2024 Cohort — FourthWave

2024 COHORT SNAPSHOT

**Rebecca Nguyen**

**Founder and CEO,** **ValleyMatch**
ValleyMatch is a dating service that provides a refreshing and swipeless way to meet relationship-minded singles in person, by leveraging AI-empowered human matchmakers.

**Tonya Turrell**

**Founder and CEO,** **The Launchpad Group, Inc.**
The Lanuchpad is a B2b Saas technology matchmaking marketplace revolutionizing how users discover & connect with tech partners. Our platform empowers users to precisely search for technology, solutions, services, partners, and brands. Users can effortlessly refine searches based on budget, geography, preferred payment structures, and specific requirements.

**McCall Brinskele**

**Founder and CEO,** **Mense**
Mense is a period product company with a mission to provide more comfortable, safe, and working solutions for people with periods. The first product we are developing is a menstrual cup and applicator that's as easy to insert and remove as a tampon.

**Ladan Ghobad, Ph.D.**

**Founder and CEO,** **ENERlite Consulting Inc**
ENERlite Consulting is a leader in energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction in buildings. Our cutting-edge tool for building energy model calibration enables clients to optimize energy use and minimize their carbon footprint effectively.

Kerstin Recker

Co-Founder, Peli Health
Peli Health empowers women to take charge of their pelvic health with a digital self-care platform, encouraging proactive management through accessible and relatable MD-reviewed education, expert guidance, and community support. This approach helps boost confidence, reduce symptom severity, and enhance lifelong well-being.

Helen Grimshaw

Co-Founder and COO, Peli Health
Peli Health empowers women to take charge of their pelvic health with a digital self-care platform, encouraging proactive management through accessible and relatable MD-reviewed education, expert guidance, and community support. This approach helps boost confidence, reduce symptom severity, and enhance lifelong well-being.

**Shweta Gandhi**

**CEO and Co-Founder,** **Strived.io**
The Strived platform offers a cutting-edge AI-powered data tool for teachers, district leaders, and school leaders that provides actionable recommendations for every educator using classroom-level data, edtech vendor collaborations, and assessment indicators.

**Ashley Keyes**

**Co-Founder and Co-CEO,** **Rely**
Rely is a peer to peer marketplace for landlords and renters to search, connect, and apply for long term rentals. Rely provides landlords direct access to verified renters.

Heather Rankow

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Rely
Rely is a peer to peer marketplace for landlords and renters to search, connect, and apply for long term rentals. Rely provides landlords direct access to verified renters.

Dr. Amy S. Yee

CEO, Co-founder and Professor, Cha Therapeutics, Inc
Cha Therapeutics seeks to improve cancer patient outcome with our lead compound Cha1 and Epigenetics-plus framework—emphasizing patient safety in making critical impact for breast/solid tumors and hematologic malignancies with epigenetic dysfunction.

**Sue Mecham**

**CEO and Co-Founder,** **NALA Membranes**
NALA Membranes offers next-generation membrane technology to improve efficiency and reduce waste and energy in today’s advanced water treatment operations.

**Dr. Nyeisha DeWitt**

**Founder,** **Wizearly, Inc.**
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Mani Grewal

Co-Founder, Wizearly, Inc.
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