Meet our quarterfinalists – high school and college students, nonprofit organizations and for-profits – who will battle it out for a place in the semifinals.
| Organization | Description | Track |
|---|---|---|
| Academy for Precision Learning | Supports the success of all students, including typically developing kids and those across the autism spectrum. | Established Nonprofit |
| Adi Collective | Creates beautiful clothing, meaningful employment for refugee women, and builds connections between wearers and makers of Adi's clothes | Startup Nonprofit |
| Apartment Alerts | Connects low income renters with available housing in a timely manner, in a way that's easy and affordable for renters and landlords. | Startup Nonprofit |
| Art with Heart | Dedicated to supporting the emotional well-being of children adversely affected by hardship, using creativity to lead to inspired possibilities. | Established Nonprofit |
| Aware | Helps high schoolers and elementary schoolers nation-wide to learn and become more aware about special needs. | High School |
| B | Quinn wants to change the way we find, interact with, and experience food | College |
| Bayside Housing & Services | Provides supportive temporary housing and transformational services to people in need so they can transition into permanent housing. | Startup Nonprofit |
| BEST: Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking | Provides the tools and skills for immigrants and refugees to design, make, and market, handcrafted jewelry and accessories while earning livable wages. | Established Nonprofit |
| Bike City | Leases electric bikes to companies to provide to their employees as a transportation benefit. | For-Profit |
| BridgeCare Finance | A consumer lending platform that breaks down the cost barriers of high quality childcare for working families. | For-Profit |
| Cirkled in | A secure, cloud-based, SaaS recruitment platform for colleges and universities that matches them with the best-fit high school students, based on student's holistic profile. | For-Profit |
| Creative Children for Charity (3C) | To inspire one million kids and teens to donate their time and talent for a social cause through creativity. | High School |
| Discovery Health, LLC | Comprehensive medical risk management solution for the commercial fishing industry. | For-Profit |
| Eco-Roof | A social enterprise that provides an affordable and ecological roofing alternative made from resin-coated bamboo mats. | For-Profit |
| Generation to Generation Seattle | Mobilizes adults age 50+ to support the lives of thousands of at risk youth over the next five years with an education equity focus. | Startup Nonprofit |
| Goodwill Hunting | A one-of-a-kind apparel using second-hand clothing to meet your triple-bottom line. | For-Profit |
| HandiMaps | Provides knowledge on accessible travel in any event space. | College |
| Inflammaid | Equips citizens and professionals with the resources and knowledge needed to lead sepsis-free lives. | High School |
| Invio, Inc. | Driven to make clinical trials cheaper, faster and of higher data quality by leveraging new technologies. | For-Profit |
| Key Tech Labs | Brings key future technologies like 3D printing, microcontrollers, and virtual reality to the underrepresented and undercapitalized communities. | Startup Nonprofit |
| KNOWFOOD | Connects Seattle Public Schools students with the Seattle restaurant industry to create advanced learning environments and future career opportunities. | Startup Nonprofit |
| LC-Tourniquet Inc | The first pre-hospital treatment for acute limb ischemia (ALI) and the first to combine the preservative properties of cooling with the circulatory control of a traditional tourniquet. | For-Profit |
| Lavender Rights Project | Working to advance a more just and equitable society by providing sliding-scale direct civil legal services to transgender, gender non-conforming and LGBQ communities. | Starup Nonprofit |
| Little Red School House DBA ChildStrive | Partners with families to support young children's success in daily life and in the community. | Established Nonprofit |
| MedsForAll | A lower cost EpiPen that one can simply self-inject. | For-Profit |
| MiMi Globe Goods | Provides the tools and skills for immigrants and refugees to design, make and market, handcrafted jewelry and accessories while earning a livable wage. | Startup Nonprofit |
| MindAntix | Helps make children more creative so they can be successful in the new economy. | For-Profit |
| MotMot coffee | Empowers Nicaraguan coffee farmers by providing a fair and sustainable wage for the coffee they produce. | College |
| Municipal League Foundation | Promotes good government that is open, effective, and accountable to improve the caliber of public officials and the quality of public decisions. | Established Nonprofit |
| Mycovate Solutions | Eliminates disposable diapers waste by using a unique decomposition process in which oyster mushrooms are grown. | For-Profit |
| Networks for Change Inc. (Operating as Keela) | Giving organizations better communication, better data, and better reporting through powerful nonprofit management tools. | For-Profit |
| Newport Soccer Camps | Unifies children, high school students, and parents in the community to raise money for new soccer equipment. | High School |
| Northaven Senior Housing | Provides housing to low-income seniors many whom would otherwise have nowhere else to go. | Established Nonprofit |
| Pivot Health | Tackles the lack of diversity in nursing. | For-Profit |
| ReBoot Seattle LLC | Devoted to female workforce returnees, restores professional confidence and creates connections with women with the larger work community. | For-Profit |
| Recovery Café | A community of women and men who have been traumatized by homelessness, addiction, and other mental health challenges coming to know they are loved. | Established Nonprofit |
| Room Circus Medical Clowning | Enhances health and well-being by alleviate the stress and isolation of hospitalized children and their families through laughter and joy. | Established Nonprofit |
| Scholarship Junkies | Reduces the financial barriers to college by helping students find scholarships (SJ Bank) and develop their stories via essay mentorship (SJC). | Startup Nonprofit |
| Seattle Clemency Project | Aims to match reformed, long-serving inmates with free legal help to file for clemency. | Startup Nonprofit |
| Silene Biotech | Helps build a personalized medicine platform for consumers using their own stem cells. | For-Profit |
| STEMPaths Innovation Network | Increases student and community access to STEM and builds culturally relevant skills that support underserved youth and communities to succeed in STEM fields. | Startup Nonprofit |
| Studio Learning | Connects resilient and high potential students to a college degree program and coaches them through completion of an AA or BA. | Startup Nonprofit |
| SwarmFX | A new drone based systems for fighting wildfires. | College |
| Take Me There | Empowers people with disabilities and allows them to travel more efficiently. | High School |
| The DOVE Project | A catalyst for social change fostering zero tolerance for interpersonal violence. | Established Nonprofit |
| The Madrone School | Provides a specialized educational program for children with autism in the greater Seattle area. | Startup Nonprofit |
| The Mountaineers | Helps people explore, conserve, learn about and enjoy the lands and waters of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. | Established Nonprofit |
| TransCellular Therapeutics Inc | Is developing a new drug therapy for a currently untreatable rare pediatric cardiac condition called Barth Syndrome. | For-Profit |
| Unloop | Enables people who have been in prison to succeed in careers in technology. | Startup Nonprofit |
| Washington Autism Alliance & Advocacy | Empowers parents to ensure their children receive the special education support they are entitled to: family-by-family, student-by-student. | Established Nonprofit |
| Washington State Association of Head Start and ECEAP | Champions high quality early learning through professional development, collaboration, and advocacy for Head Start and the ECEAP. | Established Nonprofit |
| WeCount | Engages communities to create networks of social support for people in need. | Startup Nonprofit |
| Women's Business Incubator | Fosters a positive, child-friendly workplace culture that inspires connection, confidence and growth for women at any stage of their career or entrepreneurial job. | Startup Nonprofit |
| Xonotiv LLC | A novel prosthetic knee that requires no power or electronics yet is safer and more intuitive to use. | For-Profit |
| ZILA Works LLC | Uses industrial hemp to replace toxic glue in the plastic composites industry. | For-Profit |
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