Fall 2021 Cohort

Dinesurf helps diners in Nigeria and across Africa to discover, research and make reservations at restaurants in their city based on real-time data. We also provide restaurants with reservation and guest management tools to help improve their guest experiences, increase ROI and optimize their processes to reduce overhead costs.

Team Members: Martins Udotai

Team Mentors:

STORY: HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Martins Udotai Tells Us about His Startup, Dinesurf.

Hotel+ is a subscription based program where users have unlimited access to select hotels during the day. Members can book hotel rooms for 6 hours and benefit from unlimited access to hotel amenities like gyms, business centers and gain discounts in room rates and the hotel restaurant. Forget long waits at coffee shops and lounges at airports. Instead users can book hotel rooms to have a place to rest, work, eat at your favourite restaurant, and work a sweat at the gym.

Team Members: Bernardo Zorrilla

Team Mentors:

STORY: Hotel+ is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Bernardo Zorrilla, founder, tells us more about the business.

Autonomous micro-retail for ramen - reinventing authentic gourmet ramen dining. All delivered within 45 seconds.

Team Members: Daniel Liu

Team Mentors:

STORY: HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Daniel Liu Tells Us about His Startup, Kenta Ramen.

Our Vintage Earth creates and curates experiences for the environmentally nostalgic, with a goal of reviving cultures and the natural environment. Our clients will be able to book ethical ecotourism, gastro-tourism, agro-tourism, and arts and cultural excursions through our website. Each purchase will help implement technology and processes to benefit the ecosystem and communities involved in the project. Through education, regenerative practices, and community-based activities, we are creating a tourism space that will benefit our planet.

Team Members: Yasmin Yusuff

Team Mentors:

STORY: Our Vintage Earth is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Yasmin Yusuff, founder, tells us more about the business.

Swagger is a new sports prediction platform with a unique, points-based format that empowers all sports fans, regardless of skill level and experience, to predict live sports outcomes with confidence in their ability to win based simply on their love of sports. Currently, Swagger is in-market with a free-to-play sports prediction game, featuring sports memorabilia prizes, that's an ideal fan engagement platform. Shortly, we will be launching a real-money Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) game that provides sports fans with a fun, low-risk, and friendly way to engage with their favorite sports. It is estimated that the DFS and the legal sports wagering markets will be $140B by 2025.

Team Members: Ranel Castro

Team Mentors:

STORY: HI Hub Incubator Program Finalist Ranel Castro Tells Us about His Startup, Swagger Gaming, Inc.

Urban|Safe’s mission starts with sustainability. In a world where environmental concerns are gaining an increasingly critical importance, making tourism sustainable has become one of the most critical goals for the hospitality industry. With that in mind, Urban|Safe aims to make shared-ride bike transportation a more viable option both for visitors and locals who also travel as tourists. In doing so, Urban|Safe focuses on one of the bottlenecks in using these services: the risk associated with riding a bike on the road and the high cost or lack of insurance coverage for minor injuries resulting from bicycle accidents. Since shared-ride bikes are becoming more popular among visitors, by mitigating the perception of risk through minor injury protection at an extremely affordable cost, Urban|Safe removes a mental roadblock for potential users and increases the attractiveness of a destination wherever it is available.

Team Members: Anjie "Jeff" Dong, Alp Ozaman, Burkay Alpyildiztells

Team Mentors:

STORY: Urban|Safe is one of the finalists in the HI Hub Incubator Program. Founders Anjie "Jeff" Dong, Alp Ozaman, and Burkay Alpyildiztells us more about the business.