eLab Alumni

Successful eLab Teams

Featured eLab Alumni

“I often think about looking at ourselves as the Caribbean Unilever or Procter & Gamble, where we have different brands ethically sourced from the region, and our social mission continues to be a huge part of our DNA. What that would mean is thousands of jobs for the region.”

Yve-Car Momperousse

CEO & Founder, Kreyol Essence

Kreyol Essence

2014 eLab Team

Kreyol Essence, an agribusiness specializing in luxury beauty products made using organic ingredients from Haiti, expanded tremendously after participating in eLab. Kreyol Essence has seen achievements like features in Forbes as well as magazines like Marie Claire, Essence, and Glamour. Additionally, Kreyol Essence has accolades like providing 300 jobs for people in the United States, raising over $500,000 in financing, and acceptance into the Sephora Accelerate Program.

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Specdrums

2016 eLab Team

Rosie is the fastest, most convenient way to shop for groceries in your community. A leader in online and mobile predictive shopping applications, Rosie launched in July 2013 and today enables customers to shop online from local grocers for delivery or in-store pickup.

Customers use Rosie on their phone, tablet, or laptop. Rosie harnesses retailer and consumer data to power its patent pending machine learning algorithms, which provide targeted shopper marketing insights for retailers and a fast, smart, convenient shopping experience for customers.

Rosie is the winner of Startup Labs Syracuse, Upstate New York’s largest business competition with $350,000 in cash and prizes.

They currently employ ### people, and have operations spread across the United States.

“We joined eLab with a prototype for Specdrums and an idea of who our customers might end up being. By the end of eLab, not only did we have a fully-functional MVP, but more importantly tons of customer interviews that helped shape our product and understanding of our top customer segments.”

Steven Dourmashkin

Co-Founder & CEO, Specdrums

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“eLab is the perfect platform for Cornell entrepreneurs to launch startups and accelerate businesses. T$350he hands-on mentorship challenges and inspires entrepreneurs to grow their network, gain traction, and change the world.”

Nick Nickitas

CEO, Rosie App

Rosie App

2014 eLab Team

Rosie is the fastest, most convenient way to shop for groceries in your community. A leader in online and mobile predictive shopping applications, Rosie launched in July 2013 and today enables customers to shop online from local grocers for delivery or in-store pickup.

Customers use Rosie on their phone, tablet, or laptop. Rosie harnesses retailer and consumer data to power its patent pending machine learning algorithms, which provide targeted shopper marketing insights for retailers and a fast, smart, convenient shopping experience for customers.

Rosie is the winner of Startup Labs Syracuse, Upstate New York’s largest business competition with $350,000 in cash and prizes. 

They currently employ ### people, and have operations spread across the United States.

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Staying involved with eLab

As you become an alumnus of eLab, we will provide mechanisms to share your feedback so we can continue to improve our program. We also encourage all of our alums to remain actively involved in eLab – many have transitioned naturally into eLab mentors, and there will be opportunities to join eLab’s Board of Directors etc. for distinguished contributors.

Past Cohorts

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