Soma Fellows Demo Day

Frenter

frenter is building automated asset management for the construction industry. We're looking to solve the gap where construction tailored data and analytics meets automated asset management building a super tool for construction companies, heavy equipment rental companies and general contractors.

Our team is led by Komal Salvi & Zach Laberge, Zach founded one of the largest rental marketplaces in Canada at the age of 15, before raising $3.5m for frenter at 17. Komal was the COO at Calendar Hero before it was acquired by Vendasta and then led revenue development at Vendasta which has $150m in ARR at the time. We're backed by Jason Calacanis, 1517 Fund, Soma Capital, Ryan Holmes, Gaingels & more.

SolidIntel

SolidIntel Inc. develops generative AI software incorporating LLMs, neural networks and machine learning algorithms to help companies without clarity into their upstream supply chains understand the components in their supply chains, identify potential risks, and navigate with regulatory compliance. This product helps companies avoid reputational risks, the seizure of goods or fines for failures to comply with prohibitions on bad actors in their supply chains, and identifies future risks. If a company needs to de-risk, they will be able to use the software to automate their regulatory compliance and to identify alternative suppliers.​ Currently, SolidIntel has an MVP and is speaking to initial potential customers in high-risk industries with a heavy focus on SMBs, and the U.S. govt and is working ​w​ith design partners. 

Dr. Meg Reiss is the founder and CEO; she started SolidIntel after leaving government service, most recently working as Senator Mitt Romney’s National Security Policy Advisor where she worked on legislation and regulations that form part of the basis of the regulatory system SolidIntel is helping address. Hogan Kangas is a cofounder and the CTO. As an experienced programmer in AI and machine learning, he comes to the company from both big tech and the startup world.

Arguflow

B2B vendor for a high quality search and RAG API

Flyby Robotics

Flyby Robotics is building industrial drones as modular platforms for on-edge AI. The team of ex-Yale + NASA engineers raised $5.6m from MaC Ventures, Anthemis, Naval Ravikant + Ryan Hoover. As DJI bans ground over 80% of America’s drone fleet, Flyby is building the F-11 Series to rapidly fill the gap in the US’ underserved commercial drone market + act as a beachhead for Flyby’s enterprise software platform. The company has received $500K in preorders in 4mo from the UAV service providers for Google, Exxonmobil, the Canadian Military, Saudi Aramco + others.

Critical Loop

Critical Loop is building an industrial power marketplace, preferred by factories and large users when utility wires are expensive or unreliable. We make power mobile - delivering generation to load with wheels not lines, and liquid - keeping the assets busy to obtain superior returns for owners. We integrate procurement, finance, logistics, maintenance, site engineering to materialize savings and ensure capability for our clients. 

Our team is led by Bala Ramamurthy (12 years at SpaceX, holding Mission Director and Chief Engineer roles for 30x missions) Andrew Grinalds and Lydia Maher. Our cap table includes the former Treasurer/CIO of JP Morgan, former Senior MD of Asset Backed Securities at Citadel, current PG&E Board Member and founder of Recurrent Energy. Other team members helped scale the Tesla + Rivian Charging Network, lead power electronics at BOSE/SONOS and automated IOTs with ML/AI at Samsung.

Polyhive

Polyhive is an applied AI research company training large foundation models to power real-time 3D design. Our mission is to enable 3D content creation at unprecedented scale.

Bundle

Bundle is an out-of-the-box referral software for B2B companies that can be launched in a few hours with an intelligent product widget. Customers can optimize referral programs with ease, and it offers convenient payment processing, attribution, and tax compliance (KYC/1099's).

Upsolve

Upsolve AI (YC W24) helps companies build and offer analytics to their customers. Our customers can easily create these analytics using Upsolve's AI and point-and-click interface, which is then natively integrated into their platform or product. Upsolve is founded by Ka Ling and Serguei, who have previously built a similar product at Palantir, highlighted in Palantir's DPO S-1, and utilized by startups to Fortune 10 companies.

Empirium

Empirium bridges aerospace and defense supply chains into a unified B2B/B2G marketplace, concentrating buyers, suppliers, and critical goods under one roof to help firms cut wasted time on procurement and allow them to focus more on building and less on sourcing.

Phia

Founded by Stanford peers Sophia Kianni and Phoebe Gates, Phia is a digital fashion platform that aims to revolutionize the e-commerce experience with sustainable, cost-effective recommendations

Unreal Speech

Unreal Speech is building a cost-effective voice cloning API. The company has established a strong foothold in non-fiction use cases, generating $18K MRR. The team is ramen-profitable, and customers include Listening.com, Matter, and Readwise. They are currently training a more advanced model capable of cloning a wider range of voices, aiming to broaden their market reach.

VectorFlow

VectorFlow is an open-source platform designed to build data pipelines to provide up-to-date and external data to AI applications. It streamlines the process of ingesting unstructured data, pre-processing, embedding and storing in vector databases. The platform's API and Python library allow easy configuration and experimentation with chunking methods, metadata strategies, and open-&closed-source embedding models, helping developers optimize the performance of AI applications. Its infrastructure supports large-scale data ingestion reliably while keeping the data within your cloud.

Blockhouse

Blockhouse is an automated trading platform for bonds and credit derivatives. Blockhouse’s automated market making infrastructure eliminates manual market making - allowing dealers to stream quotes and improve efficiency when providing liquidity. As a result, the platform helps fixed income dealers: increase desk P&L, decrease transaction costs and execution times, and reduce settlement risks.

Hegel

Hegel AI is building a developer platform for generative AI. Their first launch, prompttools, has over 2,000 stars on GitHub, and is used by teams to develop and monitor their LLM applications.

Boston Quantum

At Boston Quantum, we reimagine what computing can do. We build end-to-end enterprise solutions leveraging the speed and scalability of quantum and quantum-inspired algorithms for the financial industry, with an initial focus in reserve management including multi-currency arbitrage growth and currency exchange. Book a meeting with us at bostonquantum.io/workwithus to learn more.