MIT Startup Exchange is convening a new installment of Demo Day on Thursday, February 27 (12 PM – 1:15 PM ET). The event will feature several exciting industry-ready startups in brief lightning talks and Q&A. Breakout rooms will follow at the end of the event.
Please register in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
This event is for ILP members.
Ariadna Rodenstein is a Program Manager at MIT Startup Exchange. She joined MIT Corporate Relations as an Events Leader in September 2019 and is responsible for designing and executing startup events, including content development, coaching and hosting, and logistics. Ms. Rodenstein works closely with the Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) in promoting collaboration and partnerships between MIT-connected startups and industry, as well as with other areas around the MIT innovation ecosystem and beyond.
Prior to working for MIT Corporate Relations, she worked for over a decade at Credit Suisse Group in New York and London, in a few different roles in event management and as Director of Client Strategy. Ms. Rodenstein has combined her experience in the private sector with work at non-profits as a Consultant and Development Director at New York Immigration Coalition, Immigrant Defense Project, and Americas Society/Council of the Americas. She also served as an Officer on the Board of Directors of the Riverside Clay Tennis Association in New York for several years. Additionally, she earned her B.A. in Political Science and Communications from New York University, with coursework at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico City, and her M.A. in Sociology from the City University of New York.
Co-Founder & CEO, EQORE
Valeriia is the co-founder and CEO of EQORE, delivering limitless savings opportunities for businesses through an end-to-end energy storage solution. She completed her mechanical engineering degree at MIT as an international student from Ukraine. Throughout her academic career, Valeriia conducted renewable energy research and received a patent for sustainable power generation at the age of 16. Before founding EQORE, she worked at the Barcelona-based X1 Wind and in Tesla’s battery department.
Co-Founder & CEO, Scaled Foundations
Founder & CEO, Ema
Surojit is the founder and CEO of Ema. Previously, he guided Coinbase through a successful 2021 IPO as its Chief Product Officer and scaled Google Mobile Ads and Google Shopping into multi billion dollar businesses as the VP and Head of Product. Surojit holds 40 US patents and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, MS in Computer Science from SUNY at Buffalo, and B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur.
Founder and CEO, Happily.ai
Tareef is a researcher and product builder at the intersection of AI, people analytics, and workplace well-being. His work, rooted in his research during his MBA at MIT, explores how AI-driven insights and workplace technologies shape employee health, happiness, and performance. By bridging cutting-edge AI research with real-world applications, he helps organizations harness culture-intelligent systems to drive productivity and engagement. Tareef’s work in AI and behavioral science is shaping a more human-centered future of work.
Co-Founder, Wellfulli
At MIT Sandbox, Vyda Bielkus is an Entrepreneur in Residence and Director of the DHIVE Healthcare Entrepreneurship Program. She oversees all aspects of DHIVE program development and facilitates partnership opportunities.
Bielkus is a seasoned entrepreneur with 20+ years’ experience scaling startups from idea to fully multi-dimensional operations. With previous experiences in early-stage healthcare, technology, and wellness companies she is passionate about fostering entrepreneurship. As VP of Strategy and Business Development at MedicaMetrix, a prostate health startup, she focused on developing a new biomarker test for prostate cancer.
Previously Bielkus was a co-founder and CEO of Health Yoga Life, a multi-location and online yoga & wellness company. Prior to helping shape the yoga industry in the US, she was an early employee and director of operations for a successful technology startup acquired by Motorola for $400 million. Her most recent start-up, Wellfulli, reimagines how individuals engage with their emotional wellness.
Bielkus holds a Master of Business Administration degree with an additional Healthcare Certificate from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College.
Co-Founder and CEO, Delineate
Emily Nieves is Co-Founder and CEO of Delineate, an AI copilot for computational pharmacology. Delineate empowers pharma and biotech companies to make faster, evidence-driven decisions, de-risking development across all departments. Nieves is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Engineering at MIT where she focuses on the intersection of AI and pharmacology. She has previously worked at large pharmaceutical companies such as AstraZeneca and Pfizer where she built models to assist in answering various questions along the drug development process. Nieves is passionate about enabling scientists to make the best evidence-based decisions possible.
President and CEO, SanaHeal
Patrick is President and CEO of SanaHeal, Inc. with extensive experience as a serial entrepreneur over 30 years in the field of medical devices. Patrick received his B.A. at Harvard on Economics and M.S. at MIT Sloan School of Management on Management Science. Before joining SanaHeal, Inc., he took leadership of four successfully exited medical device startups as either CEO or President, including Smart Therapeutics and Bioabsorbable Therapeutics. He is also serving as the Director of MIT Angels Biotech/Life Sciences track in Boston.
Co-Founder & CEO, Profit Isle
John Wass is the Co-Founder and CEO of Profit Isle, a SaaS startup based in Cambridge, MA. The Profit Isle Platform helps companies make their enterprise data speak profit—generating coherent datasets that are updated every period, ready for AI and BI applications. By integrating and transforming siloed, disparate datasets, the PI Platform assigns general ledger costs to each transaction and generates a full P&L for every invoice line. Having analyzed more than $300 billion in revenues, the Profit Isle platform provides teams across retail, distribution, manufacturing, and services industries with profit insights and recommendations grounded in a company’s data, delivering rapid ROI and value. John is a disruptor in the AI and fintech space and an entrepreneur at heart, with a proven track record of building and scaling companies, increasing profitability for customers, while scaling operations and driving innovation. John earned his master’s degree from MIT in Logistics and a B.S.E. from Princeton. John co-authored the book, Choose Your Customer: How toCompete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive, has lectured at MIT for 10+ years, wrote numerous published articles, and regularly presents at seminars across the country on topics such as profitability, digital transformation, RFID, and supply chain innovation.
Disclaimer: MIT Startup Exchange can make introductions that ideally provide open ended discussions in order to share mutual interests and potentially create common ground that incite the parties to collaborate. MIT Startup Exchange introductions may eventually lead to mutual partnerships, but that is not in any way guaranteed by MIT, MIT Corporate Relations, MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP) or MIT Startup Exchange, which takes no responsibility for these outcomes and no formal part in such discussions following our introduction. MIT Startup Exchange and its activities and events are not for purposes of soliciting investment or offering securities.