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2018

Tom X. Lee '90 — Galileo

Tom X Lee

Tom X. Lee is a pioneering innovator in health care; in 2018, he founded Galileo — a next-generation health care delivery model designed to solve the most difficult healthcare problems. 

2020

Reginald Dwayne Betts LAW '16, GSAS '21— Freedom Reads

Freedom Reads

Freedom Reads is a New Haven-based nonprofit that opens 500-book libraries in prison housing units. Its mission is to use literature to empower people in prison to imagine new possibilities for their lives. 

2020

Zoe Geller YSE ’17, SOM ’17, Jason Yang ’09 — Fire Ox Foods

Fire Ox

Geller and Yang created Fire Ox Foods to facilitate a more sustainable food system through vegetarian cuisine. The company makes frozen, vegetable-rich meals. 

1997

Linda Rottenberg LAW '93 — Endeavor

Linda Rottenberg

Endeavor is the leading global community of, by, and for high-impact entrepreneurs. The organization is headquartered in New York City and the network spans nearly 40 countries. 

2019

Erika Hairston '18 — Edlyft

Erika Hairston

Erika Hairston majored in computer science while an undergraduate at Yale, and often found herself struggling through the courses. When she graduated with her degree, she founded Edlyft: a tech platform that provides small group mentoring and tutoring for STEM students.

2021

Shervin Dehmoubed '25 — EcoPackables

Ecopackables

Founded by Yale College student Shervin Dehmoubed, EcoPackables offers entirely compostable packaging for businesses. The company seeks to combat unsustainable delivery services. 

2017

Bay Gross ’13 — Cityblock

Bay Gross

Founded by Bay Gross, Cityblock Health is a tech-driven healthcare provider focused on serving marginalized populations through scalable solutions. Cityblock Health was named a 2023 CNBC Disruptor 50. 

2020

Tiffany Leong SOM ’21 — Bo-Yi

Bo-Yi Founder

Bo-Yi, which means “Precious Ceremony” in Cantonese” is a beverage startup that makes a collection of East-Asian superfood teas. The company was founded to bridge the gap between the East and the West. 

2017

James Rosenthal ’84, Thomas Glocer LAW ’84 — BlueVoyant

BlueVoyant

BlueVoyant is an outcomes-based, clout-native cybersecurity company that offers an end-to-end internal and external cyber defense platform for enterprises. The company proactively defends business ecosystems against today's threats using large real-time datasets. 

2020

Gabriel Saruhashi '22, Uzoma Orchingwa LAW'22/SOM'22 — Ameelio

Ameelio

Ameelio is a technology non-profit committed to transforming prison communication services for the incarcerated and their relatives.  The organization democratizes prison communication and education technology and cuts recidivism and sustainably reduce prison populations.

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