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Meet the 2025-2026 Zell Entrepreneurs

October 23, 2025

Venture Track

Serena Ahuja

Kusuma Collective: A clothing brand that fuses artisanal craftsmanship from India with contemporary design to create pieces that are made to last, to be lived in, and to be loved across generations.


Zannah Baker

Fastflo: A B2B SaaS hiring platform that revolutionizes frontline recruiting by moving the entire process into candidates’ messaging apps.


Kelvin Chang

Tinu AI: Your organization’s continuous memory. Lightweight journaling and AI summaries transform daily work into a living knowledge graph, ensuring the “why” behind decisions never leaves the organization.


Samuel Deutsch

Roxbury: A fintech platform modernizing nightlife payments through prepaid digital bar tabs.


William Furge

BasisEdge: Aims to give traders and farmers unprecedented clarity on when and where to move grain in the fragmented agricultural industry.


Ishika Gupta

Rupay Bachao: An e-commerce platform designed to boost your business’s sales through cashless transactions and goods to goods exchange trading.


Gunn Lakdee

Accelerate Blue Foundry: Passionate about technology commercialization and being a founding member of a U-M technology coming out of the Accelerate Blue Foundry.


Jaenelle Lauture

Krik Krak: An educational platform designed to close the gap between school reading instruction and parental support at home.


Ryan Lynn

OuterEdge: Helps entrepreneurs and businesses leverage AI and other emerging technologies to ideate, launch, and scale what’s next.


Saron Mechale

goTeff: Disrupting the industry of nutrition for endurance athletes and health-conscious consumers by offering snacks made from Teff, the superfood that fuels world champion Ethiopian runners.


Rachel Silcox

Puffin Air Purifiers: Designed with novel filtration technology to reduce CO2 and other gaseous pollutant levels in stuffy air filled indoor spaces, in order to boost people’s productivity and wellness.


Shalin Zarboulas

Skala: Connects high school students with college students for personalized and authentic conversations and insightful campus tours.


ETA Track

Kenny Berrouet

Pursuing traditional Search in compliance-driven, labor-intensive B2B service companies.


Benton Boeck

Pursuing blue-collar or drone-based businesses in a tier 2 city in the US.


Christopher Corbett

Pursuing opportunities in Michigan and the Great Lakes region within the marine, environmental, and safety sectors.


Ebbin DanieL

Pursuing opportunities in Manufacturing Services and Healthcare Services in the US.


Mahsa Javadi

Pursuing lower middle-market healthcare and business services companies in the United States.


Tyler Jensen

Pursuing all opportunities in the Southeast region of the US.


Noah Kim

Pursuing industrial outdoor storage businesses in the Midwest.


Brian Lipchik

Pursuing all industries with a preference for B2B services and blue-collar sectors in the Phoenix Metro Area and growing outward from there.


Bryce Masterson

Pursuing opportunities in the US for Digital Asset Assurance, Cybersecurity, or Infrastructure Construction Services.