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 Participating Startups
Startup | University | Web |
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3rd-i | University of Miami | Website |
AG3 Labs | Michigan State University | Website |
Arcticedge Technologies | University of Waterloo | Website |
Ark Health | University of Chicago and University of Michigan | Website |
Automatic AI | University of Mississippi and University of New Orleans | Website |
Bobica Bars | Rowan University | Website |
Carbon Salary | Washington University in St. Louis | Website |
Carmine Minerals | California State University, San Bernardino | Website |
CELLECT Laboratories | University of Waterloo | Website |
ECHO Solutions | University of Houston | |
EDUrain | University of Missouri-St. Louis | Website |
Eutrobac | University of California, Santa Cruz | Website |
FarmSmart.ai | Louisiana State University | Website |
Fetal Therapy Technologies | Johns Hopkins University | Website |
GreenLIB Materials | University of Ottawa | Website |
Hot Bone | University of Connecticut | Website |
Humimic Biosystems | University of Arkansas | Linktree |
HydroHaul | Harvard University | Website |
Intero Biosystems | University of Michigan | Website |
Interplay | University of Missouri-Kansas City | Website |
KAL Robotics | University of Pennsylvania | Website |
MabLab | Harvard University | Website |
Microvitality | Tufts University | Website |
Mito Robotics | Carnegie Mellon University | |
Motmot | Michigan State University and University of Michigan | Website |
Mud Rat | University of Connecticut | Website |
Nanoborne | University of Texas at Austin | Website |
NeuroFore | Washington University in St. Louis | |
Novus | Stanford University | Website |
OAQ | University of Toronto and KAIST | Website |
OmniPath H2 | Harvard University | |
Parthian Battery Solutions | Columbia University | |
Pattern Materials | Rice University | Website |
Rora | Northwestern University | Website |
re.solution | RWTH Aachen University | |
Rise Media | Yale University | Website |
Rivulet | University of Cambridge and Dartmouth College | Website |
Sabana | Carnegie Mellon University | Website |
SearchOwl | Case Western Reserve University | Website |
Songscription | Stanford University | Website |
Watermarked.ai | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Website |
Xatoms | University of Toronto and Western University | Website |
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!