How KTP helps brothers get ready for what comes next: hackathon teams, recruiting prep, and a resume template built for it.
Brothers team up and ship at hackathons on campus and around the country. Selected results from KTP teams.
A week with Xtremis building a market for underutilized wireless spectrum: a standard spectrum unit, short-term localized pricing, and a mechanism to bring liquidity and price discovery to a space that barely has either. The win sent the team to NYC Tech Week to pitch alongside Lorimer Ventures, with support from Cooley, Rho, HubSpot, and Microsoft Azure.
An app that applies graph theory, linear algebra, and behavioral psychology to model addictive, pattern-like screen-time behavior and help users break it. Faculty are now working with the team on the underlying algorithm.
A first hackathon for part of the team. Twenty-four hours at UVA's flagship hackathon, one shipped Education-track project, and a lot learned about building fast with people you trust.
A digital wallet that recognizes checkout pages across 500+ retailers, runs vector search over your cards through MongoDB Atlas and Gemini, and surfaces the highest-reward card in under a second. Confirm and pay with one tap.
An AI voice agent that answers 911 calls when human dispatchers are overwhelmed, summarizes the key details, and routes them to a live dispatcher dashboard. Built on Twilio and ElevenLabs for the voice layer, with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and Elastic Load Balancing handling concurrent calls.
A course-planning tool for a complicated catalog and busy advisors: interactive flowcharts that map degree paths and prerequisites, plus an AI advisor that recommends courses from what a student has already taken and what they're interested in.
Brothers also run committees, tech workshops, and weekly LeetCode practice, and every member gets recruiting help, mock interviews, and connections to alumni in the industry.
Brothers and alumni who joined companies before they were sure things, and the ones who started their own. Every role verified on LinkedIn; stage and funding as reported by the companies.
A non-custodial DeFi yield platform on the Movement Network that grew to $150M in assets. The seed round was led by Mechanism Capital and CitizenX, with Primitive, GSR, and Side Door Ventures. Acquired by Movement Labs in May 2026.
Lets creators turn their content into a coaching business, paired with a workout tracker built for how people actually train. 35,000 users and 900 paying subscribers in the first twelve weeks, with no paid acquisition.
Scramble! is an iOS word game built in Swift on Firebase, with in-app purchases and ads live in beta. FRead is a nonprofit that stocks free children's books in doctors' and dentists' offices, partnered with Mass General Brigham; $25K+ in books collected.
A distance-running knowledge platform on the physiology, psychology, and practice of training, with research libraries, training tools, and calculators. Built by a former Vanderbilt Division I cross-country runner to help athletes understand training rather than just follow it.
A guided-journaling app for emotional reasoning, built by thirteen Vanderbilt students and released to the app stores in February 2025. Backed by Vanderbilt faculty advisors and pitched to university officials and investors.
Identity verification used by OpenAI, Lime, and banks to onboard users and fight fraud. Founders Fund and Ribbit Capital co-led the $200M Series D at a $2B valuation, on top of a $150M Series C in 2021.
A verticalized AI platform for logistics and supply chains, turning fragmented operational and financial data into visibility and cost control. Its $95M Series C in April 2026 was led by Valor Equity Partners with 8VC, Founders Fund, Index, and J.P. Morgan Growth Equity.
An AI-native pharma company that sources, evaluates, and acquires overlooked drug assets for the clinic. Founded in 2025 by two Stanford dropouts and backed by Y Combinator.
A fundamental AI research lab on interpretability and alignment. Partners with frontier labs to turn their models into interpretability researchers, then runs its own research with the agents it builds. About thirty researchers and staff.
Outbound voice and text AI agents with TCPA compliance built in, so collections and customer-service teams can automate calls without legal exposure. Named one of Business Insider's most exciting AI agent startups at YC Demo Day.
One governance, risk, and compliance platform in place of a stack of point tools, built by former CISOs. The $12M Series A in June 2025 was led by Venture Guides; about $13.7M raised in total.
A social learning platform that has helped more than seven million high-schoolers prepare for AP exams. Raised a $2.3M seed led by BBG Ventures and a $10M Series A in 2021.
Designs its own cameras and trains vision models that watch production lines for bottlenecks, defects, and safety misses in real time. The $7.5M seed in August 2026 was co-led by Penny Jar Capital and Overture.
Autonomous drone-in-a-box systems that handle takeoff, precision landing, and robotic battery swaps, so drone fleets run without a person on site. Founders Fund committed the $2M seed in July 2024.
A hiring platform where students tell their story beyond the resume, with employers engaging directly. Over 12,000 students from 200+ universities, and customers including Insight Global, Ally, and the Texas Rangers. Bootstrapped, with backing from the NC Tweener Fund.
An AI-powered expert network that matches companies with the right professional in minutes instead of weeks, asynchronously. Backed by Afore Capital, E14 Fund, Audacious Ventures, Caesar Ventures, and SBXi.
Combines microbiome and proteomics data with live biometrics from a CGM and wearable to score readiness and inflammation, then turns it into coaching for elite athletes, including three Premier League clubs.
Vape and safety sensors for schools and hospitals, started by three high schoolers in 2020 and bootstrapped into more than 700 schools across all fifty states.
Autonomous tractors built to be obtainable: no subscriptions, no locked repairs. Founded by a Vanderbilt student; the team spent summer 2025 converting a Case 75A into its testing platform.
Distilling human operators into robotic models for autonomous heavy machinery, from mechanical design and electronics through field deployment.
A growth-services firm for enterprise B2B sales and marketing teams, founded in 2023 by the former global CEO of Merkle. Thirty-three people and seed-stage.
Turns zoning agendas, permits, filings, and press into a live pipeline of every development before construction starts, mapped to the firms behind it. Customers include Northmarq and Siemens.
A savings app that gave verified college students exclusive discounts at local shops, named for the Japanese budgeting method kakeibo. Built by a Vanderbilt and UBC student team and piloted in Nashville in 2024.
A student-run company at Vanderbilt that rents water coolers and delivers jugs to dorms, cutting single-use plastic on campus.
Brothers building at companies that have not announced themselves yet. Details as they become public.
What we hand to every new member. This list grows as the chapter builds more.