Blue North

Meet our newest Shinkle Fellows! This 12-week fellowship gives recent graduates and students the opportunity to build and grow their companies right here at SparkHaus.

Lillian Bakri is a Finance & Entrepreneurship student at the University of Cincinnati (Class of 2028) from Mason, OH. She’s the founder of Stacked, an all-in-one fundraising platform that replaces the Canva + DocSend + Carta + HubSpot patchwork with a single workspace for pre-seed and seed-stage founders. She’s spending the summer turning Stacked from concept into a product.

Nate Royal is a May 2026 Computer Science graduate from Louisville and the founder of Due Gooder, an AI platform that turns students’ syllabi and LMS assignments into organized schedules with calendar sync and mobile notifications. The platform serves 37,000+ college students worldwide and recently closed their pre-seed round.

Hank Veeneman is a 2025 University of Dayton graduate (BBA in Entrepreneurship) from Cincinnati. He’s building Saturn Sports — technology that integrates into helmets to verify that the chin strap is secured before takeoff, like a seat belt chime for your helmet.

Meet Cal, our Design Intern! 👋
Cal Powers is a graphic designer and visual artist based in Northern Kentucky, currently pursuing a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Visual Communication Design. Always captivated by the intersection of art forms, particularly in how music, poetry, and design can converge to create powerful, immersive experiences that serve as functional beauty in our day to day lives. Their work is rooted in a deep desire to explore the emotional and narrative potential of visual storytelling, With a keen eye for design and a passion for experimentation, Cal is currently collaborating with local business owners, musicians, and individuals to craft custom merchandise that not only reflects the unique identity of each case but also enhances their brand.

Being a founder is hard. Doing it alone is harder.
The advice every Kentucky founder needs to hear: reach out to the ecosystem. Show up to the happy hour. Talk to the person next to you.
You're not carrying this by yourself. You never were.
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A FREE fully remote cohort for busy founders… That is right.

Milestone Circles is a free 12‑week entrepreneurship program that helps U.S.-based founders build, scale, and lead with purpose.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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