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Meet the 2021 HBCU Founders Summer Acceleration Program Companies and Their Founders

Bull AI

Bull AI is a data platform that integrates AI into the finance sector by providing financial research tools to individual investors for stock market and financial sector research purposes without the brokerage aspect.

Naveed Mian Howard University — **Naveed Mian**
Howard University

Ahmad Karim University of Maryland — **Ahmad Karim**
University of Maryland

GABA

GABA is a career development platform and peer learning community that matches students aspiring to STEM and health careers to peer support services based on their learning preference and desired career.

Candice Blacknall Morehouse School of Medicine — **Candice Blacknall**
Morehouse School of Medicine

The HBCU HUB App

The HBCU HUB App is the world’s first app to connect students to admissions recruiters at HBCUs.

Jonathan Swindell Grambling State University — **Jonathan Swindell**
Grambling State University

“This has truly been a life-changing and mindset-altering experience!”

— ***Jonathan Swindell, CEO and Founder, The HBCU Hub App***

Idhini.co

Idhini.co is a digital health platform that rewards people of color for increasing their health literacy and interactions with clinical trials.

Gerard Charlot Morgan State University — **Gerard Charlot**
Morgan State University

Trevor Alexander Morgan State University — **Trevor Alexander**
Morgan State University

Mel X Studio

Mel X Studio is a gamified social learning platform that helps GenZ’ers learn entrepreneurship.

Jovante Ham Prairie View A&M University — **Jovante Ham**
Prairie View A&M University

Darsha Carter-Ham Texas Woman’s University — **Darsha Carter-Ham**
Texas Woman’s University

Monocle

Monocle is a collaborative e-reader designed to organically connect the global community of readers through shared perspectives.

Leslie Winston North Carolina A&T State University — **Leslie Winston**
North Carolina A&T State University

“I'm walking out of the program with a strong plan of how to take the business forward and confidence in what we'll need to ask for to achieve these goals.”

— ***Leslie Winston III, CEO and Founder, Monocle***

Now Open App

Now Open App reduces the financial barriers experienced by business owners, underbanked, and unbanked customers and employees.

Imani Hinton North Carolina A&T State University — **Imani Hinton**
North Carolina A&T State University

Ajané Hinton Florida A&M University — **Ajané Hinton**
Florida A&M University

Theia.AI

Theia.AI leverages machine learning and human analysis to offer codeless solutions that enable DoD & commercial organizations to quickly create and deploy models that help them reduce blind spots.