Amandipp Singh is a social entrepreneur and accessibility advocate whose personal experience with partial blindness fuels his mission to dismantle systemic barriers for people with disabilities. With over 12 years of grassroots leadership, he has co-designed solutions across education, employment, and technology—ensuring accessibility is built in from the start, not added later. His venture, Enabled Talent, is an AI-powered inclusive employment platform transforming how employers connect with underrepresented talent.

Amandipp’s work has earned wide recognition, including the 2025 40 Under 40 Impact Award and a feature in Yes We Can among India’s Top 100 Achievers with Disabilities. His vision is bold: to create systems that don’t just accommodate difference—but thrive on it. As he puts it, “We deserve tools, systems, and communities built with us in mind—not ones we have to fight to fit into.”

Venture | Enabled Talent

Enable Talent is an inclusive talent-matching platform designed for individuals with disabilities, aiming to remove barriers to employment through AI-guided tools and accessibility-focused career services.

Anushka Jain is the founder and CEO of Share At Door Step, a sustainability-tech platform enabling effortless doorstep donations of preloved goods. Operating across India, Singapore, and the UK, the platform has helped over 2.5 million households declutter responsibly while supporting 135+ charities and partnering with global brands like Amazon and Nautica.

With 15+ years of entrepreneurial experience, Anushka blends circular economy innovation with impact at scale. Her work has earned her honors as a LinkedIn Top Voice in Corporate Sustainability, a Vital Voices Fellow, and one of YourStory’s Tech50. By embedding donation and take-back programs into customer experiences, she’s showing how brands can drive sustainability—and how everyday actions can power climate resilience and community care.

Venture | Share At Door Step

Share At Door Step is a sustainability-tech platform that enables effortless doorstep donations of preloved goods, helping individuals declutter responsibly while supporting charities, and enabling brands to run take-back programs seamlessly.

Tracie Dean Ponder is an award-winning entrepreneur and the founder of Learn Collaborate (LC), an AI-powered platform connecting students—especially at community colleges—to real-world, project-based micro-internships. Backed by over $1.3 million in NSF funding, LC helps learners build skills, confidence, and career-readiness.

Previously, Tracie launched the B~STEM Project, delivering 21,000+ hours of free STEM programming to more than 10,000 girls and women. She holds degrees from NYU and DePaul and brings deep experience in educational equity, workforce innovation, and technology leadership. LC reflects her belief that hands-on learning is the bridge to upward mobility.

Venture | Learn Collaborate

Learn Collaborate (LC) is an AI-powered platform that connects students with real-world, project-based micro-internships and mentorship, helping academic institutions prepare learners—especially at community colleges—for today’s workforce.

Kelly Shea is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and educator who founded Innovation Station Kits to help K–6 students learn the invention process through hands-on creativity. At just 18, she taught herself 3D printing and patented her first product, DripLock, later featured by Orlando Business Journal as one of the “25 Innovators Under 25.”

Kelly’s invention kits promote equity in education—particularly in low-tech, rural, and special-needs classrooms—by making STEM accessible, playful, and personal. Through her work with the United Inventors Association and Earmark Sourcing, she also mentors aspiring innovators nationwide. Her mission: give every child the tools and mindset to invent their future.

Venture | Innovation Station

Innovation Station provides no-tech, hands-on learning kits that walk K–6 students through a simplified entrepreneurial process—identifying a problem, creating a solution, and pitching it.

Anna Ashie is a seasoned housing advocate and the Director of Housing Operations at Homeless Services Network. Over the past 14 years, she’s worked across both nonprofit and corporate sectors to improve housing access for vulnerable populations—and now brings that expertise to Second Story Property Group, a trauma-informed property management company for lower-income communities.

Anna is a HUD-certified inspector, a City Academy alum, and a dedicated neighborhood leader in Orlando’s Parramore community. Her venture reflects her conviction: that housing is not just shelter—it’s the foundation for justice, dignity, and well-being.

Venture | Second Story Property Group

Second Story Property Group provides trauma-informed, quality property management services for lower-income housing, including lawn care and cleaning services.

Dietrich Ruehlmann, Ph.D., MBA, is a product development leader with a 15+ year track record in environmental monitoring, IoT systems, and education technology. As Managing Partner of GaiaXus, he has led the development and global deployment of low-cost water quality sensors for STEM education and citizen science, with pilots from Kenya to Hawaii.

Previously at Medtronic, he launched wireless patient monitoring systems for low-resource healthcare settings. His work bridges cutting-edge technology with social equity, helping underserved communities access tools for environmental resilience and educational advancement. He holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology and an Executive MBA from the University of Maryland.thought leader in equitable STEM education. STEM PLUG is his platform to show kids that science isn’t just for labs—it’s for life.

Venture | GaiaXus

GaiaXus creates affordable, accurate environmental sensors and software to bring water quality monitoring into classrooms and communities, advancing STEM education, citizen science, and climate resilience—especially in underserved regions.