CIC Social Impact Program Soft Launch Demo Day

CIC Social Impact Program Soft Launch Demo Day

Hear from CIC's inaugural Social Impact Cohort in a series of rapid pitches, and network with other changemakers, investors, & supporters.

By CIC - MA

Date and time

Wednesday, June 26 · 5:30 - 7:30pm EDT

Location

CIC Cambridge, Venture Cafe, 5th floor

1 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02142

About this event

  • 2 hours

CIC's Social Impact Program supports underrepresented, Massachusetts-based founders connect with resources, networks, and grow their businesses. Made possible by funding through the Minority Business Development Agency's Capital Readiness program, CIC will run cohorts of early and growth-stage startups through 2027.

Our inaugural cohort launched in February, and supports 7 growth-stage startups across industries in scaling their businesses. We are excited to invite you to our cohort's first Soft Launch Demo Day, where you will hear their rapid pitches and get a chance to network with other startup founders and supporters.

The cohort includes:

  • CircNova: CircNova is an early stage deep biotechnology company addressing drug discovery challenges by combining AI, cutting-edge scientific innovation, and modern drug development techniques to develop non-coding circular RNAs to program cells for treating unmet medical needs and previously undrugged diseases.
  • Coils to Locs: Coils to Locs is a social impact, for-profit business filling a gap neglected by the major U.S. wig distributors supporting the lucrative hair loss industry: The lack of availability of premium, coily, curly, culturally-sensitive wigs, (hair prosthesis) targeting Black women experiencing medical and non-medical hair loss.
  • Ethos Admissions: Ethos Admissions is where college readiness meets community building. Through small group cohorts, Ethos Admissions aims to create social impact and genuine college readiness through thoughtfully designed programs for both individual and collective success.
  • RequestFOIA: RequestFOIA is a digital transformation company that caters to government agencies and public sector clients in need of workflow based public records software applications.
  • SplitBrick: Own, control, and diversify your real estate investments with just $1. It’s the modern way to invest in property, your way!
  • ThrivelEP: ThriveIEP is changing how parents and educators manage the special education process, empowering them with a robust platform that provides generative AI-driven insights, information, and assistance—ultimately improving education outcomes for kids. Their unprecedented dataset will transform into insights and actions that change policy and practice at systemic and local levels.
  • Yoku AI: Yoku combines expertise in human perception with cutting-edge computer vision and AI technology to predict the visibility of content when viewed peripherally. It uses this innovative blend of AI and vision science to help inform critical design choices.

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At CIC, we believe in the entrepreneur. We recognize that invention propels innovation, density spurs collaboration, and shared purpose drives thriving communities.

 

CIC builds locally rooted innovation communities and the infrastructure to support them. Since 1999, we have housed thousands of companies and organizations in our shared workspaces, where innovators can collide, connect, and easily access resources that allow them to work better and faster.

 

Through our diverse partnerships with universities, nonprofits, and local governments, CIC members and guests tap into and become participants in the critical networks that foster growth and positive global impact.

 

Founded and headquartered in the renowned innovation district of Kendall Square, CIC operates campuses in Cambridge, Boston, Providence, Miami, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Rotterdam, Tokyo, and Warsaw, with additional sites underway around the globe.