Harvard B-School Awards Top Startups

The eight finalist teams included:

BUSINESS TRACK:

Alfred: Alfred is a concierge service individuals can use for their daily and weekly tasks,  including dry cleaning, house cleaning, groceries, laundry, and more. (Jessica Beck, Marcela Sapone, and Saurabh Mahajan)

Booya Fitness: An on-demand video platform featuring workouts created by the industry’s best boutique gyms and instructors. An on-demand video platform featuring workouts created by the industry’s best boutique gyms and instructors. (Prita Kumar and Lillian Lee )

easyBiodata: An online platform that is disrupting the arranged marriage practice in India by giving the power of control and choice back to prospective spouses. (Yu Kakitsubo, Allyson Pritchett, Pratik Agarwal, and Peter Luptak)

SplitNGo: Allows restaurant patrons to see their bill on their phone, split it, and pay, without even downloading an app or waiting for their server. (Sergey Kozhukhar, Vyacheslav Gorodetskiy, and Andres Sarmiento)

SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRACK:

Escala: Allows low- and middle-income families in Latin America to prepay for their children’s higher education. (Amrita Saigal and Kristin Kagetsu)

Saathi: Provides affordable biodegradable sanitary pads made from waste banana tree fiber to women in rural India. (Amrita Saigal and Kristin Kagetsu)

Tomato Jos: A vertically integrated tomato processing company based in Nigeria. (Mira Mehta, Nike Lawrence, Shane Kiernan and Jared Westheim) 

Willow Education: Technology to empower school leaders to understand the academic returns of their educational investments.(Marc Casale, Heidi Kim, Mikey Muhanna, and Taylor Ansley)

Source: Harvard Business School