Roomba for Snow, AI employee, and an All-in-one Coaching Solution

Happy Monday!

Welcome to the latest edition of unistart, where we feature the hottest early stage startups, job opportunities, and valuable resources, all in one newsletter.

We’re excited to announce that we just launched at the University of Minnesota! In honor of that, this week we’re featuring 3 popping startups from their school.

Now let’s dive straight into what’s on 🔥 this week.

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1. Startups of the Week - University of Minnesota Edition

2. New Entry Level Job Openings

3. Deal Preview of the Week

4. We NEED your help!

🤟 What Your Classmates Are Building

Nivoso

What? - An autonomous winter maintenance robot that can clear snow and maintain lawns. It’s like a Roomba for snow.

Why? - If you live in a place that snows, you’ll know that clearing snow is a chore. You have to constantly monitor it and it takes hours to do. Nivoso uses sensors to work around the clock to ensure that your driveways and sidewalks are safe.

• 📍Industries: Home Maintenance, Hardware

• 🚀 Stage: Pre-seed

• 🛠 Founded: 2020

• 😎 Founders: Max Nivoso (UMN)

Bonus: Nivoso actually started as a 6th-grade science project of the founder, Max Minakov. We featured his story in a LinkedIn post here.

They’re also looking for mechanical engineering and robotics interns. Reply to this email with your resume if you’re interested!

Lucy

What? - An AI assistant that reads and synthesizes information from an organization’s internal files and systems and over 50 million pages of content from thousands of sources. Instead of searching for information themselves, employees can save time by asking Lucy.

Why? - Information in the workplace is inefficiently shared. Companies spend time and money doing research that someone else in the company might have already done.

• 📍Industries: Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Media, Customer Service

• 🚀 Stage: Series A

• 🛠 Founded: 2016

• 😎 Founders: Scott Litman (UMN), Marc Dispensa (NYU), Dan Mallin (UMN)

Zoee

What? - An all-in-one platform for coaches to host their business. It includes everything a coach needs to run their business from client scheduling to automated invoicing.

Why? - Some coaches may not be equipped to run the business side of their coaching programs. Zoee takes care of this so they can focus on what they do best — coaching their clients.

• 📍Industries: Consumer Software, Marketplace, SaaS, Software

• 🚀 Stage: Debt Financing

• 🛠 Founded: 2019

• 😎 Founders: Nichole Lowe (UMN)

Know of a startup that we should feature in this newsletter? Send us a reply!

📃 New Job Openings

• Intuit Credit Karma, helping more than 130 million members globally with their credit, is hiring software engineering interns.

• Build your finance skills by interning for Red Hat.

• Get practical experience interning for one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world at FOX.

None of these a fit? Check our job board for more.

We update our job board weekly with the best entry-level jobs in startups & tech.

💰 Deal Preview for the Week

Each week, we’ll be giving everyone on our email list a preview of one of the startups in our curated deal flow list.

This week’s: Social ticketing app growing 40% MoM at $25k MRR.

Interested? Shoot us a reply and we will forward you the deck

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