DivInc, an Austin accelerator focused on helping diverse founders, revealed its Fall 2019 cohort of startups on Monday.
The 13 companies are working on a wide variety of solutions, ranging from customized hardware to optimize AI computations to personalized travel guides, a flood-proof enclosure for your car and a marketplace for cannabis gig workers.
The startups, which will start the 12-week accelerator program next month, include seven women founders, as well as African American, LatinX, Asian, Caucasian and Middle Eastern founders. Though they're in the Austin-based program, it appears the startups come from a variety of cities, including Houston, Dallas, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Austin.
DivInc, a nonprofit led by co-founder and CEO Preston James, has had 40-plus founders go through its program, dating back to Fall 2016.
Here's a quick look at the startups in the new cohort, with descriptions provided by DivInc:
ClimaGuard
ClimaGuard is creating high-quality temporary protective enclosures for cars to prevent flood damage in the case of natural disasters.
Detecting Talent
Detecting Talent leverages machine learning algorithms to understand those individuals most likely to resign and the estimated impact of that resignation.
FITT Finder
FITT Finder is one-stop shop market-place for fitness and wellness services.
FlapMX
FlapMX provides software tools and services that improve the speed and efficiency of data-centric applications by integrating specialized processors that optimize AI computations using customizable hardware.
FOUND Experience
FOUND Experience uses machine learning to work with travelers to learn about their likes and dislikes to recommend a curated set of restaurants, bars, shops and activities in a designated neighborhood.
GradApp
GradApp helps students find their perfect career path and the perfect school to match that career path, as well as the funding to help get them there.
Kanna
Kanna is a marketplace for the gig economy in cannabis. Their platform connects legal cannabis businesses with pre-vetted, trained temp hires for part-time and seasonal gigs.
KikuPal
KikuPal changes the way we give and receive help during illness and death by connecting users with the support and resources they need.
Pack Elephant
Pack Elephant facilitates corporate gift sourcing from a curated selection of artists, craftsmen and manufacturers that give communities vibrancy.
Peace of Home
Peace of Home streamlines the home finding, moving, and decorating process for consumers.
Scriptly Rx
Scriptly Rx is the only tech platform to bring sustainable and ethically-sourced prescription Rx discounts to consumers, helping to end the cycle of predatory pricing in the US.
Trifigo
Trifigo helps US millennial consumers build their credit profiles correctly in the beginning of their professional careers.
VeMiDoc
VeMiDoc is a bilingual platform made for and by physicians to decrease unnecessary office visits for bilingual communities.
