Announcing the Finalists for the 2025 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition

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The Veale Institute for Entrepreneurship team is thrilled to announce the 2025 Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition finalists!

Please join us in congratulating these teams for their hard work:

Venture Track

AISA Solutions

Amirali Rezaei (Class of 2028), Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering and Business Management at the Weatherhead School of Management

Asclepii, Inc.

Ixchel Robles Ruiz (CWR ‘24), Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

Franco Kraiselburd (CWR ‘24), Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

Hyperion Therapeutics, Inc.

Jennings Luu, PhD (Class of 2026), Medical Scientist Training Program Doctoral Fellow, M.D. Candidate at the School of Medicine

Yvette Zhu (Class of 2027), M.D. Candidate at the School of Medicine

Alexander Foden (Classes of 2027, 2029), Medical Scientist Training Program, PhD and M.D. Candidate at the School of Medicine

SearchOwl Inc.

Jadon Wyant (Class of 2025), B.S. and M.S. Accounting at the Weatherhead School of Management

Dale Berkove (Class of 2025), B.S. Data Science at the Case School of Engineering

Ryan Kaiser (Class of 2025), B.S. Finance and International Business at the Weatherhead School of Management

SellAnalytix, LLC

Ryan Hurley (Class of 2025), Accounting and Business Management with Concentration in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the Weatherhead School of Management

Idea Track

Data AI

Nandini Rajaram Siva, MD (Class of 2026), Molecular Medicine PhD at the School of Medicine

Mark Orland, MD (Class of 2026), Molecular Medicine PhD at the School of Medicine

Deep Match

Sureshkumar Natarajan (GRS ‘25), Master of Business Analytics and Intelligence at the Weatherhead School of Management

Devin Mony Thomas (GRS ‘25), Master of Business Analytics and Intelligence at the Weatherhead School of Management

Diffy

Andrew Shereshevsky (Class of 2025), B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

Jonathan Burton (Class of 2026), B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

MECO

Mark Shteyn (Class of 2027), B.S. Data Science at the Case School of Engineering

Atharva Gupta (Class of 2027), B.S. Data Science at the Case School of Engineering and B.S. Mathematics at the College of Arts & Sciences

Jarvis Chen (Class of 2025), B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

RoomEase

Jiana Kambo (Class of 2026), B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Ethan Tobey (Class of 2026), B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Shourya Poddar (Class of 2026), B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Social Impact Track

eLEXir

Krupa Venkatesan (Class of 2027), B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering and B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Menaka Wijeratne (Class of 2027), B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering and B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Horizons Community Clinic (HCC)

Dev Gupta (Class of 2027), B.A. Chemical Biology at the College of Arts & Sciences, B.S.M. Healthcare Management at the Weatherhead School of Management

Anirudh Prabu (Class of 2025), M.D. Candidate at the School of Medicine

Klariti OS

Ana Izma (Class of 2027), B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering and B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Brandon Lee (Class of 2027), B.S. Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Otlhe Sentle (Class of 2027), B.S.E. Electrical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

Paramarsh

Raghvendra Omprakash Yadav (Class of 2027), B.A. Economics and Finance at the Weatherhead School of Management

Binayek Tiwari (Class of 2027), B.S. Applied Mathematics at the College of Arts & Sciences and B.A. Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management

ReCater

Genesis Richards (Class of 2026), B.A. Economics and Business Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, minor in Computer Science at the Case School of Engineering

Research Track

HODA: High-throughput Hydrogel-based Oxygen Dissociation Assay

Zoe Sekyonda (Class of 2025), PhD Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

William Wulftange (Class of 2025), PhD Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

InstaGTx

Lauren Switala (Class of 2026), B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

Mandibular Fracture Repair System

David Suh (CWR ‘22), B.S.E Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering

PhotoSorb

Yang Yang (Class of 2027), B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering at the Case School of Engineering