Finalists

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.

leaseClub

Steve Goulas (MBA 2024)
Radu Simion
Simon Levy

leaseClub is an intelligent rental marketplace that leverages shared communities, like schools, for early access and lower fees by connecting new renters to apartments through current tenants.

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)