Homh
Homh is the first retail store making meditation fun, simple, and mainstream.
- Stage Prototype Ready
- Industry Lifestyle
- Location New York City, NY, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded April 2013
- Employees 2
- Website breathehomh.com
Company Summary
Evan and Ryan are avid meditators inspired by there mom’s 8-year journey with cancer. They learned from her how to overcome intense challenges and stress. With her recent passing they were inspired to build an innovative start-up. Homh is revolutionizing how people de-stress and re-charge by creating the first retail store making meditation simple, fun, and mainstream.
Team
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Ryan FreedCo-CEORyan is 22 and lives in Astoria, NY. He graduated from the University of Minnesota Carlson Business School. He has started two other businesses while in college with Evan. In his free time he enjoys meditating, snowboarding/skiing, hiking, working out, and working on the business.
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Evan FreedCo-CEOEvan is 25 and lives in New York, NY. He graduated from Babson College and has started two other businesses with Ryan. In his free time he enjoys, meditating, working out, skiing, cooking, and working on the business.
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Lief LarsonAdvisorLief became an entrepreneur in 1992 and has been building technology businesses for the last twenty years as either a founder, partner, or mentor. These businesses have ranged from medical products to touchscreen self-service terminals and much more. Today he balances his time between a company called Workface Inc. which provides real-time prospect engagement and relationship management software and mentoring young entrepreneurs.
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Mitch AltmanAdvisorMitch altman invents useful electronics for a better world. He is the co-founder of 3ware, Noisebridge hacker space, known for his pioneering work in Virtual Reality at VPL Research and inventing TV-B-Gone. He is also President and CTO of Cornfield Electronics. Mitch is advising Homh on building a state of the art meditation room with his deep background in meditation, inventing the NueroDreamer meditation mask, and Brainmachine.
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Hajime Issan KoyamaAdvisorIssan is a Buddhist chaplain/monk based at the Zicklin Residence of the Metropolitan Jewish Hospice in Riverdale, NY. He is armed with the understanding that comes from years of study of Zen meditation and psychological methods. Issan will advise Homh on creating a new sensory meditation experience that makes it simple, fun, and mainstream for a beginner.
Advisors
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Peter FuscoLawyerUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Veronica HackettUnconfirmed
Ron LattanzioUnconfirmed
Dennis FreedUnconfirmed
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