Winners & Runners-up

Crop Diagnostix

Brandon Chi (MBA 2024), Joseph Swift, Amitesh Pratap

Business Track Winner

Redefining precision agriculture through AI-powered, genetic insights.

Sanso

Narek Dshkhunyan (MBA 2024), Daniel Erdosy

Business Track Runner-Up

We help drug manufacturers produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide.

BEAM

Nathan Dass (MBA 2025), Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025)

Business Track Crowd Favorite

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.

Solara

Rea Savla (MBA 2024), Vishesh Mehta

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Providing an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation.

Trans Health HQ

Ivan Hsiao (MPH 2024)

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

A tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy.

SeaCycle

Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025), Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025)

Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite

Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production.

Halo Braid

Yinka Ogunbiyi (MBA 2023)

Business Track & Crowd Favorite Winner

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.

DoriVac

Kevin Emancipator (MBA 2023), Claire Zeng

Business Track Runner-Up

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.

The MV3 Foundation

Ashley Kyalwazi (MD/MPP 2024), Leonard Nettey (MD/PhD)

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Empowering Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences.

Pando

Claire Wu (MBA 2023), Andrew Setiawan

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner

Democratizing credit for 150M underbanked Indonesians by providing alternative loans and helping them to build a credit history.

Coprata

Chase Moyle (MBA 2022), Sonia Grego, Brian Stoner

Business Track Winner

Reimagining how individuals can think about human waste to improve health and wellness.

ClearCut Surgical

Alex Yang (MBA 2023), Heung Kim

Business Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner

A medical device company founded by surgeons to identify and solve problems that practicing surgeons face every day.

CashEx

Kingsley Ezeani (MC/MPA 2022), Scott Morgan

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Building a zero-fee money transfer platform for African migrants.

Feather Health

Kirsten Soong (MBA 2022), Daniel Navarro, Mariya Rivkin (MBA 2022)

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

An AI driven digital platform to help people with chronic pain.

CardioPhi

Nishu Uppal (MD/MBA 2022), Sajad Mousavi

Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite

Offering AI-based analysis of cardiac arrhythmias to expedite clinical decision making.

fleetzero

Steven Henderson (MBA 2016)

Alumni Track Winner

Ocean cargo. Zero emissions.

Collective

Patricio Bichara (MBA 2015)

Alumni Track Runner-Up

Education to re-evolve the future.

SurgiBox

Mike Teodorescu (DBA 2018)

Alumni Track Crowd Favorite

Safe surgery, any time, any place.

Concord Materials

Robert Lane (MBA 2021), Anthony Valente (MBA 2022)

Business Track Co-Winner

Integrated materials management platform for construction operators powered by advanced ML algorithms embedded with a fintech solution.

Hive Health

Camille Ang (MBA/MPA-ID 2022), Jiawen Tang (MBA 2023/MPA-ID 2021)

Business Track Co-Winner

A B2B2C digital health insurer providing simplified, affordable, & and quality healthcare to Filipino employees through a data science-powered platform.

Shelly Xu Design (SXD)

Shelly Xu, HBS 2021; Ahmed Fardin, Junga Park, HBS 2021;

Social Enterprise Track & Crowd Favorite Winner

Vocal Justice

Shawon Jackson, HKS;

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Bone Health Technologies

CEO: Laura Yecies (MBA 1988)

Alumni Track Winner

Safe, effective treatment to prevent Osteoporosis.

Kudos

CEO: Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014)

Alumni Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner

Cotton cush for baby’s tush.

Alife Health, Inc.

Paxton Maeder-York, MBA 2020 (pmaederyork@mba2020.hbs.edu)

Business Track Winner

Alife Health helps doctors select the healthiest embryo(s) for assisted reproductive therapy.

Darza

Yazan Halwani, MBA 2020 (yhalwani@mba2020.hbs.edu)

Business Track Runner-Up

DARZA is a new e-commerce fashion brand that provides the best online shopping fashion experience at the lowest prices in the Middle East.

OnRamp

Ross Lerner, MBA 2020 (rlerner@mba2020.hbs.edu)

Business Track Runner-Up

Onramp is a customer partnership platform helping B2B SaaS companies provide world-class onboarding to new customers.

Mosaic

Sarah Schewe, HBS 2020;

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Provides a complete picture of a patient's health data across the continuum of care.

DreamworldVR

Jean Jung, HSPH, Mayank Aranke, HSPH, Osaze Udeagbala, Jay Lee

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

DreamworldVR is combating loneliness and helping to develop emotional and social intelligence for isolated pediatric patients using immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technology.

MyToolbox Technologies, Inc.

Wil Eyi (MBA 2019)

Business Track Winner

Platform for construction workers

NomPot

Ed Arthy (MBA 2020), Kasey Le (MBA 2020), Neha Mathur (MBA 2020), Zach Keeling, (MBA 2020)

Business Track Runner-Up

Frozen One Pot Meals

Hikma Health

Jordan Lebovic, HBS 2020; Senan Ebrahim, HMS, Erik Grueter, Zara Allkhateeb

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Creates customized data management systems for healthcare providers caring for refugee patients.

Gramhal

Vikas Birhma, HKS; Pankaj Mahalle

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Unlocks post-harvest services of storage, credit, and market linkage for smallholder farmers.

Blueland

Gina Pak (MBA 2015), CMO

Alumni Track Winner

Taking the weight and waste out of your everyday products.

X-COR Therapeutics

Jayon Wang (MBA 2018), Brian Chang, Steve Keller

Alumni Track Runner-Up

X-COR Therapeutics is the lower-flow CO2 removal cartridge that saves lung failure patients, treating COPD and other acute respiratory failures in critical care and outpatient settings.

hour72+

Andrew Rothaus HBS'18; Abraar Karan HSPH'17

Business Track Winner

Our insect-repelling tech lasts 3 days (not hours) and will protect billions from insect-borne disease.

Alpha Vantage

Olivier Porte HBS'18; Steve Zheng HBS'18;

Business Track Runner-Up

Cloud-based platform democratizing access to financial market data for software developers and investors.

Umbulizer

Hamza Khan HBS 2019; Shaheer Piracha, Sanchay Gupta HMS

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Umbulizer is developing a low-cost, portable ventilator for patients in resource-constrained markets

Neptune

Noah Stern HBS/HKS 2018; Flint Holbrook HBS 2018; Nic Cain

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Our sewers have a grease problem. Neptune is building a better grease trap to keep our pipes clean.

Veho

Itamar Zur (MBA 2017, Section G), Matt Graham (MBA 2017, Section E), Keith Cheong (MBA 2018, Section A)

Business Track Winner

We are replacing those large delivery trucks (think FedEx/UPS) with a platform that enables anyone to deliver packages in their own car.

CozyKin

Jeremy Au (MBA 2018, Section C)

Business Track Runner-Up

For working parents seeking infant childcare, CozyKin pairs families to share in-home Montessori care by our network of tech-enabled nannies.

Flare

Quinn Fitzgerald (MBA 2017), Sara de Zarraga (MBA 2017)

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Flare is reinventing personal security by creating tech-enabled safety devices for women.

Juva Therapy

Stephanie Tong (MBA 2018), Qian Qian Tang (MBA 2018)

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Juva Therapy effectively connects mental health patients to the right providers for their needs.

Astraeus Technologies

Jay Kumar (MBA 2017), Joseph Azzarelli, Alexander Blair, HMS, Graham Lieberman (MBA 2017)

Business Track Winner

The L-CARD: a better screening test for lung cancer.

Getaway

Jon Staff (MBA 2016), Peter Davis, Aaron Vomberg, Sarah Ruehlow

Business Track Runner-Up

Getaway designs tiny houses, places them on beautiful rural land and rents them out by the night to stressed out city-dwellers, from $99.

UrSure Inc.

Giffin Daughtridge, HKS; Helen Koenig

Social Enterprise Track Winner

We drive adherence to the HIV preventive drug, PrEP, with noninvasive, painless, cheap urine tests.

Confi

Tess Brooks (MBA 2016), Polina Dekhtyar (MBA 2016), Montita Sowapark, Harvard College, Nyla Fuller, Harvard Extension School

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

We create credible, fun online content on women's health/sex, plus sexual assault prevention events.

RapidSOS

Michael Martin, Nick Horelik, Kellen Brink, Alex Santana, Kaiying Liao, Joe DiPaolo

Business Track Winner

Commercializing a suite of advanced communication technologies to revolutionize emergency response and communication.

Be Mixed

Cristina Ros Blankfein, Jennifer Ross

Business Track Runner-Up

Natural and zero-calorie mixer for cocktail sipping anytime, anywhere.

Focus Foods

Julia Kurnik, Geoff Becker

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Urban aquaponics farm that will be a self-sustaining symbiotic fish and produce system.

Barakat Bundle

Karima Ladhani, Mitul Daiyan, Shane Robinson, Jyoti Ramakrishna, Nayab Ahmad

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

A conditional newborn essentials kit that reduces infant and maternal mortality in South Asia.

Alfred

Marcela Sapone, Jess Beck, Saurabh Mahajan

Business Track Winner

Service layer on the sharing economy.

Booya Fitness

Prita Kumar

Business Track Runner-Up

On-demand video platform featuring workouts created by the industry's best boutique gyms and instructors.

Saathi

Amrita Saigal, Kristin Kagetsu

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Provides affordable sanitary pads made from waste banana tree fiber to women in rural India

Tomato Jos

Mira Mehta, Nike Lawrence, Shane Kiernan, Jared Westheim

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Vertically integrated tomato processing company.

Tauros Engineering

Adrian Ross, Alison Flatau, David Flatau, Tyler Flatau

Business Track Winner

Tauros Engineering is commercializing a revolutionary technology for the detection of “bridge scour,” the widespread erosion that weakens bridge pilings and has put some 500,000 bridges in the United States at risk.

Quickstor

Rebecca Greene, Todd Rudnianyn

Business Track Runner-Up

This new venture has developed a mobile app to facilitate the process of finding self-storage facilities, now used by half of all U.S. households.

Bluelight

John Ikeda, HKS; Manoah Koletty, HKS; Mustafa Khalifeh

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Innovative consumer finance for the base of the pyramid.

WAVE Hospitality Academy

Misan Rewane, HBS; Karan Chopra, HBS; Navid Rahimi, HBS; Bryan Mezue, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Empowering youth in West Africa to access employment opportunities through vocational training.

Vaxess Technologies

Michael A. Schrader, Anura Patil, Livio Valenti, Patrick Ho, Kathryn Kosuda, Isa Watson

Business Track Winner

Vaxess is working to commercialize a Tufts University technology that stabilizes vaccines into a thin film strip which can be shipped and stored without refrigeration, eliminating the need for the cold-chain. Vaxess strives to not only lower the cost of distribution, but also increase access to life-saving products for people around the world.

RallyPoint

Aaron Kletzing, Yinon Weiss

Business Track Runner-Up

RallyPoint revolutionizes the way military professionals connect, develop, and pursue fulfilling opportunities throughout their military careers. We do for the military what LinkedIn does for business.

SaferTaxi

Jonathan Lo

Business Track Runner-Up

SaferTaxi takes a successful concept from the US/Europe to Latin America. The company provides a smartphone application that allows consumers to book, pay rate taxis with added convenience as well as transparency. SaferTaxi aims to bring greater efficiency and safety to the existing taxi booking process.

Zumper

Anthemos Georgiades

Business Track Runner-Up

Zumper allows tenants to search for and close annual apartment leases in a much more transparent manner.

eTransitions (now Careport Health)

Lissy Hu, HBS/HMS; Kira Yugay, HBS; Jessica Hohman, HMS, Jonathan Helm

Social Enterprise Track Winner

A web-based solution that streamlines the transition of patients from the hospital to post-acute care facilities.

XinfuGo (now Tang Mall)

Ying Chen, HBS; Yixin La, HBS; Qiwei Shi, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

A disruptive base-of-pyramid (BOP) retail and distribution platform in rural China.

BOSS Medical

Romish Badani, Derek Poppinga, Haim Gottfried, Maxim Budyansky, Neil Shah, Peter Truskey, Shoval Deke

Business Track Co-Winner

BOSS Medical is developing a revolutionary minimally invasive device for the extraction of iliac crest bone graft during spinal fusion procedures. It will improve procedures by reducing patient morbidity while achieving gold-standard fusion rates.

Baby.com.br

Kimball Thomas, Davis Smith

Business Track Co-Winner

Baby.com.br is Brazil’s one-stop-shop for baby products online, offering the deepest selection, the lowest prices online and free 24 hour delivery. We're changing the lives of Brazilian moms one click at a time!

MyTeksi

Anthony Tan, Hooi Ling Tan, Adeline Chan

Business Track Runner-Up

MyTeksi has the vision of revamping the Malaysian taxi market by introducing simple yet effective low cost mobile based technology to both the supply (dispatch companies) and demand (passenger) sides of the distribution chain. By doing so, MyTeksi will improve the matching process between taxi fleets and passengers (similar to UberCab).

Qweek

Roman Itskovich, Anita Venkiteswaran, Alexander Ginzburg, Daniel Rubinstein

Business Track Runner-Up

Qweek is a fully automatic cloud solution to workforce optimization and management. Qweek helps business achieve significant savings by breaking traditional rigid shift scheduling and using dynamic shifts to align workforce supply with demand.

Ubiquitous Energy

Bart Howe, Miles Barr, Erdin Beshimov, Jutta Friedrichs, Nathan Trujillo

Business Track Runner-Up

Ubiquitous Energy distributes electricity to “off-grid” communities worldwide via low-cost paper solar panels that are easy to use and can be interconnected over time.

SANA Care (Now JANA Care)

Sidhant Jena, HBS; Anshuman Sharma, Ikaro Silva

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Provide remote cardiac diagnostic services in the emerging markets, which account for 80% of global cardiovascular disease burden.

The Watt Campaign

Luke Winston, HBS; Rony Kubat, Stephen Elliott, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Mobilizes high school students to jumpstart effective energy efficiency initiatives in their schools and communities.

Oscomp Systems

Shantanu Agarwal, Pedro Tomas Santos, Emmanuel Magani

Business Track Winner

OsComp Systems is commercializing a revolutionary gas compressor technology developed in conjunction with MIT that offers low capex and opex costs, high efficiency, high power density, easy serviceability, and few moving parts. OsComp’s beachhead market is the wellhead compression market ($2.4B/yr in 2008 and growing @ 10%/annum).

Birchbox

Hayley Barna, Katia Ververis

Business Track Runner-Up

Birchbox is a new concept in beauty retail: fruit of the month meets Sephora, meets Allure.com. It is a monthly box filled with a curated assortment of the hottest samples from high-end beauty brands. The samples are paired with a website that includes an online magazine and store to purchase full-size products.

Palliative Care of America

David Matly, Michael Matly

Business Track Runner-Up

Palliative Care of America provides the best quality of life for seriously and terminally ill patients by providing industry best-practice palliative care to hospitals through a cost effective, outsourced delivery model.

RelayRides

Shelby Clark, Nabeel Al-Kady, Dave Brook, David Schairer, Rob Guinn, Boris Mordkovich

Business Track Runner-Up

RelayRides is the world’s first person-to-person carsharing service.

Urban Water Partners

Porter Jones, HBS; Jason Young, Justin Iwasaki, Aaron Matto, HBS; Ajay Kori, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Lease slow sand water filters to Water Vendors in Dar es Salaam to provide them the added service capability of selling clean drinking water.

EcoSquid

Nikhil Raman, HBS; Saurabh Dey, HBS; Kevin O'Boyle, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Aggregates options for consumers to trade in or recycle unwanted electronics in a simple and efficient web platform.

CloudFlare

Michelle Zatlyn, Matt Prince

Business Track Winner

CloudFlare enables websites to intelligently protect themselves from online attacks and to help clean up malicious botnets while receiving faster, more reliable and more robust network services.

Novophage Therapeutics

Ann DeWitt, Michael Koeris, Tanguy Chau, Tim Lu

Business Track Runner-Up

Novophage Therapeutics will commercialize a new therapy to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections that is more efficacious than current therapies using enhanced bacteriophage that suppress antibiotic resistance, to degrade biofilms, and to induce bacterial killing across a broad spectrum.

Vox Insurance

Michael Newton, Jon Altman

Business Track Runner-Up

Vox Insurance offers American drivers a new choice in auto insurance.

YouTea!

Alex Herzlinger, Tina Wu, Nimmi Roche, Ashkan Kamali

Business Track Runner-Up

YouTea! delivers an over the counter solution to a prevalent women's health problem.

EGG-Tech

Emmanuel Cassimatis, HBS; Alla Jezmir, HBS; Benjamin Lambert, HBS; Jukka Valimaki, Blandine Antoine, Jamie Yang

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Aims to provide a battery charging and swapping subscription to households in Tanzania as a cheaper, safer and more convenient electricity source.

Doodh Bhandar

Siddharth Tata, HBS; Shalaka Joshi

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Transform the lives of 1 million rural poor in India by creating a market based solution to increase the productivity of their cattle.

EyeView

Tal Riesenfeld, Yaniv Fain, Oren Harnevo, Yaniv Nitzan, Gal Barnea

Business Track Winner

EyeView's vision is to enable visual communication between businesses and customers. EyeView will develop and provide EyeCapture, the first web based platform that will allow its users to cost effectively provide high quality video guidance.

Good Start Genetics

Paris Wallace

Business Track Runner-Up

Pre Conception genetic risk diagnostic company.

MyHappyPlanet.com

Karen Ong, Steve Davis, Ethan Laub, Todd Pinkerton, Francois Gagnon

Business Track Runner-Up

MyHappyPlanet.com provides a fun way to learn languages through peer-to-peer learning and user-generated language lessons.

Physica Solutions

Jeremy Friese, Carlos Jaramillo

Business Track Runner-Up

Physica Solutions aims to start and operate office-based medical practices to provide minimally-invasive treatment for varicose veins.

Supply Solutions

Kevin Sousa, Jun Wang

Business Track Runner-Up

Exploiting supply chain inefficiencies between the U.S. and China with a new business model.

Diagnostics-for-All

Hayat Sindi, Roozbeh Ghaffari, Carol Waghorne, Gilbert Tang, HBS; Jon Puz, HBS; Krishna Yeshwant, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Point-of-care tools to address the diagnostic and clinical management needs of the global medical community.

Ghonsla

Emmanuel Arnaud, HBS; Monica Hau Le, Zehra Ali, Mubarik Imam

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Straw-based insulation products designed especially for corrugated galvanized iron roofs in the earthquake affected areas of Pakistan and beyond.

Judicial Intelligence

Sandra Nudelman, Michele Nudelman

Business Track Winner

Tool to help attorneys optimize their litigation strategy by enabling judicial bias analysis.

C3 BioEnergy

Tracy Mathews, Curt Fischer, Andrew Peterson

Business Track Runner-Up

C3 BioEnergy will produce bio-propane for the $21 billion US propane market, offering the only economically competitive, domestically produced, renewable source of this clean burning fuel.

Clear Suppliers

Paul Morgenthaler, Alex Zhang

Business Track Runner-Up

Clear Suppliers is a global supply chain infomediary.

Katherine Kwei

Elenor Mak, Ying Soong

Business Track Runner-Up

Katherine Kwei is a luxury handbag company focused on creating pieces that are a mix of sophistication and edge, blending into the wardrobe of the well-heeled woman.

India Info Village

Rita Singh, HBS; Sanjiv Kaura, HKS; Vishal Sehgal, HKS; Shaunak Roy, Gyan Badgaiyan

Social Enterprise Track Co-Winner

Enhances market and government service access of rural India through and innovative “government-business-civil society” model.

Unite for Health!

Onil Bhattachaeyya, HSPH, Lingling Zhang, HSPH, Anna Chodos, HSPH, Maria Fernanda Levis, HKS;

Social Enterprise Track Co-Winner

Reduce the burden of heart disease in China.

Charitable Donations Group

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Raise funds for nonprofits by helping them accept and liquidate real estate transactions.

8baorice

Tingting Zhong

Business Track Winner

An Internet for Chinese women which seeks to enrich the lives of women, teenage girls and parents through the offering of unique content, community applications, tools and interactive features

Acillix

Tanuj Deora, Carol Chao, Sue Mayo, Alan Mattamana, Tod Perry, Elliot Zimmer

Business Track Runner-Up

Acillix will deliver on the promise of biotechnology by revolutionizing the water treatment industry with our patented, low cost, environmentally friendly process for water demineralization.

Elective Medical Lending

Boyd Bishop, Simon Mattox

Business Track Runner-Up

Elective Medical Lending (EML) is a service based sales and marketing company that creates a lending market for medical and dental procedures not covered by medical insurance.

Hepa Wash

Nils Bennemann, Bernhard Kreymann, Hepa Wash

Business Track Runner-Up

Development and commercialisation of an efficient and affordable liver support therapy to increase the chances of survival for patients with chronic or acute liver failure

HeroesNow

Jennifer Wilhelmi, Rivka Spivak, Valerie Valtz, Allison Tepley, Jamyn Edis

Business Track Runner-Up

HeroesNow is your personal concierge online, linking customers who have a specific need and service providers who can satisfy their specific service requirements.

ONTV

Jonathan Oakes, Nathan Freitas

Business Track Runner-Up

ONTV brings sustainable creativity to people around the world through the delivery of media distribution and commercialization technologies.

The Yashmere Company (now Shokay)

Shawn Tan, HBS; Carol Chyau, HKS; Marie So, HKS; Jose Dias de Barros, HBS; Esther Hsu

Social Enterprise Track Winner

A steady source of income to marginalized communities in China by bringing “Yashmere” (yak wool) yarn and products to the U.S. market.

Souktel

Jacob Korenblum, HGSE, Jarrett Goetz, HKS; Dan Dellenbach

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job matching service.

Uplift

Karen Grajwer

Business Track Winner

Uplift, through retail and Internet channels, will provide the larger-breasted woman with expert fitting assistance and a variety of fashionable styles especially engineered for the larger cup size.

OWL

Business Track Runner-Up

Sikara & Co.

Mousumi Shaw, Jennifer Chang, Katrin Ivanov

Business Track Runner-Up

After 15 years of jewelry experience, Founder Mousumi Shaw, discovered a new market opportunity for a new jewelry & lifestyle brand appealing to changing demographics of women-self purchasers in the $53 billion dollar industry.

Travelguru.com

Ashwin Damera Vonkata, Jarad Fisher

Business Track Runner-Up

Travelguru.com will be India's first one-stop on-online travel portal (similar to orbitz), which through the strength of its relationships with airline and hotel partners, will offer a wide range of travel-related services.

Extend Fertility

Christy Jones, Yu-jin Kim, Laetitia Pichot, Nadia Campbell, Tatyana Daniels

Business Track Winner

Extend Fertility is dedicated to enriching the lives of women through revolutionary science and service that effectively slows down the biological clock.

Fortify Systems

Dan Stone, David Tom, Francis Quek

Business Track Runner-Up

Fortify Systems is the first company to develop a dedicated corporate governance solution to address the needs of small-cap public and institutionally funded private companies.

Lean Forward Media

Prita Uppal, Michelle Crames, Jeff Norton

Business Track Runner-Up

Lean Forward Media will revolutionize the world of children’s entertainment by creating interactive DVDs based on one of the top selling kids book series of all time.

Sapphire

Joseph Park, Jason Liu, Fai Leong

Business Track Runner-Up

Mobile local information service provider.

Sun Edison

Brian Robertson, HBS; Claire Broido

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Owner and operator of solar power generation assets in the U.S.A.

Policlinicus

Ed Kanalosh, HBS; Shuhrat Kuziev, HBS; Mark Schupak

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Network of exemplary ambulatory service and training centers in Ukraine.

FBC

Brian Hoskins, Eric Hiller

Business Track Winner

FBC Systems software provides a design-to-cost solution for product design and manufacturing. The software can predict cost early in design

Brontes Technologies

Doug Hart, Eric Paley, Federico Frigerio, Sheng Tan, Ted Acworth, Micah Rosenbloom, Janos Rohaly

Business Track Runner-Up

Jadoo Power Systems

William Berger, Larry Bowden, Ken Pearson, Lee Avikara

Business Track Runner-Up

Jadoo Power Systems was founded on the belief that fuel cell technology adoption will occur through niche markets and by a disciplined approach to developing products based on user requirements.

TrialBridge

Samir Patel, Ethan Baron, Rajeev Shah, Amit Patel

Business Track Runner-Up

TrialBridge develops Internet and software solutions which allow clinical trials sponsors

Gyaana

Raj De Datta, HBS; Arvind Krishnamurthy, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Eliminate functional illiteracy in India, partnering with microfinance and vocational training institutions.

FoodSTOP

Feyi Boroffice, HBS; Opeyemi Boroffice

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Efficient produce distribution system.

FishLogic

Javier Segovia, Patrick George, Benjamin Vigoda

Business Track Winner

FishLogic is a fabless semiconductor company focused on designing programmable analog signal processing chips.

Aprendo

Mason Myers

Business Track Runner-Up

Aprendo is a service that verifies job candidates’ prior education and employment data quickly efficiently and conveniently.

Empower

Andrea Zapatka, Richard Linder, Paul Sternhell

Business Track Runner-Up

Empower is a specialty merchandiser of useful “lifestyle” products for people with disabilities.

Music Games, Int.

Dana Soiman, Henry Tam, Igor Tkachencko, Sasha Gimpelson

Business Track Runner-Up

MGI is a company dedicated to developing high-quality interactive and educational games based on music.

BEST Education Partners

Matthew Fields, HBS; Lucas Klein, HBS; Jason Green

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Education management company, optimizing the use of school facilities by also offering after-school and adult education services.

The Respond Project

onya Tarnow Brown, HBS; Charan Devereaux, HBS; Michelle Dietz, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Reproduce nationally the local success of Respond, a fundraising CD for a Boston-area shelter for battered women.

Potentia Pharmaceuticals

Alec Machiels, Angie You, Scott Sternson, Paul Ashby, Jason Hong, Martin Szummer, David Darst

Business Track Winner

Potentia Pharmaceuticals addresses the post-genomic pharmaceutical crisis catalyzed by a market glut of inadequacy characterized, new protein disease targets.

Bluesolid

Xavier Aubry, Kimberly Lei

Business Track Runner-Up

Bluesolid develops a suite of software application and platform components that will enable value-added services to be deployed on wireless local area networks.

Realtime Ops

Lori Frutkin, Brent Hodges, Brian Reh, Stephen Moret

Business Track Runner-Up

RealtimeOps uses wireless infrastructure to capture information from the manufacturing plant floor and creates decision support software to enable improved decision making.

Twin Photon

Bernie McNamara, Justin Serrano, Zac Walton, Alexander Sergienko, Malvin Teich, Chris Adams

Business Track Runner-Up

Twin Photon Inc. is focused on developing next generation optical test and measurement technology for the telecommunications market, utilizing a proprietary, patented optical process development by leading quantum researchers at Boston University.

Low Cost Eyeglasses

Neil Houghton, HBS; Ashley Magargee, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Winner

Scalable, low cost, available solution to meet the needs of the billion people in the developing world who need glasses yet don't have them.

Modulo

Juan Pablo del Valle, HBS; Arturo Lopez, HBS; Gerardo Ruiz Maza, HBS;

Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up

Easy-to-use modular architecture to meet the mission of “building houses for the poor” in Mexico.

Bang

Robert Rosin, Robert Dreyer, Tim Tuttle, Sarah Boatman

Business Track Winner

Based on a revolutionary distributed network, Bang Networks provides leading Internet companies with a highly-scalable, real-time content delivery solution that complements existing distributed caching services.

3Plex (formerly Truck-it-now)

Tania Yannus, Ben Gordon

Business Track Runner-Up

3plex (formerly TruckitNow.com) is a B2B in transportation focusing on re-intermediating third party logistics companies –the 25bn high value added segment of the transportation industry.

Knumi

Phong T. Ly, Jayantha Dey, Raju Sivasankaran, Raheel Zia, Subhabrata Sen

Business Track Runner-Up

Knumi is developing a technology that enables rich media content providers to create and deploy a highly immersive and interactive end-user experience.

Sound Micro

Wallace Pai, Joe Ngai, Albert Lee, Wen H. Hseieh

Business Track Runner-Up

To commercialize MEMS(Micro Elctro-Mechnical Systems) technology for developing a self-biasing silicon microphone.

Local Rewards

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Business Track Winner

Provides software to help localize the internet.

OurWellness

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Business Track Runner-Up

An internet play streamlining drug distribution in Europe and creating a health conscious internet community.

Suppliermarket

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Business Track Runner-Up

Improves the efficiency of supply chain management for mid-size and small manufacturing companies

eBricks

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Business Track Runner-Up

An online building materials auction exchange.

Zefer

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Business Track Winner

Interactive consultancy focused on web-enabled strategy

Crimson Solutions

Business Track Runner-Up

InnerVue

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Business Track Runner-Up

InnerVue develops software tools for interactive 3-D stores serving the on-line retail market.

So Clean

Business Track Runner-Up

Omnicom Technologies

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Business Track Winner

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Business Track Runner-Up

Chemdex

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Business Track Runner-Up

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Business Track Runner-Up

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