Demo Day 2023
MIXTOS HARD SELTZER
Mixtos Hard Seltzer is a unique and vibrant hard seltzer beverage that seeks to empower the Latino and Hispanic community in the United States. Mixtos, meaning mixed in english, is designed to make a cultural appeal and nostalgic connection to those seeking a taste of their latino/hispanic descent. As part of our beverage, Mixtos has created a culturally meaningful can design and packaging that highlights certain symbolic builidngs and architecture from Latino America. In addition, Mixtos Hard Seltzer introduces new flavors into the industry by making several tropical combinations. Mixtos promotes inclusivity and diversity within the United States while also integtrating our latin and hispanic zest into the mainland.
Giovanni Rivera-Carvajal | rivega20@wfu.edu
HERICLE
Hericle seeks to empower people to live comfortably in their own skin by addressing skin anomalies through minimization or removal. The services we provide aim to be cheaper, more effective, and safer than current market options. We are focusing our efforts in the short term on non-laser tattoo removal. We utilize a solution, custom needle, and specialized technique to accomplish a desired removal that allows the skin to reject and scab out a tattoo after 1-3 sessions. We want to give customers the option to adjust their appearance as they see fit, as we believe people are more content when they’re afforded a choice in their appearance.
Chris Morrell | morrcw19@wfu.edu
JHL SOLUTIONS
JHL Consulting promotes the empowerment of all people through promoting equiatable practices of learning. As we all know, education is the foundation for all our current and furutre successes. However, in a world that is inherently unfair, JHL Consulting priovides custmers with digital programing designed to prodive tools for educators to improve overall success for all students. JHL Consulting goes beyond fancy jargon and provides practical techniques for edcucators to implement in their classrooms.
Savannah Littlejohn | littsk19@wfu.edu
DAWN
Dawn is a fitness app designed for women to build community and comraderie in the gym on college campuses. The largest barriers to entry for women in the gym were found to be lack of knowledge about the gym and intimidation of the predominantly male space. The goal of Dawn is to combine social media features, workout categorizing, and matchmaking to be a hub for female gym goers and fitness knowledge on campuses everywhere.
Virginia Wooten | wootvm19@wfu.edu
SMUSH
smush is a mushroom company that provides mushroom terrarium kits and supplies, mushroom art projects, educational guides, and home decor. smush is targeted to families with young kids, as well as young adults. smush strives to bring ornamental mushroom growing to the home and to educate people about the mycelial world around them. We’ve all heard of so-called “plant moms” and “plant dads” – and I envision the same thing for mushrooms. With the release of the 2019 documentary “Fantastic Fungi” and the rise of mushroom consumption for physical and mental health, more people are becoming aware of the roles mushrooms can play in their lives. A longterm goal of this company is to make “mushroom moms” and “mushroom dads” mainstream, as well as to partner with nonprofits in the mushroom industry. The vast majority of mushroom companies sprouting up are in the health and wellness space (supplements, capsules, sprays, etc.), not the indoor gardening industry, and this is what sets smush apart.
Gina Giorgio | giorg22@wfu.edu
Q SOCIAL
Q Social is an advertising technology company that enables individuals, organizations, and non-profits to brand and express themselves in a new, unique way, using QR code technology. Q Social uses the most important resource, people, for customized physical advertising campaigns. Q Social works to complement digital advertising by using QR codes on wearables and tracking various analytics to maximize the effects of a campaign for our customers.
John Meany | meanjf19@wfu.edu
THÉ AMI
French for ‘tea friend’, thé ami is a mindfulness app, centered around eastern tea culture. Thé ami serves the tea community by making the connection between tea and meditation, accessible. Users will have access to meditation courses designed for the tea hobbyist. In the app, users journey with a personal “tea pet”, serving as their companion while having tea. The tea pet evolves and grows as the frequency of users using the app increases. Thé ami app allows tea hobbyists to appreciate tea as a tool to facilitate greater mental clarity, appreciation, focus, and reduction in stress.
Nikolai Chechkin | checn19@wfu.edu
William Liu | liuw19@wfu.edu
STAY AWESOME
Stay Awesome is a lifestyle brand dedicated to empowering individuals to live their best lives and make a positive impact on the world. We believe that everyone has the potential to be awesome, and we strive to provide products and resources that help people tap into that potential
Lillian Holland | holllf19@wfu.edu
RED BRICK ENTERTAINMENT
RedBrick Entertainment Inc. is an entertainment company designed to drastically improve turnout, student satisfaction, and provide tools to measure the performance of college events. We focus on providing universities with unique large scale events they can’t find anywhere else. We don’t replace the systems and organizations that universities have for engagement. Instead we create more efficient systems to advertise events, and track the performance of those events. At RedBrick, we take logistical nightmares for universities and simplify them. By streamling the planning process of throwing events, we improve the efficency of engagement offices and help improve their return on investment when it comes to engagement.
Jonathan Williams | WillJP19@wfu.edu
Connor Stanley | StanCP19@wfu.edu