i.Lab Startups in Focus: RecruitRef, geedunk and Whipped Cream
By Jay Hodgkins
Snacks baked with a powder made from crickets. LinkedIn for high-school athletes looking to get noticed by college coaches. An all-natural cream for eczema relief made by entrepreneurs also using their business to inspire fellow African-Americans in the community to start their own companies.
The 2018 i.Lab Incubator — a 10-week accelerator hosted by the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and its Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation — had a little bit of everything this summer.
Watch below to learn about three i.Lab ventures, and how the ventures evolved during the incubator, from their founders: Van Hatchell (MBA ’18), founder of RecruitRef (LinkedIn for high-school athletes); Lyon McCandless, founder of geedunk (cricket-based snacks); and Cordell Fortune, co-founder of Whipped Cream (all-natural skin cream).
RecruitRef
geedunk
Whipped Cream
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