Join Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs (Boston) for our annual HAE THINKS BIG Holiday Party! Five entrepreneurs will pitch their solution to today's biggest problems- from reducing our environmental impact to creating affordable housing. Come for dinner, drinks, and networking with the Harvard entrepreneurial community.
Friends and family of Harvard are welcome!
Registration: 6:00-7:00PM
HAE THINKS BIG: 7:00-8:00PM
Networking: 8:00-9:00PM
Presenters:
Help Around Town - Reem Yared (AB '88)
How do seniors find affordable, reliable help when they just need “an extra set of hands” for small tasks? 50M Americans over 65 are confronting this issue; they will be 100M by 2060. HelpAroundTown.com connects neighbors for small jobs in a hyperlocal, peer-to-peer on demand marketplace that protects privacy while promoting needs and availability. HelpAroundTown is used in half the towns in MA and won the Governor’s Optimal Aging Challenge for reducing isolation and loneliness among seniors.
Hue.Ai - Justin Fong (HKS '12)
Humans have designed medical products for our entire history. It is now the age where AI can "invent" improvements to medical products themselves. Hue.ai uses AI to innovate the optical space, including traditional sunglasses, spectacles, contact lenses and cataract implants- improving human vision by leaps and bounds for pennies on the dollar.
Pakira - Nadia Shalaby (PhD SEAS)
Trading physical commodities, such as wheat, steel, cotton, within their respective supply chains from harvesting/mining to consumption is a $20 trillion B2B market worldwide. And yet today, in 2019, this trading is still primarily conducted over the phone resulting in an inefficient, slow, and cumbersome market. Pakira is building an online trading platform to solve this problem. Its beachhead commodity is lumber in North America, a $200 billion very fragmented market with ~100,000 buyers and sellers. Subsequently, Pakira will expand to other commodities in North America and internationally.
Soli - Robert McArthur (HBS '51)
Soli is a patented consumer reward that makes all products and services sustainable by linking everyday purchases to CO2 reduction. Soli just completed CleanTech Open and is a member of the UN Global Compact.
WaveSense - Tarik Bolat (HBS)
WaveSense is accelerating the safe and reliable deployment of self-driving vehicles and autonomous features for passenger vehicles. The company uses ground penetrating radar originally developed for military use at MIT Lincoln Laboratory to create a map of the subsurface beneath the road from which self-driving cars can navigate. Vehicles using WaveSense are the safest and most reliable on the road and are unaffected by common but challenging road conditions like the absence of roadside features, snow, heavy rain, fog, or poor lane markings. WaveSense has completed pilots with automakers, Tier 1s, and large self-driving technology companies who are looking to deploy WaveSense's technology in assisted and autonomous driving products at scale. The company was named Best in Show and winner of the Autonomous Vehicle category at the 2019 Detroit Auto Show.