Dave Heimbuch created his Hidrent App to help off duty firefighters earn extra money. It’s basically a niche gig app. There are others out there, but this one has a unique twist: only actively working firefighters can provide services to homeowners. This can put homeowners at ease because firefighters go through a far more rigorous […]
Hello Pre-Nup – Online Prenuptial Agreements
Julia Rogers, a practicing family law attorney in Boston, created Hello Pre-Nup to make prenuptial agreements accessible and less uncomfortable for soon to be married couples. Her CTO, Sarabeth Jaffe, joins her in the Shark Tank as they seek to persuade the Sharks to invest in their business. As a family law attorney, Rogers has […]
Fish Fix – Frozen Fish Delivery
Fish Fix, Melissa Harrington and Emily Castro’s frozen fish subscription box, was born out of Melissa’s desire to eat fish twice a week. Since she was a mother of two and salesperson for a seafood company, it wasn’t always convenient to make fish, so she started vacuum packing servings of fish and freezing them. If […]
Deux – Vegan Cookie Dough
Sabeena Ladha created Deux (pronounced “dough”), her line of vegan cookie dough, as a delivery mechanism for the supplements she was taking. She wished aloud to her friend “wouldn’t it be nice if I could have all my supplements in a cookie?” When she went looking around for cookies with vitamins in them and found […]
Wad Free – For Bed Sheets
Cyndi Bray invented Wad Free to solve a problem that was driving her nuts: sheets wadding up in the washer and dryer. Not only is it a mess, it wastes energy. When wet, wadded up sheets are in the dryer, they take much longer to dry, thus wasting electricity. The mess is another story – […]
Wedfuly – Virtual Weddings
When Caroline Creidenberg started Wedfuly, virtual weddings weren’t a thing. But with the year we had in 2020, they quickly became one. Imagine you planned a June wedding in 2020. You had to completely scrap your plans and postpone the wedding until the Covid-19 pandemic subsided or pivot and get creative. Creidenberg and her team […]
SPERGO Apparel – Lifestyle Streetwear
Trey Brown created SPERGO Apparel to get himself and his friends of increasingly violent streets in his neighborhood. He wanted to create a hip brand that exuded positivity and encouraged his peers to follow their dreams. So at age 12, with $178 he got for his birthday, he purchased 16 tee shirts and personally sold […]
The Beulr App – Skip Zoom Meetings
Peter Solimine created his Beulr App so he could sleep through his early morning classes. When the world went on lockdown in March, 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, universities pivoted to providing class time via Zoom. Business meeting were also conducted via the now hugely popular app. Solomine, an economics and computer science major […]
The Magic 5 – Custom Swim Goggles
Bo Habber and Rasmus Barfred, two of the three co-founders of the Magic 5, created their custom swim goggles to solve a common problem for swimmers: swim goggles. Goggles can be a pain. They leak, they’re too tight sometimes and hurt, they fog up or, worse, they fall off when you enter the water. Michael […]
Tabby Dates – Dating App for Cat Lovers
Leigh Issacson and her sister Casey got the idea for Tabby Dates from their other business: Dig Dates, a dating app for dog lovers. The sisters both love dogs and got the idea for the Dig app because Casey broke up with a guy who just wasn’t a dog person. They made Dig Dates to […]