Cohorts
Current Cohorts
Our summer 2026 Venture Lab Accelerator cohort includes the following teams:
Inlayer
Team members: James Lee and Michael Jones
Inlayer is a technology company redefining device provisioning, security and management through advanced automation, AI-driven insights, robust APIs and built-in security. The team’s journey began in 2016 with Phonism, a platform designed to simplify the deployment, management, security and migration of SIP devices at scale.
Tissuevue
Team members: Mike Jackson and Jason Heym
Tissuevue helps healthcare providers meet emerging Medicare and CMS documentation requirements by enhancing the assessment and recording of tissue conditions and pressure injuries. Current documentation practices in care facilities are often inconsistent and nonstandardized, creating challenges for patient records, compliance and the collection of injury-related evidence. The Tissuevue team is developing a scanning device that combines multiple data inputs with a proprietary model to detect, document and track pressure injuries and potential risk areas. By providing more accurate and standardized assessments, the technology aims to improve patient care while supporting healthcare providers' documentation and reporting needs.
Our summer 2026 Venture Lab NEXT cohort includes the following teams:
Faradyne
Founders: Shloka Shah and Luv Patel
Faradyne is an AI-powered assistant that helps embedded and hardware engineers dramatically reduce debugging time. It combines data sheet intelligence, structured reasoning and vision analysis of oscilloscope captures to deliver register-level guidance and step-by-step troubleshooting plans. The team’s vision is to become the indispensable “GitHub copilot” for hardware engineers, transforming painful data sheet overload and sleepless debugging nights into fast, confident product shipping days.
ContentCraze
Founders: Nick Ginex, Drew Tendler and Josh Gershon
ContentCraze is a user-generated content engineering platform that turns brand briefs into self-optimizing creator campaigns. Brands upload a strategy and the platform generates structured scripts across multiple short-form content visual styles, assigns them to creators and A/B tests every format. ContentCraze has onboarded over 300 creators and 10 paying brands in the first three months since launch, with a goal of scaling to 50 paying brands by the end of 2026.
Donor Stream
Founder: Charles Bishop
Donor Stream is a real-time political intelligence platform that enables campaigns and consulting firms to act on public campaign finance data as it becomes available. By automating the ingestion and structuring of fragmented data sources, the platform transforms raw filings into actionable insights, allowing campaign teams to make faster, more informed decisions. The team is looking for pilot partners to test its prototype and provide feedback on Donor Stream’s interface and features.
Encore Arena
Founders: Natalie Harvey, Varsha Govardhanam and Vivian Comer
Encore Arena is the first competitive digital trading card game for K-pop fans, turning a massive, physical-only collector market into a scalable, high-engagement mobile gaming ecosystem. The team has identified an opportunity that combines fandom, gameplay and monetization into one platform designed for how fans already spend. Encore Arena created a mobile platform where users collect digital K-pop photocards and use them in competitive gameplay. Players build decks, battle in player-versus-player matches and engage through guilds, trading and curated collections.
Sentinel Patch
Founders: Samarth Saxena and Srividya Bade-Vinod
Sentinel Patch is a magnetic sensor puck that attaches to legacy CNC machines and monitors vibration in real time to detect bearing failure before breakdowns occur. The team is building the first “check-engine light” for manufacturing equipment to provide an affordable, zero-setup alternative to costly, complicated enterprise condition monitoring tools. Sentinel Patch is looking for pilot customers to provide industry insights and help the team refine its solution.
VHSMO
Founders: Dhruv Bhilare, Aryan Metkar and Teja Sree Aalla
VHSMO is the world’s first pocket-sized digital camera with instant wireless photo transfer, blending nostalgia and convenience for Gen Z. The team is seeking manufacturing and marketing support for a patent-pending compact camera that takes retro images and sends them wirelessly to a companion app. On the app, users can share, save or delete images and view them in a photobook-type gallery. VHSMO can transfer photos without internet or cloud services, making it offline, secure and instant.
Explore Past Cohorts
Pitch videos of companies from previous cohorts are available on our YouTube channel and organized by cohort playlist.
Browse past cohorts to learn about the founders and ventures that have been part of the Venture Lab community and to see how their ideas have evolved.