Eight Dynamic Westchester Startups Selected for Element 46 Tech Accelerator’s Spring Cohort

Westchester County’s Element 46 Tech Accelerator Powered by QUAY Acceleration today announced the eight local startups selected for its spring 2026 cohort. Chosen through a competitive entry process, each participating venture will receive access to a powerful curriculum, connections to entrepreneurs, investors, mentors, and full-time support from the Element 46 staff. The program will culminate with a Demo Day on June 11, 2026, where each participant will have the opportunity to pitch their venture to a room full of investors, technology experts, press representatives, government officials, and other key contacts.

Westchester County Executive Ken Jenkins said: “This cohort of startups reflects the innovation and excellence that Westchester’s entrepreneurial community is known for. We are proud to offer an accelerator program that equips ventures to diversify, scale, and prepare for future mergers and acquisitions. Congratulations to this impressive group of entrepreneurs.”

Westchester County Director of Economic Development Bridget Gibbons said: “We are excited to welcome a new group of startups into the Element 46 community. Investing in entrepreneurs diversifies our business ecosystem, spurs job creation and contributes to a vibrant economy. We look forward to seeing what these eight ventures accomplish in the coming weeks.”

Westchester County Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Deborah Novick said: “We received an impressive array of applications for this spring’s Element 46 Tech Accelerator. The chosen participants have a strong vision for the future of their innovation and the grit to see it through. We look forward to working alongside them and learning more about their ventures.”

QUAY Acceleration Co-Founder, John Lynn, said: “The eight companies selected for the Element 46 Spring 2026 cohort represent some of the most compelling work being done across enterprise AI, EdTech, fintech, and the creator economy today. In four years, the program has supported over 100 private investor-backed tech startups that have collectively raised millions in venture capital — and generated two acquisitions in the last six months alone. QUAY is proud to continue supporting Westchester's commitment to ensuring its communities are not just witnessing the technological transformation of our economy, but actively leading it.”

The eight ventures participating in the Element 46 Tech Accelerator’s Spring 2026 cohort are:

App’d (Yonkers): App’d provides a mobile-first solution for independent business owners and micro-businesses to quickly and affordably create branded, app-like experiences optimized for customer engagement, conversions, and retention. App’d has several customers and is looking to onboard an additional two or three businesses in the fitness or grooming industry in the next 3 to 6 months.

Averent (White Plains): Averent is a social commerce company striving to help indie app, game, and software developers get discovered and build, scale, and monetize communities faster and cheaper. The platform is one of the first personalized discovery platforms for digital indie content.

Floating Fleet AI (Scarsdale): Floating Fleet AI provides scheduling intelligence software for private jet operators, addressing aircraft and crew assignment challenges. The platform already supports over 80 aircraft and is seeking seed funding within the next three months to scale the business.

MassLogic Labs (Dobbs Ferry): MassLogic Labs™ built MIMO Workspace™ for chief marketing officers who need to move their teams beyond isolated AI experiments into coordinated, observable AI operations — without losing control of their brand or their data. The platform governs how AI tools work together, keeps proprietary intelligence secure, and makes every decision traceable and defensible. A founding partnership with the Marketing Accountability Standards Board embeds 1,800+ certified marketing and financial definitions directly into the platform as its intelligence foundation.

TaskFixer AI (Briarcliff Manor): TaskFixer AI™ restores trust in student work in the age of AI. The platform redesigns how lessons, tasks, and projects are created and evaluated so students cannot outsource their thinking to AI and instead learn to use it responsibly. Teachers get AI-resistant assignment design, instant rubric-based grading with personalized student feedback, and automated parent communication built for the AI era. TaskFixer AI™ is currently in active beta with teachers across U.S. public, private, and international schools, with 100-plus lessons generated and teachers saving 3 to 5 hours per week.

The Desk (Pleasantville): The Desk is a briefing and editorial workspace for communications professionals, helping them build a strong and defensible thought leadership point of view for their executive clients. The Desk bridges the gap between the unique perspective living in an executive's head and what their comms professionals write for them on LinkedIn or Substack. The Desk is gearing up to onboard its first beta customers in April, and is looking for introductions to small and mid-sized communications agencies in the next three months.

The Story Vine (Scarsdale): The Story Vine is a community-owned platform built to shift social media from consumption to participation. The platform enables anonymous publishing and shared ownership through on-chain economics and is live in beta with thousands of stories already published. The company is raising a $3M seed round to expand its product, team, and community over the next 12 months.

Zuzlab (Dobbs Ferry): Zuzlab works with underwriters to help municipal bond issuers reduce the cost of raising capital by opening up new markets for their bonds. Zuzlab tokenizes municipal bonds and remains compatible with traditional systems, providing underwriters, issuers, and investors alike a frictionless path to the blockchain. Zuzlab is looking to partner with underwriters and issuers to launch a municipal bond on the platform this year.

Members of each Element 46 Tech Accelerator cohort are selected in a competitive, County-wide selection process. In the program, each founder is matched with hand-picked mentors who are leaders in technology, finance, business strategy, venture capital, marketing, and other key areas. Participants also gain access to a world-class curriculum on fundraising, customer development, executive management, product iteration, branding, marketing, and more.

The Element 46 Tech Accelerator Powered by QUAY Acceleration runs for 10 weeks every spring and fall. This will be the seventh cohort produced in partnership with QUAY Acceleration, experts in tech accelerator programming and operations.

To learn more about the Element 46 program, visit the Element 46 website.

About The Westchester County Office of Economic Development

The Westchester County Office of Economic Development works to improve the County’s economic well-being and quality of life. This includes a broad range of activities to attract, create and retain jobs, and to foster a resilient, pro-growth and inclusive economy. For more information, visit the Westchester Catalyst website.