One of our cohort founders got matched at Demo Day and closed a $100,000 check from an angel a month later. Another came out of the same cohort and is closing in on 40,000 users. This is The Showcase. This first edition is the Propel Earth cohort: the founders who built inside the accelerator, five at a time.
Leading the board this week
AI PRIVACY · $100,000 ANGEL CHECK
Aurora Wenters, Evermind Labs
A privacy-native AI layer for the open internet, already past 100,000 users across 173 countries with six-figure ARR. She registered for Demo Day, we matched her before the doors opened, and a month later she closed the check.
MENTAL HEALTH / GEN Z · CLOSING IN ON 40,000 USERS
Jackson Greene, Arkzphere
Arkzphere is getting Gen Z hooked on real life instead of their phones. He posted 25.5 percent week one retention in his first 30 days, and the number keeps climbing.
Three more, by sector
HEALTH AND NEUROTECH · RAISING $500,000
Sol Trevino, ALLBCI Neurotech
A brain-computer interface platform built to get neural tech out of research labs and into the hands of people who need it. Pre-seed, with an MVP and active users already across multiple countries.
AI INFRASTRUCTURE · 6,000+ DEVELOPERS, 110+ COUNTRIES
Abhyuday Desai, Ready Tensor
The hub where AI builders publish real projects instead of just papers. Raising $1,500,000 on the back of organic developer growth across more than 110 countries.
SUSTAINABILITY · RAISING $25,000 TO $50,000
Ayvan Krishan, ReBottle App
Infrastructure that powers and improves local bottle recycling. Two redemption businesses onboarded so far, pre-seed, and looking for the capital to take it past the first two.
What the cohort is selling
Every one of these is live on the marketplace right now.
$249 · OTHER
Software for Bottle Redemption Businesses
Ayvan Krishan's cloud software that runs a redemption business, from inventory and pickups to automated payouts.
$450 · CONSULTING
What Your AI Is Actually Optimizing For
Zsombor Koman's working advisory session for founders who want to know what their AI product really encodes.
$1 · ACCOUNTING & FINANCE
CPA Tax Strategies
Fractional CFO and CPA strategy from Moshe at Cohen & Co, Propel's own CPA partner.
Want to be featured next week
How it works. Hit the button below, then log in or create an account. Fill in your founder profile with your startup, your mission, and your impact goals. Our team reviews it to confirm the fit. Ten minutes, and you are in front of the whole network.
Every founder above came through Propel first. Make your founder profile, get in front of this network, and be in next week's five.
New here? This is Propel Earth.
A network of roughly 20,000 founders, investors and operators, most of them in New York. We run rooms every week, we place engineers, and we match people to what they need by hand. Aurora Wenters told us what she needed when she registered for Demo Day, we matched her before the doors opened, and she closed $100,000 a month later. That is the whole thesis: most of what makes a company work is who you happen to be standing next to, so we stop leaving it to chance.
The Propeller Network is open. It is where the loop closes between editions. Post what you need in Asks, post what landed in Closed, say you are coming in Rooms, find work in Hiring, and introduce yourself so we know who you are. Free, and I read everything in there.
Best,
Stephen
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