Demo Day

Application & Eligibility
Only students that apply to the New Venture Competition Business and Social Enterprise tracks and advance to the semifinal round are eligible for NVC Demo Day.

Please note that student participation in Demo Day is optional and will not have any impact on the team’s standing or advancement as a semifinalist in the New Venture Competition.

Demo Day is appropriate for teams who are interested in exposure to early-stage angels and investors.

If you decide to participate in Demo Day, you are required to work with a faculty member to prepare. This includes a mandatory coaching session with faculty to get feedback on your proposal and pitch.

Pitch Format
• 3-minute pitches
• slides recommended

NVC Demo Day is invitation-only and tickets are non-transferable. We will send out additional instructions to invited investors.

Coming to Campus
When planning your trip to Harvard Business School for NVC Demo Day, we encourage you to use this guide to area resources  for a list of information regarding transportation, lodging, restaurants, etc. Please refer to the campus map to help navigate the campus.

Date & Time
March 11, 2025
4:00 – 7:30

Format:
4:00 - 4:10pm – Opening Welcome
4:10 – 4:40pm – 10 pitches
4:40 – 5:00pm - Break
5:00 – 5:30pm – 9 pitches
5:30 – 5:50pm – Break
5:50 – 6:20pm – 9 pitches
6:20 – 7:30pm – Networking Reception

Accio
Alex Zannos (MBA 2025), Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025)
Accio streamlines and automates the hardware manufacturing process.

Aidra Health
Ejiro Maroh (MBA 2026), David Bunn (MBA 2026), Toritse David
Aidra Health is bridging the urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and redistribution through an asset light model. By pioneering Africa's foremost medical equipment-sharing marketplace, the platform ensures hospitals can access critical devices when and where they need them most.

Argus Systems
Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025)
Argus Systems accelerates AI model development for physical AI.

Atlas
Reese Dorrepaal (MBA 2025), Meredith Rintoul (MBA 2025)
Atlas is an AI-powered money assistant that helps the 91 percent of recent graduates whose student loan stress impacts their well-being by optimizing cash flow, managing debt, and providing real-time, personalized financial guidance. It's like Mint x ChatGPT for the next generation entering the workforce

CareCorgi
Hailey How (MPH 2025), Bobby Zhao (MDes 2025)
For first-time family caregivers overwhelmed by navigating elder care, CareCorgi provides a human-powered, AI-elevated copilot that provides dynamic personalized care plans and connects them with real human geriatric care coordinators

Catalog
Paul Lachman (MBA 2025), Hamish Gunasekara
Catalog is a new-age commerce platform that helps fashion brands optimize their storefronts for AI shopping agents.

Coord Health
Christina Vosbikian (MBA 2025), Leora Sutton (MBA 2025)
Coord Health provides critical at-home care for women's health. Through virtual preventative care and lifestyle coaching, it is creating a new support layer for both patients and providers.

Furca
Amna Hashmi (MBA 2025)
Furca is a simple referral management platform for dental service organizations. Furca provides one workflow for all their referrals with minimal staff training and practice onboarding to boost revenue and patient satisfaction.

HiLo
Grace Lee (MBA 2025), Andrew Gao
HiLo auto-tracks a user's gaming highs and lows, turning stats into stories-so they can celebrate milestones, compete, and connect effortlessly.

Importrix
Jamie Linsdell (MBA 2026), Vineet Jammalamadaka (MBA 2026), Kevin Mathew (MBA 2026), Gordon Xiang (MBA 2026)
Importrix is an AI platform for imports that automates the customs brokerage process end-to-end to improve the efficiency of logistics companies.

Kykloris
Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025)
Kykloris installs modular systems in industrial seafood processing facilities, converting waste into natural, high-value biopolymers that can replace harmful chemicals and petroleum-based materials using green, scalable technology.

Kyra Health
Lucas Hearn (MBA 2025), Ned Jackson Lovely
Kyra Health is an AI-native Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA) platform designed for large enterprises that enables companies to move from defined benefit to defined contribution health insurance, leveraging individual exchanges to lower cost and improve benefit offering.

Latent Energy
Rourke Pattullo (MBA 2025), Bahaa Hafez
Latent Energy enables EV owners to monetize the excess capacity in their vehicle's battery. Latent Energy also provides the in-home hardware and software to enable bi-directional EV charging and then aggregates this capacity to trade energy in the electricity wholesale markets.

Lexi
Linh Pham (MDes 2025), Siddharth UR (MDes 2025), Jen Li (MBA 2025), Luke Fiorante (MDes 2026)
Hospitals spend billions on interpretation services that are slow, expensive, and unreliable - yet language barriers still cause medical errors, costly liability, and worse health outcomes for 30 million Limited English Proficiency patients in the U.S. Lexi is an AI-powered medical interpretation platform that enables instant, accurate, and HIPAA-compliant communication between providers and patients across the care continuum.

Lucille
Jess Haghani (MBA 2025), Sara Gagnon (MBA 2025)
Lucille is a better-for-you, high-protein, high-calorie ready-to-drink beverage for the senior population.

MediSimplify
Risa Komatsu (MBA 2026), Stephen Freeman
MediSimplify is building an AI assistant that advances health equity by enabling healthcare providers to efficiently create easy-to-understand patient communications.

Omi Health
Sindu Chaparala (MBA 2025), Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025)
Omi Health is an AI-driven pet health coach that provides personalized daily guidance to pet owners, helping them maintain their pet's well-being between vet visits and prevent unnecessary medical costs.

Oply
Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025), Gabe Chrismon
Oply is an AI-powered home management assistant that predicts, organizes, and automates home maintenance, saving homeowners time and preventing costly repairs. By leveraging advanced agentic RAG, OCR, predictive analytics, IOT, and an AI-driven marketplace, Oply provides personalized insights, proactive reminders, and seamless vendor coordination-all without the need for hardware.

Pearle
Ash Overbeek (MBA 2025)
Pearle is a luxury vegan caviar brand, offering the taste and feel of caviar without harming sturgeon, the most endangered species group on the planet. After building a reputation in the greater than $2 billion caviar market, Pearle will expand to foie gras and lobster alternatives, a $14 billion market.

Playlish
Assel Amangeldi (EdM 2025), Luis Gaitan (EdM 2025)
For billions of English learners, who lack access to real-life practice and meaningful feedback, Playlish offers an AI-powered voice tutor inside a pocket-sized English environment. Through real-life simulation games, interactive tasks, and real-time feedback, it helps learners build confidence and communication skills, unlocking education, career, and global opportunities.

Remarcation
Hannah Wong (MDes 2025)
Remarcation fosters the autonomy of disabled users in public space through information justice.

Saga
Carlos Piedrahita (MBA 2025)
Saga is a platform that allows creators to legally license AI-generated popular IP characters and assets, enabling them to produce high-quality content while giving IP owners a new, controlled revenue stream in the generative AI media era.

Samraj
Shiva Velingker (MBA 2025)
Samraj is a resource-management game that empowers overwhelmed young adults to transform managing their money from a daunting process into an engaging adventure, regardless of their financial literacy.

Theseus AI
Matthew Bernard (MBA 2026), Chris Molteno (MBA 2026), Sin Challa (MBA 2026)
Theseus AI is an AI-powered compliance automation platform that helps energy producers streamline regulatory compliance and reduce costs. By leveraging large language models, Theseus AI automates regulatory tracking, report generation, and workflow management, ensuring energy producers stay compliant with evolving regulations effortlessly.