Participants
Meet your 2024 finalists
Entrepreneurial-minded students are making it happen
Student entrepreneurs from around the world pitched their ventures for a chance to compete in the 2024 ASU Innovation Open.
ASUio winners will be awarded $400,000 in cash prizes at the Feb. 9, 2024 event. Learn more about the finalists below.
2024 Winners
2024 Finalists
2023 Winners
2023 Finalists
2022 Winners
2022 Finalists
2021 Winners
2021 Finalists
2020 Winners
Somnair
Johns Hopkins University
A non-invasive neurostimulation device for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.
Pay it Forward prize sponsored by ASU eSeed
ATOMICS
Brown University
ATOMICS is revolutionizing data storage by using small molecules.
Innovation prize sponsored by ASU
BreatheEV
Arizona State University
Building software for electric vehicle charging.
Innovation prize sponsored by ASU
Oxylus Energy
Yale
Converting CO2 into drop-in green chemicals and feedstocks.
Innovation prize sponsored by ASU
ecobrew
The University of Alabama
Capturing and recycling CO2 created during the brewing process, allowing breweries to be self-sufficient.
Water prize sponsored by Intel
Oleo Sustainable Palm Oil Solutions
Stanford University
A new process for converting wasted biomass into sustainable palm oil alternative.
Technology for Social Equity prize sponsored by SOURCE Global
Reel Free
Michigan State University
Preventing falls for elderly people on supplemental oxygen with the Reelmate Remote.
Patient Safety prize sponsored by PRHI
Trinity Tube
The University of Texas at Austin
Proof of concept prototype built and tested, human tests are approved and in progress.
Acorn Genetics Inc
Northwestern University
Building portable, affordable and autonomous long-read sequencers.
ANSELM
Scripps Research
Industrial decarbonization of heat-intensive industries via energy efficiency optimization.
Dart Biosciences
Oxford University
Gene therapy delivery platform enabling curative therapies for common diseases.
DioTeX Diagnostics
Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Weill Cornell Medicine
Developing an internal hemorrhage diagnostics device.
FlareXS
University of Texas at Austin
A low-carbon methane mitigation and utilization firm.
Integrated Molecular Innovations
Michigan Technological University
Developing a biowearable thyroid sensor.
Inzipio
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Providing AI-powered software for automated surgical planning.
Korion Health
University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland
Empowering at-home health screenings with a remote stethoscope.
Lectra Technologies
West Chester University
Offering proactive, cost-effective pain management and athletic performance.
MagGenix
Johns Hopkins University, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine
Developing magnetically-localizable cell therapies for stronger, safer, targeted cancer treatments.
Motmot
Michigan State University
Helping communities manage their drinking water infrastructure.
MTology
Arizona State University
Finding impactful solutions to health-related issues, including EMIT, a male option for family planning.
noVRel
University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University
Developing an attachment for the Microsoft Hololens 2 to condense surgical equipment into one device.
Parastruct
University of Innsbruck
Decarbonizing the construction industry and making it circular.
Proper Pack LLC
Arizona State University – Tempe Campus
A socially-responsible packaging company making paper can-carriers with microbreweries in mind.
Pure Solutions
University of Utah
Developing versatile electronic water testers to provide easy access to water quality information for quick, flexible results.
Sakura MedTech, Inc.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Offering a superior, patient-centric imaging device for cervical cancer screening to improve the patient experience and gynecological efficiency.
InfernoGuard
Johns Hopkins University
InfernoGuard is reimagining remote wildfire detection and notification ensuring immediate notification of any wildfire threats to landowners at risk.
Climate Change Grand Prize from Breakthrough Energy Ventures
NearWave
Brigham Young University
Eliminating visual frustration in minimally invasive surgery.
Pay It Forward prize sponsored by eSeed
Hubly Surgical
Johns Hopkins University
Advanced intracranial drill fixing the most common neurosurgery’s 20% failure.
Human Health prize sponsored by BD
SXD
Harvard Business School
Generating beautiful, zero waste clothing designs that cost 55% less.
Digital Access prize sponsored by AWS
Bloom Surgical
Brigham Young University
Eliminating visual frustration in minimally invasive surgery.
Connectivity prize sponsored by Avnet
Gencores Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
We transform transportation, unlocking high-volume manufacturing of high-performance composites.
Water prize sponsored by SOURCE Global
Adventus Robotics
Harvard
Democratizing self-driving technology for a safer and more accessible future.
For Mom Care
California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo
A telehealth platform helping physicians support moms through their postpartum recovery.
Flux Hybrids
NC State University
Cost-effective hybrid conversions for any commercial fleet vehicle.
Impact Food
University of California Berkley
Reimagining sustainable food systems through delicious and nutritious plant-based seafood.
LifeDrive
University of Notre Dame
Fighting for the dignity of independence through wheelchair control.
Robigo, Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineering the plant microbiome to reduce disease in crops.
Candelytics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard
Candelytics builds software to visualize, analyze, and share 3D data.
ReNew Innovations
Sasin School of Management
ReNew offers an eco-friendly nanocoating solution that can strengthen cellulose-based materials including corrugated cardboard.
ALGBIO Energy Treatment and Engineering Corporation
Yeditepe University
ALGBIO produces carbon negative biofuels and bioplastics by treating industrial wastewater and flue gas by algae.
Ivu Biologics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A technology platform focused on storing and delivering microbes effectively.
SoundPeace
George Washington University
SoundPeace provides an innovative, comfortable solution that blocks sound pollution.
210 Diagnostic Solutions
University of Alabama
210 Diagnostic Solutions is a biotech startup that will revolutionize disease detection.
Uniphage Inc.
Yale
Uniphage uses natural language processing to engineer safe bacterial viruses to eliminate bacterial diseases in agriculture.
Hempress Hygienics
San Diego State University
Hygiene products that are healthy for your body and the environment through utilizing hemp fiber.
Skywalk
Stanford University
Wearable devices that empower you to transform real and virtual worlds.
EarthEn
Arizona State University
We provide long-duration energy storage for solar and wind energy producers and consumers.
Infinity StartUp GmbH
RWTH Aachen University
RefresherBoxx is a washing machine that works with chemestry and without any water.
M Aerospace RTC Inc
Cetys University Campus Mexicali
We developed the first affordable large 3D metal system called Armdust 2.0 which is capable of combining several materials.
LISUS
University of California Los Angeles
We supply sustainable metals for the energy transition leveraging image processing and AI.
InnoFlex BV
Technische Universiteit van Eindhoven (TU/e)
Creating a healthy world through nanotechnology.
GreenGold
AN -Najah National University
Transforming the waste from crushing olives and making olive oil into a value added product. Think outside the waste.
Empallo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Empallo uses AI to revolutionize our fight against heart failure.
Optical Waters LLC
Arizona State University
Optical Waters’ flexible and adjustable germicidal optical fibers use light to eliminate disease-causing biofilms in tight channels and tubes.
Technology for Social Equity Prize sponsored by SOURCE Global, PBC
Nutrivide Inc.
Rutgers University
Nutrivide is an infant consumer products company that aims to enhance quality and convenience in the infant care process, reduce plastic waste in products and packaging, and offer innovatively affordable solutions for all parents.
AWS prize sponsored by Amazon Web Services
Floe
Yale University
Floe is a smart, cost-effective, and environmentally-friendly solution for property owners and managers to prevent the $9B+ in damages caused annually by ice dams on U.S. buildings.
IoT prize sponsored by Avnet
blip energy
Northwestern University
blip is a residential energy storage company created to democratize energy storage & accelerate the adoption of renewable resources.
Climate Change prize sponsored by Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Cynteract GmbH
RWTH Aachen University
Cynteract brings gamification to rehabilitation with their smart glove, enabling motivated rehabilitation.
Engineering prize sponsored by ASU eSeed + SilSync
Sahara Cloud, Inc.
UCLA
Sahara Cloud is a cloud-based platform for physical product development.
Amazon Alexa prize sponsored by Amazon Alexa + Amazon Web Services
Nitricity
Stanford University
Nitricity produces on-site fertilizer using air, water and solar electricity so that owners of irrigated farms can decrease their fertilizer + acid + labor cost by $200/acre.
Transform Your Thinking prize sponsored by ON Semiconductor
Aurign
Georgia State University
Aurign’s proprietary algorithms use AI and blockchain technology to secure publishing royalties for music artists.
PhenoLogic
Michigan State University
PhenoLogic produces smart fertigation equipment for indoor agriculture producers, saving time and money, reducing labor, and increasing efficiency and repeatability of production.
Beyond Acoustic Technologies
UCLA
Beyond Acoustic combines the power of ultrasound, optics and AI to deliver a wearable device that enables a new way of navigating daily life for people with visual impairment.
Aurora Medical Systems
Northeastern University
Aurora Medical is developing a non-invasive imaging device that rapidly maps skin cancer margins 80% faster than the current gold standard of treatment, enabling surgeons to perform precise tissue conserving surgery at a lower overall cost and maintain a 98% cure rate.
SteeroFlex
University of California San Diego
SteeroFlex makes steerable microcatheters for the effective treatment of stroke.
Harmony Desal
MIT
Harmony Desal making water desalination more affordable and sustainable.
Ithemba, LLC
Johns Hopkins University
Ithemba is committed to expanding breast cancer diagnosis globally through a novel reusable, contamination-free core needle breast biopsy device.
Notos Technologies
McGill University
Notos Technologies’ disruptive AI navigation system enables a future where aircrafts will be powered by clean and renewable wind energy.
Eden GeoPower Inc.
MIT
Eden GeoPower is developing a novel technology to decrease the water consumption of hydraulic fracturing.
AtomicAI
University of Pennsylvania
AtomicAI builds data analytics tools for nanotechnology companies that are developing transformative solutions for energy and advanced manufacturing.
SeebeckCell Technologies, inc
The University of Texas at Arlington
SeebeckCell Technologies is developing liquid-based thermoelectric modules & power generators for industrial, automotive and space applications. SCT’s technology enables a higher power-to-weight ratio and greener production through synthetic materials.
EqualComm LLC
Arizona State University
EqualComm is developing the first universal application to provide real-time ASL communication services between deaf and hearing individuals. Available on-demand on any device, EqualComm is broadening accessibility services.
Ai-Ris LLC
Texas A&M University
Ai-Ris provides a low-cost retina imaging system capable of accurately screening for early signs of vision loss due to diabetes without the need of specialists.
AAVAA
Carnegie Mellon University / University of Montreal / McGill University
AAVAA is building a listening device that uses sensor fusion, including brain sensors, to understand and enhance what you want to hear.
Ichosia Biotechnology
George Washington University
Ichosia is developing a scalable method of producing an enhanced red blood cell product, called Erythrosyn, created by leveraging proprietary genetic engineering and stem cell technologies to address the global blood crisis with a safer, less expensive, and more reliable product.
Padma Agrobotics LLC
Arizona State University
Padma Agrobotics is an an agricultural robotics company, building autonomous robots powered by AI-based weed removal technology that significantly increase revenue and provide incremental yield for farmers
Healixir Health
University of Utah
Healixir builds next-generation home wellness devices.
FloWaste Inc
University of Notre Dame
FloWaste’s food analytics platform uses proprietary image recognition technology to empower cafeterias and quick service restaurants to reduce food waste.
Mount
Northeastern University
Mount empowers real-time, data-driven decisions and operations based on mobility data, analytics and visualization.
Verdant Innovatives
University of Maryland, College Park
Verdant Innovatives provides customers with a small-scale wind turbine at a third of the price of solar power.
ZeroDK Inc.
University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
ZeroDK connects brushing and flossing habits to dental insurance (in the same way car insurance companies use driving behavior to help determine premiums).
Sensory Robotics
University of Pennsylvania
Sensory Robotics has a system that allows manufacturers to turn their existing heavy robots into collaborative robots without an expensive overhaul of their production line.
Kiri
Brigham Young University
Kiri is the screenless smart toy that has the benefits of technology without the drawbacks of screens.
On Semiconductor Sensor Prize
si.vision
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
si.vision is building state-of-the-art chip scale sensors that enable autonomous machines to navigate and perceive the world around them.
State Farm Autonomous Vehicle Prize
KnoNap
Georgetown University
KnoNap, the napkin that knows, is a cocktail napkin that detects specific date rape drug presence upon saturation.
Zero Mass Water Technology for Social Equity Prize
PreOv
University of Utah
PreOv simplifies fertility monitoring with an intravaginal ring and mobile app system that automatically identifies the entire fertile window.
eSeed Challenge Hardware Engineering Prize
Acoustic Wells
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Acoustic Wells is developing a novel IoT solution to reduce the impact of oil wells by 250 million tons of CO2 annually while saving the industry $25 billion per year.
AVENET IoT Prize
Closed Composites
University of Southern California
Closed Composites uses chemistry to recycle carbon fiber composites that otherwise would get shredded and pyrolyzed in ovens.
Breakthrough Energy Ventures Climate Change Prize
INIA Biosciences
Boston University
INIA has created a patent-pending wearable ultrasound device to non-invasively modulate the immune system with just 5 min of daily treatment reducing the lifetime accumulation of side effects from immunosuppressive drugs.
Pay It Forward prize sponsored by eSeed
NONA Technologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A dramatically different approach to desalination. Decentralized. Reliable. Easy.
Water prize sponsored by Intel
Telo
University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
TELO provides innovative solutions for those with mobility limitations by developing an ecosystem of IoT enabled assistive devices.
Global Technology for Social Equity prize sponsored by SOURCE Global
ToxiSense
University of Pennsylvania
ToxiSense genetically engineers more cost-effective and sustainable bacterial toxin tests.
Connectivity prize sponsored by Avnet
Acorn Genetics
Northwestern University
Making the genetic sequencer fast, scalable, and private.
AiroSolve
University of California, Los Angeles
Automated oxygen therapy for hospitalized patients.
Baleena
University of Pennsylvania
An easy-to-use, highly-efficient, closed-loop microfiber filter used in consumer washing machines to reduce microplastic emissions at the point source: laundry.
Beyond Silicon
Arizona State University
Manufacturing tandem solar cells for tomorrow’s solar panels.
Chimney Cherry
University of Southern California
The Chimney Cherry scales down existing industrial electrostatic precipitation technology. As the chimney smoke rises, an electrode ionizes the PM2.5 to prevent it from entering the atmosphere.
CurveAssure
Johns Hopkins University
CurveAssure is developing a dynamic spinal assessment tool that provides actionable metrics to guide data-driven, personalized treatment for Adult Spinal Deformity (ASD) patients.
Edulis Therapeutics Inc.
Carnegie Mellon University
A topical drug delivery system for Crohn’s Disease. Our endoscopically-deployed, bioresorbable patch will non-invasively anchor itself at the area of inflammation and slowly release generic anti-inflammatory medication over a 12-month period.
epiSLS
University of Michigan
Transforming medicine through rapid, reliable, and accessible point of care allergy testing.
Flowless
Arizona State University
Helping water utilities improve water efficiency through remote monitoring and process optimization.
Flurry
Arizona State University
We are building an algorithm which uses mandated car sensors to determine road slickness and map road conditions.
forMED Technologies
University of California San Diego
An at-home non-invasive IOP monitoring system to improve glaucoma management.
GarboCarbo Inc.
University of Illinois
GarboCarbo has created a chemical process that mines CO2 from atmospheric air in a process known as direct air capture (DAC). Our process is unique because we generate saleable byproducts.
Helix
Rice University
We are building retrofit pre-dehumidifiers for commercial AC systems.
Kai Pono Solutions
San Diego State University
The Kai Pono is an adaptable stormwater filtration device that is low footprint, flood proof, and custom to site specific contaminants.
MicroBuild Masonry
University of Waterloo
Using bacteria, we can create a brick with a zero carbon in the formation process and when made using recycled materials waste negative as well. These bricks can be made in portable masonry factories allowing for more convenient manufacturing and transportation.
MTology Innovations
Arizona State University
EMIT is an injectable male contraceptive hydrogel. It is injected into the vas deferens, non-hormonal, reversible, and minimally invasive.
OSEM
University of Southern California
OSEM is a rapid prototyping platform made for scientists and researchers to develop nanodrugs.
Paldara
Oklahoma State University
A platform medical device coating that bridges the gap between preventing infections and addressing the antibiotic resistance crisis.
Photonect
Rochester
Photonect is building a laser-based optical fiber to chip attach machine which is 10X faster and provides 4X performance improvement as compared to current industry standards.
Pike Robotics
University of Texas at Austin
Safe, accurate and low cost robotic inspections of petrochemical storage tanks.
POCAS-TB
Northwestern University
Enabling high-throughput detection of tuberculosis in low-resource settings.
StetPulse LLC
Johns Hopkins University
StetPulse reimagines the disinfection process for medical equipment.