2025 New Venture Competition Winners
Meet the NVC winners! These teams collectively won $128,500 in cash prizes.
86 judges from all over the world have chosen the 2025 winners in the Business Goods & Services, Consumer Goods & Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Social Innovation, and Explorer Tracks. We also awarded 8 other cash specialty prizes.
Congratulations to all the teams!
544
Total Participants Entered
224
Total Teams Represented
$128K
Total Cash Awards
Business Goods & Services
Immutiverse, Inc.
1st Place
Our SaaS platform automates and reduces the weeks-long firmware signing process down to minutes, shortening time-to-market and reducing reliance on scarce, expensive expertise. Embedded software engineers at manufacturing companies call our solution within their software development build workflows during the testing and production phases of the product development lifecycle.
Jeanine Johnson SEAS '25 | Julie Omran
$10,000
Business Goods & Services 1st Place Winner ($10,000)
Outlaw Motor Company
2nd Place
Outlaw Motor Company (OMC) is a manufacturing company that builds the LR8 engine for the Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) market. The LR8 is a rotary hybrid electric engine that generates the power required for VTOL mission profiles without the requirement for a maintenance intensive and failure prone gearbox.
Adrian Outlaw SEAS '27 | Yasser Jafari-Jozani SEAS
$7,500
Business Goods & Services 2nd Place Winner ($7,500)
LayerPure Technologies
3rd Place
LayerPure Technologies is developing reverse osmosis (RO) membranes for the water processing units of food and beverage industry. Our membrane lowers maintenance costs by 60%, and offer a lifespan 3 to 4 times longer than conventional products on the market.
Samarpan Deb Majumder SEAS '25 | Xitong Liu SEAS | Zhaoyang Wang SEAS '28 | Christopher Stafford | Lokesh Dani
$10,000
Business Goods & Services 3rd Place Winner ($5,000)
NextEra Innovation in Sustainability Prize ($5,000)
Nurse Math LLC
Nurse Math is a mobile app revolutionizing healthcare leadership by bridging the healthcare financial literacy gap among nurse leaders. Offering step-by-step calculations, a comprehensive glossary of finance terms, and real-time metric assessments, Nurse Math empowers users to make informed decisions, enhance operational efficiency, and drive strategic success—anytime, anywhere.
Marguerite Rowell SON '26
$5,000
Best Customer Discovery Prize ($5,000)
SepsisCare
SSepsisCare is an AI/ML-powered software as a medical device (AI SaMD) designed to facilitate the rapid diagnosis and prediction of sepsis. Leveraging advanced AI/ML algorithms, SepsisCare can identify subtle patterns that may not be immediately apparent to the human eye. SepsisCare is specifically developed to predict sepsis, a critical condition triggered by the body's extreme response to infection, which can result in tissue damage, organ failure, or death.
Bharat Khandelwal CCAS '25 | Nilesh Khandelwal
$5,500
Best Financial Understanding Prize ($5,000)
Viewer's Choice Award ($500)
Consumer Goods & Services
NextBase
1st Place
NextBase is a baseball-social-media-marketplace connecting 400,000+ high school players with 10,000+ college athletes for recruiting guidance, team insights, and career advice. It enables mentorship through messaging, posts, and video-calls, making recruiting 95% more affordable and 12x more engaging than traditional services, with potential in 32 other NCAA sports.
Karol Mlynarczyk GWSB '25 | Elliott Irwin GWSB '25 | Graham Jeffries GWSB '25
$15,000
Consumer Goods & Services 1st Place Winner ($10,000)
Best Market Assessment Prize ($5,000)
Shpapi Vision
2nd Place
An eyewear company started by two brothers sharing a passion for style and a desire to create high-quality, affordable sunglasses. Shpapi is on a mission to revolutionize the sunglasses industry by creating a community where people can express their style and protect their eyes from the sun and club lights.
Andres Villareal GWSB '26 | Fernando Villarreal GWSB '24 | Abraham Robert Behar
$7,500
Consumer Goods & Services 2nd Place Winner ($7,500)
GreenLit
3rd Place
GreenLit is a sports-betting advisory software platform that leverages advanced data analytics to provide unbiased bet recommendations that empower sports bettors to make informed betting decisions, while avoiding risky wagers influenced by sportsbook vested interests in gambling losses. Our intuitive grading process quickly provides bettors insights into their parlay risk.
Rohan Rajesh GWSB '25 | Andrew Sotell GWSB '25 | Alexa Asgharzadeh GWSB '25 | Arnav Patel GWSB '25
$5,000
Consumer Goods & Services 3rd Place Winner ($5,000)
HeartWise
Heartwise is a Relational Wellness Companion for young professionals seeking long-term relationships. Our library of relationship resources combined with our matching system is an expert guide in the dating journey, providing actionable guidance. With Heartwise, users can navigate dating confidently and find more likely connections than with traditional dating apps.
Christine Wenzel CCAS '25
$5,000
Best Storytelling Prize ($5,000)
Health & Life Sciences
GuideGuard
1st Place
GuideGuard is revolutionizing central line placement by redesigning the guidewire with an innovative P-shaped tail end that prevents retention incidents. Our intuitive, clinician-friendly design improves patient safety and outcomes while integrating seamlessly into existing central-line kits, positioning us as a key player in the quality improvement (QI) space.
Aditya Loganathan GWSB '26 | Andrew Meltzer SMHS | Daniel Shpigel GWSB '25 | Leslie Gailloud GWSB '26 | Nicholas Melucci SMHS
$15,000
Health & Life Sciences 1st Place Winner ($10,000)
Spirit of NVC Prize ($5,000)
PathPic
2nd Place
We are creating a pathology reporting service that seamlessly integrates tissue collection with rapid staining and preparation, followed by secure cloud-based uploads. This enables pathologists worldwide to access and deliver same-day diagnoses. By streamlining the pathology workflow, our service minimizes diagnostic delays, improves patient outcomes, and enhances efficiency for healthcare providers.
Abdulla Ahmed SMHS '26
$7,500
Health & Life Sciences 2nd Place Winner ($7,500)
HorusRx
3rd Place
HorusRx is an AI-powered compliance platform designed to streamline billing, regulatory adherence, and operational efficiency for compounding pharmacies. By automating key processes like coding verification, audit preparation, and payer policy compliance, HorusRx ensures pharmacies meet complex regulatory standards while optimizing reimbursement and minimizing risk.
Aileen Moseley CCAS '26 | Akhil Peddikuppa
$5,000
Health & Life Sciences 3rd Place Winner ($5,000)
Weigh2Dose
Our innovative scale provides an easy, reliable solution by determining the correct number of tablets based on an individual’s weight. This will eliminate dosing inaccuracies associated with traditional methods like the dose pole, allowing health organizations and community members alike to provide the necessary dose of praziquantel and disrupt the transmission of schistosomiasis.
Jada Covington SMHS '29 | Pedro Gazzinelli-Guimaraes SMHS | Paprika Berry SMHS
$5,000
Global Impact Prize ($5,000)
Social Innovation
The Petition Co.
1st Place
The Petition Co. created AI software to validate voter registration information on candidate petitions and ballot initiatives. At its core is a new system of parsing data that’s fast, accurate, and consistent. Now, we’re applying this technology to a new front: data from polling locations in nations where democracy is at risk.
Elia Ahmadi ESIA '28 | Mateo Moya Chavez GWSB '27 | Michael Korvyakov
$10,000
Social Innovation 1st Place Winner ($10,000)
Lulupoo
2nd Place
Lulupoo is a 100% water-soluble, pet-friendly, and non-toxic dog waste bag made from PVA sugarcane waste. Unlike traditional plastic bags, Lulupoo’s IWSFG-certified flushable design fully biodegrades, cutting down on plastic pollution while giving pet owners a cleaner, more convenient, and sustainable way to dispose of waste.
Lilla Reinertson GWSB '26
$7,500
Social Innovation 2nd Place Winner ($7,500)
Run The World - Appalachia
3rd Place
Run the World - Appalachia empowers low-income, first-generation women in West Virginia to stay in college and become future leaders. By providing mentorship, leadership training, and career support, we reduce dropout rates and bridge the gap between education and opportunity, creating a network of resilient women driving economic and social change.
Rebecca Burns GSEHD '25 | Jessica Hinshaw GSEHD '25
$5,000
Social Innovation 3rd Place Winner ($5,000)
Explorer
Bee Strong
1st Place
Bee Strong streamlines stroke recovery with metric tracking, emergency alerts, secure caregiver pairing, and more, empowering survivors and caregivers to navigate recovery together through consistent, coordinated care. More than just a tool, our app fosters a connected community that allows stroke survivors to “Bee Strong” on their path to recovery.
Chelsea Antero ESIA '26 | Joanna Hsu GWSPH '26
$1,500
Explorer 1st Place Winner ($1,500)
Victory Lane
2nd Place
Victory Lane, a physical therapy 2-sided digital platform, eliminates waiting weeks for an appointment, using insurance, and traveling to a clinic. Unlike with traditional in-clinic or home PT, injured clients can use any mobile device to book expert PT care to be provided at their chosen location.
Margaret Pittman GWSB '25
$1,000
Explorer 2nd Place Winner ($1,000)
PoliCare
3rd Place
Policare is an app-based service and artificial intelligence tool provided to healthcare workers allowing for fast and accurate access and comparison of local, state, and national health policies. Policare will increase the regulatory compliance of traveling providers and will allow healthcare workers to easily understand location-based differences in health policy.
Aditya Loganathan GWSB '26 | Isabella Lagunzad GWSPH '24 | Andrew Meltzer SMHS | Janice Blanchard SMHS | Ryan Heidish SMHS
$500
Explorer 3rd Place Winner ($500)