Summer 2019 – Present (hospitality project on hold due to COVID)
Co-Founders: Taito Ohe (HBS ’20), Emily Gould (MS/MBA ’20)
Inspired by traditional Japanese hospitality and modern capsule hotels, First Cabin aims to offer a tech-enabled, sophisticated, and affordable stay through modular construction and addresses two pain points in major North American cities such as Boston and NYC: consumers have trouble finding hotels that are simultaneously central, affordable, and comfortable; and landlords have difficulty retrofitting their spaces due to high costs.
While COVID and the complications of global travel has put our hospitality project into a halt, we are currently exploring the potential application of these units into high-touch public environments such as restaurants, offices, and clinics, providing partitions while integrating technologies that detect and sanitize virus and bacteria in real time.
Selected and enrolled in:
Harvard Innovation Lab Venture Incubation Program (VIP)
Harvard Business School Rock Center Accelerator
Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project Legal Research Partner
Harvard Business School Field X Course in Entrepreneurship
Harvard MS/MBA Integrated Design in Product Development
George H. Zhang 