Bringing Ideas To Life
The Seton Hall trio behind Anvillent owes their startup's early success to the University's Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
In November 2023, Seton Hall’s Student Entrepreneurship Club traveled to Tampa, Florida, for an annual conference hosted by the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization. While there, three members of the club — Sid Kapoor, Jerry Ford ’25, and Cameron Floyd ’24 — got to talking. They were struck by the number of attendees who had arrived at the conference with ideas for apps. What if they created a service that could guide these aspiring developers through the process of bringing their software to market?
That fateful trip was the spark for Anvillent, a startup founded by the trio in 2024 with a mission “to help turn entrepreneurs’ ideas into reality.” With Kapoor as CEO, Ford as CMO, and Floyd as CFO, Anvillent has generated nearly $100,000 in revenue to date, according to Kapoor, with ambitions to eventually become a billion-dollar company.
“Everyone’s got an idea,” says Kapoor. “We help bring it to fruition through the entire process: ideation, development, deployment, branding and marketing. AI helps make the workflow a lot easier, because it means that fewer people on our side can work with more clients. So far, we work primarily with student entrepreneurs, because we are student entrepreneurs. We know how to talk to them.”
Anvillent wouldn’t have been possible without support from Seton Hall’s Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), which operates within the Stillman School of Business. CIE, which fosters collaboration between faculty, students, alumni and entrepreneurs, benefits from the generosity of Bryan Jakovcic ’09, one of CIE’s advisory board members. The Entrepreneurial Studies Endowed Fund provides seed grants for student startups, as well as supporting an array of programs that encourage entrepreneurship.
Bryan Jakovcic ’09 began his journey as an entrepreneur at the Stillman School of Business, where he attained the knowledge and skills needed to launch a hugely successful healthcare technology company. Now, thanks to Jakovcic’s Entrepreneurial Studies Endowed Fund, students like Sid Kapoor and his Anvillent cofounders are receiving crucial support to follow in his footsteps.
The Anvillent team was inspired by Jakovcic’s journey in transforming his own company, Fusion Health, from a collegiate startup into a national powerhouse specializing in electronic health records for correctional facilities and behavioral health agencies.
In April 2024, the trio presented an early iteration of their venture during CIE’s
Pirates Pitch Startup Competition, an annual bakeoff where $16,000 in seed money from
the Jakovcic Fund is up for grabs. They took second place, earning $4,500. The funding
helped them build a company website and make two small equity investments in other
companies. Even more valuable was
the overall experience of the competition. “Money or no money,” says Kapoor, “it told
us that we were on the right track.” Anvillent went on to represent Seton Hall at
the statewide UPitchNJ showcase in April 2025.
According to Kapoor, CIE has offered meaningful growth opportunities for Anvillent’s cofounders. In particular, Kapoor cites the Center’s focus on mentorship, both from Jakovcic and other members of the advisory board. “I pick up on stuff they do and learn just from being in the same room as them,” he says. “I listen to how they speak and see how they act. That on its own is hugely useful. They’re dedicating their time, and they’re willing to be open with us.”
Anvillent team celebrates their winnings at the CIE Pirate Pitch Competition
One day, during an Entrepreneurship Club visit to Fusion Health’s Woodbridge, New Jersey, headquarters, Jakovcic told a story about how he used to travel around to industry conferences and hand out flyers for his business. That gave Kapoor the idea to try the same thing, except instead of conferences, he drove around to different college campuses, like NJIT, where aspiring founders abound. It worked: Anvillent signed up ten new clients. “Bryan gave me the confidence to do it,” says Kapoor. “It’s great to have his support. He has a very successful company and he’s still giving back to students. Seeing him in action makes us feel like we can be in his shoes someday.”
Kapoor grew up an only child in the White Meadow Lake community of Rockaway, New Jersey. An alumnus of the STEM program at Morris Hills High School, he was drawn to the Stillman School’s flexibility and project-oriented curriculum. Another factor in his decision was the four-year certificate program offered through Seton Hall’s Buccino Leadership Institute. “There are so many pathways you can go down, like coaching your own team or doing your own research,” he says. “I was seeking a college experience that wasn’t rigid.”
Now in his senior year — he’s the youngest of Anvillent’s founding triumvirate and therefore the last to graduate — Kapoor is focused on completing his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration while ushering Anvillent into its next chapter, as the company expands its business model.
We've got so many mentors rooting for us and investing in us.” —Sid Kapoor, Class of 2026
With early-stage investment in the five figure range and one-full time employee to date, Kapoor, Ford, and Floyd are looking at Anvillent as a career. “It’s a long-term project,” says Kapoor. “I’m sticking with it to the end.” As for their billion-dollar ambitions? “Saying it out loud sounds nuts,” Kapoor admits. “But the opportunity is so exciting, and we’ve got so many mentors rooting for us and investing in us, that we can’t not think big.”
Kapoor’s excitement about Anvillent speaks to the impact of Jakovcic’s generosity, both in terms of funding and the time he spends mentoring student entrepreneurs. Having found success through his own Stillman School education, Jakovcic is now paying it forward for the next generation of entrepreneurs, a reflection of Seton Hall’s deep commitment to service.
“I want to help,” Jakovcic previously said during an interview about his induction into Seton Hall’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. “I just want people to have the opportunity to advance themselves and make themselves better. I don’t really think of it as giving back — I just think of it as something that’s right.”
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