Join us for the Annual Northeast U.S./N.Y. Region Alumni New Venture Competition Startup Demo Day. Don’t miss this intimate, first look at the emerging superstars who have been accepted into this year’s Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition!
 

 

Confirmed Competitors*:

Arame Luxury Oral Care – Brittany Arnett (MBA 2024), Founder & CEO
ARAME is a prestige oral care brand that offers high-quality, effective, and natural products to help our customers celebrate the everyday luxuries.

Barnwell Bio, Inc. **** – Casey McGinley (MBA 2021), COO & Co-Founder
Taking the guesswork out of animal health.

Blume – Enxhi Popa (MBA 2024), CEO/Co-Founder; Dae Lim Chung, CTO
One-click credit building for 130M+ credit-impaired Americans.

Bonny – Jessica Postiglione (MBA 2009), CEO & Founder
At Bonny, we believe fiber should make you crap, not taste like it. We offer amazing-tasting fiber products that help get things moving. Bonny is 100% natural with no artificial flavors, colors, or dyes.

Coral Messaging – Teresa Overskei (MBA 2010), Co-Founder & CEO
SaaS software for relationship sellers to talk with clients over their native consumer WhatsApp app, to grow corporate visibility and seller revenues and productivity.

Krida – Shivangi Khanna (MBA 2024), CEO/Co-Founder; Sophie Jewsbury (MBA 2024), COO/Co-Founder
Built for Banks. Designed for Relationships.

Lambent Data – Kirsten Hund Blair (MBA 1989), Co-Founder and CEO
OurREACH collaborative software equips low-income patients & clients to reach better outcomes during challenges such as food insecurity, reentry from prison into the community, & substance use disorder recovery, while also equipping their social service & healthcare providers.

Live 150 – Rahul Mehendale (MBA 2003), CEO
Live Healthier, Live Longer.

Montage – Katherine Manweiler (MBA 2024), Founder/CEO 
Montage transforms how consumers shop for fashion by harnessing the appeal of the most popular and influential characters and delivering their styles straight to shopping carts.

MorphoAI** – Ayna Arora (MBA 2024), CEO/Co-Founder
Automating the design and deployment of machines and autonomous systems.

O2G Ventures – Jose Ramos (MBA 1979), CEO
Seniors have a Story to Tell. With AI, we give them a Voice. What is normal memory loss for my Age?

OtterStone** – Raffaele Russo (MBA 2021), Founder & CEO
Otter Stone provides software solutions that assists businesses building and operating hydrogen infrastructure to maximize the safety of their facility and comply with regulations and codes.

Pari Drinks – Alessia Vettese (MBA 2019), Founder & CEO
Pari is “a new fashioned beverage”. Our mission is to make the ritual and occasion of social drinking accessible to all. Consuming Pari is an investment in your well-being and promotes the idea that moderation can be the aspiration.

Rumi Labs – Mateusz Poreda (MBA 2019), Co-Founder; Son Le, CTO
A context-aware AI companion app that transforms passive media into interactive experiences. Rumi controls your TV, understands content, and adds personalized layers to live sports, shows, etc. We’re providing a new channel for creators to enrich streaming/ Live TV consumption.

SkyfireAI – Don Mathis (MBA 1998), CEO & Co-Founder
Enabling the “Drones-For-Good” revolution. A next-gen swarming AI platform for drone systems, SkyfireAI operates at the intersection of drones and Artificial Intelligence. Our solutions solve complex problems for first responders, public safety, defense & critical infrastructure.

Sky Porter Corporation – Tahir Awan (GMP 2019), CEO/Co-Founder; Mansoor Sarwar, Co-Founder/CTO
Sky Porter connects travelers to urgent document, clothing senders and other legally allowable items in travelers luggage around the world.

StarCube – Chris Ricks (MBA 2022) – CEO/Co-Founder
Nuclear fission micro reactors that will be factory manufacturable, transportable, self-regulating and safe.

Stealth Startup*** – Michael Jaliman (MBA 1982), CEO; Michael Hoherchak (MBA 1988), VP of Strategy

SOAP Health – Steven Charlap (MBA 1988), CEO; Paul Battle, President & COO
SOAP will not clean up the mess called medicine — but it will eliminate many key challenges faced by patients and physicians.

The Fight League – Apostolis Rama (PLDA 2025), Founder/CEO; Vitaly Baskin (PLDA 2024), Chief Strategy Officer
A new innovative fight league – Prioritizing athlete safety, consistency, and action.

Together Achieving Dreams – Kathryn Webster (MBA 2023), Founder/President; Paul Conley, Managing Director
3 out of 4 blind Americans are job-ready, but unemployed. We’re on a mission to increase employment for the blind and low vision community by bridging the gap between potential and possibility.

valene health – Rui Wang (GMP 2024), Co-Founder; Panagiotis Kakatsos, CEO/Co-Founder; Jwalit Patel, CTO
We’re committed to delivering life-changing mental health care to everyone who needs it.

Wizzo – Sydney Robson (MBA 2024), President; Amit Botzer (MBA 2024), CEO; Oded Hupert, CTO
Wizzo provides an AI-driven hub for financial analysis by organizing fragmented data and tools into compoundable mini-apps called tiles, unlocking the full potential of your data and human capital.

*Please note that this is just a preview. Companies may be added in real-time.
 **Early stage companies in the competition may not have websites yet.
 ***Some competitors have asked to remain anonymous at this stage of the competition.
 ****Unable to attend demo day (separate competitor category).