Ain Foundry Fellows - Ain Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Ain Foundry Fellows are highly accomplished professionals, entrepreneurs, and startup experts who bring real-world experience to the student founder community.

Fellows are well versed in startups, pitch development, business models, fundraising, and venture building. They work directly with student founders to provide practical feedback, challenge assumptions, strengthen pitch decks, and help teams communicate their ideas with clarity and confidence.

Rather than simply giving advice, Fellows bring the perspective of people who have built, funded, advised, and evaluated startups. Their role is to help students turn promising ideas into stronger, more investable ventures.

Anjali Boriya

Anjali Boriya is a finance and venture investment professional with experience supporting early-stage companies through financial analysis, investment due diligence, portfolio management, and strategic financial planning. At NextCorps she works with the Luminate Accelerator team, supporting a portfolio of deep-tech companies across optics, photonics, imaging, and emerging technologies. She works closely with entrepreneurs on financial performance, capital requirements, financial modeling, and investment-related decisions.

Anjali holds an M.S. in Finance from the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester Her background spans venture investing, private equity, risk management, financial modeling, and portfolio analysis. As an AIN Foundry Fellow, she is excited to give back to the University of Rochester by helping student founders strengthen their financial strategy, prepare for fundraising, and build financially sustainable ventures.

My weekly availability is:
Wednesdays 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Thursdays 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Fridays 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Emmanuel Asamoah

Emmanuel Asamoah is an Ain Foundry Fellow at the Ain Center for Entrepreneurship, where he evaluates early-stage ventures and advises student founders on pitch decks, business models, and go-to-market strategy. He is an MBA candidate at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School.

Emmanuel founded and led Boxconn Technologies, a venture-backed B2B logistics platform that expanded into three African countries and was selected as a top-10 pitch at Harvard Business School. He went on to hold senior growth and market expansion roles at Binance and Bybit, two of the world’s largest digital asset exchanges, where he led expansion across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa and helped drive billions of dollars in cumulative trading volume.

He has advised institutional investors on digital asset market structure, perpetual futures, and stablecoin economics through more than 30 expert consultations, and his analysis has been published in Cointelegraph.

Office hours:
Monday through Friday, after 3:00 PM Eastern.