2025 New Venture Competition Semifinalist
Business Goods & Services
API-Bridge
We’re building API Bridge, a no-code platform that lets businesses securely expose their databases as APIs in minutes—without backend development. Our goal is to empower data teams, researchers, and developers to access and share data effortlessly, eliminating the complexity of building and maintaining custom APIs.
Ayo Akinkugbe SEAS | Jose Sanchez
ATOZ Solutions
ATOZ Solutions is an on-campus brand ambassador platform that connects businesses with students for hyper-local, peer-driven marketing. By leveraging data-driven, scalable, and Uber-like technology, we enable companies to seamlessly and quantifiably execute ambassador services that engage students directly, offering a more effective and verifiable alternative to traditional campus marketing methods.
Jake Anszelowicz SEAS
Guzman Consulting LLC, DBA CyberGuardian Strategies
Our Digital Forensics-as-a-Service (DFaaS) firm provides court-admissible forensic investigations to law firms, pro se litigants, and organizations operating in the legal jurisdictions of the 13 original U.S. colonies. By offering affordable, expert-led forensic analysis, we empower professionals to present undeniable digital evidence, bridging the gap between justice and accessibility.
Hugo Guzman Camacho CPS | Thomas West CPS | Yun Zhao
Hope & Wellness Healing Center
HWHC Spaces is a flexible, affordable coworking and wellness hub designed for therapists, wellness practitioners, and entrepreneurs. We provide professional office spaces, a serene practitioner studio, a fully equipped conference room, and mailbox services. Our mission is to foster growth, connection, and well-being in a supportive, community-driven environment.
Corey Carter GWSB
Immutiverse, Inc.
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 | Julie Omran | Joe Ellsworth
LayerPure Technologies
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 | Xitong Liu SEAS | Zhaoyang Wang SEAS
Nexus Consulting, LLC
Nexus Consulting bridges the gap between student analysts and organizations seeking innovative solutions. By blending the fresh perspectives and energy of college talent with professional expertise, we deliver accessible, high-impact consulting services to small businesses and nonprofits. Simultaneously, we cultivate the next generation of strategic thinkers through immersive, real-world experiences.
Sam Loiterstein GWSB
Outlaw Motor Company
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
PremierDrive
PremierDrive is a luxury ride-share platform providing high-end vehicles and elite chauffeur service for business professionals, event-goers, and affluent travelers. By ensuring premium cars, top-tier customer service, and better driver payouts, PremierDrive sets a new standard in luxury transportation, directly competing with and surpassing Uber Black and Lyft Black.
Muhammad Saria GWSB | Wilson Ahn GWSB | Aman Gaudani GWSB | Bryan Juarez GWSB
Scalestream.io
We are building a B2B sales automation SaaS that empowers sales reps with AI-powered assistants. These agents integrate with CRMs, track sales data, engage leads pre-call, and provide real-time recommendations during live sales meetings. Our system enhances efficiency, increases conversions, and streamlines workflows, making sales teams significantly more effective.
Diego Mayor CCAS | Waleed Hajeer GWSB | Nikolai Grin
SepsisCare
SepsisCare 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
Consumer Goods & Services
Archimedes, LLC
Archimedes is an advanced stock analysis platform that applies financial modeling with data analytics to give active insights and simplified valuation tools for individual investors. It translates heavy-duty financial data into user-friendly, intuitive output and, in essence, truly democratizes retail investors with respect to informed and confident investment decisions.
Luka Ivanovic GWSB
Choice Press LLC
Choice Press is a hybrid book publisher that joins the author-favoring royalties of self-publishing with the professional services and connections of traditional publishing. Choice Press aims to shake up the book industry with its innovative business model, offering its authors the best of both worlds of words.
Joseph Lawrence CPS
CurbSwap
CurbSwap is a digital marketplace streamlining peer-to-peer exchanges of furniture, appliances, and essentials within local communities, with a primary focus on college campuses. By facilitating seamless transactions of affordable second-hand goods, CurbSwap addresses a critical market gap with a sustainable, cost-effective, and community-driven solution.
Judy Abdo GWSB | Tanish Sakla GWSB | Jeronimo Arias GWSB | Amanda Kyung GWSB | Ryan Jurgelewicz GWSB
GreenLit
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 | Andrew Sotell GWSB | Alexa Asgharzadeh GWSB | Arnav Patel GWSB
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
NextBase
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 | Elliott Irwin GWSB | Graham Jeffries GWSB
Point Buddy
Point Buddy is a web app aggregating travel rewards information—including points, elite status, statement credits, and perks—into one centralized dashboard. It guides users to maximize redemptions, avoid restrictions, and optimize their benefits for maximum ROI, ensuring they effortlessly make the most of their travel and credit card rewards.
Jake Anszelowicz SEAS | Matthew Santiago
Shpapi Vision, LLC
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.
Fernando Villarreal GWSB | Abraham Robert Behar
UFeast
UFeast is a meal recommendation based software application that connects students and communities over shared dietary restrictions. Its primary focus is to offer meal recommendations tailored to users’ unique dietary needs. The app also includes several innovative features such as social forums, reminders, and recipe searching
Mackenzie Scott GWSB | Dominick McGee GWSB
Uniflex
UniFlex is an app that connects students with clubs by allowing them to import their existing schedule to see which clubs fit their availability. UniFlex is a visual-interactive platform that helps students connect with peers and club leaders for recruitment, scheduling, and member retention.
Vijay Jayamani SEAS
Health & Life Sciences
Aayuda
Aayuda empowers elderly citizens in retaining their independence by equipping them with wearable mobility assistance systems. Today, due to issues like rapidly aging population and the rise in nuclear families, mobility independence is a dire need. These biomechanical systems will enable external assistance and ensure stable balance while walking.
Arvind Seelam SEAS
Aventra Health
Aventra Health is transforming benign (non-cancerous) hematology care with a digital health platform that integrates AI-driven diagnostics, expert consultations, and real-time remote patient monitoring. By eliminating unnecessary referrals, expanding specialist access, and optimizing patient outcomes, we are redefining benign hematology care—making it more efficient, scalable, and accessible for patients everywhere.
John Russell GWSPH
EmotiAI
We are building an AI-powered emotion analysis system for therapy sessions, integrating speech-to-text, NLP-based sentiment detection, facial emotion recognition, and motion tracking. This technology provides therapists with real-time, objective emotional insights, enhancing patient assessments, improving therapy effectiveness, and enabling scalable, data-driven mental health solutions for clinical and teletherapy applications.
Rahul Rajesh Modi SEAS | Ali Irtaza SEAS | Sri Sankeerth Koduru SEAS
FryPure
FryPure is a smart oil revitalization solution that extends the lifespan of frying oil while ensuring healthier food quality. Our FDA-approved dissolvable capsules reduce oxidation and harmful compounds, cutting oil costs by up to 50%. This simple, cost-effective, and eco-friendly solution benefits both fast-food businesses and public health.
Bhagavath Sai Darapureddy CCAS
GuideGuard
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 | Andrew Meltzer SMHS | Daniel Shpigel GWSB | Leslie Gailloud GWSB | Nicholas Melucci SMHS
Horus RX
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 | Akhil Peddikuppa
My Well Way
My Well Way is a personalized health navigation app that bridges the gap between online health information and science-backed medical guidance. Using AI algorithms to analyze user behaviors, search patterns, and preferences, we deliver curated resources, peer support, and referral networks, empowering users to actively influence their healthcare decisions.
Carissa Henry GWSPH | Eleanor Connors
TidBit
We are building TidBit, an AI-powered SaaS platform and discreet Bluetooth earbuds designed to assist individuals with autism in improving social skills. By providing real-time feedback on eye contact, conversational flow, tone modulation, emotional recognition, and social cues, TidBit helps users navigate social interactions, enhancing their ability to express themselves and emotional awareness.
Justin Cartagenova GWSB | Milo Rosenzweig SMPA | Jonah Schwartz GWSB
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 | Pedro Gazzinelli-Guimaraes SMHS | Paprika Berry SMHS
YouMatter.io
YouMatter.io is an application divided in 3 parts: one where teenagers can talk to therapists and get advice, one where they can talk to people who overcame mental health issues and one to give them tips on the dangers of the internet and how to reduce their time spent online.
Caroline Lamy GWSB
Social Innovation
Brāv Buddies, Inc.
Brāv Buddies is building a mission readiness intelligence platform that leverages our proprietary large language model to equip Army National Guard Commanders with force capabilities insights and near real-time assessments of units deployment status.
Josephine Tientcheu SEAS
DigniGuard
DigniGuard is a humane alternative to traditional handcuffs used during a mental health crisis transportation by MPD in Washington, D.C. DigniGuard shifts the perception of restraint from punishment to protection, promotes dignity and future help-seeking behavior in beneficiaries, while ensuring the safety of MPD officers.
Anastasya Shpakova ESIA | Anastasia Fetisova CCAS | Peter Phalen
Leave No Trace of Clinical Research Waste
LNTCRW is expanding from a pilot project to a sustainable redistribution platform for surplus medical supplies from clinical research sites to for-profit hospitals and clinics operating on a sliding scale in underserved communities in Washington D.C. LNTCRW aims to reduce waste, cut clinic operating expenses, and promote healthcare access.
Riley Lima GWSPH | Aditya Loganathan GWSB | Andrew Meltzer SMHS | Leslie Gailloud GWSB | Mardi Gomberg-Maitland SMHS
Lulupoo
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
PetMatch
PetMatch is a subscription-based service that allows animal shelters to connect to users by facilitating pet adoption, streamlining the adoption process, and showcasing pet profiles. It aims to reduce shelter overcrowding, increase adoption rates, and provide a seamless experience for both prospective pet owners and animal rescue organizations.
Maya Anderson GWSB | Maddie Haynes GWSB | Rodrigo Varela GWSB | Hanan Daniel Guttman GWSB | Michael Steiner CCAS
Run The World - Appalachia
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 | Jessica Hinshaw GSEHD
S.E.L.A.H Enterprises
SELAH Enterprises promotes the social and emotional wellbeing of children and families within underserved communities who are disproportionately impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Partnering with communities, SELAH co-develops a range of culturally responsive, therapeutic storytelling interventions that support resilience and healing, empowering children to overcome adversity and thrive.
Simone Brown GWPSH
The Pad Project
We are building an organic feminine hygiene brand for young girls and women in underserved communities. By offering affordable, eco-friendly menstrual products through a 'buy one, donate one' model, we address accessibility and environmental concerns while providing a healthier, high-quality alternative to conventional options, and empowering users with sustainable solutions.
Nomonde Shongwe CCAS
The Petition Co.
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 | Mateo Moya Chavez GWSB | Michael Korvyakov
Urgent Matters Global
Urgent Matters Global leverages U.S. resources and expertise to empower international healthcare providers by guiding their academic writing. We have found a cost-effective way to improve patient care worldwide by connecting U.S. medical students, who are seeking to make connection, with global peers, fostering collaboration and research to improve patient care worldwide.
Fady Ebrahem SMHS | Molly Ruttenberg SMHS | Aditya Loganathan GWSB | Katherine Douglass SMHS | Andrew Meltzer SMHS
Explorer
Bee Strong
Bee Strong is a data-driven stroke recovery app for survivors and caregivers. It provides medication reminders, health tracking, emergency alerts, and secure caregiver pairing. Users can connect with specialists and fellow survivors, fostering a supportive recovery community while ensuring consistent care and communication for a smoother recovery journey.
Chelsea Antero ESIA | Joanna Hsu GWSPH
brio
Brio is an exercise tracking app that rewards users with points for working out at least 30 minutes a day. These points can be redeemed for discounts on healthy meals at partnering restaurants, motivating users to stay active while making nutritious food more affordable and accessible.
Than Toe Aung CCAS
CARE AI
CARE AI is your personal mental health companion, designed to support emotionally distressed students. Using AI-powered emotion recognition, real-time mood tracking, and personalized therapy interventions, CARE AI listens, learns, and evolves with you—helping students navigate stress, anxiety, and depression with proactive, private, and intelligent mental health support.
Jithendra Katta SEAS
FoundryBio
FoundryBio reshapes cardiovascular care via regenerative medicine. By bridging computational modeling with stem cell research, we seek to create the first patient-specific heart valve scaffold from human tissue. This approach enhances valve durability and patient compatibility over existing non-human standardized valves, enabling providers to personalize cardiovascular care to improve outcomes.
Shawn Reginauld SMHS | Arnav Mahajan SMHS | Arnold Leigh SMHS
HASTE
Millions of older Americans suffer from joint pain and inflammation that limits their daily activities and are either treated with expensive, invasive procedures or pharmacotherapies that vary in efficacy. HASTE (Hyaluronic Acid-corticoSTEroid) is a wearable patch that provides a novel combination of corticosteroid and Hyaluronic acid to provide long-lasting relief.
Jack Parker SMHS
NeuroMotion
We’re building an AI-driven robotic manipulator control system that merges ultra-precise automation with adaptive machine learning. Born from a machine learning course project, our solution employs multilayer perceptron (MLP) networks, reinforcement learning, and vision systems to optimize industrial tasks, enable safe human collaboration, and integrate seamlessly with existing robotic platforms.
Min Thiha Soe SEAS | Pavan Kumar SEAS | Munyaradzi Antony SEAS
Next Play Athlete Transition Program
Next Play Athlete Transition Program helps former athletes transition from sport-specific training to lifelong fitness. Through personalized coaching, exercise science education, nutritional guidance, and mental health support, we offer a comprehensive solution that replaces regimented sports training with a sustainable, well-rounded approach to overall health, fitness, and an active lifestyle.
Lauren Brandt GWSB
Policare
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 | Isabella Lagunzad GWSPH | Andrew Meltzer SMHS | Janice Blanchard SMHS | Ryan Heidish
The Sip Soirée
Sip Soirée is a subscription-based and gift box company delivering curated, trendy zero-proof drinks for health-conscious consumers, non-alcohol drinkers, gift-givers, and hosts. As awareness of alcohol risks grows, the demand for non-alcoholic options is increasing. Sip Soirée fills this gap by offering a socially engaging way to enjoy zero-proof beverages.
Eesha Madan GWSPH | Caroline Hoffman CCAS | Lilla Reinertson GWSB | Grace Crowe CCAS | Ella Rapp CCAS
Victory Lane
Victory Lane is a 2-sided digital platform for physical therapy services which eliminates waiting weeks for an appointment, using insurance, and traveling to a clinic. A Board Certified Specialist with 5+ years of experience can meet clients within minutes at any location to efficiently help them begin their healing journey.
Margaret Pittman GWSB