Our mission is to teach anyone how to cook and become more confident in the kitchen, while encouraging the love of cooking. Our vision is to save the home kitchen from obsolescence, bring people and families together and impart life-lasting skills. Our values are fun, learn by doing, and our favorite mantra: “give a man a MEAL and you feed him for a day; teach a man to COOK and you feed him for a lifetime.” The Cookery is a fun and casual at-home cooking school that delivers ingredients and equipment right to your door. Building on the momentum of the currently exploding food delivery space, we will — as a baseline — provide the convenience of fresh dinner ingredients without the hassle of grocery shopping. However, what truly distinguishes us is our rich emphasis on cooking education: each meal is part of a program, tailored specifically to one’s skill level and objectives, which is professionally designed to improve culinary skills and develop the confidence every chef needs to own the kitchen for life. …
Tagline - Beauty in the Making. Vision - We will build a fashion design house, known for our clever classic style intelligence by 2020, that sources fine quality textiles and collaborates with emerging designers and fine craft makers to bring beautiful garment sewing kits, ready to wear and maker crafted accessories to women of the world. Valuing time honored craft and quality every step of the way. Mission - Styling women’s lives with essential garments that matter. Customer Test - DIY linen apron, user feedback loop, instructions, kit specific video. Ready for Market Product - DIY tunic sewing kit and Ready to Wear tunic in midnight blue and white woven, 55%hemp, 32% org cotton and 15% wool and available in Osnaburg muslin natural. Team - Design Strategist, CCA grad Fashion Designer Ashley Eva Brock, Stylist Stella G, Makers tooled up in business skills, bonded by passion and style intelligence. Partners/Suppliers - Local SF sewing workroom the D.N. A. Group, select FiberShed members, Pickering Int…
GIFTD is a service that tailors great gift ideas to take the stress, pressure, wasted time and energy out of the gift ideation and finding process. GIFTD “finding meaningful gifts for the ones you love” GIFTD is an online platform and personalized service. The online platform acts as the customer’s first touch point, where they enter information about the type of gift they are looking for, who it is for, and a few key questions to lay the groundwork for our service. The customer is then contacted by one of our GIFTD experts, via phone call, real-time online chat, or email, whichever is the most convenient. This is where the GIFTD expert gains unique insights from anecdotes and a personal conversation, to better inform and curate a selection of gifts that truly match what the customer is looking for. After the efficient and insightful chat, the GIFTD expert gets to work. Working from a bank of quality products and stores, the insights gained from the customer are used to find great gift ideas. The pers…
Hypeschool is an online platform that allows educators to create meaningful, blended experiences for students in and out of the classroom. Blended experiences refer to the integration of online classes into traditional offline settings, such as public high schools. The three pillars of the platform are Inspiration, Discovery, and Crowdfunding. Hypeschool exposes students to a breadth of career paths as told by real people, online skills-based learning and crowdfunded scholarships. Additionally, Hypeschool helps academic advisors to better understand and aid students’ personal interests and aspirations. Hypeschool’s mission is to empower high school students to make informed decisions about their futures.
Habdash is a mission driven concierge service that facilitates repairs for clothing, jewelry and shoes. It is a quick and easy solution that eliminates the complexities of finding a vendor, taking items to the shop, and picking them up. At the core of Habdash is a lifestyle founded on living simply and deriving happiness through preserving and loving what you have. As part of our mission, habdash partners with local nonprofits to restore hope and financial stability to underemployed populations in San Francisco.
Big cities like San Francisco face big systemic problems. As cities continue to grow, it is evident that certain urban mechanisms need to evolve as well. Such is the case with rental housing in cities where the market is particularly competitive. Both prospective tenants and landlords are faced with a number of pain points along their journeys: an exhaustive application and evaluation process that must factor a plethora of personal selection criteria and important information exchanges. This transaction is arduous and tedious, and is often a source of great anxiety for many. Our team imagines a simpler and friendlier rental process, from searching and listing to move in. In particular, we wish to standardize and “humanize” the rental application process, so that renters can better communicate who they are, beyond numbers on a page. Similarly, we wish to make it easier for landlords to evaluate prospective tenants against a variety of non-financial dimensions, including personality, integrity, and cultural …
There are people and moments in our lives that we’d hate to lose, and the pain of a lost memory is something you only know once it’s too late. Our physical ways of keeping memories, like scrapbooking and journaling, are becoming less effective as we turn to digital media. For almost a decade now, we’ve kept our updates in places like Facebook and Instagram, but even those memories fly by in endless streams and are eventually lost to time. How, then, can we better hold onto our memories and preserve our family stories in this digital age? Through online tools and beautiful products, ORY provides an end-to-end platform to help customers better capture, keep, and rediscover the smaller stories – the quotes, memorable moments, quirks, even the ephemera – that make up our relationships with those we love. The ORY mobile app makes it quick and easy to collect memories on-the-go, and will even provide prompts to help shape specific stories. ORY allows you to upload text, photo, video, and audio, and keep storie…
Givingwell aims to modernize the cash donation box through mobile payment technology, giving organizations and institutions that have long depended upon cash donations a way to adapt and increase their revenues from spontaneous onsite charitable contributions in an increasingly cashless society. We also will help create new revenue streams for organizations that don’t currently collect onsite donations, providing them with a low-cost, low-maintenance, and secure way to increase contributions. Givingwell generates revenue by charging a nominal percentage (<= 1%) of all donations transacted through the Givingwell system, and also by renting our hardware to our partnering organizations. We are structured as a for-profit Flexible Purpose Corporation and our vision is to use our corporate status to allow for quick and nimble innovation that will help enable nonprofits to fundraise more effectively in a constantly changing technological environment. There are currently many for-profit companies, such as enterprise…