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2025

President’s Innovation Challenge

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Adaptilens

Developing the first and only intraocular lens that responds to the eye's natural signal to focus, thus eliminating the need for eyeglasses or contact lenses.
Adolescent Health Champions

Using peer-to-peer education to train adolescents in India in critical health topics.
Alba

Empowering visually-impaired individuals to detect the onset of their period with a tactile menstrual wipe.
Aurie

Building a reusable, intermittent catheter system to improve quality of life and health outcomes for people living with urinary retention.
Base Operations

Aggregating, visualizing, and interpreting threat data to help organizations anticipate disruptions around the world — keeping their people, assets, and operations safe.
Beacon Bio

Improving hearing and healing by restoring eardrums with regenerative grafts.
Beaver Health, Inc.

Engaging older loved ones in stimulating, culturally responsive activities to boost cognition and quality of life.
Broadleaf HEA

Providing evidence-based health and education interventions for children in rural India that produce tangible improvements to participant’s wellbeing.
Bullseye Biosciences

By leveraging competition and evolution, Bullseye aims to transform therapeutics discovery and expedite the development of life-saving medicines.
Chirps Chips

Creating packaged foods made of edible insects as a healthier, more environmentally sustainable alternative to other sources of protein on the market.
Coding it Forward

Empowering the next generation of mission-driven technologists by creating new pathways into public interest technology.
Crop Diagnostix

Building the future of predictive agriculture with patented, AI-powered gene expression technology.
Day Zero Diagnostics

Developing technologies to help control healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), where antibiotic resistant organisms can be especially dangerous.
EndoShunt Medical Inc.

Controlling abdominal bleeding in trauma surgery with an innovative medical device.
Lightmatter

Developing photonic computing products that simultaneously reduce the power consumption and increase the performance of silicon running the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.
MabLab

Building five-in-one test strips to detect the five deadliest lacing agents in recreational drugs.
Mark43

Empowering communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all.
MesaQuantum

Developing chip-scale quantum sensors for next-generation GPS capabilities in position, navigation, and timing.
PerioSense

Making early diagnosis of gum disease more accessible and efficient while saving time and money for patients and providers.
PIVOTtheWorld

A mobile app revealing what places looked like in the past — showing authenticated histories of locations (from everyday places to popular tourist attractions), through images, videos, and text-audio.
RapidSOS

Securely linking life-saving data from connected devices, apps and sensors to safety agents, 911 and first responders globally.
Rarefied

Developing a propulsion mechanism that can fly in near-space, a region that is inaccessible to aircraft and satellites, to deliver climate insights and offset satellite emissions.
reer

Creating 3D-printed designer furniture that can be tailored to personalized needs and traded-in for renewal.
Rumi Spice

Bringing flavorful, ethically-sourced, and socially-responsible spices from Afghanistan to customers.
Saturday Art Class

Unleashing the creative potential of one of the world's largest marginalized child populations by developing social-emotional skills through visual arts education.
Solara

Providing on-demand solar irrigation to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation.
SoWork

Creating a smart virtual office that gives remote teams efficiency, presence, spontaneity, and connection.
SPOUTS OF WATER

Providing clean drinking water, clean air and clean energy to African households.
Sprxng

Developing holistic period care solutions through data-driven menstrual research and innovation.
Stochastic

An enterprise platform for businesses to build, customize, and control their own AI.
Stratagen Bio

Transforming MRI scans into a tool for objective clinical decision-making and quantitative biomarker assessment.
TANGapp

An international, peer-to-peer transaction app with a social mission of financial inclusion for emerging markets.
TecHustle, Inc.

Building Africa's largest small business network for global trade by providing financial services and market access.
Tolemi

Integrating city data from multiple departments and systems into a single, easy-to-use platform.
Tuverl

An app that makes public transport cheaper and more accessible to millions of commuters across Africa.
Upsolve

Creating free tools to help people dispute debt, negotiate debt, or file Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
UrSure

UrSure was acquired by OraSure Technologies. The company developed urine and blood tests that measure and improve adherence to medications.
Virtudent

A telehealth solution for dentistry, expanding access to oral-health experts and improving the quality of dental care.

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