Winners & Success Stories
Winners & Runners-up
Winners & Runners-up
2023 Business Track
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.
2023 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2022 Business Track
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.
2022 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2022 Alumni Track
2021 Business Track
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.
2021 Social Enterprise Track
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
2021 Alumni Track
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.
2020 Business Track
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.
2020 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2019 Business Track
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
2019 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2019 Alumni Track
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.
2018 Business Track
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.
2018 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2017 Business Track
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.
2017 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2016 Business Track
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.
2016 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2015 Business Track
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.
2015 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2014 Business Track
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.
2014 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2013 Business Track
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.
2013 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2012 Business Track
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.
2012 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2011 Business Track
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.
2011 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2010 Business Track
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.
2010 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2009 Business Track
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.
2009 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2008 Business Track
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.
2008 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2007 Business Track
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.
2007 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2006 Business Track
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.
2006 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2005 Business Track
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.
2004 Business Track
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.
2004 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2003 Business Track
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
2003 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2002 Business Track
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.
2002 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2001 Business Track
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.
2001 Social Enterprise Track
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.
2000 Business Track
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.
1999 Business Track
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.
1998 Business Track
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
1997 Business Track
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