Bill Gross Business Plan Competition - April 10, 2024
Bill Gross Business Plan Competition
April 10, 2024, Caltech
Welcome and Introductions:
- 0:00 Fred Farina, Chief Innovation Officer, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech
- 3:03 Bill Gross, CEO, Idealab
- 5:19 Maral Gharib, Director of the Caltech Innovation Center, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech
- 5:30 Judges:
-- Ajay Kshtriya, Partner, Wilson Hill Ventures
-- Amanda Cashin, PhD, Advisor, Wilson Hill Ventures
-- Dave Licata, President & CFO, TORL Biotherapeutics, Executive Chairman, 1200 Pharma
Round One Teams:
6:42 Helio: Ashley Mo, Aio Otani
15:20 OcuFlow: Stephanie O’Gara
23:49 Viriya: Aaron Zhao, Kaushik Tota, Avirath Sundaresan
33:12 NeuroGuard: Haixu Shen, Dr. Reza Ghodsi
42:00 Chiron: Andrea Olsen
48:42 VerifAI: Arjun Pradhan, James Hou, Joray Pieper, Dhruv Verma, Gautham Kappaganthula, Aditya Mehta, Aman Burman
57:47 Tunable Aesthetics: Nicole Higdon, Gunho Kim
1:04:50 Kallisto (VIDEO): Laura Luebbert
Round Two Teams:
1:11:28 ONCOVATE: Arya Khokhar, Albert Huang, Adarsh Kumarappan, Shan Gupta
1:19:44 PulseGuard: Bryan Gerber
1:27:54 IND CoPilot: Logan Beharry, Katherine Xu
1:35:56 CAD.it: Aditya Shedge, Sarah Hashash, Sarah Yun
1:44:47 String: Sean Theuri, Eden Nana Obeng Kyei, Nyasha Makaya, Abdulkarim Mugisha
1:54:13 Desert Farming: Madison Dunitz, Helen Wexler, David Johnson
2:03:13 Encryptiest: Dylan Bannon, Salvador Buse
Award Ceremony
Presented by Bill Gross/Sunstone-ALC
2:11:51 Maral Gharib, Director of the Caltech Innovation Center, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech
2:12:00 Remarks by President Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics, Caltech
2:13:08 Bill Gross, CEO, Idealab
2:14:39 3rd Prize Announcement
2:15:34 2nd Prize Announcement
2:16:08 1st Prize Announcement
2:16:44 Special Announcement
2:17:47 Group Photo
Learn more about the competition: https://giving.caltech.edu/news/bill-gross-business-plan-competition
©2024 California Institute of Technology
April 10, 2024, Caltech
Welcome and Introductions:
- 0:00 Fred Farina, Chief Innovation Officer, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech
- 3:03 Bill Gross, CEO, Idealab
- 5:19 Maral Gharib, Director of the Caltech Innovation Center, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech
- 5:30 Judges:
-- Ajay Kshtriya, Partner, Wilson Hill Ventures
-- Amanda Cashin, PhD, Advisor, Wilson Hill Ventures
-- Dave Licata, President & CFO, TORL Biotherapeutics, Executive Chairman, 1200 Pharma
Round One Teams:
6:42 Helio: Ashley Mo, Aio Otani
15:20 OcuFlow: Stephanie O’Gara
23:49 Viriya: Aaron Zhao, Kaushik Tota, Avirath Sundaresan
33:12 NeuroGuard: Haixu Shen, Dr. Reza Ghodsi
42:00 Chiron: Andrea Olsen
48:42 VerifAI: Arjun Pradhan, James Hou, Joray Pieper, Dhruv Verma, Gautham Kappaganthula, Aditya Mehta, Aman Burman
57:47 Tunable Aesthetics: Nicole Higdon, Gunho Kim
1:04:50 Kallisto (VIDEO): Laura Luebbert
Round Two Teams:
1:11:28 ONCOVATE: Arya Khokhar, Albert Huang, Adarsh Kumarappan, Shan Gupta
1:19:44 PulseGuard: Bryan Gerber
1:27:54 IND CoPilot: Logan Beharry, Katherine Xu
1:35:56 CAD.it: Aditya Shedge, Sarah Hashash, Sarah Yun
1:44:47 String: Sean Theuri, Eden Nana Obeng Kyei, Nyasha Makaya, Abdulkarim Mugisha
1:54:13 Desert Farming: Madison Dunitz, Helen Wexler, David Johnson
2:03:13 Encryptiest: Dylan Bannon, Salvador Buse
Award Ceremony
Presented by Bill Gross/Sunstone-ALC
2:11:51 Maral Gharib, Director of the Caltech Innovation Center, Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, Caltech
2:12:00 Remarks by President Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics, Caltech
2:13:08 Bill Gross, CEO, Idealab
2:14:39 3rd Prize Announcement
2:15:34 2nd Prize Announcement
2:16:08 1st Prize Announcement
2:16:44 Special Announcement
2:17:47 Group Photo
Learn more about the competition: https://giving.caltech.edu/news/bill-gross-business-plan-competition
©2024 California Institute of Technology
