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Pava Center Summer Incubator helps student founders refine their long-term visions
As the Pava Center’s Summer Incubator wraps up, we interviewed the founders of three ventures to see how participating in the incubator allowed them to pursue long-term visions for their companies. The Summer Incubator is a six-week in-person program at the Pava Center that provides founders with funding, co-working space, and other resources. The program is complemented with scheduled workshops, guest speakers, field trips, and networking opportunities with the broader Baltimore entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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BRAIV: Taking the Trial and Error Out of Psychiatric Care
With more than half of patients failing to respond to their first antidepressant, BRAIV is building the clinical AI platform that gives psychiatrists the insights they need to match patients with the right medication from the start. With more than 45 million people in the U.S. living with depression and anxiety, the cost of getting that first prescription wrong runs into the tens of billions of dollars each year. We spoke with the BRAIV team—Sindhu Banerjee (CEO, SB), Janvi Patel (Business Development Lead, JP), and Ananya S. (Clinical Data Lead, AS)—to learn what problem they are solving, what psychiatrists told them, and what changes if they get this right.
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Athletes Intell: Scaling Mental Performance Training for Student-Athletes
Student-athletes spend thousands of hours training their bodies. Athletes Intell is building the platform to train their minds. Mental performance is the final frontier of athletic training, and one of the most neglected. At the high school and college levels, only a fraction of student-athletes ever receive formal mindset coaching, leaving them unprepared when adversity hits. Athletes Intell, founded by Matt Chiusano, is building a digital mental performance platform to help athletic departments scale that training for every athlete on their roster. We spoke with Matt.
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Built at Johns Hopkins: Spring 2026 Pava Center Accelerator Winners Announced
This spring, the Pava Marie LaPere Center for Entrepreneurship concluded another semester of accelerator programming spanning healthcare, AI, financial technology, consumer products, accessibility, and deep tech. Ventures from the Kindling, Spark, and Fuel programs — each supporting founders at a different stage of development — presented before mentors, judges, and members of the Johns Hopkins innovation community.