An app that permits golfers entry to esteemed associate programs at lowered charges captured the highest prize at Union’s third annual enterprise competitors Thursday night time.
Eight groups of scholars had 5 minutes every to pitch their concept to a panel of alumni judges in Olin Auditorium for an opportunity to win as much as $30,000 in startup capital. The prize cash is a present from an nameless donor.
Winners of the SparkLab enterprise pitch competitors with the alumni judges: Krishamsu Subedi Chhetri ’26, Bobby Syed ’03, Brian Selchick ’06, Matthew Peoples ’24, Katherine McNulty ’27, Catharine Potvin ’97 and Mert Tureli ‘26. Peoples took prime honors, successful $15,000 in startup capital for his concept.
Representing a various mixture of majors, the scholars had been a part of SparkLab, an entrepreneurial initiative created by Roger Woolsey, government director of the Profession Heart at Becker Corridor. College students met weekly to study fundamental enterprise rules from achieved alumni. Subjects included advertising, gross sales, fundraising and expertise.
College students additionally discovered create a pitch deck – a 10-12 slide presentation that gives a brief abstract of an organization, its marketing strategy and the startup imaginative and prescient – to draw potential traders.
The initiative culminated within the pitch competitors. Matthew Peoples ’24, an economics main, created Golf Share to win the highest prize of $15,000. A subscription-based membership mannequin, the app is geared toward “empowering golfers to indulge of their ardour for the game whereas rising a vibrant group of like-minded gamers”
Mert Tureli ‘26 and Krishamsu Subedi Chhetri ’26, mechanical engineering majors, took second place and $10,000 for ModuFly, whose mission assertion guarantees “to revitalize a market that has been dormant for over three a long time by introducing cutting-edge improvements and a contemporary twist that may reignite the forgotten ardour for rocketry.”
Within the nonprofit class, Katherine McNulty ’27, an environmental engineering main, gained $5,000 towards her undertaking for Court docket Child’s Closet, which might “empower kids within the courtroom system by giving them fundamental requirements to assist restore their dignity.”
Different pupil ventures included:
DoctorU
Icaro Gouveia ’27 (economics), Janak Subedi ‘26 (pc science), Aaron Carretero ’25 (biomedical engineering) Baibhav Barwal ‘25 (pc science and math)
Mission assertion: Streamline medical companies and save time for sufferers and docs whereas lowering healthcare prices.
AI Infusion Consultancy (AIIC)
Evan Matthews ’24 (biomedical engineering)
Mission assertion: Empower small/medium sized companies with AI expertise, enabling them to make data-driven selections, streamline operations and achieve a aggressive edge of their respective industries.
VisiMed CT
Chiharu Mamiya ’26 (electrical engineering)
Mission assertion: Empowering medical schooling by progressive imaging options.
Campus Analysis Bridge
Theo Goldman ‘26 (managerial economics and environmental science), Theo Steiger ‘26 (pc science and physics)
Mission assertion: We bridge the hole between companies and the subsequent technology of lifelong customers.
Judges included Catharine Potvin ’97, founder and CEO of Stragility; Brian Selchick ’06, associate at Cullen and Dykman LLP; and Bobby Syed ’03, COO of iSimulate.
“True to the liberal arts, pupil teams representing ventures they really imagine in introduced their ultimate tasks with mental curiosity and fervour to a captive viewers,” mentioned Woolsey. “I’m so very pleased with all of those college students for the work they put in.”
