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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.
Aperture Bio

Realizing orders-of-magnitude improvements in speed and sensitivity, Aperture rapidly analyzes proteins in whole cells to map immune interactions.
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.
Chaku Foods

Creating wealth for smallholder farmers in Africa while minimizing climate risk.
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.
Concerto Biosciences

Discovering microbial ensembles for health via a patented screening platform.
Day Zero Diagnostics

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

Designing tissue-specific medicines in living systems from the start by combining high-throughput in-vivo studies with AI-guided protein design.
Mark43

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

An online platform that helps students learn clinical and preclinical dentistry.
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.
Rumi Spice

Bringing flavorful, ethically-sourced, and socially-responsible spices from Afghanistan to customers.
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.
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.
The Apprentice Project

Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide personalized learning experiences and support to students across India.
THRIVE!

Building a software platform that helps state and local government agencies—including school systems—create budgets that mitigate disparities experienced by low-income residents and people of color.
Tolemi

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

Transforming chronic disease treatment through improved biologic drug delivery.
Tuverl

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

Developing a reliable, low-cost, and portable device that can provide continuous ventilation to patients.
Upsolve

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

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

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