Alumni Capital Partners
La'Naeschia O'Rear MBA '26
Alumni Capital Partners is a financial technology platform that allows alumni to invest directly in their alma mater's critical infrastructure projects. By activating this mission-aligned capital, we provide universities with a new financing solution and offer alumni a new way to build their legacy while earning a financial return.
Ayin AI
Buddha Nepal MBA '26
Ayin AI is a unified security, compliance, and cost management layer that sits between enterprises and their AI/LLM providers. Every AI request flows through our platform — scanned, governed, logged, and optimized — giving enterprises the confidence to deploy AI at scale without sacrificing security or compliance.
Belridge Labs
Arihan Dixit BS '28
24/7 AI call center for home service businesses (starting with residential solar). Our AI picks up every phone call, qualifies customers, and books jobs directly into company CRMs, allowing business owners to unlock faster response times, higher conversion, and more booked revenue.
Blue Horse Entries
Megan Van Son Ferryman MEM/MBA '27
Blue Horse Entries is a two-sided marketplace that modernizes equestrian event management by helping event organizers manage entries, payments, and data seamlessly while enabling horseback riders to discover and enter events in minutes, instead of weeks. Blue Horse Entries is digitizing an offline industry, increasing visibility and revenues for organizers and cutting down on wasted time and logistical headaches so riders can spend less time on paperwork and more time in the saddle.
Carbon +
Chloe Lowman AB '27
Carbon+ reduces near-term climate warming by capturing and destroying methane emissions from small-to-mid-scale landfills that are currently ignored by traditional gas recovery systems. We deliver low-cost, modular methane mitigation solutions that turn unmanaged emissions into verifiable carbon impact.
Deep Marine Innovations
Adam Berthold MBA '26
Deep Marine Innovations (DMI) is developing a biomimetic, eel-like autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-range, low-noise inspection, monitoring, and intervention in complex subsea environments. The company focuses on applications where traditional propeller-driven ROVs and AUVs are limited by noise, efficiency, or maneuverability.
Girls in Quantum
Elisa Torres Durney BSE '28
Girls in Quantum is a nonprofit building the next generation of quantum leaders by making frontier technologies accessible to young women worldwide through education, mentorship, and real world technical programs. We operate a global platform spanning 60 plus countries, turning early curiosity into long term participation in the quantum ecosystem.
Grid Intelligence
Ava LeBron BSE '27
Grid Intelligence's mission is to build a predictive, location-aware coordination layer that converts high-frequency grid and market data into feasible, reliability-constrained storage actions, so distributed batteries can consistently (1) absorb localized surplus when prices collapse, (2) release energy during scarcity, and (3) do both in the specific nodes and intervals where it actually matters economically and operationally.
Helian
John Buxton BS '26
Helian helps medical device companies manage the complex FDA regulatory requirements surrounding their product, making it faster and more affordable to bring medical innovations to market. Founded by three Duke students, Helian is driven by a mission to remove compliance as a barrier to impact, with one founder working full time today and the other two transitioning full time after graduating in May.
Jeani
Ewan Bradley MS '26
Jeani is a movement intelligence and longevity company that transforms everyday motion into meaningful insight by removing fear and helping people understand, protect, and extend how their bodies move over a lifetime. Through integrated hardware and software, our true advantage is proprietary movement data that turns uncertainty into clarity and empowers confident, long-term physical health.
Liv-Sanitas
Koundinya Desiraju Sarad MMCi '27
Liv-Sanitas is an outcomes-based liver health platform that stratifies risk for metabolic and alcoholic liver disease and provides high-risk individuals personalized action plans tailored to their motivations, circumstances, and cultural identity to improve liver health outcomes.
MedPull
Kanthi Makineedi BS '27
MedPull is an AI-powered patient intake platform built for community health centers. We automate multilingual intake, insurance eligibility, and documentation using speech and handwriting recognition and conversational AI, reducing administrative burden and improving access to care for underserved patients.
Mr. Drop
Anika Mohan BS'28
Mr. Drop is a handheld device that converts standard eye drops into a gentle mist, improving ease of use, dosing accuracy, and medication delivery. Designed to work with existing eye drop bottles, it reduces waste and cost while increasing accessibility for patients and animals.
NanoPoly Resources
Lauren Shiell BSE '26
NanoPoly Resources is a proprietary, bio-centered nanobead substrate which enables accelerated research into environmental and medical nanoplastic applications. Specifically, our solution uses a novel, reproducible workflow for generating environmentally relevant nanoplastics that capture the heterogeneity, irregular shapes, and size distributions observed in real-world samples, but allows full polymer and concentration control.
Nowa
Luciano Juvinski MEng '26
nowa is a blockchain compliance platform for the digital asset ecosystem, recognized as the winner of the DTCC AI Hackathon, that detects money laundering behaviors across all tokens and chains. Grounded in proprietary research from our founders, we provide a universal "Know Your Transaction" (KYT) API that analyzes behavioral intent in real-time and automates essential regulatory reporting, including Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) in over 10 jurisdictions. We bridge institutional standards with community innovation by partnering through our open-source core under the Linux Foundation for Finance (FINOS), delivering superior compliance assurance at a fraction of the cost of legacy tools.
Sand Intelligence
Arnav Dhar BS '29
Serv Technologies Group
Jasper Svenson AB '26
We are building a data-driven intelligence layer for restaurant drive-thrus that captures real customer behavior to inform better decisions. Our platform helps restaurants improve upselling, personalize recommendations, increase consistency, and learn what works over time — using behavioral data to guide sales, training, and operations across both human and voice-based ordering.
StratoPlanner
Ellie Reyna AB '26
StratoPlanner is a neuroscience-backed, ADHD-friendly planning system that integrates cognitive behavioral strategies, flexible discbound layouts, and dopamine-boosting design to support executive function, reduce cognitive overload, and create sustainable, shame-free productivity. Designed through extensive research and user testing, Strato bridges the gap between structure and flexibility for neurodivergent students and young professionals navigating rapidly changing routines.
The Agentic Rolodex
Adil K Gazder MS '26
An AI-powered platform that analyzes in-person conversations, extracts key topics and relationships, and turns them into searchable, living profiles for the people you meet. It helps users easily recall past discussions, stay up to date on contacts, and get context by simply chatting with a digital version of each person.
Toilemetry
Ben Neubert PhD '27
Toilemetry is an NIH-funded medical technology venture developing a clinical smart toilet system that automates urine output tracking in hospitals, delivering real-time, accurate data that improves patient care and reduces nursing workload.
TripSync
Ella Sheehan BS '26
A unified group-planning platform that streamlines decision-making for travel and events by integrating scheduling, budgeting, voting, and shared organization and planning tools into one collaborative workspace. Helps groups easily align on dates, destinations, budgets, and itineraries, containing a similar value-add of platforms like When2Meet, Splitwise, Partiful, and Notion but into a single, intuitive platform.
Vector
Elias Kremer AB '29
Vector is an AI-powered "Holistic Chief of Staff" that helps high-achieving students bridge the gap between their potential and performance. By synthesizing biometric health data with executive planning, Vector actively intervenes to prevent burnout and scaffold the achievement of long-term goals.
WeGotYou
Shayna Dahan MBA '26
WeGotYou is a nurse practitioner–founded telemedicine startup focused on adolescent care, providing teens with confidential, high-quality mental and reproductive health services. Built by clinicians who specialize in earning teen trust and partnering with families, WeGotYou delivers accessible care that improves engagement, outcomes, and experience.