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.
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.
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.
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.
Limax Biosciences

Treating internal and external injuries with a stretchable adhesive hydrogel.
Mark43

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

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

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

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

Take On the Challenge

Students: Apply for the PIC by Dec. 05.

PIC Year

School

Industry

Program

Award

Adaptilens

Adolescent Health Champions

Aurie

Base Operations

Beacon Bio

Beaver Health, Inc.

Broadleaf HEA

Chirps Chips

Coding it Forward

Day Zero Diagnostics

Hue

Limax Biosciences

Mark43

Myspeech

PIVOTtheWorld

RapidSOS

Rumi Spice

SoWork

SPOUTS OF WATER

Stochastic

TANGapp

Tolemi

Tuverl

Upsolve

Virtudent

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