Trenton Cohort 1 Demo Day | Conscious Venture Lab Program

Demo Day is an opportunity for the 13 companies taking part in the first cohort of the Novella Center for Entrepreneurship's Conscious Venture Lab Accelerator Program in Trenton, NJ to present their hard work, growth, and achievements with our community since joining our 14-week hybrid accelerator program in October 2025.

These founders have:

• mastered the tenets of Conscious Capitalism
• fine-tuned their business models
• received mentoring by leading experts
• made extensive progress on and in their businesses using our CVL company building platform powered by FounderTrac.

Come hear each company's pitch and make connections with these purpose leading entrepreneurs.

Participating Ventures:

Caribbrew transforms the daily beverage ritual of health conscious and impact minded customers into a nourishing experience, crafted with clean ingredients and sustainably sourced coffee and cacao beans that empower farmers in Haiti and celebrate Caribbean flavors.

Icon Global Innovations prevents pressure sores and minimize cross infection with SimCair and exists to deliver great medical and wellness products that are good for people.

Motivity Care takes the chaos out of adult caregiving with a unique ecosystem approach combining medical, legal, financial and personal needs with professional guidance, fully vetted services and secure technology to prevent crisis and navigate care, saving time, money. and reducing risks.

Allies is an end-to-end insurance enablement platform that helps doulas and community-based care providers get enrolled and paid faster by automating repetitive, everyday tasks that prevent them from accepting insurance, so more families can access quality care and more providers can earn a sustainable living.

MyMonitor.AI is a melanin-aware AI powered skin disease assessment software for communities and clinicians to solve inequities in dermatology care using our patented imaging and inclusive AI that makes accurate skin assessment possible for everyone.

Never Hopeless Again transforms vacant properties into dignified homes and pathways to ownership, provide wraparound support to help residents stabilize and grow, and train community members as peer navigators so they can build wealth and strengthen their neighborhoods from the inside out.

Policy Over Politics builds county-based civic infrastructure hubs that function as community innovation spaces, where residents, nonprofits, schools, healthcare partners, faith communities, employers, and government agencies collaborate through shared space, coordinated navigation, and a standardized data ecosystem to cultivate dignity, restore trust, and strengthen outcomes across New Jersey.

Protologue creates experiential STEM resources for the high school and early college classroom, with the aim of fostering wider and more equitable adoption of modern teaching and learning methods across the socioeconomic spectrum.

ReconIt created a financial operations automation tool to help CFO advisory firms and small businesses solve the delays and inefficiencies of the month-end close by unifying fragmented systems, automating workflows, and generating actionable dashboards.

Shuffle SEO is a digital-systems studio that liberates organizations from outdated web platforms by rebuilding them on open, modern infrastructure—then scales that partnership through productized templates and a platform that keeps their sites fast, secure, and fully owned.

Skillform has created a digital training and assessment platform to help schools and workforce programs solve the challenge of evaluating and verifying hands-on skill mastery by using AI to generate visual guides, analyze performance recordings, and automate skill verification.

Syauctus has built MedAssist, an AI tool that helps doctors and medical staff work faster and avoid lost revenue. It uses AI that learns from clinicians to make everyday tasks smoother and more accurate.

ticker helps the next generation secure their financial futures by turning hesitation into confident participation in the stock market through verified trades, real community, and personalized learning.

Please join us on Friday, January 30 from 9:00AM-12PM for additional programming in Trenton - Register Here.

Contact Jaime Coleman, Jaime@NovellaCenter.org, with any questions or accessibility needs.