Venture Lab NEXT

Founders: Shloka Shah and Luv Patel

CircuitMind 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.

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 then 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 in 2026.

Founder: Charles Bishop

DonorStream 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 DonorStream’s interface and features.

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.

Founders: Samarth Saxena and Srividya Bade-Vinod

SentinelPatch 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. SentinelPatch is looking for pilot customers to provide industry insights and help the team refine its solution.

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.