Past Event

MIT Startup Exchange September Demo Day

September 14, 2021
Virtual Event
MIT Startup Exchange September Demo Day

Location

Virtual Event

Overview

MIT Startup Exchange is convening our second MIT Startup Exchange Demo Day on September 14 (11 AM – 12:15 PM ET). The event will feature industry-ready startups, with each presenting for 4 mins followed by 2 mins of Q&A. 

This event is for ILP members. You can confirm your company's ILP membership here: https://ilp.mit.edu/search/members.

  • Overview

    MIT Startup Exchange is convening our second MIT Startup Exchange Demo Day on September 14 (11 AM – 12:15 PM ET). The event will feature industry-ready startups, with each presenting for 4 mins followed by 2 mins of Q&A. 

    This event is for ILP members. You can confirm your company's ILP membership here: https://ilp.mit.edu/search/members.


Agenda

11:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction

Program Manager, MIT Startup Exchange

Ariadna Rodenstein
Ariadna Rodenstein

Program Manager, MIT Startup Exchange

 

Ariadna Rodenstein is a Program Manager at MIT Startup Exchange. She joined MIT Corporate Relations as an Events Leader in September 2019 and is responsible for designing and executing startup events, including content development, coaching and hosting, and logistics. Ms. Rodenstein works closely with the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) in promoting collaboration and partnerships between MIT-connected startups and industry, as well as with other areas around the MIT innovation ecosystem and beyond.

Prior to working for MIT Corporate Relations, she worked for over a decade at Credit Suisse Group in New York and London, in a few different roles in event management and as Director of Client Strategy. Ms. Rodenstein has combined her experience in the private sector with work at non-profits as a Consultant and Development Director at New York Immigration Coalition, Immigrant Defense Project, and Americas Society/Council of the Americas. She also served as an Officer on the Board of Directors of the Riverside Clay Tennis Association in New York for several years. Additionally, she earned her B.A. in Political Science and Communications from New York University, with coursework at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City, and her M.A. in Sociology from the City University of New York.

11:05 AM
Lightning Talks and Q&A
Centrly: Personalized market intelligence for corporate innovation teams
Katia Paramonova
Founder & CEO, Centrly
Katia Paramonova
Founder & CEO

Katia is the Founder and CEO of Centrly, a graph-analytics AI powered platform for corporate innovation teams to systematically find market opportunities, featured in Forbes 30 under 30 2021. Prior to Centrly, Katia was the first Director of Deployment at Vecna Robotics, a Series B company leading logistics automation with autonomous robots. Katia previously founded Young leaders in Energy and Sustainability (YES-Europe) and worked at Skoltech, a new innovation-focused university in Moscow established in partnership with MIT.

Katia graduated from MIT in 2013, earning a BS in Nuclear Engineering and an advanced certificate in engineering leadership from the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. Katia also received an MS in Energy Management from EPFL in Switzerland, researching the same industry networks she is building now with Centrly. Katia lives in Berkeley, CA. In her free time, Katia enjoys solving jigsaw puzzles, doing improv comedy, and cycling.

Carbin AI: Transforming telematics data into revolutionary road-vehicle-driver insights
Jacob Roxon
Co-Founder & CEO, Carbin AI
Jacob Roxon
Co-Founder & CEO

Jacob is an entrepreneur and engineer with a mechanical engineering degree from Harvard University and PhD in civil engineering from MIT. At graduate school he joined a team of 3 professors to work on an academic project, which shaped the foundations for what several years later allowed them to form Carbin AI. Jacob now combines his passion for data, road transportation and climate to lead Carbin AI to revolutionize connected mobility in the future of EV and autonomous vehicles and reduce CO2 emissions. 

Aviant: Autonomous transportation enabled with drones
Lars Erik Matsson Fagernæs
Founder/CEO, Aviant
Lars Erik Matsson Fagernæs
Founder/CEO

Lars Erik's first encounter with startups was at the age of 21 when his first startup, Gobi, raised a round from American investors, and he dropped out of college to continue the pursuit in Palo Alto, California. The startup is currently valued at 20 $million, but Lars Erik sold his shares to pursue more advanced technology. After two internships at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto and one internship at Palantir in London, he met the co-founders of Aviant while studying at MIT. Since then, his sole focus is with the company, which has grown very quickly and currently operates three commercial contracts for hospitals in Scandinavia.

UbiCept: Revolutionary computer vision to see in the dark and other challenging environments
Sebastian Bauer
CEO, UbiCept
Sebastian Bauer
CEO

Sebastian is the CEO of Ubicept which provides new imaging solutions in challenging environments such as seeing motion in the dark at unprecedented quality. He has spent his career exploring new kinds of imaging with a focus on signal processing and information extraction. He holds BS/MS/PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

VitaKey: Transforming the future of nutrition using precision delivery
Andrea Stamp
Strategic Partnerships, VitaKey
Andrea Stamp
Strategic Partnerships

Andrea has been working with FDA regulated startups and investors for over 20 years in a variety of roles from managing technical teams to serving as an interim CEO.  She has a BS and an MS in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA, all from Boston University.

Callaly: Femtech pioneer: reinventing period care and drug delivery
Vinh-Thang Vo-Ta
CEO & Co-Founder, Callaly
Vinh-Thang Vo-Ta
CEO & Co-Founder

Thang Vo-Ta is the CEO & co-founded Callaly with a leading British gynaecologist, who invented the company’s first product, the Tampliner®. Thang manages the Callaly team and its strategic direction, including its commitment to the environment, people and communities as a B Corp. Thang started his career in investment banking & private equity at Goldman Sachs. He then spent a decade in property development and angel investment.  He has a S.B. in management from MIT.

Money Experience: Making personal finance education relevant, engaging and accessible to all
Jeet Singh
Founder & CEO, Money Experience
Jeet Singh
Founder & CEO

Money Experience was founded and is run by noted Boston tech entrepreneur Jeet Singh. An MIT alumnus, Singh’s expertise and deep experience in online systems, customer engagement, education and skills training and other fields, come thanks to a 30-year successful history of founding businesses that have been innovative in a wide range of industry areas, including one of the first e-commerce firms (ATG, Inc.) in the industry. Other firms of note started by Singh include ThirdChannel, Inc. (data analytics in retail), Kinto, Inc. (health tech helping Alzheimer’s families, which recently was awarded an NIH grant), and Winterline Global Education, a skills-oriented gap-year educational program. Singh has lectured, spoken and taught at MIT Sloan School, MIT Entrepreneur Forum, Harvard Business School, various TED Conferences, World Economic Forum, Doors of Perception (Netherlands) and gap-year program Winterline Global Education.

Hygio: The World's Greatest Advertising Opportunity
David Robertson
Co-Founder & CEO, Hygio
David Robertson
Co-Founder & CEO
David Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, consultant and academic.  Robertson launched his private consulting business, Innovation Navigation LLC in 2014, and has been an executive at four other startup companies over the course of his career. Robertson is currently an Adjunct Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches Innovation and Product Design, and is also on the faculty at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  From 2002 through 2010, Robertson was the LEGO Professor of Innovation at IMD in Lausanne Switzerland.  Prior to IMD, David was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 5 years.

 

12:00 PM
Breakout Rooms
12:15 PM
Adjournment
  • Agenda
    11:00 AM
    Welcome and Introduction

    Program Manager, MIT Startup Exchange

    Ariadna Rodenstein
    Ariadna Rodenstein

    Program Manager, MIT Startup Exchange

     

    Ariadna Rodenstein is a Program Manager at MIT Startup Exchange. She joined MIT Corporate Relations as an Events Leader in September 2019 and is responsible for designing and executing startup events, including content development, coaching and hosting, and logistics. Ms. Rodenstein works closely with the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) in promoting collaboration and partnerships between MIT-connected startups and industry, as well as with other areas around the MIT innovation ecosystem and beyond.

    Prior to working for MIT Corporate Relations, she worked for over a decade at Credit Suisse Group in New York and London, in a few different roles in event management and as Director of Client Strategy. Ms. Rodenstein has combined her experience in the private sector with work at non-profits as a Consultant and Development Director at New York Immigration Coalition, Immigrant Defense Project, and Americas Society/Council of the Americas. She also served as an Officer on the Board of Directors of the Riverside Clay Tennis Association in New York for several years. Additionally, she earned her B.A. in Political Science and Communications from New York University, with coursework at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City, and her M.A. in Sociology from the City University of New York.

    11:05 AM
    Lightning Talks and Q&A
    Centrly: Personalized market intelligence for corporate innovation teams
    Katia Paramonova
    Founder & CEO, Centrly
    Katia Paramonova
    Founder & CEO

    Katia is the Founder and CEO of Centrly, a graph-analytics AI powered platform for corporate innovation teams to systematically find market opportunities, featured in Forbes 30 under 30 2021. Prior to Centrly, Katia was the first Director of Deployment at Vecna Robotics, a Series B company leading logistics automation with autonomous robots. Katia previously founded Young leaders in Energy and Sustainability (YES-Europe) and worked at Skoltech, a new innovation-focused university in Moscow established in partnership with MIT.

    Katia graduated from MIT in 2013, earning a BS in Nuclear Engineering and an advanced certificate in engineering leadership from the Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. Katia also received an MS in Energy Management from EPFL in Switzerland, researching the same industry networks she is building now with Centrly. Katia lives in Berkeley, CA. In her free time, Katia enjoys solving jigsaw puzzles, doing improv comedy, and cycling.

    Carbin AI: Transforming telematics data into revolutionary road-vehicle-driver insights
    Jacob Roxon
    Co-Founder & CEO, Carbin AI
    Jacob Roxon
    Co-Founder & CEO

    Jacob is an entrepreneur and engineer with a mechanical engineering degree from Harvard University and PhD in civil engineering from MIT. At graduate school he joined a team of 3 professors to work on an academic project, which shaped the foundations for what several years later allowed them to form Carbin AI. Jacob now combines his passion for data, road transportation and climate to lead Carbin AI to revolutionize connected mobility in the future of EV and autonomous vehicles and reduce CO2 emissions. 

    Aviant: Autonomous transportation enabled with drones
    Lars Erik Matsson Fagernæs
    Founder/CEO, Aviant
    Lars Erik Matsson Fagernæs
    Founder/CEO

    Lars Erik's first encounter with startups was at the age of 21 when his first startup, Gobi, raised a round from American investors, and he dropped out of college to continue the pursuit in Palo Alto, California. The startup is currently valued at 20 $million, but Lars Erik sold his shares to pursue more advanced technology. After two internships at Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto and one internship at Palantir in London, he met the co-founders of Aviant while studying at MIT. Since then, his sole focus is with the company, which has grown very quickly and currently operates three commercial contracts for hospitals in Scandinavia.

    UbiCept: Revolutionary computer vision to see in the dark and other challenging environments
    Sebastian Bauer
    CEO, UbiCept
    Sebastian Bauer
    CEO

    Sebastian is the CEO of Ubicept which provides new imaging solutions in challenging environments such as seeing motion in the dark at unprecedented quality. He has spent his career exploring new kinds of imaging with a focus on signal processing and information extraction. He holds BS/MS/PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany.

    VitaKey: Transforming the future of nutrition using precision delivery
    Andrea Stamp
    Strategic Partnerships, VitaKey
    Andrea Stamp
    Strategic Partnerships

    Andrea has been working with FDA regulated startups and investors for over 20 years in a variety of roles from managing technical teams to serving as an interim CEO.  She has a BS and an MS in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA, all from Boston University.

    Callaly: Femtech pioneer: reinventing period care and drug delivery
    Vinh-Thang Vo-Ta
    CEO & Co-Founder, Callaly
    Vinh-Thang Vo-Ta
    CEO & Co-Founder

    Thang Vo-Ta is the CEO & co-founded Callaly with a leading British gynaecologist, who invented the company’s first product, the Tampliner®. Thang manages the Callaly team and its strategic direction, including its commitment to the environment, people and communities as a B Corp. Thang started his career in investment banking & private equity at Goldman Sachs. He then spent a decade in property development and angel investment.  He has a S.B. in management from MIT.

    Money Experience: Making personal finance education relevant, engaging and accessible to all
    Jeet Singh
    Founder & CEO, Money Experience
    Jeet Singh
    Founder & CEO

    Money Experience was founded and is run by noted Boston tech entrepreneur Jeet Singh. An MIT alumnus, Singh’s expertise and deep experience in online systems, customer engagement, education and skills training and other fields, come thanks to a 30-year successful history of founding businesses that have been innovative in a wide range of industry areas, including one of the first e-commerce firms (ATG, Inc.) in the industry. Other firms of note started by Singh include ThirdChannel, Inc. (data analytics in retail), Kinto, Inc. (health tech helping Alzheimer’s families, which recently was awarded an NIH grant), and Winterline Global Education, a skills-oriented gap-year educational program. Singh has lectured, spoken and taught at MIT Sloan School, MIT Entrepreneur Forum, Harvard Business School, various TED Conferences, World Economic Forum, Doors of Perception (Netherlands) and gap-year program Winterline Global Education.

    Hygio: The World's Greatest Advertising Opportunity
    David Robertson
    Co-Founder & CEO, Hygio
    David Robertson
    Co-Founder & CEO
    David Robertson is an experienced entrepreneur, consultant and academic.  Robertson launched his private consulting business, Innovation Navigation LLC in 2014, and has been an executive at four other startup companies over the course of his career. Robertson is currently an Adjunct Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management where he teaches Innovation and Product Design, and is also on the faculty at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  From 2002 through 2010, Robertson was the LEGO Professor of Innovation at IMD in Lausanne Switzerland.  Prior to IMD, David was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and a consultant at McKinsey & Company for 5 years.

     

    12:00 PM
    Breakout Rooms
    12:15 PM
    Adjournment

Disclaimer:  MIT Startup Exchange can make introductions that ideally provide open ended discussions in order to share mutual interests and potentially create common ground that incite the parties to collaborate. MIT Startup Exchange introductions may eventually lead to mutual partnerships, but that is not in any way guaranteed by MIT, MIT Corporate Relations, MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) or MIT Startup Exchange, which takes no responsibility for these outcomes and no formal part in such discussions following our introduction. MIT Startup Exchange and its activities and events are not for purposes of soliciting investment or offering securities.