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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.
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.
CashEx

Bringing global financial services closer to Africans.
CassVita Inc.

Using proprietary technology to foster prosperity for smallholder farmers in Africa.
Change The Tune

Closing the opportunity gap for youth in underserved communities by creating holistic, radical, and transformational extended learning experiences in partnership with communal organizations.
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.
Hue

Developing technology to help beauty brands embed user-generated videos on their marketing channels.
Imago Rehab

Making high-quality rehabilitation available to anyone recovering from a neurological or cardiovascular condition.
JustFix

Building free tools for tenants to exercise their rights to a livable home.
Limax Biosciences

Treating internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
MDaaS Global

Building and operating modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centers to provide healthcare for Africa's next billion.
Metalmark Innovations, Inc.

Building a self-renewing air cleaner that performs better and delivers with 10x the filter life of a typical HEPA system.
Mozambique School Lunch Initiative

Providing nutritious school meals to children attending rural primary schools in Mozambique.
Myspeech

Enabling access to high-quality speech therapy through a technology platform.
Oze

Supercharging business across Africa with simple tools, smooth payments, affordable capital, and digital shops.
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.
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.
Tolemi

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

UrSure was acquired by OraSure Technologies. The company developed urine and blood tests that measure and improve adherence to medications.
Vacuum-Assisted Wound Therapy Affordable For All (VATARA)

Providing low-cost, negative pressure wound therapy for everyone.
Vaxess Technologies

Developing a novel transdermal patch technology to transform home delivery of therapies and vaccines
Virtudent

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

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