31 Promising Startups Present at Sandbox's Class of 2024 Demo Day
Last week, BYU's Sandbox program hosted their 3rd Annual Demo Day at the former Provo High building, now under university ownership. The event showcased the remarkable efforts and innovations of 31 student teams who have been diligently building and launching tech products and companies from scratch. Notably, almost all of the startups presented incorporate some form of artificial intelligence (AI), underscoring the growing importance of this transformative technology. While many of these ventures are still in their nascent stages, the palpable potential for their impact foreshadows the bright future awaiting these budding entrepreneurs.
Here’s a brief introduction to the cohort (in the order they presented):
Madder - Hardware-Free Gaming Console
Madder is a cutting-edge gaming platform that simplifies gaming by utilizing smartphones as controllers and web browsers as the central interface. It eliminates the need for new hardware, offering a social style of gameplay that is perfect for traveling, events, hosting and playing anywhere with wifi. Your phone is your controller, your computer is the modern console.
Harmony - Enable designers to ship UI without developers
Harmony is one of the first-ever design suites that can integrate with an existing codebase. After a quick 5-minute installation, teams can make changes inside their app with tools like Webflow and Figma. Harmony will make the edits directly in the code and send a pull request to Github.
👨🎤 - harmonyui.app
Interval - Virtual AI Receptionist for Automotive Businesses
Interval is an AI virtual assistant for the automotive industry. Interval’s AI answers questions and schedules appointments on the phone and over text, saving companies thousands of dollars per month on missed business from unanswered phone calls.
📞 - Interval-ai.com
Conduit - Intuitive Cloud Infrastructure Designed to Save & Scale
Conduit is an AI-driven PaaS that builds cost-effective, resilient cloud infrastructure. Leveraging AI and machine learning, it automates provisioning and scaling to match demand, minimizing resource waste.
🧑💻 - conduitops.com
Rooster - Plug and Play Facial Recognition
Rooster offers plug-and-play facial recognition to combat shoplifting by identifying repeat offenders. Their solution is easy to set up, only requiring a Wi-Fi password and camera. Rooster aims to generate recurring revenue through a low-cost hardware and subscription software model, using proprietary AI for facial matching.
Cruz - Lending to Personal Injury Victims
Cruz Financing provides pre-settlement financing services to personal injury law firms. They offer a widget that can be integrated into a firm's website, allowing visitors to quickly apply for an advance. Once a lead is signed up, the firm can initiate the advance through Cruz's dashboard.
FarmHand - HR Software for Seasonal Business
FarmHand provides HR and workforce management software tailored for seasonal businesses like farms, corn mazes, waterparks, haunted houses, ice castles, etc. The company's solutions streamline employee onboarding, time tracking, document signing, and team communication to help farm owners focus on their core operations.
🧑🏻🌾 - farmhand.pro
TailTracker - Management software for pet care businesses
TailTracker is specialized software designed to streamline the management of pet care businesses. Its goal is to offer a holistic solution, catering specifically to the unique requirements of such establishments, while addressing the limitations found in current management software options.
🦮 - tailtracker-app.azurewebsites.net
ChoiceGuard - Automated Medicare Broker
ChoiceGuard is an automated Medicare broker that provides personalized, tailored plan recommendations entirely online. Their unbiased algorithm evaluates user inputs to identify the most optimal plans, focusing on maximizing benefits and savings. Users can compare most plans in their area side-by-side to ensure a thorough understanding of how our recommendations stack up. This free tool not only cuts down the time needed to find the right Medicare plan but also offers a transparent, easy-to-use, and empowering experience for all users.
Remark - Therapy Aid for Daily Mental Health Results
The Remark App enhances therapy by offering personalized tools that complement your therapist's guidance. With features like mood tracking, journaling, and custom reminders, it integrates therapy insights into your daily routine, promoting ongoing growth and self-awareness.
☮️ - remarktherapy.com
EasySpeak - Real-Time Communication for Non-Verbal Individuals
EasySpeak is an app that enables real-time communication for non-verbal individuals. Think Stephen Hawking and the technology he used. They import data like texts, emails, etc to train the AI. The app will transcribe what someone says to the user and come up with personalized responses that they can choose from instead of typing out every letter.
Rover - Deal-Closing AI Text Assistant for Service Businesses
Rover is an AI text assistant that automatically follows up on missed calls to service businesses 24/7, aiming to book appointments and close deals that would otherwise be lost opportunities.
🐶 - textrover.co
Trakkup - Employee Scheduling for Outfitters
Trakkup is a workforce management software designed for guiding, outfitting, and outdoor companies. It automates employee scheduling by integrating with reservation systems to schedule qualified employees for custom shifts and multi-day shifts based on passenger reservations
📆 - trakkup.com
Intro - Forming Connections Beyond the Screen
Intro is an app that reduces anxiety around networking events and trade shows by connecting attendees who have matching business needs. Users create profiles listing their interests, and Intro notifies them of potential valuable connections to meet up with at the same event.
Sora Cloud - AI Mentor to Guide Cloud Cost Control
Sora is an AI-powered cloud cost management mentor. It scans a company's infrastructure across major cloud providers, identifies areas of overspending, and provides personalized advice with charts, insights and guidance tailored to the business's needs - aiming to forecast and control future cloud expenses as the company scales.
☁️ - soracloud.io
Evertro - StockX for Video Games
Everto is the only peer-to-peer marketplace for hand-authenticated video games. What StockX and GOAT are for shoes, they are for physical video games, namely retro and limited edition games. Every game bought on our marketplace gets shipped to Evertro headquarters, where its authenticity is verified and the game is tested for quality assurance before reaching the end buyer.
👾 - evertro.com
Ignite - Digital Wellness Community for Young People
Ignite is creating a movement to combat Gen Z's loneliness from excessive smartphone/social media use. They offer discussion groups on technology's impacts and are building a community committed to taking a "summer off" social media, aiming to enable deeper connections with less distraction.
✨ - getignite.org
Checkmate - Competitive Research Tools for E-Commerce
Checkmate uses customer and revenue data to map your competitive landscape, allowing you to understand competitors’ weaknesses with customers and how you could exploit those weakness.
Gainify - Gamifying the Workout Experience
Gainify lets you choose any influencer's workout and use interactive features to mirror their routine. Effortlessly log your workouts and monitor your progress over time. Engage with a supportive community of fitness enthusiasts.
💪 - gainify.app
KidLit - Interactive Resources for Early-Age Learners
Kidlit is an edtech startup that allows users to create personalized children's books through an interactive platform. Their mission is to inspire kids to love learning by offering educational yet imaginative resources. Kidlit's MVP enables users to generate customized children's stories by providing the topic and selecting an image style.
📚 - KidLit (Survey)
Kiba - Two-Way Radio Used Through Smartphone
Kiba introduces a new handheld radio that seamlessly connects to your smartphone. This device enables outdoor enthusiasts to send messages, share their location, and engage in push-to-talk communication, all without relying on cell service. Access these features conveniently through a mobile app on your smartphone. Plus, the radio is engineered for long-range transmission, extended battery life, and durability in harsh outdoor conditions.
Twilight - Marketplace for seniors to find live-in caregivers
Twilight is a marketplace that connects senior citizens who need in-home care support with student caregivers, offering an affordable solution compared to traditional services. The platform matches seniors who have a spare room with students who can provide the needed caregiving support
Mova - AI Tutor for English Learners
An AI-powered app that allows English learners to practice real-world conversations in English and build confidence in their language skills.
Swipe - Spend Management for Contractors
The AI-powered spend platform for construction. With Swipe you can assign pre-set limits on projects and employee credit cards and auto-match transactions to project plans. You can also automate invoice verification, intelligent expense tracking, tax compliance, and fraud detection.
💳 - tryswipe.io
Digit - Personalized AI Math Tutoring
Digit is an AI-powered math tutor that aims to personalize the learning experience for students in the public school system. Digit provides a more personalized approach, guiding students through the problem-solving process and using the same vocabulary and concepts as the Common Core curriculum to ensure greater accuracy and relevance.
Scholar Media Co - Lead Generation for Study Abroad Providers
Scholar Media provides lead generation services for study abroad program providers. They connect students with the best study abroad programs for them.
🌎 - scholarmedia.co
Corevelo - White-Label Fitness Apps for Influencers
Corevelo creates custom fitness apps for influencers. They require no upfront costs and let the influencer keep 90% of the revenue. Seriously, it’s a no brainer.
🏋️♂️ - corevelo.pro
WorldSmith - AI-Powered D&D Game Preparation
WorldSmith is a platform designed to empower Dungeon and Dragons players by simplifying game preparation. WorldSmith offers tools for campaign management, immersive world building, detailed quest creation. Our suite includes customizable generators for maps, monsters, NPCs, characters, puzzles, traps, magic items, spells, and so much more. At WorldSmith, our mission is to empower game masters to create unparalleled, immersive TTRPG storytelling experiences for their players. Easy prep, epic play.
🎲 - worldsmith.io
Mars - Automatic Customer Insights for Marketing
Mars is your marketing AI assistant, always performing analysis on your company's sales and customer success calls. Mars uncovers the customer's voice, extracts key moments to watch, and automatically starts on persona mapping and competitive analysis. Save hours and increase conversion.
Subtract - Construction Management Through Text, Email, and WhatsApp
Subtract is a construction management platform that integrates with text, email, and WhatsApp to streamline communication for residential builders. Their solution allows builders to automatically distribute project details to subcontractors via their preferred channels, while using AI to update the project management system.
Stratus - AI Platform for Healthcare Front Desks
Stratus is an AI-powered solution that automates the process of handling insurance calls for dental and healthcare providers. By automatically pulling patient data, calling insurance companies, and updating the provider's systems, Stratus eliminates the need for front office staff to spend hours on the phone, allowing them to focus on more important tasks.