Fast Forward Virtual Demo Day 2025
Join us at our 12th annual Fast Forward Virtual Demo Day! At Demo Day, you’ll meet Fast Forward’s latest Accelerator cohort. Come get inspired by emerging entrepreneurs building a new future for social impact. The cohort is already making headlines — check out their San Francisco Business Times feature.
Demo Day Details
Virtual Demo Day, Hosted by Fast Forward
Tuesday, June 10, 9:00-10:30 am PT
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Meet the Cohort
Curious who you'll hear from at Virtual Demo Day? Scroll to learn more about the 10 incredible teams and their equally impressive solutions.
Bayes Impact
The Opportunity: Social workers manage staggering caseloads and rely on outdated tools. This administrative burden limits opportunity for deeper beneficiary support. With AI solutions built specifically for them, social workers can unlock time and support better life outcomes for their clients.
The Solution: Bayes Impact's CaseAI gives social workers superpowers. CaseAI is an AI platform that integrates with case management systems. It frees up to ten hours a week by drafting care plans, suggesting actions, and tracking follow-ups.
The Founders: Data scientist Paul Duan saw firsthand how social services struggled to keep pace with innovation. He left Silicon Valley to found Bayes Impact alongside CTO Jérémie Doucy and COO Élodie Juan-Julia, tech veterans committed to reinventing public services.
Clinic+O
The Opportunity: There is a severe shortage of healthcare infrastructure in rural Guinea, forcing patients to travel long distances for basic medical care. Advances in technology reveal new opportunities to make high-quality healthcare accessible.
The Solution: Clinic+O delivers advanced healthcare in rural Guinea. The mobile app assists community health workers with home screenings, brings community health centers online, and connects patients with doctors via telehealth. By leveraging technology, Clinic+O provides higher-quality healthcare for 1/10 of the current cost.
The Founder: Originally from Guinea, Nasser Diallo is a journalist, community organizer, and digital strategist with experience across Africa, the EU, and the U.S. Before founding Clinic+O, he earned a degree from Oxford University, collaborated with the UN and UNICEF, and worked at Meta focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa.
Collective Intelligence Project
The Opportunity: A handful of people make the most important decisions about AI. These decisions have deep, real consequences for billions of lives. The good news: It’s not too late to build an inclusive future.
The Solution: The Collective Intelligence Project brings tens of thousands of global voices into AI decision-making. Their research informs development at frontier AI companies, shapes national policies, and paves the way for a future in which AI serves humanity, not just its most powerful actors.
The Founder: Divya Siddarth is a TIME100 AI-named leader who has held positions at Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, Oxford’s Ethics in AI Institute, Stanford's Digital Civil Society Lab, and the Ostrom Workshop. The Stanford grad is committed to collective intelligence for collective flourishing.
Materiom
The Opportunity: Plastic creates forever waste, harming human health and the planet. While sustainable alternatives exist, they can take up to 20 years to bring to market. AI can dramatically accelerate the development of bio-based materials.
The Solution: Materiom helps innovators develop plastic alternatives 10x faster. Their AI helps companies discover and scale sustainable materials – and improve the state of our planet.
The Founders: Dr. Alysia Garmulewicz and Liz Corbin founded Materiom around a shared belief: packaging should be plant food. Their combined expertise spans biomaterials R&D and open-source design. Now, they're turning cutting-edge research into compostable materials for a sustainable future.
Project Own
The Opportunity: Discriminatory housing policies have long locked Black families out of homeownership. The impact reverberates: homeownership is one of the most powerful wealth-building tools. While financial coaching helps people navigate the homebuying process, it’s time-intensive and costly.
The Solution: Project Own partners with HUD-certified agencies to equip financial coaches with their digital tool, Rooted. Rooted streamlines the financial coaching process, ensuring more Black families get mortgage-ready, faster.
The Founders: AJ Protin and Tyrell Dixon met in high school and later discovered their grandparents had lived 0.5 miles apart in Baltimore. The key difference: AJ’s family owned their home and reaped the benefits of generational wealth — Tyrell’s didn’t. The disparity inspired them to build Rooted.
Scrutinize
The Opportunity: Judges hold immense power, but their records are rarely analyzed. The key decision-makers who determine judicial reappointments in state courts lack access to meaningful data about how these judges have served the public.
The Solution: Scrutinize uses AI to analyze tens of thousands of New York rulings and surface patterns and performance metrics. The platform turns complex decisions into clear, accessible data, helping decision-makers understand the impact judges have on their communities.
The Founder: A former Bronx public defender, Oded Oren watched judges change lives forever through their decisions. The double Harvard grad and NYU Law fellow founded Scrutinize to bring transparency and accountability to judicial power.
trubel&co
The Opportunity: Only ⅓ of the social sector is leveraging data to drive their impact. Without access to the right tools and good data, vulnerable communities are left behind.
The Solution: trubel&co provides workshops and digital education to equip the social sector with practical data skills. Their platform provides training in data science, GIS, and design to help students and organizations advocate for social and environmental justice.
The Founder: Nick Okafor is a design researcher and self identified “trubel-maker” focused on civic tech. With experience at Sidewalk Labs, National Geographic, and BCG, he founded trubel&co to change how the social sector engages with data and technology.
VectorCam
The Opportunity: Half of all humans who have ever lived have died because of a mosquito borne illness. In many countries, malaria control programs operate in the analog world. Better data could help uncover the invisible patterns spreading disease.
The Solution: VectorCam turns smartphones into AI-powered tools for malaria elimination. Their 3D-printed lightboxes attach to phones, allowing health workers to capture photos of mosquitos. Then, their AI software instantly identifies species — cutting detection time from months to seconds.
The Founders: Marina Rincon Torroella, Dr. Soumyadipta Acharya, and Sunny Patel are biomedical engineers and public health experts from Johns Hopkins University. They built VectorCam to give frontline health workers real-time tools to fight malaria faster and smarter.
Violetta
The Opportunity: Relationship-based violence is a hidden epidemic. 70% of women in Latin America experience it, but few seek help. Access to technology offers new avenues for intervention and support.
The Solution: Violetta is a digital confidant — a judgement-free friend to help users build healthy relationships. The AI chatbot and resource library has supported more than 250K users with free guidance, psychoeducation, and referrals, all tailored to the Latin American context.
The Founder: Floretta Mayerson and Sara Kalach dreamt up Violetta to solve problems they witnessed firsthand growing up in Mexico City. Recognized as women shaping the future of responsible AI and making an impact in Mexico, they’re creating a safe space for people across Latin America.
Visilant
The Opportunity: One billion people are living with untreated or preventable vision impairment. If eye screening was simple and portable, everyone could have access to eye care. Now, AI can transform phones into powerful and accessible diagnostic tools.
The Solution: Visilant’s low-cost smartphone imaging system allows community health workers to administer eye exams with minimal prior training. Their AI instantly diagnoses conditions like cataracts with 95% accuracy and suggests a care plan. Thanks to Visilant, rural patients can now instantly receive specialty eye care.
The Founder: Jordan Shuff, Dr. Kunal Parikh, and Dr. Nakul Shekhawat met at Johns Hopkins University, where they combined their expertise in ophthalmology, public health, engineering, and entrepreneurship to bring sight-saving care to everyone, everywhere.
