GSB Class of '24 Founders
From AI-powered tools for teachers to climate tech and healthcare solutions - the GSB Class of 2024 is launching groundbreaking ventures, joining the family of GSBuilders.
Congrats, new grads!
The GSB Class of 2024 graduated this month - Congratulations and welcome to the incredible GSB alumni community.
Here’s a roundup of some of the fantastic founders coming out of the Class of ‘24.
Alex Wu — CFO Advisors
Being a founder is one of the most unrelenting pursuits imaginable. Without the right systems, metrics, and financial strategy, you’re building a plane while flying it — all while blindfolded. At CFO Advisors, we give founders an unfair advantage by serving as a long-term, white-glove partner building best-in-class financial operations and G&A foundations. We've blown past $1M+ ARR in 9 months of launch and work with 20+ leading AI founders backed by Tier 1 VCs.
Andre Hamra — Cardinal Refer
Cardinal Refer leverages AI to connect Stanford alumni with companies that suit them. To hire or get hired, visit cardinalrefer.com.
Catalina Garcia — Bonded
Bonded is a female-focused dating app designed to help people find long-term partners that they are *both* sexually and emotionally compatible with.
Charlotte Weiner — Frontdoor
Frontdoor is an end-to-end application and recertification tool for SNAP (i.e. food stamps) that connects low-income families to food assistance and unlocks billions in unclaimed revenue for grocers and EBT retailers.
Cheryl Campos — LaFamilia Foundation
LaFamilia Foundation is the largest global nonprofit of Latino VCs (VCFamilia) and venture-backed founders (FounderFamilia) shifting $1B in the Latino ecosystem by 2030. We catalyze and cultivate a trusted Latino startup and venture capital ecosystem, with the aim of educating, increasing capital access, and building community. We've partnered with the largest corporate partners such as AWS, Google Ventures, Comcast etc and have represented the organization at the White House, the Vatican, the Capitol, and more. Led by Stanford GSB alumni, we are raising $1M for operations and programming through 2025.
Claudio Guardado — Baltra
Baltra is empowering frontline workers with customized benefits and AI agents to address the most pressing problem for LATAM’s SMBs: a ~150% turnover rate of frontline workers. Baltra envisions becoming the workforce management platform for SMBs in LATAM.
Dawn Androphy — Allswell
Allswell is building the future of behavioral health for the LGBTQ+ community through therapist-led virtual groups. Our group therapy model helps us address the provider shortage, improve unit economics, and fight higher rates of loneliness in the LGBTQ+ community.
Haley King, Alex Lacey, Malcolm Asher (Stanford B.S. 2024) — Paxos Appeals
Paxos Appeals helps patients and physicians navigate the complex landscape of health insurance coverage for medical treatments. Through writing tech-enabled customized, comprehensive appeals for health insurance denials, Paxos Appeals helps patients maximize their health insurance reimbursements.
Jeff Cott — Trailblazer
Trailblazer connects first-gen lower-income college students back to their home communities to provide virtual near-peer college advising to high school students. We fairly compensate our Trailblazer advisors $20/hour for their impact while streamlining their access to career opportunities at top-tier employers.
Krish Mehta — Phoenix Materials
Phoenix Materials decarbonizes concrete by refining industrial waste. Their product is low cost, meets industry standards, is widely available and easily scalable.
Pedro Siciliano — Teachy
Teachy helps teachers to build lessons and grade 10x faster leveraging AI. We currently serve 200k+ teachers in LATAM.
Raj Tilwa — Focal
Focal is a modular, robotic electric heating system that delivers precise, personal warmth to individuals, instead of heating entire spaces.
Rayce Coyne — Hedgehog
Hedgehog is committed to preventing bank failures like SVB by automating and simplifying interest rate risk forecasting. The founding team has decades of banking expertise, and has partnered with banks, nonprofits, and auditors to ensure every bank in the country has access to sound balance sheet management.
Sandra Lifshits — Retrofit
Retrofit is an AI-powered secondhand ecommerce enablement platform that is making reselling easy, accurate and fast for fashion resellers.
Sophia Fang — Peachy Day
Peachy Day is a trusted care app that provides access to neurologists, vetted lifestyle coaches, and peer support for migraines, which affect 1 in 5 women in the US and 1B+ people worldwide.
Shannon Beckham — Chief
Chief is the command center for executive teams. From government offices to c-suites, Chief is building AI-powered software to manage the time, relationships, and priorities of our nation’s most influential leaders.
Tomo Kumahira & Ryo Takanashi — Project Mizu
Project Mizu offers next-generation water risk analytics to food and agriculture asset owners, financiers, and operators in the face of climate change and water volatility.
Yegor Denisov-Blanch — Stealth
Measuring software engineering productivity by quantifying source code.
📢 Want to tell the GSB community what you’re working on? Shoot me a note (khalil@gsbuilds.co) and we’d love to feature you in the next newsletter.
Thanks for reading GSBuilds. Please forward to any other members of the GSB community who should sign up.
As always, here’s to the builders!