2019 New Venture Competition Winners
Meet the NVC winners! These 15 teams collectively won $207,500 in cash prizes.
137 judges from all over the world have chosen the 2019 winners.
Congratulations to all the teams!
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Total Participants Entered
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Total Team Represented
$207k
Total Cash Awards
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.
$45,000
1st Place Prize - Social Track & Fosun Undergraduate Social
Venture ($20,000)
Audience Choice Award ($10,000)
Best Women's Venture Prize ($10,000)
Most Innovative Food & Beverage Industry Venture ($5,000)
Youthcare
Nihal Satyadev GWSPH '19
Arjun Vadlamudi
An intergenerational memory care social enterprise that partners trained student volunteers and persons with early-stage dementia.
$15,000
Fosun Grad Social Venture Prize ($10,000)
Social Venture Runner-Up Prize ($5,000)
WATTerWagon
Jagan Doodala CCAS '19
Christian Trummer SEAS '21
The WATTerWagon increases water carrying capacity and eliminates strenuous labor for hundreds of millions living in rural water-scarce regions.
$7,500
Quinn Prize for Best International & Social Entrepreneurship Venture ($7,500)
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.
$7,500
AARP Foundation Older-Adult Focused Innovation Prize ($5,000)
Social Venture Honorable Mention ($2,500)
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.
$5,000
Social Venture Runner Up ($5,000)
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.
$35,000
1st Place Prize - Tech Track & Kulkarni Prize for Best Technology Venture ($20,000)
Blank Rome's Best Undergraduate Prize ($10,000)
Opportune Clean Energy and Healthcare Prize ($5,000)
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.
$12,500
Best Medical Device Venture ($7,500)
Runner-Up Prize ($5,000)
Alldots
Ali Gerami Matin SEAS '21
Mohammad Shams SEAS '19
AllDOTs provides a complex automated dual-target system for pavement condition detection and maintenance planning optimization.
$10,000
Fosun International Venture Prize ($10,000)
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.
$5,000
Technology Venture Runner-Up Prize ($5,000)
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.
$2,500
Technology Venture Honorable Mention ($2,500)
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.
$35,000
1st Place Prize - New Ventures Track ($20,000)
Best Art and Design Student Prize ($10,000)
Best Food & Beverage Industry Venture ($5,000)
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.
$15,000
Fosun Health and Wellness Prize ($10,000)
Runner-Up Prize ($5,000)
Knowledge to Own
Alberto Estrella GWSB '18
Trevor McGraw GWSB '18
Kin Wah Koo GWSB '18
Thomas Walsh GWSB '18
An online platform to get free money to buy a home. KTO's search and match platform can save you thousands of dollars in seconds.
$5,000
Veteran's Prize ($5,000)
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.
$5,000
New Venture Runner Up ($5,000)
Obious
Eleanor Parry GWSB '19
Jiani Xu GWSB '20
Daniel Noake
Obious is an online marketplace that makes buying and selling group experiences easy.
$2,500
New Venture Honorable Mention ($2,500)