2025 Startups
Startups from around the world applied for the Rice Business Plan Competition, presented by Rice Business. 2025 was a record-breaking application season, and only 42 of the very best student-led startups are invited to compete for more than $1M in prizes on April 10 - April 11 at Rice Business in Houston, Texas!
2025 Invited Startups
| Startup | University |
|---|---|
| 3rd-i | University of Miami |
| AG3 Labs | Michigan State University |
| Arcticedge Technologies | University of Waterloo |
| Ark Health | University of Chicago |
| Automatic AI | University of Mississippi and University of New Orleans |
| Bobica Bars | Rowan University |
| Carbon Salary | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Carmine Minerals | California State University, San Bernardino |
| Celal-Mex | Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education |
| CELLECT Laboratories | University of Waterloo |
| ECHO Solutions | University of Houston |
| EDUrain | University of Missouri-St. Louis |
| Eutrobac | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| FarmSmart.ai | Louisiana State University |
| Fetal Therapy Technologies | Johns Hopkins University |
| GreenLIB Materials | University of Ottawa |
| Humimic Biosystems | University of Arkansas |
| HydroHaul | Harvard University |
| Intero Biosystems | University of Michigan |
| Interplay | University of Missouri-Kansas City |
| MabLab | Harvard University |
| Microvitality | Tufts University |
| Mito Robotics | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Motmot | Michigan State University |
| Mud Rat | University of Connecticut |
| Nanoborne | University of Texas at Austin |
| NerView Surgical | McMaster University |
| NeuroFore | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Novus | Stanford University |
| OAQ | University of Toronto |
| Parthian Battery Solutions | Columbia University |
| Pattern Materials | Rice University |
| Photon Queue | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| re.solution | RWTH Aachen University |
| Rise Media | Yale University |
| Rivulet | University of Cambridge and Dartmouth College |
| Sabana | Carnegie Mellon University |
| SearchOwl | Case Western Reserve University |
| Six Carbons | Indiana University |
| Songscription | Stanford University |
| Watermarked.ai | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Xatoms | University of Toronoto |
Meet the 2025 Invited Startups
This year’s invited startups represent 34 universities from five countries and who will compete for more than $1 million in prizes at the largest and richest intercollegiate student startup competition!
Congratulations to these 42 startups invited to compete at #RBPC25!