As we reflect on our Zahntrepreneurs’ accomplishments in 2025, we are also gearing up for another year of innovation. Please meet our 2026 Venture Incubator cohort who are now part of the Zahn community. 20 teams working in a wide range of industries solving problems for diverse populations will learn and develop their venture ideas together this coming spring, ultimately competing for up to $15k of prize funding with their business pitches and MVPs.
Congratulations to our new cohort of startup founders, and we hope you will celebrate their accomplishments with us in the next few months.
Kaylie Hardware Track
- Art Tan is a natural solar cabin that allows people to enjoy the benefits of the sun all year around.
- HumanlySynced creates assistive devices that improve blue-collar workers' health, safety and overall quality of life.
- SteadyAid is dedicated to creating lightweight, affordable devices that provide independence and stability for people with neurodegenerative, movement, and congenital disabilities through innovative 3D-printed design.
- Kinetic is a hardware startup that aims to restore proprioception and reduce phantom limb pain for amputees by developing novel sensors that deliver real time pressure and tilt feedback in prosthetic limbs.
- XeroForm is delivering genuine engineering-grade capability to any space with a high-performance desktop SLS machine built for makers, educators, and emerging innovators.
Standard Chartered Women+Tech Track
- Cognition is an AI-Powered LMS Web Platform with interactive sales, navigation, and product training tailored for each store and for each employee.
- Gaea's Coop is an innovation hub that creates pilot projects that ameliorate the trajectory of the world.
- NavU is a campus-navigation platform that delivers personalized, accessible routes and real-time facility updates to help students move across campus efficiently and safely.
- Popped Up! is an app that provides live updates and analytics for pop up events.
- PlantPulse is a real-time plant monitoring system that tracks key environmental conditions for healthier indoor plants.
Zahn Social Impact Track
- Bearcat Thrift builds sustainable campus communities through student-led pop-up markets, empowering student entrepreneurs.
- Diiff is a faith-centered wellness company designed to help Gen-Z’s reconnect with who they are spiritually, mentally and physically.
- ReHome is a platform that recovers, vets, and channels functional household essentials to low-income families, allowing their homes to feel complete and truly theirs.
- Scholars in Our Society & Africa (SOSA) supports underserved communities by offering practical assistance and empowering programs that help bridge the systemic gaps they face.
- TASK: Transform After School Kit makes third spaces accessible in every community.
Zahn Software Track
- DeepLine aims to be a SaaS platform that automates data quality assurance by detecting errors, and inconsistencies, enabling teams to maintain clean, reliable datasets with little to no manual effort.
- InterNest is a housing platform that matches interns who are working in the same area, helping them connect, team up, and find affordable housing together instead of struggling alone.
- OrthoMeasure is a musculoskeletal intelligence platform that provides imaging and clinical analysis to optimize diagnosis, treatment, surgical planning, and longitudinal care pathways.
- Ortica is an AI powered learning platform that teaches any subject through realtime visual explanations.
- Team F is creating an AI-powered advising platform that provides personalized academic, campus, and career guidance for every CUNY student.