Startup ideas from Boston and Wharton Business Competition 2014

Covvet is an online wish list that tracks prices on the web so you never miss a sale on the things you want.Second Chance Technologies is a new online and mobile platform that fundamentally changes how consumers find the best deals and make purchases.

Project 2020 delivers cost-neutral, on-site eye care and comprehensive eye exams to businesses and their employees via a state-of-art mobile eye clinic ("eye truck”).

ServiceRoute drives commerce and increases route density for residential contractors by clustering properties for service.

Canary is a safer, local online marketplace that donates 30% of its profits to local charities.

Dashbell enables independent hotels to take control and reduce commissions paid to outside travel agencies through an online reservations tool and hotel management system.

onthebar connects consumers and spirit brands with the most effective and charming salespeople on earth, bartenders.

Nineteenth Amendment is a fashion marketplace and manufacturing service for emerging designers where we manufacture all garments that sell through our site on behalf of the designer, in the USA.

Supplet is a healthy pregnancy marketplace, community and monthly gift box service for pregnant women and new moms.

Tackle Grab is a subscription-style discovery retail service that delivers monthly boxes of fishing tackle to its members based on their preferences, coupled with an e-commerce platform that offers on-demand products.
ScreenEx provides apps and websites that simplify the online video-viewing experience with a personalized stream.
SparkFull is a mobile electric vehicle (EV) charging service.

Wellable is a mobile wellness company that leverages mobile apps, text messaging, and traditional wellness services, such as flu shots and biometric screenings, to deliver highly effective programs.

Givewell Getwell connects patients and their families to loved ones and local service vendors who want to provide support (e.g. transportation, meals, home care) through a web-based tool that integrates patient registries with a peer-reviewed directory of local services

 Abaris

Team Leader: Matthew Carey WG'15
Team Members: Jason Grimes WG'15, Nimish Shukla WG'15, Adam Colombo ENG'15

Abaris is an Orbitz for Annuities. We are creating the first of its kind online marketplace enabling consumers to easily compare quotes on insurers' guaranteed lifetime income offerings.

AdmitSee
Team Leader: Stephanie Shyu L'14
Team Member: Lydia Faya L'14

AdmitSee is a social media platform for current college and grad students to share their application details and advice with prospective students. By providing low-cost access to application tips and examples, AdmitSee aims to level the higher education playing field.

AirCare
Team Leader: Stephanie Hwang NU'14
Team Members: George Zeng WG'13, Kevin Langdon

AirCare is a communications platform that allows any clinician the ability to remotely monitor any patient, any  time, any where. Our technology integrates mobile, tablet, and web software as well as automated phone calls and text messages to send customized questionnaires to patients, improving the quality of care they receive.

AppHappy
Team Leader: Steven Mong WG'14 (WEMBA - East)
Team Members: Helen Pun W'15, Christine Skovira C'13/W'13, Linda Kang NU'15, Matthew Lee NU'16

AppHappy serves to expand the provision of mental health care by developing a mobile app providing stress management through gamified cognitive behavioral therapy.

Black Box Denim
Team Leader: Adina Luo W'16
Team Member: Molly Liu W'16

Custom jeans at designer quality. Perfect cut, wash, and fit. Delivered to your doorstep.

bookn'tell
Team Leader: Yonatan Sela WG'14
Team Members: Israel Krush, Amir Pintow, Yair Finkelstein

Bookn'tell is the first referrals engine for local service providers. We enable users to find local service businesses through credible friend referrals, book appointments online and save money when referring other friends.

Cloudbook
Team Leader: Matan Agam WG'14
Team Member: Joseph Tucker

Cloudbook is a new education technology company that modernizes exam taking, grading, security, and big data learning analytics by using a tablet-based assessment system that is easy and affordable to administer to students for on-site exams.  Cloudbook helps instructors, students, and administrators spot trends early, recommend solutions, and experience lifelong improvements.

Dana Cita
Team Leader: Susli Lie WG'14

Dana Cita, which means “Aspiration Fund” in Indonesian, aims to empower Indonesian youths to create a better future for themselves by bridging the education financing and employment gaps. Dana Cita does so by providing loans for aspiring students to attend vocational schools and universities while also connecting them to promising future careers through a job matching platform and our network of partner institutions.

FlopSports
Team Leader: Zachary Garber WG'15
Team Member: Ezequiel Baril WG'15

FlopSports is taking the idea of fantasy sports and flipping it on its head. Specifically, FlopSports users can win cash prizes by correctly predicting which players will underperform during their games.

GovPredict
Team Leader: Steven Johnston WG'14
Team Members: Emil Pitkin PhD'14, Edward Lando W'14

GovPredict is an accurate, real-time predictive analytics tool for forecasting the probability that a congressional bill will pass and that a given congressman will vote for passage. These insights are based on algorithmic machine-learning that analyzes bill characteristics, congressional voting records, district demographics, and other meaningful variables.

IDENTIFIED Technologies Corporation
Team Leader: Andy Wu PhD'16
Team Member: Dick Zhang ENG'15 (on leave)

IDENTIFIED Technologies delivers a system of flying robots to collect data, for today’s data-driven industrial businesses, in settings where it is too dangerous or physically impossible to currently place sensors.

KLAR
Team Leader: Raffi Holzer GEN'14

KLAR manufactures a coating for dental mirrors that once applied keeps them clean throughout dental procedures.

LentesCol
Team Leader: Diego Marino WG'14
Team Member: Jaime Oriol WG'14

LentesCol is disrupting the contact lenses retail business in Latin America, offering a new way of purchase that is easier, cheaper and more convenient.

Matt and Marie's
Team Leader: Justin Sapolsky WG'14
Team Member: Nicole Capp WG'14

Matt & Marie's is a modern Italian sandwich store, bringing great food and hospitality elements of fine dining to an efficient fast service setting.

OwnYourCity.com
Team Leader: Joseph Carroll WG'14
Team Members: Eoin Condren WG'14, Austin Domenici WG'14

OwnYourCity.com is a platform that allows individuals to buy a slice of previously unattainable individual real estate assets through the new concept of real estate crowdfunding. OwnYourCity will be to real estate what Vanguard.com is to index and mutual funds – a platform that provides retail investors with an investment vehicle to gain direct exposure to a very specific asset in an easy and cost efficient manner so that they can diversify their investment portfolio.

PhaseOptics
Team Leader: Frank Brodie MD'14/WG'14
Team Members: Grant Mitchell WG'14, Paul Blanton WG'14

PhaseOptics offers revolutionary imaging technology that allows for the early detection and prevention of the leading causes of blindness in the United States.

Prayas Analytics
Team Leader: Yash Kothari W'15
Team Member: Pranshu Maheshwari W'15

Prayas Analytics is a retail analytics solution that uses existing security footage to empower retailers with data to better understand customer behavior and discover store efficiencies.

ProfessorWord
Team Leader: Betty Hsu WG'14
Team Member: Ivan Chang

ProfessorWord helps students learn vocabulary in context as they read online. Check out our free tool at www.professorword.com

Roominate
Team Leader: Sally Huang WG'15 (WEMBA-West)

Roominnate seeks to transform the residential real estate marketing and home improvement industry by dramatically changing the way people visualize how they decorate their homes.

Semmantica
Team Leader: Yago Montenegro WG'15
Team Members: Jesus Baron, Natalia Samperiz

Semmantica is the online advertisement management and sales analytics software for Spanish and Latin American e-commerce businesses.

Senvol
Team Leader: Zach Simkin C'06/WG'14
Team Member: Annie Wang WG'13

Senvol works with manufacturers and analyzes their industrial parts.  Using its proprietary algorithm, Senvol determines which of these parts can be more cost-effectively manufactured using 3D printing versus the status quo.

Slidejoy
Team Leader: Sanghoon Kwak WG'14
Team Members: Jaeho Chung WG'14, Robert Seo WG'12

Slidejoy is an intelligent Android app that pays users to view beautifully designed ads every time they unlock their phones. Over time, the app learns the preferences of a user based off of previous behaviors during different times of day and at different locations and curates a more profitable and relevant user experience.

Take Command Health
Team Leader: Jack Hooper WG'14
Team Member: Breanna Hockenbury WG'14

Take Command Health is a do-it-yourself website that empowers individuals and businesses to be savvy healthcare consumers, starting with health insurance.  We are the “Turbotax” and “Mint.com” for high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and health savings accounts (HSA).  Our tools provide data-driven, personalized advice to help our members 1) select a plan 2) track their expenses, and 3) identify savings opportunities.

Urban Attic
Team Leader: Erik Stiller WG'15
Team Members: Balint Simsik WG'15, Gabe Wilcox WG'15

Urban Attic provides door-to-door storage services for individuals and businesses. We pick up goods from customers’ homes and offices, store them in secure warehouses, and redeliver specific items on request, a process that can be managed end-to-end through our website and mobile app.

VeryApt
Team Leader: Ashrit Kamireddi WG'14
Team Members: Scott Bierbryer WG'14, Andrew Mackowski WG'14

VeryApt is TripAdvisor meets Pandora for apartments.  VeryApt helps users find an apartment they will love, quickly and easily by combining user-generated reviews with big data analytics to deliver intelligent, personalized apartment recommendations.