2023 Cohort

The inaugural 2023 BK-XL cohort consists of 12 exceptional companies committed to building their businesses in Brooklyn for the duration of the program. The twelve startups that make up BK-XL's inaugural 2023 cohort are below:

Preneur

Amadeu Tolentino - Founder/CEO

Preneur is an AI-powered sales tool for everyday entrepreneurs. We enable Solopreneurs like Independent Music Artists, Social Media Influencers, Traveling Chefs, and Fitness Coaches to launch and manage their business in minutes.

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HABIT

Tai Adaya - Founder/CEO

At HABIT, we're developing the next generation of sunscreen for the next generation – so everyone can easily incorporate sunscreen into their daily skin routines. HABIT is redefining the approach to skin aging ($150B+ annual industry) with proven health solutions that actually work! No traditional cosmetics. No fear-mongering around aging. We’re on a mission to elevate your daily sunscreen routine with luxe sunscreens that are elegant, effective + easy-to-use, like our ultra-fine SPF MISTERS and more innovative sun protection products.

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SWYE360 Learning

Jacob Makuvire - Founder/CEO
Given Chipungu (Co-Founder)

SWYE360 Learning is an innovative tech company that leverages machine learning to collect, assess, aggregate, and predict the return on academics and return on investment on all software used in a school district.

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Undock

Nash Ahmed - Co-Founder/CEO
David Altman (Co-Founder/CRO)

Undock is a powerful calendar app that suggests the best meeting times wherever you type. Undock learns your preferences and availability and writes your scheduling messages for you. With seamless integration with your favorite apps and mobile keyboard, Undock is the fastest way to manage and communicate your availability.

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Highnote

Jordan Bradley - Co-Founder/CEO
Paulina Vo (Co-Founder), Chris Muccioli (Co-Founder)

Highnote is building the future of work for audio production teams. Highnote is a new platform to centralize your collaborators, comments, conversations, and audio project files all in one place. Just as Frame.io, Figma, and Github introduced collaborative workflow to video, design, and code, Highnote brings rich collaboration to millions of people for whom creating, sharing, and discussing audio is key to their daily work.

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ChurchSpace

Emmanuel Brown - Co-Founder/COO
Day Edwards (Co-Founder/CEO)

Churchspace is the Airbnb for churchspaces. ChurchSpace turns underutilized church real estate into on-demand commercial kitchen, event, and meeting space.

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Opal

Jen Chiang - Co-Founder/CEO
Lance Norman (Co-Founder/CTO)

Opal is a thoughtfully designed smart ring that provides discreet safety and protection. At Opal, we believe everyone has the right to feel safe and secure. Our devices can silently send requests for help to emergency services or emergency contacts.

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re/tell

Joy Fan - Founder/CEO

re/tell is a micro-retail booking platform bringing the best online brands to the physical world by matching them to excess space inside activated mixed-use retail. re/tell diversifys the products and brands represented in our neighborhoods to reflect the values of consumers today (inside of cafes, coworking, fitness studios, wellness studios, shop-shares, etc). re/tell believes the world looks brighter when community is at the center of every exchange of good or service, and brand stories get to be shared.

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Crafted

Todd Baldwin - Co-Founder/CEO
Sarah Nesheim (Co-Founder/COO)

Crafted is a scalable content creation solution for enterprise food & beverage brands. Our platform enables brands to seamlessly organize campaigns with thousands of nano & microinfluencers to produce short-form video content for brand awareness and sales. Crafted's UGC tool is the first to be purpose built for food & beverage, providing best-in-class video performance that scales with the content needs of our clients.

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Tuma

Elijah Lubala - Founder/CEO
Mpilo Makae (Co-Founder/CTO)

Tuma is a payment platform that simplifies payment acceptance for sellers by offering a seamless and secure solution for contactless card and STK-push MoMo payments on both android smartphones and feature phones. This makes it accessible for small and informal merchants, which enables them to easily accept digital payments despite their limited resources and infrastructure.

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Relavo

Sarah Lee - Co-Founder/CEO
Tejasvi Desai (Co-Founder/CTO), Anna Bailey (Co-Founder/CIO)

Relavo is changing the way that kidney failure patients receive treatment by making home dialysis safer and more accessible. Our product, the PeritoneX, is a patent-pending self-disinfecting connection device that will reduce infection risk by internally disinfecting dialysis tubes. With the PeritoneX, we'll provide current home dialysis patients with higher quality care, and enable more kidney failure patients to experience the benefits of home treatment.

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