The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center proudly welcomes the visionary founders of the Spring 2025 Milestone Makers cohort—a group of entrepreneurs advancing sustainable innovation, climate innovation, and high-growth business solutions. These founders are delivering scalable impact across sectors like clean energy, smart infrastructure, green manufacturing, and next-generation materials.
Milestone Makers, the Center’s premier program for entrepreneurs, offers tailored mentorship, executive coaching, and access to top startup advisors and industry leaders. Selected through a rigorous application process, each founder is building technology-driven solutions to address global challenges, accelerate business growth, and create long-term environmental and economic value.
Applications are now open for the Summer 2025 cohort! This startup accelerator supports entrepreneurs in healthtech, digital health, mental health innovation, and other high-growth industries focused on improving health and wellbeing. Whether you’re using technology to expand access to healthcare, developing innovative wellness products, or driving health equity in underserved communities, this program is designed to help you grow. Applications close Monday, April 21st at 11:59pm PT. Express interest here.
MILESTONE: Refine business model to optimize strategic growth
Sustain Cities is changing how green businesses connect and thrive. We do this through our interconnected online directory that links small green businesses across cities nationwide to find their customers, collaborate, and make sustainability profitable and accessible building a future where a healthy planet and strong communities go hand in hand.
MILESTONE: Accelerate the launch of our talent marketplace to achieve 200 candidate users.
Workskuad enables global companies to build high-performing teams across Africa in days not months. From finding and hiring top talents to seamless onboarding, payroll, HR and Compliance.
MILESTONE: Establish an optimized framework for U.S. manufacturing operations.
Reset is driven by a simple yet powerful belief: productivity and well-being thrive when technology and nature come together in harmony. We translate this belief into action by creating spaces where people can excel, innovate, and feel connected. Our signature solution, Reset TOI (Total Operations Infrastructure), represents a breakthrough in how buildings are designed, managed, and experience-enabling a new standard of efficiency, sustainability, and overall health in the built environment.
MILESTONE: Refine product market fit to optimize pricing strategy and growth,
Aeternum revolutionizes air quality monitoring with cutting edge sensors, empowering communities, businesses, and policymakers with real-time data. Our mission is to make clean air accessible to all, transforming intelligence into action to reduce pollution’s devastating effects. Aeternum’s modular sensors detect a wide range of pollutants and meteorological parameters, providing high-resolution data for informed decisions. Powered by solar energy, our wireless sensors integrate with cellular and IoT networks, enabling seamless data analysis and visualization. Our Sensing-as-a-Service model supports meaningful change, shaping a future where everyone can breathe clean air.
Agwu Kalu Ibe
LevelUp Recyclers LTD
MILESTONE: Develop and define a go-to-market strategy to inform product expansion and release strategy.
LevelUp Recyclers LTD is a waste management startup transforming hard-to-recycle plastics into high-quality, sustainable products. Using innovative upcycling processes, we reduce plastic waste, promote a circular economy, and create eco friendly alternatives for industries and consumers. We seek to tackle the global plastic crisis by developing scalable solutions that minimize environmental impact while driving economic value.
Dozie Igweilo
Quadloop Technologies
MILESTONE: Develop a replicable partnership model with formal e-waste recycling companies within Africa, to help increase our production capacity..
Quadloop is a cleantech social enterprise that converts electronic waste into environmentally friendly solar lanterns and home systems in Africa.
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Kee Farms (501c3) is an ocean farm network focused on climate change adaptation through ocean regeneration, resilience, and restoration. Our work with seaweeds contribute to carbon sequestration, reduction of ocean acidification, increase in biodiversity, and removal of excess nutrients from our waterways.
MILESTONE: Secure commercialization proof points by launching a nature-backed financing model for landscape-scale regeneration.
Seq Solutions creates tokenized natural assets through landscape-scale optimization – allowing investors to make money and generate planetary benefits.
Anoushka Sinha
Anupam Foundation
MILESTONE: Establish an advisory board of experienced and diverse climate experts who bring an intersectional approach to provide strategic direction and boost our exposure as we scale our climate storytelling initiative for long term growth..
Anupam Foundation is a youth-led, SDG-focused organisation impacting over 125k youth with reach spanning 40+ countries through capacity building, mentorship, scholarship, and leadership development programs.
MILESTONE: Leverage resources to create a pricing strategy and optimize revenue streams.
SynergyGrid is a leading sustainable real estate development and energy services company, dedicated to empowering communities and businesses with clean, renewable energy solutions. Specializing in helping clients meet and exceed Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS), Synergy Grid fosters environmental sustainability through innovative technology-driven approaches. The company optimizes energy consumption, reduces expenses and supports businesses in their environmental stewardship. SynergyGrid also contributes to smart city projects that integrate renewable energy, storage and microgrids for resilient, self-sufficient communities.
MILESTONE: Find the Product-Market Fit for my pineapple-based cellulose.
Next-gen diaper fillers engineered from pineapple waste.
MILESTONE: Define our marketing and sales expert hiring strategy for our innovative self-watering planter product-to-market sprint.
Posie Pots offer innovative self-watering planters made from eco-friendly corn-based material, designed to keep plants healthy without the need for constant monitoring. Founded by mechanical engineer and horticulture enthusiast Kay Wells, the company combines advanced engineering with a sustainable design used to create a unique, electricity-free sub-irrigation system that can maintain plants for up to 30 days.
Stop killing your plants and Worry Not You’ve Got a Posie Pot.
Learn more about the Milestone Makers program here.
Do you have a unique perspective in your industry or field that you would like to share as a mentor? Apply to be a mentor for the Milestone Makers at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center and pay it forward by emailing colin.mahin@thecenter.nasdaq.orgÂ
