Alchemist Accelerator, an enterprise-focused startup incubator, is hosting its 31st pilot day for its cohort of companies today. For many of these companies, this is their first time showing their efforts to the world.
The accelerator itself also has some news: new leadership. Rachel Chalmers, formerly of Alchemist X (a division of Alchemist that helps governments and companies like Siemens and NEC build their own incubators), will become the new president and managing director of the original Alchemist accelerator. In the year Before joining Alchemist in early 2021, Ian Bergman, global managing director for Microsoft’s “Microsoft for Beginners” program, will now lead Alchemist X. While former Alchemist managing director Ravi Belani says he’s still regularly involved with Alchemist, he’ll focus on training founders, helping fundraise and “startups to deepen and expand our platform.”
In her new role, Rachel Chalmers tells me, “Ravi and I have worked together for years, and have strong overlapping shared values around the importance of connecting entrepreneurs with corporate domain experts to create innovation and opportunity. Alchemist is above all a network and a community, and I am committed to serving that community.
The Alchemist will be streaming today’s showday live on YouTube – you can catch it here starting at 10:30am Pacific.
In the meantime, here’s an alphabetical list of the new companies offering today, each with a few words about what I understand they do.
Advisor.AI: Builds predictive models with “autonomous and predictive machine learning” to help teams identify trends/patterns in their data.
agtools A platform “for farmers, buyers and everyone in the supply chain” to help them better understand market behavior and make more money by reducing waste.
iSports Tools for online/virtual sports coaches, with computer vision to count reps and control form.
Flyhound: It builds tools to help rescue teams better use drones to find missing people, respond to natural disasters, etc.
Free fuse: It turns training videos into an interactive content-style “tree”, allowing viewers to easily find the content they want/want.
Fog Automotive; More accessible carbon fiber for cars, it seems. Their landing page is pretty closed, but the founder said on LinkedIn: “They’re taking race car technology. [that] It’s typically only reserved for high-end cars (due to the high price) and democratizes mass-market vehicles.
Understanding: Automated insights to help you quickly identify where you’re losing customers in the buying flow.
Crine: Connects chat platforms (like WhatsApp/Signal) with your company’s CRM (like Salesforce or HubSpot) to make it easy to monitor and track customer conversations.
Lenda: Banking instruments and short-term loans for small businesses in emerging markets, starting in Nigeria.
Loy: Building a Slack bot that analyzes your organization’s CRM data and messages when it notices unusual trends or insights.
Marvel’s Carbon; Carbon sequestration. The company’s LinkedIn statement says it is “working to capture and return the CO.2 Back Underground”, while their website details the use of micro-algae to create the footage.
PieData: Not much is available on this company, but they are billed as a “no-code platform for finding, initializing, and training ML models.”
Masthead Data: A no-code solution for monitoring your team’s Google BigQuery data, spotting anomalies, and determining when/why things went off the rails.
mechlabs A “fast-paced, hands-on crash course” that teaches students to build robots with laser cutters, PCB printers and more.
Peace of mind. A “mental recovery” program is designed to help employees identify and manage stress/emotional stress to reduce the risk of burnout.
Renovated Let’s say “AI-based statistics” for e-commerce brands that help identify a table that might look good with the sofa you’re buying, and put both in a fun image of the room.
Axes A “smart match” platform that helps companies expand their cybersecurity team.
Torres: It helps banks and payment providers better analyze and optimize the network fees you pay when using a card.
University: Working on “nano-vehicles based on natural compounds” to reduce how much pesticides need to be used to be effective.
weRice: An augmented-reality-based tool that helps manufacturing/construction workers identify problems, saving any learnings for the next person involved.
Demo Day will also include presentations from a handful of Alchemist alum companies currently looking to raise a Series A, including Billo, MATERIALL, Mobiz, Outwork, and Yieldigo.
