Graduate Track

First Place: J.P. Robotics is mapping big problems in small pipes using robotics and AI. Team members include Tina Tian.

Second Place: Galen Health is AI for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer. Team members include Logan Nye, MD and Kushagra Agarwal.

Third Place: Sitewiz is AI-driven iterative optimization for e-Commerce websites. Team members include Ram Potham, Rohit Malhotra and Drake Som.

Undergraduate Track

First Place: Assurif.ai boosts efficiency for mortgage underwriters in lower markets, plagued by redundant tasks making up to 75% of workflow. By blending AI with human input, assurif.ai speeds up work, enhance accuracy and slash costs by over 40%. Team members include Alex Chen, Joey Park, Andrew Kang, Erik Wang and Meher Kaky.

Second Place: KnitFit custom-fits compression garments using machine knitting. Team members include Pratyay Didwania, Astha Shah, Advika Jayanti and Sreekar Kunaparaju.

Graduate Track

First Place: D.Sole is an accesible and affordable wearable device that utilizes early intervention technology to reduce the risk of peripheral neuropathy-induced amputation by 95% and significantly enhance the quality of life for diabetic patients. Team members include Saisri Akondi, Zilin Zhang, Aman Sinha, Je-han Yang and Dina Kaganer.

Second Place: Edulis Therapeutics is pioneering a breakthrough drug-delivery system to manage inflammation in the gut. Team members include Spencer Matonis and Vladimir Lamm.

Third Place: ReRoad Robotics is a pavement maintenance company leveraging robotics technology to slash road repair costs. They are addressing the root cause of road degradation with unprecedented efficiency and simultaneously revolutionizing worker safety. Team members include John Harrington, Ryan Lee, Alex Pletta and Russell Wong.

Third Place: Right One is an automated candidate sourcing using generative AI. Team members include Thomas Park and Erika Chao.

Undergraduate Track

First Place: Clutch Car Management is the new age of roadside. Team members include Isaiah Rodgers and Zamir Rodgers.

Second Place: ScOAPe is looking to solve the issue of endoscopes becoming dirty and visualization being blocked mid-surgery due to accumulation of debris by creating an attachment that allows for on-demand clearing of the lens, eliminating the need for the surgeon to remove the endoscope, clean it and reinsert it every time the lens is occluded. Team members include Rohit Mantena, Brandon Lee, Kamil Nowicki, MD, PhD, Adi Mittal and Michael McDowell, MD.

Graduate Track

First Place: Aruga Technologies is a medical device company that integrates a new nature-inspired, surface technology into the design of synthetic vascular reconstruction devices. Team includes Joseph Pugar.

Second Place: Fibulas freezes time, not just your samples. Team includes Xiaotian Ma and Ying Pan.

Third Place: Sparkline is a Proptech startup which uses computer vision and predictive AI to monetize excess parking capacity. Team includes Vai Viswanathan and Max Henkart.

Undergraduate Track

First Place: Agot provides analytics and self-service checkout for food service brands with our deep learning enabled AI. Team includes Alex Litzenberger and Evan DeSantola.

Second Place: Swaset is an everyday clothing rental/sharing app based platform where users who value variety, quality, convenience, and savings can build their closet. Team includes Shadie Ellington, Anthony Attipoe, Adriana Pink, Evangeline Mensah-Agyekum and Seth Setse.

Graduate Track

First Place: Zensors is an AI powered visual sensing that runs on existing cameras to create smart offices, shops and restaurants for data driven answers to critical business questions. Team includes Gierad Laput, Anhong Guo, Chris Harrison, Jeffrey Bigham and Anuraag Jain.

Second Place: TalkMeUp is an AI based software company who provides on-demand and personalized communication training at 1/10th of the traditional training costs. Team includes JJ Xu, Leon Du and Grey Yang.

Third Place: Nabla Ascent is bringing Data analytics to high value commercial applications through drones. Team includes Sankalp Arora, Geetesh Dubey and Daniel Maturana.

Undergraduate Track

First Place: EmboQuant is designing a smarter catheter to make embolization, the primary treatment procedure of liver cancer, safer and more effective, improving the standard of care for patients in need. Team includes Julia Luo, Prateek Gowda and Tatiana Gelaf.

Second Place: InvenTower LLC is a physical search engine looking to change the way people shop in retail stores. Team includes Mat Spettel and Jerry Yu.

Graduate Track

First Place: Blast Radius is building easy-to-use, inexpensive tools to deliver big data insights by using maps generated on the fly to create visualizations that are accessible, personal and explorable. Team includes Alison Alvarez (CS 2007; TPR 2017), JiaJia Zhang (TPR 2018), Derek Gregg (TPR 2018), Tomer Borenstein (CIT 2015; E 2018) and Ming Xing (CFA 2018).

First Place: Forest Devices is providing a non-invasive, diagnostic technology that can identify stroke in ambulances, nursing homes and other pre-hospital environments. Team includes Matt Kesinger (HNZ 2017), Dan Willis and Steve Morrow.

Third Place: Micetro (pronounced “mice-tro”) connects live streamers to brands to facilitate high-engagement influencer marketing campaigns.. Team includes Thomas Shelley (HC '17), John McCutcheon and Nathan Hefner.

Undergraduate Track

First Place: Flagtag is changing location-based advertising through an interactive map that motivates users to “capture” virtual flags in targeted places. Team includes Blake Chasen (TPR 2016), Jesse Mendelson (TPR 2016), Matt Hillman (DC 2017), Omar El-Sadany (CS 2016) and Ian Go (DC 2016).

Second Place: e. e. books, a company changing the publishing landscape of enhanced e-books, is developing software that enables writers to easily create media-rich e-books for electronic reading devices. Team includes Eleanor Haglund (DC 2016) and Melody Ting (CMU 2018).

Graduate Track

First Place: Impaqd is a real-time, GPS-enabled app that connects shipping customers directly to freight carriers, allowing them to identify and fill empty cargo space. Team includes Jason Cahill (TPR 2014) and Neel Kishan (TPR 2014).

Second Place: Solvvy, Inc. is an intelligent problem-solving assistant that significantly enhances a user’s ability to find Web content by using state-of-the-art text analysis technology. Team includes Justin Betteridge (CS 2006) and Medhi Samadi (CS 2014).

Third Place: Appbase provides a unified database interface to handle all of the data syncing and querying needs for app developers. Team includes Anuj Kumar (CS 2012, 2014), Siddharth Kothari and Shannan Sullivan.

Undergraduate Track

First Place: Tailored Fit is an online shopping service that learns an individual’s preferences over time and makes personalized shopping suggestions while providing products and services from multiple retailers on one website. Team includes Kate Vogt (CS 2014), Nathaniel Eliason (DC 2015), Heidi Yang (TPR 2014), Zach Bush (TPR 2016), Matt Baker, Soloman Benjamin, Zach Piekut and Leanna Verderese.

Second Place: Captions is a new application that projects translations for any foreign language being spoken onto a special pair of eyeglasses. Team includes Elizabeth Ottens (E 2015), Joel Lu (MCS 2014) and Brian Yasukochi.