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Join us in celebrating the May Summer Startup Sprint Class of 2026!
This summer, we had the privilege of hosting 18 exceptional ventures at the Leslie eLab, where founders honed their customer discovery skills and stress-tested their business models in our intensive two-week accelerator program. Across industries spanning medtech, AI, consumer apps, sustainability, and beyond, this cohort brought remarkable ambition to the Leslie eLab.
The founders engaged in daily startup coaching and feedback sessions, skills-building workshops, and one-on-one sessions with seasoned mentors — emerging with sharper hypotheses, stronger networks, and validated paths forward.
Teams unlocked access to the following benefits:
- A $1,500 grant, plus an opportunity for select teams to receive up to $500 in additional funding
- Over $5,000 in perks, including Google Cloud credits
- Legal guidance from Fenwick & West
Meet the Teams
Aesthe Modeling supports the aesthetic consultation at every stage: patient education, visual treatment planning, long-term roadmapping, budget alignment, and expectation co-creation — patient and provider building the plan together, as a team.
Team: Sarah Machado (Tandon '27), Sol Dulanto (Tandon '27), Teo Ivancevic (Tandon '27)
Agora: Agentic tool for professional clothing resellers, automate 60% of listing workflows, so they can move inventory to market in seconds instead of sitting unlisted, enabling them to scale their businesses.
Team: Christian Herren (Courant/Stern ‘26), David Cui (Courant/Stern ‘26) & Tomer Ben Yaakov (Courant/Stern ‘26)
Arxitech Solutions creates tools that automate manual workflows in Revit
Team: Akbar Abilov (Tandon '27), Parvin Hasratli (SPS '28), Rafig Javadov
Cortile: AI verification layer for vendor security reviewers at regional health systems — it runs the repetitive checks and flags gaps, so reviewers focus on the judgment calls only they can make.
Team: Nik King Fredel (Gallatin '23, SPS ‘26) & Owen Rice
Counterpart simulates the performance conditions of any scene or audition by scanning a script, importing music and reader response, and cueing the actor through the entire scene.
Team: Nate Becker (Tisch, CAS '25), Alex Finch (Tisch, CAS '25)
GEM Dental Design is on-demand planning, design, and live online support — delivered fast enough for same-day cases.
Team: Tatiana Moreira (Dentistry Postdoc), Emiliano Gonzalez
MilkShaker: Hands-free wearable massager for breastfeeding mothers to treat mastitis, clogged ducts, and low milk supply. These painful and often recurring challenges affect 90% of moms, disproportionately harming working mothers and those without access to specialized postpartum care.
Team: Xiyan Zhu (Stern ‘27), Valentina Marini Fichera & Elise Yang
Mirae makes the decisions inside financial AI defensible. When an AI approves a loan or flags a transaction, Mirae produces a plain-English record of what it looked at, why it made the call, and which rules applied. Compliance teams, regulators, and customers can all read the same source of truth.
Team: Jovita Gandhi (GSAS '26), Tanishq Sardana (GSAS '26)
Neem Health helps patients prepare before, attend during, and debrief after visits, ensuring questions and care gaps are addressed with the provider
Team: Faria Kabir (Stern '26), Aarya Shah, Hariom Vyas
Nodes is a wireless epidural speech-decoding BCI.
Team: Ramon Garcia Cortadella, PhD (Langone Postdoc), Daniel Gellis (Stern '27)
Optosurgical is AI software adding 3D depth cues to existing 2D laparoscopic feeds — no goggles, no new hardware, no capital replacement
Team: Kehui (Rosie) Zhang (Stern '27), Prateek Gupta (Stern '27), Yoseph Kim (Stern '27)
PerceptaDent is a SaaS platform with a proprietary AI model that identifies dental implant information from an X-ray
Team: Mariamina Papasotiriou (Dentistry '26), Aristotelis Tsoutsanis, Leonidas Papanastasiou
PolySynk is an AI platform that turns proprietary polymer data into a working design engine for predicting properties, ranking candidates, and proposing new substitutes.
Team: Ge Sun (Courant Postdoc), Gervasio Zaldivar (Tandon Postdoc), Yuan Tian (Tandon Postdoc)
Simustack simulates the financial consequences of CFO decisions before they're made, using a causal world model built from a company's own data.
Team: Sudharshan Ramesh (Tandon '26), Harshini Vijaya Kumar (Tandon '26)
Soundmesh is a flexible wireless audio system that lets you bring your own speakers and headphones, route audio between them, and move things around mid-event without re-running cables.
Team: Justin Johnson (Tisch '26), Seungmin Yeon (Tisch ITP '27), Yifan Deng (Tisch ITP '26)
Turtl is a structured workspace that maps applicable FDA guidance and comparable precedent to a team's specific product and study design questions, giving first-IND teams the reasoning layer they can't afford to hire.
Team: Sam Mathew (CAS '27), Anthony Lee (CAS), Siddharth Krishnan (CAS '26)
Whip'd is a whipped cottage cheese dip—smooth, spreadable, dippable. 25g protein per tub, 60% fewer calories than hummus, and nothing you can't pronounce. A snack that means you never have to choose between satisfying your hunger and hitting your nutritional goals.
Team: Tatyana Khashoggi (SPS '26), Max Accurso (GSAS '27), Salma Saleh
Zetra provides a clear, precise & trusted Runtime Security mesh for AI Agents.
Team: Rea Ara (Tandon '26), Thulani Shabangu
