Finalists
Business Track, 2025
Accio
Alex Zannos (MBA 2025)
Sara Ballantyne (MS/MBA 2025)
Streamline and automates the hardware manufacturing process.
Argus Systems
Lisa Yan (MBA 2025)
Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025)
Accelerating AI model development for physical AI.
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.
Importrix
Jamie Linsdell (MS/MBA 2026)
Vineet Jammalamadaka (MS/MBA 2026)
Kevin Mathew (MS/MBA 2026)
Gordon Xiang (MS/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.
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.
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.
Social Enterprise Track, 2025
Aidra Health
Ejiro Maroh (MBA 2026)
David Bunn (MBA 2026)
Toritse David
Joshua Ivie (MDE 2026)
Tobi Onigbogi
Pioneering Bridging gaps in medical equipment access by enabling sharing and redistribution through an asset-light model sustainable biopolymer production.
Lexi
Linh Pham (MDE 2025)
Siddharth UR (MDE 2025)
Jen Li (MBA 2025)
Luke Fiorante (MDE 2026)
Breaking language barriers with AI-powered medical interpretation for over 30 million patients
Playlish
Assel Amangeldi (EdM 2025)
Ranjitsinh Disale (EdM 2025)
Luis Gaitan (EdM 2025)
Husain Rasheed
Engaging kids in Kazakhstan with an AI-driven simulation game that makes learning English fun
Remarcation
Hannah Wong (MArch 2025)
Jia Wen Goh
Fostering the autonomy of disabled users in public space through information justice
Business Track, 2024
Aria
Reese Donohue (MBA 2024)
Aria is a B2B SaaS platform that transforms shared spaces into hyper-personalized environments.
BEAM
Nathan Dass (MBA 2025)
Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025)
We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service, connecting individual satellites in any orbit to a broad network of satellites and their connected ground stations across the world.
CareConverse.ai
Eshwar Inapuri (MBA 2025)
Swen Koller (MBA 2025)
CareConverse eliminates communication as a barrier to healthcare with its AI-powered virtual medical interpreter.
Crop Diagnostix
Brandon Chi (MBA 2024)
Joseph Swift
Amitesh Pratap
Redefining precision agriculture through AI-powered, genetic insights.
Poka Labs
Malay Shah (MBA 2024)
Andrew Bass (MBA 2024)
Poka Labs is building a cloud-based operating system built to modernize chemical manufacturing.
Sanso
Narek Dshkhunyan (MBA 2024)
Daniel Erdosy
We help drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide.
SaveSpace
Katharina Kelm (MBA 2024)
Kelvin Kassis
Vanessa Brodt
Jeremy Mallahn
We help city residents save hassle, space, and money, by offering an online, in-app inventory mgmt platform, allowing our customers to store, move, sell, rent, donate, or sustainably dispose their stuff with one click & emptying cities by moving storage out to ex-urban facilities.
Social Enterprise Track, 2024
SeaCycle
Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025)
Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025)
Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production.
Solara
Rea Savla (MBA 2024)
Vishesh Mehta
Providing an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation.
TestParty
Michael Bervell (MBA 2024)
Jason Tan
Comprehensive platform to help companies get and stay ADA or EAA compliant based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Trans Health HQ
Ivan Hsiao (MPH 2024)
A tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy.
Business Track, 2023
Chooz
Ashley McCray-Ford (MBA 2023)
CHOOZ is a career accelerator for women in the workplace. Through the partnership with top corporations, we are putting the power of choice back in the hands of women of color, fixing the broken rung by increasing the # of WOC managers in corporate America.
DoriVac
Kevin Emancipator (MBA 2023)
Claire Zeng
DoriVac (DNA Origami Vaccine) is a biotech startup for improving cancer treatment using a novel DNA nanoparticle platform. We develop treatments that teach patients' immune systems to recognize and fight cancer.
Earthbond
Chidalu Onyenso (MBA 2023)
Earthbond is a platform that connects urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market.
Fluency
Hiro Yamada (MBA 2023)
Mark Yao
Fluency is an enterprise AI speaking coach for non-native English speakers.
Gigit.ai
Inez Wihardjo (MBA 2023)
Mobile first platform to crowdsource data collection and data labeling. We serve AI companies that need to collect text, video and audio samples to train their ML model and connect them to trained gig workers in developing markets.
Halo Braid
Yinka Ogunbiyi (MBA 2023)
We reduce braiding time from hours to minutes, empowering Black salon owners to double or triple their business, and addressing the 8 billion hours spent braiding hair each year.
Pathways
Vasilis Mantzios (MBA 2023)
Leise Sandeman
Alex Cooper
Kritika Kharbanda
Pathways is a SaaS tool that enables companies in the building industry to quantify and reduce emissions in their value chain.
PolyoseBio
Makari Krause (MBA 2023)
Amin Espah Borujeni
PolyoseBio is working to divert food waste away from landfills by upcycling it into high-value sugar polymers using a combination of insects and microbial cell factories.
Social Enterprise Track, 2023
DetoXyFi
Dhananjay Goel (MPA/MBA 2023)
Rishon Benjamin (MBA 2022)
Rohit Karnik
Leveraging waste wood and a proprietary chemical technology process to build affordable and highly effective drinking water filters for household/individual use.
Pando
Claire Wu (MBA 2023)
Andrew Setiawan
Democratizing credit for 150M underbanked Indonesians by providing alternative loans and helping them to build a credit history.
Reentry Care
Pooja Chandrashekar (MBA/MD 2024)
Leah Yared (JD/MBA 2025)
A tech-enabled platform to connect returning citizens with community health services.
The MV3 Foundation
Ashley Kyalwazi (MD/MPP 2024)
Leonard Nettey (MD/PhD)