Announcing the Finalists of the New Venture Competition!
Don’t miss your chance to see the finalists in action!
For the first time, the final rounds of the New Venture Competition are open to the public!
The doors open for the General Track (open to all kinds of ventures) at 5:00 pm on Tuesday in the Questrom auditorium, while doors open for the Social Impact Track at 4:30 pm on Wednesday.
Get an inside look at how pitches are made and judged. Each team will have 10 minutes to pitch and 10 minutes for Q&As with the judges.
We also invite you to join us at Innovator’s Night on April 27 in the Metcalf Trustee Ballroom as we announce the competition winners and award more than $72,000 in prizes!
General Track
Astra Wellbeing
Astra Wellbeing is an SMS-based employee recognition platform dedicated to improving the wellbeing and burnout of frontline healthcare employees through messages of positive reinforcement and enhanced intra-hospital connectivity.
Team
Josh Bruehwiler’s (QST ‘24)
Taha Moukara (QST ‘24)
Johar Singh’s (QST ‘24)
AutoPCB
Circuit design automation software
Team
Caspian Chaharom (CAS’23)
Chloa Adamowicz (CAS’23)
Harunobu Ishii (MET’22)
Kelsey Mann (CFA’23)
Enlaye
Enlaye is a brand-new cloud-based contract writing, negotiation, and deep-collaboration platform that radically modernizes contracting and negotiation. It does so by restructuring contracts as collaborative networks, taking inspiration from what makes the brain so fast and powerful: the ability to work in parallel across a shared network architecture.
Team
Stamatios Liapis (MED’23)
Philippe Rival MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School (2023)
INIA Biosciences
INIA is developing a smart wearable bioelectronic device to non-invasively reduce inflammation.
Team
Shen Ning, M.D./Ph.D. (MED’24/MGH)
Dragan Savic, MBA (University of Oxford)
OpenLake
We are standardizing, consolidating, and accelerating the arduous process of data fetching and cleaning. We are doing so via a multi-purpose, automated data pipeline utilizing AWS technologies that make it extremely cost and time efficient to standardize all forms of data representation. This will manifest itself as a conceptual data-lake containing all public sector information.
Team
Milan Tahliani (CAS’24)
Cygnus Wang (CAS’23)
Pardesh Dhaka (CAS’26)
Snazz
Snazz is a digital health and wellness technology company. Snazz offers a suite of sophisticated, but easy to use tools that passively help users build better phone usage habits and reduce their time spent mindlessly scrolling – all in the most accessible format ever.
Team
Justin DiRaddo (QST’23)
Amal Radhakrishnan (CAS’19)
Lucan Laurence (CAS’23)
Orang Room Digital – Software Engineering Firm
Social Impact Track
Denta-Dispense
A touchless dispenser for common single-use dental supplies to reduce waste and improve sanitation in dental offices.
Team
Alireza Eghdamian (DMD’26)
Glamour City Technologies
For secondhand store owners, we provide a platform and software to help them to grow their online presence and sell more of their clothes online. We gather all the stores into a user-friendly and engaging platform (web & mobile app) for secondhand clothing buyers, maximizing their choices and experiences in online secondhand appeals shopping.
Team
Qi Xia (COM’23)
Yitao Sun
Yunan Liao
Hamara
Hamara aims to bring the South Asian bazaar experience online. Hamara is South Asia’s largest bazaar directory.
Team
Sohail Mohammed (ENG’25)
Eesha Ulhaq (Wilfrid Laurier University, 2026)
PalmFronds
PalmFronds aims to help underprivileged students in Nigeria achieve self-sustaining careers.
Team
Stephanie Anakwe (CAS’22)
Ernest Dimbo
Chinwe
Nneka Agba is an Igbo professor at Harvard and BU
Shop Swapp
We are a second-hand online marketplace exclusive to BU students. Students can upload their used or unwanted clothes and accessories for other students to buy and pick up safely and efficiently on campus and in person.
Team
Mikayla Crowley (ENG’23)
Katie Hill (ENG’23)
The Sweaty Penguin, LLC.
The Sweaty Penguin is a PBS award-winning climate program that attempts to depoliticize and add comedy to solutions-based environmental news. Published on podcast platforms, The Sweaty Penguin produces weekly content that engages with a wide range of climate topics from a lighthearted perspective.
Team
Hallie Cordingley (CAS’24)
Melina Nguyen (COM’24)
Ethan Brown (COM’21)
Megan Antone (COM’21)
Maddy Schmidt (COM’21)
Sabrina Rollings (COM’21)
Shannon Damiano (COM’22)
Madeleine Salman (COM’22)
Olivia Amitay (COM’22)
Owen Reith (University of Victoria, 2024)
