Alumni

Community Housing Capital (CHC) is certified as a community development financial institution (CDFI) and a community development entity (CDE) by the U.S. Treasury’s CDFI Fund. It aggregates loan capital to finance the creation and preservation of affordable housing

Lend Street was a lending platform to help financially stressed consumers restructure and refinance debt to rebuild their financial lives.

Relay Foods was a healthy online grocery store with the mission to make eating quality and sustainable food simple. Relay Foods operated in Virginia, Maryland, the DC Metro, and North Carolina.

Change.org is the world’s largest social change platform with over 150 million users in 196 countries.

Learners Guild’s mission was to ensure that anyone who has the will and capacity to become a professional software developer to do so, providing job-readiness training in tech for low-income and diverse students.

Piece & Co. was a marketplace that connects retail brands with artisans in the developing world, providing sustainable livelihoods to underserved populations and unique, socially impactful products to brand partners.

PortaPure produced a variety of portable, effective water filtration systems for individuals, households, and small businesses and communities.

Zero Grovery offered rapid, no-plastic waste grocery delivery.

Wholeshare was a program that saved people substantial amounts on groceries through collective purchasing, giving consumers access to wholesale prices.

MyStrongHome was a public-benefit corporation that sought to help homes and communities in coastal areas in South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to be better protected from extreme weather by financing and managing home upgrades, especially new storm-ready roofs, to meet resilient building standards.

CrossBoundary Energy is an investment company that directs capital towards renewable energy projects in Africa, offering stable, clean power for enterprises and organizations.