Charlotte Venture Challenge
Join us in celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship at UNC Charlotte!
This networking event brings together our community of innovators and entrepreneurial leaders from UNC Charlotte and the Charlotte region. The Charlotte Venture Challenge will showcase university and community Charlotte Launch participants and semi-finalists in the 49er Impact student pitch competition. Awards will be presented to the top student teams and the final four Charlotte Launch Small Grant winners.
We look forward to networking with you at our tribute to the students, faculty and community leaders who continue to bring their innovative ideas forward in this 22nd year of Charlotte Venture Challenge!
Student Pitch Semi-Finalists
Meet the Student Impact Makers
Sarah Eddin
Yousef Eddin
Bad Apples
Finalist!
An app that allows students who struggle with social anxiety to anonymously communicate their understanding of class material with teachers/lecturers in real-time.
Kaylan Joseph
GlamourBae
Finalist!
An app that will sell high quality, affordable hair and beauty products delivered to your door in under 2 hours.
Rayvon McQueen
The Intersection of Business and Media
A community empowerment program concerning youth development and importance of media literacy.
Alberta Asare Yeboah
GroSecure
Finalist!
A gamified app/website designed to educate senior citizens about scams and test their understanding about it.
Amogh Bandekar
CompleteCare
An asynchronous clinical intake platform that automates patient histories, and identifies low-acuity cases for providers to more efficiently provide care for.
Jackson Popovich
LoadLogix
Finalist!
An app for truck drivers & distribution centers to schedule appointments to reduce the detention time for truck drivers and help smooth out the supply chain.
Kennedi Briggs
The Renewable Power Meter
A device making easier to add renewable sources to the grid.
Ryan Shah
Srinath Dittakavi
Arjun Elangovan
Akhil Motiramani
BridgeBowl
Finalist!
Connects restaurants with homeless shelters to provide food to those in need all through an easy-to-use app.
Soen McCormick
Campus Exchange
An app that allows UNC Charlotte students to trade/purchase items as well as offer services (DJ-ing, hairstylists, car detailing) to each other.
Avangelyne (Angel) Padilla
Supporting our Communities as a Community
A nonprofit organization that both initiates community discussions and incentivizes partnerships between different organizations to address social issues and support our communities, as a community.
Emma Wical
Food for Thought
Finalist!
An on-campus grocery store that offers inexpensive products that are the proper size for 1-3 students.
Krystal Ortiz
Ko Kreations Studio LLC
A multi-purpose studio that represents a community centered brand, encouraging self expression and creativity through music, art, photography and more.
Meet the Community Showcase Founders
Malobi Achike
Gloria Folaroon
Miguel Avila
Abdul Brimah
Vontenea Stokes
Christopher Stokes
Louis DeMontfort
Meet the University Showcase Teams
Chimeras
Chris Neff and Dr. Shannon Reid (The William States Lee College of Engineering and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences)
Chimeras provides an automated intelligent surveillance technology that integrates into pre-existing surveillance infrastructure to increase situational awareness and security while reducing costs with minimal human intervention. Chimeras offers all of these surveillance advances while also addressing privacy and ethical concerns that have complicated the surveillance landscape in recent years.
Funds to Finish
Dr. Elise Demeter, Dr. Mohsen Dorodchi and Hesam Fallahian (Academic Affairs, College of Computing and Informatics)
We help higher education institutions support the success of students with financial need.
Flexible Grid Forming Inverter
Prithwiraj Roy Chowdhury and Dr. MadhavManjrekar (The Williams State Lee College of Engineering)
Enabling residential and commercial power consumers to contribute power to the grid in exchange for reduced electrical utility bills
urbanCORE Explore
Dr. Byron White (urbanCORE)
urbanCORE Explore is a customer relationship manager that incentivizes faculty to regularly share dynamic, community engagement activity. This allows university administrators to conveniently and accurately monitor, enhance and report timely partnership efforts to internal and external stakeholders.
SmartMed Guardians
Ayman Ali, Dr. Pu Wang and Dr. Mohsen Dorodchi (College of Computing and Informatics)
Creating AI-Based Medical Aids.
ReCon
Hamideh Hosssei and Dr. Kyoung-Hee Kim (College of Arts + Architecture)
ReCon is an innovative facade-integrated PV technology that increases electricity generation by 90% under partial shading conditions while reducing building electricity consumption by 30%.
