WanderWeb
Creating secure campuses with safe routing and user based reports.
How We Met
Premika and Kendall met through MakerGirl, a nonprofit startup. We formed a close professional and personal relationship over the summer, when we travelled across the country teaching young girls about 3D printing for MakerGirl Goes Mobile. We spent the entire summer together, making joint decisions about everything- from how to best run sessions and maintain our 3D printers, to what to eat for dinner and when to stop for gas.
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Although we were not very close prior to the trip, we successfully worked through many obstacles together, from hitching a trailer, to fighting off homesickness, to keeping each other awake through 13 hour drives.
Through our joint experience, we realized that we could truly make an impact as college students. During our many hours spent traveling through cornfields and deserts, we realized that we were ready to start a company of our own that tackled a new issue which we both felt passionately about.
After traveling to so many unfamiliar areas, we were inspired to create a technology that increases safety. As women traveling alone, we often felt unsafe and having technology that provided real time information about the locations we travelled to would have made us feel significantly more secure.
About Kendall
CEO
Kendall Furbee, a sophomore in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, is passionate about her work and has extended experience in the U of I startup environment. She is currently the Clinical Trial Manager at Cast21, a startup that recently received 800K in seed funding. She is also the internal marketing manager for MakerGirl, a startup that gets girls involved in STEM through 3D printing. Contributing to and working with startups has allowed her to develop skills at an exciting, fast pace. She is excited to apply these skills towards making campuses and cities safer.
About Premika
CTO
Premika is a junior in Computer Engineering, who is passionate about the app’s cause as well as technology in general. Through the process of building apps at hackathons, she has experience working under a time limit and prioritizing tasks in order of importance to meet a deadline. On top of this, working as an intern at Aruba Networks taught her how to build products that scale well and hold up over time, and how to code in an organized and efficient way. Her work at MakerGirl as the website manager makes her uniquely qualified, as she has experience working in a startup setting, as well as experience in marketing to cater to a large audience.