FA25 IE Awards Digital Program (2)

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards Presented by

The Skandalaris Center

Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm Crowder Courtyard, Anheuser-Busch Hall

Tonight’s Program: 5:00 pm - Check-in, Refreshments, & Hors d’oeuvres 5:35 pm - Welcome Remarks II Luscri, Assistant Vice Provost for Innovation & Entrepreneurship Managing Director, Skandalaris Center 5:45 pm - Skandalaris Venture Competition Winner Announcements Cyril Loum, Venture Development Manager Catalyst Funding recipients present 2-minute IdeaBounce®style pitches Closing Remarks Networking

Fall 2025 SVC Finalist teams

Fall 2025 Skandalaris Venture Competition Finalists Assertion AI – A generative AI engine designed for teams that need to deliver predictive models. It automates the full model development workflow through reasoning, cutting delivery time from 3-6 months to under an hour.

Yao Xie (PhD ‘14, MBA ‘26), Yifan Zhao (MS ‘26), Mei Zhu (PhD ‘14) Aurora – A tool that helps healthcare trainees develop and work through clinical reasoning and management of patients.

Nicholas Speller (MD ‘27), Michael Qiu (MD ‘27), Mackenzie Simper (MD ‘27), Justin Chang (MD ‘27) BABA (Be a Better Athlete) – AI-Powered data science app for Martial Arts athletes.

Ohad Dan (MBA ‘26) CaseGen – An AI-powered learning platform that simulates realistic patient encounters, helping medical students and trainees practice clinical reasoning, diagnosis, and decision-making in a safe, feedback-driven environment.

Aditya Sehgal (EN ‘25), Anurag Challagundula (LA ‘27), Karan Joseph (MD ‘27), Akshay Mehta (MD ‘26) Chronicle – A mobile platform aiming to centralize medical care, create a community network, and improve access to medical information for chronic pain patients who have traditionally been less supported by the current medical system.

Pallavi Jonnalagadda (MD ‘27), Heath Rutledge-Jukes (MD ‘26), Juliana Rausch (LA ‘27) Epi-Pal – Epi-Pal is a smart EPI-PEN case that alerts emergency services when an EPIPEN is used during an anaphylaxis reaction.

Lilly Ortiz (LA ‘27), Sonja Nguyen (BU ‘27), Lily Zarr (LA ‘27), William Li (LA ‘27) Ignite Performance – Performance coaching and mental training tools for athletes through one-to-one coaching and an online platform.

Reagan Swatosh (MBA ‘26), Abbey Mink (MBA ‘26), Gwynnie Lee (MBA ‘26), David Jackstadt (MBA ‘26), Cora Bassett (MBA ‘26), Spencer Payne (MBA ‘26) Kayno Labs – Creates AI tools that turn messy, unstructured data into clear, fair, and useful insights.

Jeffrey Clorissaint (MBA ‘26), Fortuna Kadima (EN ‘26)

Locus Suit – Enhances spatial awareness through a wearable vest and vision module, enabling safer, more confident, and independent navigation for the visually impaired and blind.

Gaurish Agrawal (EN ‘28), Sonia Palamand (EN ‘27), Jacqueline Chuang (EN ‘27) NeuroFore – Uses machine learning to detect Parkinson’s disease in its earliest, nonmotor stage.

Hamasa Ebadi (PhD ‘28), Joe Hess (BU/EN ‘27) , Evan Tan (GB ‘25) PlasmaSort – A smart blood product management system utilizing mixed integer programming (MIP) and a streamlined design to optimize storage, inventory stewardship, and blood product selection within a blood bank.

Emily Zeiberg (MS ‘25), Katie Stubbs (BU ‘25, ‘MS 25) Plotify – Helps students visualize multivariable calculus concepts to deepen their understanding and build stronger mathematical intuition.

John Li (LA ‘26), Mike Tan (LA ‘26) Pretus – An AI-powered platform that helps students prepare for investment banking interviews with a question bank, mock interviews, and instant feedback.

Cosmo Guion (BU ‘27), Lucas Vogel (EN ‘27) Realize to Act – Web application to connect schools with the resources their students need, building on 8 years of nonprofit efforts providing backpacks, school supplies, and programs to engage students in education leadership.

Tanya Keskar (LA ‘27), Kash Tanguturi (BU ’28) ReLeaf Candles – Candles that have a second life.

Joselyn Garcia (BU ‘29) UteroStim – A low-cost women’s health device to treat postpartum hemorrhage.

Adara Ezekwe (SI ‘25), Meryl McKenna (EN ‘25)

The Skandalaris Venture Competition is made possible through the generous support of our donors.

Diamond Sponsor:

Bob Skandalaris Bronze Sponsor:

Stephen Garten

Our Fall 2025 SVC Finals Judges Genevieve Becker Greg Belger Chris Bethel Simon Blake Matt Boisclair Laura Burkemper Samuel Cabral Rey Castuciano Christine Dearmont Kate Edgar Owen Tarek Elhage Joel Emery Corey Feit Buddy Foster Eli Front Connie Fry David Futoran

Stephen Garten Greg Gleicher Talia Goldfarb Patrick Gorgen Mark Heller Bill Holt Christian Johnson Shaniqua Jones-Williams Shane Larisey Erik Lutenegger Mike McMahon Jeff Melly Ben Molina Kimberly Moos Quentin Ortega Isaiah Pasek-Santiago Nick Pavlovits

Tyler Richards Kelley Robson Jerry Rosen Andrew Sharon Katie Silversmith Tom Smith Jacque Sokolov Jerry Solovitz Kit Sundararaman Jason Ti Jake Truemper Stephen Von Rump Liz Welzbacher Alex Wolk Stephen Wu Mohamed Zayed

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