On Monday, online lending platform SoFi announced its 2018 class of SoFi Entrepreneurs. The lender revealed that the ten companies selected for the program stood out amongst the hundreds of applications it received by representing a “diverse set” of industries, backgrounds, and issues they’re trying to solve.
SoFi revealed the ten companies participating in the SoFi Entrepreneurs program:
Company: BlockFi
SoFi Member: Zac Prince
Overview: Lending meets Cryptocurrency assets
Location: New York
Company: Tali
SoFi Member: Matt Petrie Volm
Overview: Voice-enabled productivity assistant
Location: Portland
Company: Jointly
SoFi Member: Raven Smith
Overview: Couples and $ made simple
Location: Boston
Company: JetPack
SoFi Member: Lawrence Morris
Overview: Last mile delivery for campuses
Location: Palo Alto
Company: OmniBuilds
SoFi Member: Jake Pimental
Overview: Enables engineers to design and build better hardware faster
Location: San Francisco
Company: Opus 12
SoFi Member: Nicholas Flanders
Overview: Device that converts CO2 into valuable chemicals and fuels
Location: San Francisco
Company: Abode
SoFi Member: Carson Junginger
Overview: Making home buying painless
Location: Chicago
Company: Memogram
SoFi Member: Yermie Cohen
Overview: Web and mobile study platform
Location: Los Angeles
Company: Partake Foods
SoFi Member: Denise Woodward
Overview: Cookies and snacks free of food allergens
Location: New York
Company: Otto Robotics
SoFi Member: Garret Ochs
Overview: Robotic solutions that can cook, assemble, and deliver
Location: Seattle
SoFi added that over the next ten months, its team will devote coaching and resources to helping each of these ten companies get off the ground, ending on SoFi’s Demo Day in October
