Great to go back to San Francisco in August for our Singularity University’s Graduate Studies Program Reunion. So proud of my classmates, their projects and how far they’ve come.  Here are some of the projects my classmates are working on (both SU companies and non-SU companies).

• Awake Labs - A wearable for autism that measures and tracks anxiety to help you better understand behaviour and prevent meltdowns. (Andrea Palmer)
• Iris AI - will analyze the abstract of your research paper, present the key concepts, and link those with other research papers.  Use the tool at https://the.iris.ai.  (Anita Schjøll Brede, Maria Ritola, Jacobo Elosua)

• ImpactVision - building a more transparent and effective global food system, using hyperspectral technology. (Abi Ramanan, Gustav Nipe)
• Emerge - currently refining the "mid air touch" concept, where ultrasound waves generate pressure to enhance the experience of virtual reality users. (Sly Lee, Isaac Castro, Mauricio Terán)

• Miracle Messages - helps homeless people record short video messages to their dearly missed loved ones, and then attempts to reunite them using social media. (Kevin Adler)
• Neurescue™ - developing a new class of medical devices for the treatment of cardiac arrest. The Neurescue™ device is a small, computer-controlled balloon catheter that is inserted into a blood vessel in the leg, the femoral artery, and occludes the aorta in order to redistribute the blood flow generated by chest compressions to the two most sensitive organs; the heart and brain. (Habib Frost)

• Bloomer - working to end heard disease through early detection via smart clothing. (Alicia Chong, Ana Karen Ramirez, Monica Abarca, Liddy Kiaty Figueroa, Einstein Ntim)
• iHelmut - a next generation helmut to keep motorcyclists safe on the road. This innovation won $500k in the Verizon Powerful Answers Competition in 2015. (Ganindu Nanayakkara)
• AIME - the platform provides its users with the exact geo location and date of the next dengue outbreak, 3 months in advance. (Dhesi Raja, Rainier Mallol)
• Future Lighthouse - a video production company that tells stories in virtual reality. (Nicolas Alcala)
• Vestigo - a place to find independent outdoor guides who lead trips in your area. (Marshall Mosher)

 

It’s so cool to have a group of friends who are working on improving the world using exponential technologies on an international scale!

Actually, this has made me curious.  So I crunched some numbers.  From my calculations, 62% of the 79 people in my class at Singularity are full-time entrepreneurs in a venture they founded or co-founded, and 65% of the 79 people are either full-time or part-time entrepreneurs as a founder or co-founder.  The part-time entrepreneurs are also studying.

To my knowledge, 19 of my 79 classmates are still working on their SU projects they presented onstage at our final pitch session.