Winners & Runners-Up

Business Track, 2024

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2024

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.

Business Track, 2023

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2023

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.

Business Track, 2022

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2022

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.

Alumni Track, 2022

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.

Business Track, 2021

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2021

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

Alumni Track, 2021

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.

Business Track, 2020

Alife Health, Inc.

Paxton Maeder-York, MBA 2020
Business Track Winner

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

Darza

Yazan Halwani, MBA 2020
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
Business Track Runner-Up

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

Social Enterprise Track, 2020

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.

Business Track, 2019

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

Social Enterprise Track, 2019

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.

Alumni Track, 2019

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.

Business Track, 2018

hour72+

Andrew Rothaus, HBS 2018
Abraar Karan, HSPH 2017
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' 2018
Steve Zheng, HBS 2018
Business Track Runner-Up

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

Social Enterprise Track, 2018

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.

Business Track, 2017

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2017

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.

Business Track, 2016

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2016

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.

Business Track, 2015

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2015

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.

Business Track, 2014

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2014

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.

Business Track, 2013

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2013

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.

Business Track, 2012

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2012

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.

Business Track, 2011

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2011

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.

Business Track, 2010

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2010

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.

Business Track, 2009

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2009

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.

Business Track, 2008

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2008

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.

Business Track, 2007

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2007

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.

Business Track, 2006

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2006

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.

Business Track, 2005

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.

Business Track, 2004

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2004

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.

Business Track, 2003

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

Social Enterprise Track, 2003

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.

Business Track, 2002

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2002

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

Tonya 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.

Business Track, 2001

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.

Social Enterprise Track, 2001

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.

Business Track, 2000

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.

Business Track,1999

Local Rewards

Clinton Anderson
Senthil Nagarajan
Mike de la Cruz
Business Track Winner

Provides software to help localize the internet.

OurWellness

Adrian Fopp
Guillaume Dufosse
Radeim Rimanek
Clemens Henle
Youssef Ghazel
Jeff Hsing
Business Track Runner-Up

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

Suppliermarket

Jon Burgstone
Asif Satchu
Brad Loftus
Business Track Runner-Up

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

eBricks

Tawfik Hammoud
Nikitas Koutoupes
Enrique Macotela
Jorge Henriquez
Gad Liwerant
Tim Perini
Business Track Runner-Up

An online building materials auction exchange.

Business Track, 1998

Zefer

Anthony Tjan
Matthew Burkley
Alexandre Scherer
Business Track Winner

Interactive consultancy focused on web-enabled strategy

Crimson Solutions

Business Track Runner-Up

InnerVue

Richard Reimer
Jeff Feldgoise
James Verner
Brenden Maher
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

Business Track, 1997

Omnicom Technologies

Eman Safadi
Sophia Shing
Anouk van der Boor
Business Track Winner

American Veterinary Specialists

Mike Kaswan
Bob Azelby

Business Track Runner-Up

Chemdex

Dave Perry
Stig Leschly
Lisa Janssen
Jon Callaghan
Business Track Runner-Up

MST Group, LLC

John Siegel
Greg Myers
Allen Thorpe
Business Track Runner-Up