2019 New Venture Competition Finalists
Social Ventures
Last Call
Erin McGeoy
Chloe King ESIA '19
Last Call is an online marketplace that enables businesses to discount their surplus food and provide more affordable meals.
Youthcare
Nihal Satyadev GWSPH '19
Arjun Vadlamudi
An intergenerational memory care social enterprise that partners trained student volunteers and persons with early-stage dementia.
Mobility Innovators
Giavanna Corazza SEAS '22
Jonathan Lau SEAS '22
Justina Pruski SEAS '21
Raymond Yau SEAS '22
Mobility Innovators is an innovative, compact tray, designed for U.S. veterans who are wheelchair bound and lack independence.
District Connect
Gabby Levet GWSPH '21
Winona Francis
Ariel Hensley
Our solution is a mobile grocery store that provides healthy and affordable food. Serving right where people need it most.
Technology Ventures
Plast-Ways
Manyung Emma Hon SEAS '20
Samuel Magaziner
Plast-ways is an engineered consortium of plastic eating microbes intended to increase landfill lifespan.
Perpetua
Randall Ray SMHS '22
Parker Johnson SEAS '19
Nirmal Ravi
Perpetua presents Meerkat, a climate-controlled glovebox that makes it possible to use modern point-of-care medical labs in the developing world.
Voxion
Sam Bunger SEAS '21
Nathaniel Bury SEAS '22
Saramarie Puzzanghera SEAS '22
Ryan Fornara
Voxion provides a user-friendly and cost-effective solution for consumer-facing businesses to build custom voice applications.
Takin' It Easy
Solomon Abrams GWSB '19
Sydney Bailes SEAS '19
Caitlyn Pratt SEAS '21
Takin' It Easy is a user-friendly, cost-effective automated pill dispenser providing medical safety and autonomy for users and families.
New Ventures
Duleceology
Edith Leiva Corcoran '20
Andrea Nicole Leiva
Dulceology is an online bakery that engages clients through social media and connects with perspective customers through seasonal pop-up shop experiences.
Spiro
Sajani Desai SMHS '22
Rachael Herrera SMHS '22
Sonia Samant SMHS '22
Abhya Vij SMHS '22
Spiro is a wearable bracelet that helps identify children's asthma triggers to decrease morbidity and mortality in a severity-enriched cohort.
Obious
Eleanor Parry GWSB '19
Jiani Xu GWSB '20
Daniel Noake
Obious is an online marketplace that makes buying and selling group experiences easy.
Viva Vita
Carleigh Berryman GWSB '19
Dakota Sinder GWSB '19
Dylan Tally GWSB '19
Julianna Yee GWSB '19
Viva Vita makes aging engaging with empowering virtual reality technology. Our hassle-free services bring new life to seniors and their caregivers.