Startups by Industry

AgTech

Amber Agriculture
Amber Agriculture delivers wireless, no-cable automation kits that enable farmers to monitor, protect, and control grain storage with real-time CO₂ sensing and remote fan management.

Earnest Agriculture
Earnest Agriculture develops an all-in-one probiotic seed coating that helps crops get more nutrients, grow stronger, and fight off diseases so farmers can realize increased crop yields.

Salam Kisan
Salam Kisan brings together stakeholders in the agriculture ecosystem to provide farm management, financial support, market linkage, and government convergence.

AI / LLMs / ML

ChipStack
Chipstack dramatically reduces the amount of time and people it takes to design and verify a complex semiconductor chip with AI

Convey
Convey is redefining how companies and public figures understand public sentiment through natural language processing and social media analytics.

EmoNet
EmoNet is a secure AI-powered voice journaling platform that promotes self-reflection and personal growth through advanced emotional analysis and insights.

FirstIgnite
FirstIgnite builds AI software to increase partnership opportunities for universities.

Lumnis AI
Lumnis AI uses AI agents to automate complex workflows with natural language.

MetaFrazo
MetaFrazo allows people to dub and lip-sync videos into any language, preserving speakers’ voice, tone, and emotion.

Pathlit
Pathlit is a visual AI workflow builder that lets your team go from messy docs and APIs to clean, automated processes.

QuillBot
QuillBot uses AI to help you write, paraphrase, and perfect your text with clarity and confidence.

Respell
Respell lets businesses automate complex workflows with no-code, AI-powered agents and integrations.

ReveryAI
ReveryAI uses a scalable SaaS model to offer virtual changing rooms for fashion retailers, helping consumers visualize outfits to increase sales and reduce returns.

SnooperBooper
SnooperBooper is developing image-based identification for animals based on their unique nose prints.

Sound of Molecules
The Sound of Molecules accelerates drug discovery using a waveform encoding of molecules to aggregate molecular information and improve computational time.

Trvise
Trvise offers interactive visual instructions and delivers step-by-step guidance, component recognition, and defect detection.

yoTally
yoTally is an IoT venture that’s developing a real-time, machine-learning-powered crochet stitch counter designed to enhance the crafting experience for both hobbyist and professional crocheters.

Business Products & Services

Ascent Integrated
Tech Ascent Integrated delivers real-time health alerts and location tracking for first responders through a simple smartwatch platform.

Atlas
Atlas designs solutions that enable bar owners to effectively navigate the needs of their consumers.

Bilder
Bilder is a crowdfunding platform designed for universities and municipal governments.

Bundle
Bundle is a platform that enables group purchasing among businesses by aggregating their demand and connecting them to a supplier.

CreatoRain
CreatoRain is an AI-powered search platform that helps brands grow organically by accelerating the way they find and partner with high-impact, local micro-influencers.

Datapull
Datapull is a location and industry specific B2B data aggregation and marketing automation tool for automatic lead creation.

DoubleSpot
DoubleSpot is an all-in-one facility management solution for campus, recreation, and stadiums.

Earthworm
Earthworm is a tool to help FMCG companies mitigate climate risk to their supply chains by identifying new sources of raw material & improving the sustainability practices of existing growers.

Fusen
Fusen connects small businesses with overseas professional design teams that provide affordable, high quality branding.

HexNest
HexNest makes safer, more affordable sports mats to ensure schools and private clubs have access to the safety equipment they deserve.

Idana
Idana designs meaningful employee engagement opportunities through interactive, hands-on culinary and diversity education experiences.

Kofman Technologies
Kofman Technologies builds flexible and rugged drones for police, fire, and military applications.

Medius Ventures
Medius Ventures is a media holding company that builds niche digital publications and helps its clients communicate better stories with strategic messaging and content that sells.

Shepherd Telematics
Shepherd Telematics aims to provide military and civilian fleet managers with better data about their vehicles to improve efficiency and lower management costs.

Turkbox
Turkbox is a content monetization platform that offers paywall alternatives to online news publications and blogs through data classification widgets.

Consumer Apps

Catch Globe
Catch Globe provides a digital platform where seniors and their caregivers can discover the best products, services, and tips to lead exciting and healthy lives.

DisplayOne
DisplayOne sells display products that showcase and protect your prized possessions.

Electrokare
Electrokare is creating an electrolyte tracking app that leverages any existing ECG hardware to determine user electrolyte levels and provide actionable hydration and recovery insights.

Fast Track
Fast Track is a community-based marketplace where musicians can collaborate with a team of music industry ninjas to refine their work and pursue their passions as a career.

Flipword
Flipword is a Chrome extension that helps you learn a foreign language by flipping words in your browser.

Gourmates
Gourmates is a meal delivery startup that enables college students to enjoy healthy and delicious plates at affordable prices.

Great Mind Exchange
Great Mind Exchange matches University startups, projects, and organizations to project-based, part- time, or full-time talent.

Klink!
Klink! turns empty barstools into packed happy hours—serving users exclusive, real-time drink deals while giving venues the data to turn slow times into profit.

LaneTrax
LaneTrax brings professional level performance analytics to every bowler, everywhere.

Menu3
Menu3 makes augmented reality restaurant menus to simplify your food purchasing decisions.

MyMetrics
MyMetrics helps you track and plan your workouts using a mobile app and smart sensors affixed to gym equipment.

MyTyde
MyTyde is a mobile and web platform that improves the way we utilize our time by integrating social networking into a calendar application.

NoshBox
NoshBox helps restaurants drive sales through dynamic pricing and meal plans, giving diners better meals at attractive prices.

Objective
Objective is creating a browser extension that personalizes your internet to put your priorities first, adding filters and contextualized data to combat manipulative or exploitative content.

Octane Technologies
Octane Technologies is a mobile app that connects car enthusiasts with car-related events and businesses in the community.

Own It Technologies
Own It Technologies is a community skateboarding application that aims to bring people from around the world together through competition.

PlayTogether
PlayTogether is a simple, affordable, and easily customizable game hosting platform that safely connects people across the globe, increasing the accessibility of gaming through provider-agnostic cloud technology.

Slay’d
Slay’d is a mobile, end-to-end referral platform that connects women to their perfect cosmetic service provider.

Speakeasy
Speakeasy helps you learn languages through conversation, directly on WhatsApp.

Sylly
Sylly is the first dating app for college campuses, focusing on dating, not just getting matches.

The Mouve
The Mouve is an app that helps you find events near you.

Top Tier Lessons
Top Tier Lessons matches college student athletes with parents in the community looking for sports lessons for their kids.

Trala
Trala makes world-class music education accessible to everyone through tech-powered online lessons.

Consumer Goods

Allergenius Baking Company
Allergenius Baking Company bakes and ships delicious, vegan, organic, non-GMO cookies that are made free of the 14 most common food allergens.

Jon Basil Tequila
Jon Basil Tequila is redefining premium spirits by fusing artisanal Mexican tradition with modern cultural storytelling, creating a tequila brand that resonates with today’s ambitious, community-driven consumers.

Omnipher
Omnipher is redesigning personal care product containers, starting with lip balm, ensuring you always have what you need when you need it.

OSAZ
OSAZ is a pioneering beauty-tech startup transforming the skincare industry with AI-driven solutions tailored to multicultural markets.

RingWing
RingWing helps kids gain confidence catch by catch, using RingWing – the indoor catchable glider.

SnapClips
SnapClips offers a snap-on barbell collar designed to make securing weight plates on barbells faster and easier.

TAVO
TAVO is a wearable alarm clock wristband that gently wakes users during the light stage of their natural sleep cycle to promote a productive and energetic morning.

Verge
Verge creates the optimal reptile experience through the Automatic Reptile Feeder, giving pet owners peace of mind away from home.

Crypto

Digiphy
Digiphy allows users to buy NFTs without the need for a crypto wallet, using just a credit card.

Gridscale
Gridscale uses homeowners’ excess solar energy to mine cryptocurrency so that we can pay homeowners more than utility companies.

Lumnis Capital
Lumnis Capital is a cryptocurrency platform that compartmentalizes data insights in the investment process and synthesizes that information for users.

Resolv
Resolv is building a protection protocol that allows crypto users to recoup stolen funds even after being the victim of theft.

EdTech

Geni
Geni makes classrooms unique by giving engaging assignments tailored to students’ interests.

PhinD
PhinD helps researchers connect with recruiters looking for highly specialized subject matter experts.

Energy

Autonomic Energy Systems
Autonomic Energy Systems extends the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries while minimizing their fire hazards.

Credence Cleantech
Credence Cleantech provides affordable 24/7 green steam, electricity, and hydrogen solutions to industries to cut operation feedstock costs and carbon footprints with Innovative AI-integrated Concentrated Solar Power.

Haylon Technologies
Haylon Technologies combines multiple complementary battery chemistries into a single pack and switches between them as needed to meet energy storage needs.

kWh
kWh is an energy management system that integrates and monetizes energy assets, eliminating blackouts in India.

Lumos
Lumos creates safe, renewable, and passive systems that safely store, cool, and efficiently generate electricity from spent nuclear fuel.

NASADYA
NASADYA provides stationary hydrogen storage solutions using patented metal hydride compositions to solve the growing problem of variability management for power plants.

Natrion
Natrion makes next-generation battery components that boost energy density, safety, and manufacturability for a renewable future.

Optivolt
Optivolt Labs enables autonomous charging through an optimized solar integration platform.

PowerBox Technology
PowerBox Technology solves the energy security problem for the packaging industry by leveraging modern renewable energy technology.

FinTech

ClimeCast
ClimeCast enables simple financial diligence on real estate decarbonization.

tulip.
tulip is a fractional exchange platform for real-estate that provides its users a fintech opportunity to leverage their investment and knowledge in real-estate - with higher liquidity, lower entry points and none of the hassles and risks involved in traditional property transactions.

Hardware

BYLD Innovations
BYLD Innovations is developing portable and intuitive 3D printing technologies to empower makers who are on the move.

CamUX
CamUX is making an eye-tracking wearable that makes seamless computer and device control possible for everyone, including those with limited motor skills.

Galileo Innovations
Galileo Innovations designs human performance-optimizing biotech gear and equipment for athletes, first responders, industrial workers, and military members.

Mesh++
Mesh++ delivers affordable, solar-powered WiFi to underserved communities, enabling wireless communication, education, and e-commerce anywhere.

NeonCrate
NeonCrate produces handcrafted, custom LED neon signs and ships worldwide.

Optech
Optech is bringing Intellectual Virtual Assistants (IVA’s) to daily lives through wearable technology.

PSYONIC
PSYONIC is an advanced bionics company that is creating fully integrated, super-charged extensions for humans and robotics systems, starting with the world’s first touch-sensing bionic hand.

Yummy Future
Yummy Future delivers barista-quality coffee through fully automated robotic kiosks, making premium coffee fast, consistent, and accessible for today’s on-the-go consumers.

Healthcare

Cast21
Cast21 revolutionizes healing with waterproof, breathable, and fast-application orthopedic casts for active lifestyles.

InvoGenix
InvoGenix is developing an AI-powered electronic health record tool that eliminates the burden of medical documentation—so clinicians can focus on quality care, not paperwork.

Loop Health
Loop Health redefines employee healthcare by combining group insurance with proactive, data-driven wellness to help teams thrive.

Panthea Health
Panthea Health empowers people to make more informed, economical healthcare decisions by providing a data-driven, easy-to-use search engine for finding the right healthcare providers near them.

SakuraMed
Sakura MedTech offers a superior, patient-centric imaging device for cervical cancer screening to reduce patient discomfort and improve medical efficiency for gynecologists.

Vitrix Health
Vitrix Health creates affordable and simple medical screening solutions designed around low-resource contexts for the world’s deadliest diseases, starting with oral cancer.

Ferritiva
Ferritiva creates accessible devices utilizing saliva-based biotechnology that screens for iron deficiency.

Logistics / Supply Chain / Transportation

FuelGo
FuelGo provides an efficient solution for yachts and cargo ships to manage and procure fuel.

Social Impact

1st Wrld
1st Wrld promotes economic growth and cultural awareness for Ghanian entrepreneurs by marketing American streetwear fused with native fabrics to U.S. consumers.

ASL Aspire
ASL Aspire is an online educational platform that teaches STEM to deaf K-12 students through videos and games.

Campus Ventures
Campus Ventures connects university admissions teams to high-achieving high schoolers they want but struggle to recruit – especially first-generation and underrepresented minority groups.

Career Advancement Exchange
Career Advancement Exchange inspires diversity in the workforce by creating a professional network of underrepresented communities and connecting them to career opportunities.

Cedar Technologies
Cedar Technologies develops sustainable, low-cost mosquito traps that prevent the spread of infectious diseases like Zika and malaria in developing countries.

Citispace
Citispace promotes social interaction and development through art and technological installations, starting in Champaign-Urbana.

Creasion
Creasion provides affordable, green, and efficient solar water purifiers for 1.3 billion people who struggle to access clean water.

Cut to the Case
Cut to the Case is developing a rape kit tracking system to increase transparency and accountability of the sexual assault investigation process.

DeepWalk Research
Deepwalk is a sidewalk inspection solution that automates ADA inspections using iPhone LiDAR and delivers actionable compliance data in one platform.

Dibbs
Dibbs connects grocery stores with surplus fresh food to local food agencies, reducing waste and fighting food insecurity in real time.

Every Day is a Yay
Every Day is a Yay! is a lifestyle brand and talk show sparking daily inspiration and positivity for creatives, entrepreneurs, and anyone seeking joy in everyday life.

Faaslahpal
Faaslahpal bridges the gap between Islam and Americana by creating scrunchie hijabs for non-hijabi Muslim women.

GrayKea
GrayKea is a social enterprise that assists and uplifts low-income college students by matching them with alumni donors, building community and increasing graduation rates.

IlliniBox
IlliniBox operates a reusable container and cup platform to eliminate single-use waste.

MakerGirl
Makergirl introduces young girls and their parents to STEM fields through interactive sessions involving 3-D printing and other technologies.

Privy Track
Privy Track is the first privacy-focused period-tracking app and holistic menstrual care ecosystem.

Punchline UIUC
Punchline UIUC is a community of music enthusiasts building new live music experiences for the Champaign-Urbana community.

Red Clover
Reader Red Clover Reader solves the lack of cultural diversity in children’s literature by connecting parents with self-published or independent authors of children’s books on an online platform that facilitates the co- creation and dissemination of more culturally diverse and value-focused content.

Rising Sprouts
Rising Sprouts makes fresh food affordable, sustainable, and accessible by bringing quality surplus produce from local farms to people in food deserts.

Spotlight
Spotlight provides mentorship and multimedia training to help minority youth share their stories with the world and break down stereotypes.

SwaTaleem Foundation
SwaTaleem Foundation helps empower adolescent girls from low socioeconomic backgrounds in rural and tribal areas in India with the necessary educational and socio-emotional skills and long-term support to break the cycle of oppression.

Swimable
Swimable is a learn-to-swim program for children with special needs.

The Inclusive Companion Series
The Inclusive Companion Series helps facilitate meaningful parent-child discussions about tough topics by publishing companion guides for popular children’s books.

Therapalz
Therapalz creates interactive therapeutic objects for people with Alzheimer’s, starting with stuffed animals.

TooTak
TooTak is a mobile app that provides a joyful language learning experience for Farsi speakers through multimodal interactive games and gesture based videos.

Voribe
Voribe empowers future Nigerian-American leaders with the tools and connections they need to become successful professionals.

VRtuMind
VRtuMind supports mental health by helping young adults develop mindful habits with personalized audio, VR, and AR technologies in a world engineered for distraction.

WeHearYou
WeHearYou creates technology solutions for those with various exceptionalities beginning with a universal remote that transforms accessible doors into automatic doors via a personal button.

X-Time
X-Time is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps children explore STEAM interests through classes, summer camps, and X-PLORE Stations.

YouMatter Studios
YouMatter Studios is a media company that is building an inclusive world through film, media content, and technology where everyone understands, advocates, and truly believes that you matter.

Sustainability

AgriWater Corp.
AgriWater Corp. decarbonizes livestock sewage into clean water and profits for farmers struggling with wastewater management.

Symmetry Wood
Symmetry Wood makes wood from bacteria without cutting down trees to combat deforestation.