YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 7, 2013

Founder Josh Weingart started WaterDrop Shop while enrolled at Illinois State University. Founder Jaijeet Kakkar is a college student at UC Riverside but co-founded Imprue while still in high school. Founder Ben Lewis started the company while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Walk for good with WaterDrop Shop.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 29, 2015

I can’t tell you how excited I was when Brett Hagler , CEO and co-founder of New Story (funding life-changing houses for homeless families), told me that they were accepted into Y Combinator (YC). 2) start a crowdfunding campaign to help fund a house. (3) Side note: I donated my last birthday to New Story.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When my co-founder Mohan Balachandran and I initially considered names for our company, which offers HIPAA compliant hosting and integration tools for healthcare technology teams, we wanted our company name to represent action, so we chose the verb to catalyze rather than the noun catalyst. #21 Thanks to Michael Harris, Uproar PR ! #15

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