Almaworks Portfolio
Almaworks companies represent the best and brightest student minds in New York City. Our 70+ startups have collectively raised over $50M, won hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants and prizes, and enrolled in programs including Y Combinator, TechStars, and Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator. Almaworks companies gain access to our vibrant alumni network, a sample of which is listed below.
Fall 2025 Cohort
Dawn is building VIM (Virtual Intelligent Mentor), a lightweight AR glasses paired with intelligent software designed for frontline manufacturing workers. VIM combines AI with traditional shop-floor resources to deliver workers instant and hands-free access to the knowledge they need. By closing the skill gap, reducing downtime, and modernizing training, Dawn helps manufacturers boost productivity and preserve expertise.
ReGlove is building an AI-powered rehabilitation glove designed to help stroke survivors regain motor control and independence in their daily lives. By supporting natural grasping motions, ReGlove empowers patients to perform everyday activities—like holding a cup of coffee or buttoning a shirt—while also serving as a tool for continuous rehabilitation beyond the clinic. Their mission is to make recovery more accessible, effective, and motivating for millions of people living with the long-term effects of stroke.
Ludus eliminates manual flashcard creation for language students. Open any word in our pre-loaded dictionaries, click save, and it’s automatically added to your personalized study deck.
Hearify is an application that eases the process of aural rehabilitation for members of the hard-of-hearing community, saving countless hours of audiologist training by allowing one to practice from the comfort of their own home. Built with features to mimic all aspects of auditory training, from matched pair sets to sound and word recognition, the app also implements AI analytics and features to complement the work of an audiologist. This application saves time and revolutionizes the process of aural rehabilitation present today.
Wagoo is developing a voice-first productivity assistant that answers questions and completes tasks. All with just a push of a button, with hundreds of integrations. Schedule meetings, respond to emails, search the web, plan your day, have conversations, and so much more.
Vitband is the first wearable device that tracks muscles in real time. Powered by our patent-pending sEMG technology, it helps athletes optimize training load and find personalized sweet spots for peak performance. By tracking muscle strength, activation, and fatigue in real time, it tells athletes exactly when to push, when to recover, and how to avoid injury. Backed by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, and trusted by Olympians, Vitband transforms raw muscle signals into actionable insights for athletes to reach their full potential.
PollenPal is an AI-powered monitoring system designed for beekeepers, using beehive-mounted devices with computer vision and sensors to detect threats like varroa mites and invasive bee species. Built for easy deployment, it delivers real-time alerts and offers actionable insights, helping operations save on replacement costs while improving margins through efficient management. With solutions for both hobbyists and large farms, PollenPal bridges tech gaps in an aging industry facing billions in annual losses.
Spring 2025 Cohort
Manglovo Health is a biotech startup advancing next-generation therapeutics and technologies in reproductive health. Our lead asset is a uterine-selective estrogen receptor antagonist, being developed as a once-weekly oral contraceptive without hormones.
Created by chefs for chefs, ROA is an AI-powered SaaS platform that revolutionizes restaurant operations by addressing food waste, high labor turnover, and narrow margins. Our kitchen-native solution—combining semantic recipe management, invoice-based inventory tracking, and POS-aware demand forecasting—empowers chefs to streamline kitchen workflows and optimise resource allocation.
Silo is an automated portfolio generator tailored for engineers. Users upload their work artifacts—such as code repositories, PDFs, and CAD diagrams—and Silo's in-house LLM pipeline creates a professional portfolio hosted on a customizable URL.
Saturn is like a mutual fund for the blockchain being built on Solana. By minting Saturn tokens, which each represent an actively managed portfolio through fundamental and eventually quantitative management, we unify the best of the blockchain ecosystem into a single token, giving users diversified exposure to digital asset innovation. Unlike traditional funds, on-chain investments offer full transparency, instant liquidity, and access to high-growth sectors like DeFi and Web3. Saturn provides a seamless way for everyone to participate in cutting-edge blockchain projects, making investing in crypto simpler, more efficient, and potentially more rewarding.
SWERV is developing a consumer ventilation product made to improve human health and comfort. It's a small box you place in your window that efficiently brings in filtered fresh air from outside at the perfect temperature and humidity year round.
Sante Health is a startup leveraging AI to help governments, health insurers, and hospitals manage infectious disease outbreaks. Our machine learning model uses epidemiological, climate, and urban spatial data to identify high-risk areas and predict outbreaks before they happen, enabling proactive health interventions to protect communities. We have already developed our first MVP for dengue prediction in Brazil and are now advancing scalable, data-driven solutions to improve healthcare resource allocation.
Previous Cohorts
LearnedEasy uses artificial intelligence to transform documents into concise summaries and dynamic, interactive quizzes. Our goal is to help students better understand their course material and enhance their learning.
InstaLabel is a powerful annotation tool that puts AI in the forefront of all data labeling tasks. This makes it possible for anyone to prepare high quality AI training datasets through quick verification, instead of manual annotations.
Playbook is a VC-backed content creation, distribution, and monetization platform for fitness-related digital assets.
NewsGamer is a Google News Initiative-backed digital content creation solution for interactive journalism.
The Clear Cut (Techstars, Forbes 30 U 30) is a direct-to-consumer diamond ring e-commerce platform.
BinIt (Winner, CVC 2019) offers automated trash segregation for corporate parks and customers.
FINDMINE is a VC-backed ML tool to automate consumer analysis and manual processes in the retail industry.
Whiterock AI leverages alternative data to enable real time investment analyses and empower residential investors to make informed and superior decisions.
Qawl is a mobile Quran streaming app for iOS and Android that provides a comfortable and inclusive space for Muslims to learn about Islam through the Quran.
Tabkha Live is a platform that allows home cooks (mainly women from the global south) to live stream their regular cooking, while a subscriber user joins an interactive session and cooks alongside the home cook
Baton (CVC ‘20) is a mobile-first eMarketplace offering outdoor activities led by world-class experts.
FlexIt is a VC-backed mobile solution offering users seamless access to gyms: wherever and whenever they want.
mint&rose is a fashion lifestyle brand that offers shoes, bags, and accessories collections made in Spain.
Behold.ai is a VC-backed AI technology company to help radiologists diagnose radiology scans across all modalities.
Visit.org is a VC-backed SaaS platform for employee-driven corporate social responsibility (CSR).
Droice Labs is a VC-backed AI healthcare solution that uses clinical data to optimize healthcare processes.
Guardrail is a developer tool for enterprises to adopt Generative AI safely and securely. Our toolkit provides the safest way to go from an AI prototype to production.
ColonAI is an AI-powered cancer screening tool to optimize physician workflow and improve patient outcomes.
Bookshlf enables users to catalog, share, and discover content based on the subject-matter expert curation.
Coursedog (YC W19) is a VC-backed SaaS higher-ed administration tool to optimize administrator workflows.
Kalo is a ML-powered mobile platform combining fashion and technology to create social shopping experiences.
Wheeli (Techstars 17) is the #1 university-focused carpooling app for students, by students.
Scraft (Techstars 23) is an interactive storybook for language learners that provides immersive reading, speaking, writing, and listening language practice with AI feedback.
Battlecard (YC W20) is a B2B SaaS sales document platform that simulates sales interaction and training processes.
We are democratizing AI for political campaigns through a SaaS campaign sidekick. Our tool is providing modern campaign strategy and tactics to the 500,000 local elected officials in the United States.
avoMD (CVC ‘20) is CBS-founded physician PoC knowledge platform that improves healthcare outcomes.
Grubify is a student-focused food delivery application offering dining analysis services and instant payouts.
SquarePlan (Techstars ‘19) offers a B2B intelligent property and office management system.
DAT Bootcamp is test preparation platform leveraging mobile devices and memory algorithms.
REAL is an award-winning CBD (cannabidiol) infused beverage line and lifestyle brand.
Draftpot (acquired) was VC-backed fantasy sports betting platform offering instantaneous payouts
Riley (YC W17) is a VC-backed real estate lead qualification service to engage with online leads in 2 minutes or less, 24/7.