MassChallenge

Kreyol Essence is an agribusiness focused on providing affordable luxury beauty products sourced from Haiti. It serves as a leading platform for organic commodities from the region, offering a range of signature products that emphasize natural ingredients and social impact. The company is dedicated to empowering women by employing 400 local women and farmers, thus contributing to improvements in environmental, agricultural, and economic conditions in Haiti. Kreyol Essence operates with a mission to address complex social issues through its business model, promoting sustainability and community welfare.

Vendedy is a mobile application that connects travelers to local street market foods and products. Its aim is to digitize the 10 trillion U.S. dollar street economy that contains a market size of 2 billion street vendors and 1 billion tourists annually. With vendors grossing up to 14X their annual income via a 10-day beta in Haiti, Vendedy attained partnerships with IBM, Mass Challenge Accelerator, and Manatt Ventures. Since its inception, Vendedy has attained several recognitions, including the 2014 Poverty Alleviation Clinton Global Initiative Commitment, Singularity Top 5 Exponential Breakthroughs, Citi Mobile Fin Tech Top 20, Forbes Million Dollar Prize Top 40, IBM Launch Top 5, Chivas Venture Million Dollar Prize USA Finalist, MasterCard $15k Pitch Winner, SOCAP Award Winner, and the winner of the DEW Startup competition. Throughout 2015, the company continued pilot testing in the Caribbean and the Middle East. Street vendors, locals, and travelers have the ability to upload photos of local products online via their mobile device using the application enabling a traveling consumer to search, purchase, and pay via a message. Vendedy was launched in 2014 by [Christine Souffrant](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/christine-souffrant#/entity), a 2016 Forbes30Under30 retail and e-commerce entrepreneur and is based in New York, United States.