Future Founders, the Chicago-based organization that supports elementary school, high school, college aged and recent graduate entrepreneurs, just announced the founders who will take part in their 2017 year-long fellowship.
The year-long fellowship seeks to support the country's top student entrepreneurs through mentoring, entrepreneurship retreats, a peer community, and volunteer opportunities.
Startups in this year's fellowship represent 15 schools in nine states (five of the founders are from Illinois schools). Ventures range from Aunt Flow, a subscription tampons and pads service, to Aubrey's Jerky, a line of superfood beef jerky, to Bilder, a site for finding and supporting local crowdfunding projects.
Here's a look at the 17 startups in this year's Future Founder's fellowship:
- Mike Black, ParkingBee, Penn State University, PA
- Claire Coder, Aunt Flow, OH
- Christopher de Leon, HubCharge, Babson College, PA
- Ryan Deitrich, Spared, Inc., University of Tampa, FL
- Anthony Escamilla, Youni, Inc., University at Albany, NY
- Brendon Geils, Campus Genius, Iowa State University, IA
- Rohan Gupta, Bilder, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
- Isaac Hetzroni, IMM PROMOTIONS, University of Florida, FL
- Vinesh Kannan, Omnipointment, Illinois Institute of Technology, IL
- Jason Lees, GoSpot, Northwood University, MI
- Aubrey Lim, Aubrey’s Jerky, California State University, Fresno, CA
- Daniel Natsag, Urban Delivery, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
- Swarnav Pujari, TouchLight Innovations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL
- Matthew Rooda, SwineTech, Inc., University of Iowa, IA
- Rohan Shah, Slice Capital, University of Pennsylvania, PA
- Shannon Varcoe, TroubleMaker LLC (ZYX Sticks), Lehigh University, PA
- Ben Weiss, Zcruit, Northwestern University, IL
