1. Phyre - Phyre building a portable device that plugs into any
display and makes it easy to wirelessly show visual content on
big screens. The device is called Torch. Torch is wirelessly
accessible from a phone, tablet, or laptop, and it allows a user to
utilize a big screen like it’s an extension of their device. The co-
founders, Patrick Allen, Josh Jackson, and Matt Ricketson, are all The Boston College Technology
BC seniors with collective experience that includes winning the Council Presents
MIT$100K ESC Mobile Track, being named a MassChallenge
finalist, being named a BCVC finalist, and developing the mobile
app for a venture-backed Y-Combinator graduate.
Contact: patrick@phyreup.com
Viraleigh
–Founded
by
“20
under
20”
Thiel
Finalist
Riley
Drake
(BC
'16),
Viraleigh
aims
to
engineer
broad
spectrum
viral
treatments
that
would
treat
a
class
of
viruses
as
opposed
to
a
single
strain.
Riley
has
worked
in
labs
at
Johns
Hopkins
University
and
Massachusetts
General
Hospital.
The 2013 Boston College Young
She
aims
to
create
therapies
whose
far-‐reaching
specificities
Entrepreneurs Showcase
would
allow
for
the
systematic
eradication
of
viruses
within
a
reasonable
timeframe,
in
a
manner
similar
to
the
global
revolution
brought
on
by
the
invention
of
antibiotics.
BCVC Alumni:
Contact:
info@viraleigh.com
• Drizly and Mident
• Jebbit (TechStars Boston Spring 2013)
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• NBD nano (TechStars Boston Fall 2012)
• Wymsee (TechStars Boston Fall 2012)
Get
Involved:
The
Boston
College
Venture
Competition
is
a
student-‐run
Current Student Teams:
organization
that
provides
juried
competitions,
prize
money,
an
• Campus Calories (BCVC ’13 Finalist)
accelerator,
mentorship
and
education
for
BC
student
• Phyre (BCVC ’13 Finalist)
entrepreneurs.
BCVC
participants
have
gone
on
to
gain
• Viraleigh (Thiel Fellow Finalist)
admission
to
elite
accelerators
(Y-‐Combinator,
TechStars,
Summer@Highland,
MassChallenge),
win
competitions
at
MIT
and
Yale,
launch
multiple
products,
and
raise
millions
in
capital.
To
get
involved,
visit
bcvc.org
or
contact:
bcvc@gmail.com
2. Drizly and Mident - Launched in 2013 by 3 BC grads (including a ’12). The firm won the 2012 Boston College Venture
prior BCVC finalist) and currently in private alpha, Drizly offers Competition, graduated from TechStars Boston in Fall 2012, and
users the ability to order alcohol with their iOS device and have has received press coverage from the BBC, NPR, and other
it delivered to them by their local liquor store in under 60 major outlets. NBD nano has raised over half a million dollars
minutes. The firm’s software platform facilitates connections in capital to date and has secured exclusive materials licenses for
between brands, liquor stores, and consumers. Drizly's exclusive the commercialization its technology.
joint venture, Mident, is the leader in mobile ID verification with Contact: miguel@nbdnano.com
its offerings being used by liquor control commissions and law
enforcement at all levels, nationwide. Mident's current product Wymsee – started by BC ’11 alumni who participated in BCVC
development and partnerships are paving the way for security in with different ideas, the Wymsee team assembled shortly after
mobile payments and banking that was previously impossible. graduation and has already launched their first product,
Drizly and Mident have taken no investment, to date, to accomplish SyncOnSet, a management tool for TV and film production design
the aforementioned. teams. The company's widely-praised products have been used on
Contact: nick@drizly.com over a 60 productions, including NBC’s 30 Rock, HBO’s
Boardwalk Empire, an upcoming Martin Scorsese feature film,
Jebbit – After winning the 2011 BCVC competition, Jebbit was and Anchorman 2. Data from the tool will eventually extend to
the youngest founder-team selected to participate in the highly- record product placement and fuel entertainment-linked consumer
competitive Summer@Highland program in Cambridge, MA. The commerce. A Fall 2012 graduate of TechStars Boston, Wymsee’s
firm’s pay-per-performance advertising platform that connects seed round of financing has oversubscribed.
brands with the college market launched in Spring 2012, attracting Contact: alex@wymsee.com
national advertisers, including BOSE, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft. In
just 9 months of operation, Jebbit has spread to over 2,500 Campus Calories – a mobile application that allows students to
universities in the U.S. Jebbit has raised over $500,000 in seed access the nutritional information at their school. Students can
funding to date from prominent investors including HubSpot Co- search their school-specific nutritional database and track their
Founder, Dharmesh Shah, General Catalyst Founder, John Simon, daily intake of calories and other nutrients. Launched in January
and Boston Seed Capital. Jebbit has been named one of the Top 25 2013 at Boston College, Campus Calories has been downloaded
Most Promising Startups in the World by CNBC, and has been over 3,750 times from Apple’s App Store. The app now includes
profiled in Inc. Magazine, Boston Business Journal, and other nutritional information for Boston College, UMass Amherst,
outlets. Jebbit was recently named to the Spring 2013 class of and MIT. Students have requested the app over at over a dozen
TechStars Boston. The firm is lead by BC undergrads Tom other colleges. In addition to adding more schools to the mobile
Coburn (CEO), Jonathan Lacoste (COO), and Chase McAleese app, Campus Calories is working with BC Dining to develop much
(CPO). needed software improvements for dining services departments.
Contact: tom@jebbit.com Campus Calories is currently a BCVC finalist. The team is
comprised of founder Jimmy Campbell (a current BC senior) and
NBD nano – a material science effort to provide thin-film coatings his BC Skiing teammate Dario Baldoni (BC ’12.)
that enhance condensation and heat transfer performance, NBD Contact: jimmy@campuscalories.com
nano is led by Miguel Galvez and Deckard Sorenson (both BC
