Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator ® Powered by gener8tor
Meet our Alumni and learn more about the program.
Northwestern Mutual and gener8tor are committed to providing a premier, high-quality experience for Black entrepreneurs.
For more information on who you'll work with throughout the application,
interview and program cycle, see the list below.
Craig Schedler
Managing Director at Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures
Abim Kolawole
VP, Client Experience Promoting, Referrals Activation and Client Outcomes Optimization at Northwestern Mutual
Moiz Dawoodbhai
Assistant Director of Strategic Investing at Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures
Precious Drew
Senior Managing Director at gener8tor
Maggie Brickerman
Partner at gener8tor
Troy Vosseller
Co-Founder at gener8tor
Meet our Alumni: Fall 2022 Cohort
Centinel
Centinel provides claims-free coverage for hard-to-insure risks. From infectious diseases and climate change to interrupted utilities and event cancellations, Centinel delivers peace of mind with automated, easily customizable, and transparent coverage. No opaque terms, no hidden exclusions, no claims; just simple contracts with open, fair and transparent pricing. Centinel will first launch with coverage for interrupted utilities.
SpenDebt
SpenDebt is a financial technology company helping save one million families from financial fatalities every time they swipe their debit card or have a banking transaction. SpenDebt’s application delivers small, micropayments (ex. $1.00) allowing consumers the ability to spend-and-payoff debt at the same time. As users spend, the specified amount is added as a transaction and then directly applied toward a debt or bill (ex. credit cards, electric bill, etc.). SpenDebt offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) payment solution to support enterprise or business customers recovering payments, including arrearages. This payment solution aggregates company’s accounts receivables from customers helping to increase on-time payments, prevent defaults and reduce charged off accounts; ultimately reversing write-off allowances to bottom-line profits.
UzObi, Inc.
UzObi communicates your cultures, values, and wishes to your doctors. UzObi provides a user-friendly solution to ensure your intentions and your voice are at the center of every healthcare conversation, in all care environments, but ESPECIALLY in unexpected situations where you may not be able to speak for yourself.
UzObi, Inc. is to health care decision-making what Xerox is to business solutions. We are personalizable, efficient, state of the art, and designed to save you time, headache, and heartache, whether you are an individual healthcare consumer or a large-scale enterprise.
Wellacy Health
Wellacy Health improves care delivery and patient health outcomes for patients with chronic diseases. Wellacy Health extends the capabilities of the doctor’s office and relieves the workload of overburdened providers – empowering them to better engage, monitor, and treat patients across the continuum of their health care needs.
What-If Collective
What-If Collective's content and lead generation marketplace creates a bridge between insurance companies and multicultural communities. Insurance companies access What-If Collective’s content and technology marketplace to find new, culturally competent ways to acquire and retain multicultural buyers. What-If provides buyers a curated digital experience that helps them become qualified, educated and empowered multicultural buyers for insurance companies. By doing this, What-If creates a win-win for buyers and insurance companies leveraging insurance to tap an underserved population and to help close the wealth gap.
Meet our Alumni: Summer 2022 Cohort
Pagedip
Pagedip is a “no code” authoring tool that makes it easy for enterprise teams to create and share smart documents. Pagedip’s granular “in-document analytics” can be viewed in real time providing key insights about reader interest down to the word or widget. These documents feature interactive, engaging content that is also on brand, and glean important information used to improve business outcomes in sales, marketing communications and ops.
Pagedip empowers enterprise marketing and enablement teams to dramatically improve sales collateral effectiveness. Our proprietary Content Engagement Index™ tracks the reader's journey in order to improve conversion rate performance and accelerate deals through increased visibility.
Pruuvn
Pruuvn™ is a credentialing and data trust company developing tools, leveraging blockchain technology, to empower the gig economy. A frictionless credentialing, onboarding and compliance/employment platform that utilizes blockchain technology for on-demand access and increased security. Targeting employers that use freelancers/gig workers, we provide fast and cost-efficient background screening, verifications, and compliance.
SnapRefund
SnapRefund is a minority owned fintech that empowers businesses to settle payments instantly through a variety of digital payment rails.
We partner with SMBs & insurance companies to provide them and their payees with a mobile-friendly dashboard where payments can be sent and received.
We offer easy recipient onboarding where only name, email, and payment destination are needed.
Our mission is to give people greater control over their money.
Stimulus
Stimulus is a relationship intelligence SaaS platform that uses a proprietary score, data insights, and relationship-building tools for companies to make the best purchasing decisions and optimize their supplier ecosystem.
Stimulus’ makes it more efficient for companies to choose the right suppliers, fulfill business objectives including location-based and DEI criteria by easily comparing suppliers using relevant metrics and data points, and quickly matching them to available contract opportunities.
Xcellent Life Inc.
Xcellent Life is a digital health & wellness company that provides an AI-powered software and mobile app platform to empower health using our proprietary technology for Real-time Human Diagnostics (RtHD), which is like an Onstar system for the human body. Due to our approach and technology, we cut the cost of care, empower wellness, identify and mitigate health risk and ultimately improve the quality of life for people.
Meet our Alumni: Fall 2021 Cohort
4Degrees
4Degrees empowers communities to better manage relationships. 4Degrees' software centralizes scattered information, reduces hours spent on data entry and offers teams an efficient way to track, maintain and collaborate on deals and relationships. 4Degrees has 250+ firms as customers.
CrossKudi
CrossKudi enables millions of immigrants to provide for their loved ones across borders. CrossKudi international money transfer platform is powered by blockchain infrastructure, making international money transfers affordable, instant and safe. CrossKudi has served 200+ customers remitting $2M+.
Mark Labs, Inc.
Mark Labs, Inc. helps investors better link their capital allocations to real world outcomes. Through its ESG Engagement Engine, Mark Labs helps asset managers meet the demands from both clients and regulators for making sustainable investments and operating in a transparent, ESG compliant manner. Mark Labs is currently working with the United Nations, Gates Foundation and Turkish Government.
Qualifi
Qualifi powers the fastest phone interviews in the world. High-volume recruiters use Qualifi’s automated phone interviews to make the hiring process more efficient, reducing initial screening time from weeks to minutes. Qualifi has conducted over 10,000 interviews, secured contracts with 27 employers and surpassed $247k ARR.
Wellthi
Wellthi supports social banking communities for banks and credit unions of all sizes. Wellthi’s B2B2C embedded social finance software connects banks and credit unions to make saving and investing as a group safe, simple, and transparent. Customers use wellthi to save, send and invest with friends and supercharge their financial goals in a community of trusted peers. Wellthi is a venture-backed, fintech company that has raised over $1.7M to-date.
Meet our Alumni: Spring 2021 Cohort
Freeman Capital
Freeman Capital offers a suite of financial planning tools designed from the ground up for underserved communities. Freeman Capital provides wealth journeys that take into consideration social-economic and psychological challenges to build wealth. Freeman Capital has 8,000+ users with a paid user retention rate of 98% month over month.
HUED
HUED’s healthcare engagement solution addresses the needs of Black and Latino populations. HUED provides access to culturally-competent healthcare providers, offers health literacy and dismantles barriers that prevent BIPOC populations from accessing high quality healthcare. HUED recently announced their partnership with Vaseline and has 8,000 patients and 600+ healthcare providers on the platform.
RiftPay
RiftPay provides the easiest way for co-parents to manage shared expenses. RiftPay offers a smart money management platform that enables co-parents to spend money together and split payments in real time. RiftPay has raised over $250K with beta testers on the platform.
SoLo
SoLo is the leading financial technology company providing banking solutions for everyday Amercans. SoLo enables an online community where members can request and fund short-term needs. SoLo is an LA-based Delaware C-Corp. SoLo has nearly 300k members leveraging banking services and have processed over 100,000+ loans.
Tip a ScRxipt
Tip a ScRxipt helps people stay alive and well. Tip a ScRxipt’s platform is used to send or request money when people experience difficulty paying out-of-pocket for prescription medication, medical supplies, and medical equipment at pharmacies. In 2021, Tip a ScRxipt was named one of the 21 startups to watch by Milwaukee Business Journal - Wisconsin Inno.
About Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator ® Powered by gener8tor
Northwestern Mutual and gener8tor are committed to addressing barriers to financial equity and expanding financial access for tech startups by supporting entrepreneurs who have been historically underserved in accessing capital. This inclusive approach aims to bridge the gap in capital accessibility, fostering a diverse and innovative landscape.
Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator® invests in up to ten start-up companies per year (two cohorts of five) that focus on fintech, insuretech, digital health and data analytics.
About Northwestern Mutual
For over 160 years, Northwestern Mutual has been helping people make smart financial choices and empowering clients to live their dreams today, as well as tomorrow, through a unique approach to financial planning. Northwestern Mutual combines the expertise of its financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and industry-leading products to give clients access to everything they need to successfully navigate their financial lives. With $290.3 billion in total assets, $29.9 billion in revenues, and $1.9 trillion worth of life insurance protection in force, Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to more than 4.6 million people. The company also manages more than $161 billion in client assets through its wealth management and investment services businesses. Northwestern Mutual ranks 102 on the 2020 FORTUNE 500 and is recognized by FORTUNE® as one of the "World's Most Admired" life insurance companies in 2020.
About gener8tor
gener8tor’s turnkey platform for the creative economy connects startup founders, investors, corporations, universities, musicians and artists. The gener8tor platform includes more than 40 different programs spanning accelerators, corporate programming, speaker series, conferences and fellowships with content on community growth, impact investing, diversity, equity and inclusion, and innovation across education, agriculture, insurance, healthcare and more. gener8tor works with more than 200 startups annually, many of whom participate in the company’s flagship 12-week accelerator and go on to raise follow-on financing, grow their team,and even be acquired. Founded in 2012 and operating across 28 cities, gener8tor has earned the prestigious status of being a nationally ranked, GOLD-tier accelerator by the Seed Accelerator Rankings Project and been named one of Fast Company's 2020 Most Innovative Companies.
Mentors are crucial to the success of Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator ®
During the first two weeks of the program, we invite mentors to "speed network" with each of the participating startups over a two-hour session. Due to COVID-19, these mentor sessions are virtual so the teams can benefit from your expertise regardless of where you are located. Every mentor is asked to provide mentorship on a pay-it-forward basis.
If you are interested in potentially mentoring Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator ® companies, please fill out the interest form.