Visible Hands — a pre-seed venture capital firm, backing overlooked, formidable founders who are transforming the future — announces its third cohort of 15 entrepreneurs for VHBOS, a hybrid Fellowship for Boston-based founders. The Fellowship program, created in partnership with the Barr Foundation, will provide $5,000 in non-dilutive funding and hands-on, business-oriented workshops to the 15 founders who are representative of Greater Boston’s rich racial and gender diversity.
VHBOS, a Boston-based fellowship program, has officially launched its third cohort for 2025. This selected group of 15 founders who are representative of Greater Boston’s rich racial and gender diversity will work over the next few months to take their startups to the next level in a hybrid-model fellowship program, with financial and hands-on support from the Barr Foundation and Visible Hands.
Each of the cohort’s entrepreneurs will receive $5K in non-dilutive funding to financially empower them to work on their startups, and Visible Hands will be providing company-building services throughout the fellowship, as well as the opportunity for additional venture capital funding from the firm after successful completion of the program.
VHBOS is an extension of the Visible Hands mission to support overlooked talent, in partnership with the Barr Foundation’s efforts to create more inclusion in the Greater Boston startup ecosystem.
Here are the amazing 15 founders and startups who make up the 2025 VHBOS cohort:
Kiran Panjwani
🏔️ Company: FounderWay
FounderWay is an AI-powered copilot built to level the playing field for entrepreneurs. It exists to support the 98% of founders who don’t get into accelerators and are left without timely guidance, networks, or resources. By combining voice AI (Ace), agentic workflows, and FounderMatch, FounderWay helps founders validate ideas, prioritize tasks, build teams, and move faster with clarity and confidence.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/founderwayai / https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiranpanjwani/
Daniela Campillo
🏔️ Company: Femmli
Femmli translates biometric data into personalized insights using a microneedle patch that continuously monitors hormone levels in real time. Its mission is to transform women’s health from reactive to proactive,empowering women to understand their cycles, moods, and symptoms with clarity, and allowing them to better manage their energy and schedules.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-precisia-collective/people/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielacampillov/
Cindy Belardo
🏔️ Company: Sunny
Sunny is a period-care brand delivering earth-friendly products, inclusive education, and global impact. It invented the Sunny Cup + Applicator, the only FDA-Cleared reusable period cup and applicator that inserts like a tampon, to address the $39 BN period care industry and the growing number of people (6.75% CAGR) interested in a more sustainable and easy-to-use period care alternative.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sunny-period/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindybelardo/
Jadal Williams
🏔️ Company: Vision Sense Analytics
Vision Sense Analytics was founded by a team of MIT PhDs passionate about harnessing the power of AI and Computer Vision to help barn owners and veterinarians maintain healthy animal care. Its technology helps identify horse behavior trends and allows for consistent communication between barn owners, workers, and veterinarians on the well being of their horses.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadal-williams/
Jamie Gong
🏔️ Company: Care Hero
Care Hero is an AI-powered platform connecting families with certified caregivers and resources to support seniors aging in place, making quality care accessible while empowering caregivers with better opportunities.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/care-hero/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiegong/
Yaxin Zhang
🏔️ Company: Leaf.io
Leaf.io is a gamified personal finance app that makes saving, budgeting, and investing truly painless. Users set financial goals, track spending, and build mock portfolios while their blobby leaf-sheep companion grows alongside their progress. Designed for Gen Z and young adults, Leaf.io turns money management into a daily habit that’s simple, adorable, and actually enjoyable.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leaf-io/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhangyaxin/
Sayawni Lassiter
🏔️ Company: Complete Sports
Complete is the all-in-one operating system for modern athletic organizations. Founded on the belief that an athlete's potential should never be limited by their organization's resources, Complete was built to solve the dual crisis of operational chaos and neglected athlete well-being. Its single, intuitive SaaS platform replaces the costly and fragmented web of single-purpose apps with a unified system that seamlessly integrates essential team operations—like communication and scheduling—with critical, holistic athlete wellness features, including mental fitness and nutrition support. Designed for every level of sport—from underserved colleges to elite professional leagues—Complete's mission is to make powerful technology accessible to all.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/complete-sports-corp/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/sayawni-lassiter-20485619a/
Nicole Vournazos
🏔️ Company: Unicorn Prep LLC
Unicorn Prep LLC is internal tooling for data.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicole6/
Rishabh Goel
🏔️ Company: Bond Health
Bond Health is an AI-powered platform that leverages electronic health records (EHRs) to match patients with personalized clinical trials, improving efficiency and diversity in recruitment. By analyzing structured and unstructured data using proprietary large language models, it streamlines the process for hospitals, CROs, and sponsors and saves over $16B in costs while ensuring compliance and precision.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bondtrials/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhgoe/
Lina Gonzalez
🏔️ Company: SpadXTech
SpadXTech is addressing critical environmental challenges related to material production and disposal, specifically targeting petroleum-based plastics that can persist in the environment for centuries. It is committed to transforming the materials landscape with innovative, sustainable solutions that minimize ecological impact. It's long-term vision is to develop and scale high-performance, eco-friendly materials that can replace synthetic and pollutive resources across industries. With a commitment to sustainability, SpadXTech aims to prioritize conscientious energy consumption by harnessing renewable sources to power its material production processes.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spadxtech-biotech/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/lina-m-gonzález-♻%EF%B8%8F-54323440/
Sophia Bender Koning
🏔️ Company: Hold My Juice
Hold My Juice is an AI-powered parenting-tech startup on a mission to put the joy back into family life. It's here to tackle the “motherload” — that endless swirl of calendars, emails, and to-dos — and transform it into something light, shareable, and even fun. By weaving in real context from a family’s daily life, its playful, personality-driven assistant doesn’t just check boxes — it connects tasks to what actually matters: making space for forts, dance parties, and genuine quality time.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hold-my-juice/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophiabk/
Nita Akoh
🏔️ Company: MyAtlas, Inc
MyAtlas is a mental health platform designed to help care providers detect risk early, navigate patients to the right support, and boost outcomes at scale. Using digital phenotyping and behavioral data, MyAtlas predicts mental health decline with over 90% accuracy—unlocking precision tools that allow clinics to proactively engage patients, reduce staff burden, and improve care coordination. At the same time, MyAtlas strengthens patient connection to care and community through 24/7 support, personalized nudges, and credit-based access to wellness partners. It bridges the critical gap in mental health access by uniting neuroscience-driven precision with compassionate community care, serving all populations with particular focus on vulnerable and historically excluded communities
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/myatlas-health/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitaakoh/
Lindsay Kuhn
🏔️ Company: Wingspans
Wingspans is an all-in-one career platform tailored for community colleges and employers hiring out of community colleges. We take a human-centered approach to career discovery and recruitment, helping students see what they can be.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wing-spans/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-kuhn-ph-d-7578b8/
Siddharth Umarani Rajavelu
🏔️ Company: Lexi AI
Lexi is redefining healthcare communication, starting with language. With real-time, AI-powered language access, Lexi tackles an overlooked but massive and growing market of ~30M non-English speaking patients in the U.S., backed by strong regulatory tailwinds. Lexi is a clinical enterprise B2B solution that is workflow-integrated, sticky, and delivers proven ROI in cost savings, efficiency for healthcare systems, provider satisfaction and better patient outcomes.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/withlexi/ / https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddharthur/
William Gao
🏔️ Company: Frootful
Frootful is the AI-powered sales platform that can convert orders you receive from email, calls, Whatsapp and texts directly into your ERP.
👋 Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-g-628461a2/
