by connecting people with the same chronic illness for on-demand, in-person peer support. Pharmaceutical companies and healthcare institutions can sponsor patient access to an illness-specific peer support community. The Find Your Ditto vision is to create a world where no person living with chronic illness ever has to feel alone.




Gwydion >

FOUNDED BY DUNCAN ABBOT, PAUL STEFANSKI

Producing advanced virtual reality and augmented reality software for post-secondary research and education. Arthea, our upcoming product, allows users to upload files and convert them into an interactive experience. VR/AR has the ability to completely redefine how humans interact with technology and with one another.




TwoScoreTwo >

FOUNDED BY SAM SAVANT, MANUEL TENORIORIOS

Creating the enterprise blockchain technology of the future. We develop products for secure data storage, payments/money transfer, and unhackable identity and access management that enable faster, more secure, and lower friction commerce for organizations.

2017 COHORT

2017 COHORT



Circadian Risk >

CEO DANIEL YOUNG
Circadian Risk creates software that assists companies with mitigating daily physical risks including criminal and terrorist events. Using Circadian Risk’s method, organizations can achieve real-time physical risk assessment and active mitigation. Circadian Risk is the future of security assessments and risk management.



Foodstand >

CEO RACHNA GOVANI

Foodstand is a digital health behavior change company. Their first product is a mobile app that helps people build healthy eating habits through bite-sized micro-challenges with focus on little leaps, positive reinforcement, and social accountability systems.





SAHI Cosmetics >

CEO SHELLY SAHI

Sahi Cosmetics provides makeup that is custom-designed for women of medium skin tones who are underserved by the current cosmetics industry. SAHI Cosmetics believes that every individual can #OwnYourColor.




ScoutDay >

CEO ALEX TUCCIO

ScoutDay is a recruiting platform that connects high school baseball players with MLB scouts for evaluation and membership in an expansive network of college coaches. We provide unprecedented exposure for players, efficiency for scouts, and a high quality recruiting pool for coaches.



Warmilu >

CEO GRACE HSIA

Warmilu is a warming technology company with a patented device that generates nonelectric, reusable, portable, safe, personal warmth. Current applications include infant transport, hypothermia prevention, and stadium seating. Warmilu’s social mission is to spread warmth to reduce infant death in resource-scarce settings.




Circadian Risk >

CEO DANIEL YOUNG

Circadian Risk creates software that assists companies with mitigating daily physical risks including criminal and terrorist events. Using Circadian Risk’s method, organizations can achieve real-time physical risk assessment and active mitigation. Circadian Risk is the future of security assessments and risk management.



Foodstand >

CEO RACHNA GOVANI

Foodstand is a digital health behavior change company. Their first product is a mobile app that helps people build healthy eating habits through bite-sized micro-challenges with focus on little leaps, positive reinforcement, and social accountability systems.





SAHI Cosmetics >

CEO SHELLY SAHI

Sahi Cosmetics provides makeup that is custom-designed for women of medium skin tones who are underserved by the current cosmetics industry. SAHI Cosmetics believes that every individual can #OwnYourColor.




ScoutDay >

CEO ALEX TUCCIO

ScoutDay is a recruiting platform that connects high school baseball players with MLB scouts for evaluation and membership in an expansive network of college coaches. We provide unprecedented exposure for players, efficiency for scouts, and a high quality recruiting pool for coaches.



Warmilu >

CEO GRACE HSIA

Warmilu is a warming technology company with a patented device that generates nonelectric, reusable, portable, safe, personal warmth. Current applications include infant transport, hypothermia prevention, and stadium seating. Warmilu’s social mission is to spread warmth to reduce infant death in resource-scarce settings.

2016 COHORT

2016 COHORT


Ash & Erie >

FOUNDED BY STEVEN MAZUR AND ERIC HUANG

Ash & Erie is the first company to design affordable, stylish, everyday clothing for shorter men under 5’8”. Shorter men make up some of the best athletes, actors, fathers,  business leaders, and more. It’s time that we finally have clothes made specifically for them.




Jamhawk >

CEO BRANDON SLEDGE-MELLON

Jamhawk is a neuroscience-based music discovery service that uses human curation, proven neuroscience research, and popular music theory to analyze new music and distill millions of songs into a smaller, optimized, and high-quality database.




Gaudium

FOUNDED BY ANDREW YANG, DAVID CAI, KEVIN JEON, AMANDA LI

Gaudium is a video game development company focused on developing anime style free-to-play mobile games. The first product is Armor Blitz, a game where players can collect and assemble an army of anime-style tank girl characters. The game is designed as a mixture of strategy, collection, and role-playing as players progress through an expansive campaign world on their mobile device.




MySwimPro >

FOUNDED BY FARES KSEBATI, ADAM OXNER, MICHAEL ALLON

MySwimPro is a mobile application that delivers custom workouts, training plans, and coaching to help swimmers and athletes of all levels achieve their goals.




Roomations >

FOUNDED BY LAKSHMI JAYANTHI, KATIE MILLER

Roomations is an online platform and subscription service that provides homeowners easy access to interior design services online, including 3D room designs, shopping lists, style boards and personal design advice, by crowdsourcing freelance designers.




Sultant 

CEO ERIC PLUMMER

Sultant is a cloud-based SaaS platform that acts as a digital financial “advisor” for small businesses by providing quick and meaningful insights, actionable recommendations and intuitive visualizations.



Ash & Erie >

FOUNDED BY STEVEN MAZUR AND ERIC HUANG

Ash & Erie is the first company to design affordable, stylish, everyday clothing for shorter men under 5’8”. Shorter men make up some of the best athletes, actors, fathers,  business leaders, and more. It’s time that we finally have clothes made specifically for them.




Jamhawk >

CEO BRANDON SLEDGE-MELLON

Jamhawk is a neuroscience-based music discovery service that uses human curation, proven neuroscience research, and popular music theory to analyze new music and distill millions of songs into a smaller, optimized, and high-quality database.




Gaudium

FOUNDED BY ANDREW YANG, DAVID CAI, KEVIN JEON, AMANDA LI

Gaudium is a video game development company focused on developing anime style free-to-play mobile games. The first product is Armor Blitz, a game where players can collect and assemble an army of anime-style tank girl characters. The game is designed as a mixture of strategy, collection, and role-playing as players progress through an expansive campaign world on their mobile device.




MySwimPro >

FOUNDED BY FARES KSEBATI, ADAM OXNER, MICHAEL ALLON

MySwimPro is a mobile application that delivers custom workouts, training plans, and coaching to help swimmers and athletes of all levels achieve their goals.




Roomations >

FOUNDED BY LAKSHMI JAYANTHI, KATIE MILLER

Roomations is an online platform and subscription service that provides homeowners easy access to interior design services online, including 3D room designs, shopping lists, style boards and personal design advice, by crowdsourcing freelance designers.




Sultant 

CEO ERIC PLUMMER

Sultant is a cloud-based SaaS platform that acts as a digital financial “advisor” for small businesses by providing quick and meaningful insights, actionable recommendations and intuitive visualizations.

2015 COHORT

2015 COHORT



Companion >

FOUNDED BY JAKE WAYNE, LEXIE ERNST

Companion is a peer-to-peer safety app that improves public safety and provides peace of mind to anyone on the move. It lets you reach out to family, friends, or your local police, and allows them keep an eye on you. Wherever you go, get there safely with a Companion!




Foodscape >

CEO MARY LEMMER

Foodscape aims to provide access to fresh, healthy real food by making it easier for people to grow and share food in local communities--creating, connecting, and empowering small farms and food producers. Foodscape creates communities to grow and share food with each other, bringing the farm even closer to the table.




RunThatApp >

CEO BROOKE ANDERSON

RunThatApp is a software service tool for app developers to test or promote native builds of their mobile apps as fully playable, shareable, interactive demos which run in any web browser. Your app becomes as easy to play with and share as a YouTube video. Allow your customers to try your app safely in any browser from any device, or in many other demo related activities. RunThatApp currently runs Apple iOS and Android Apps, with no lines of code changes by the developers, no libraries (SDKs) added to the build, and nothing unsafe used in the browser.