Innovation & Entrepreneurship Awards
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Crowder Courtyard, Anheuser-Busch Hall
The Skandalaris Center
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
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)
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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