Congratulations to the 2025 UDC Capital Cup Entrepreneurship Competition Winners!
Throughout the 2025 UDC Capital Cup Entrepreneurship Competition, four academic business professors assessed and evaluated more than 50 teams in the qualifying competition. The top four teams were selected to attend the final national competition. Three industry judges from the DC community assessed and evaluated the top four teams’ presentations on Aug. 14, 2025.
2025 UDC Capital Cup Entrepreneurship Competition Final Results
| Ranking | Team Names | Team Members |
| Champion | MoneyMind Games | Roger Vincent Shi (Canyon Crest Academy, CA) Aadi Jariwala (Canyon Crest Academy, CA) Daniel Cho (Canyon Crest Academy, CA) |
| Second Place | Optix | Pranav Gadde (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, IL) |
| Third Place | BotLearner Inc. | Angela Dong (Poolesville High School, MD) |
| Fourth Place | Kinari | Anivarth Parthasarathy (Trumbull High School, CT) |
The President of UDC, Dr. Edington, and UDC Capital Cup Competition Chair, Dr. Hua, presented the trophies and medals to the winners. Dr. Ravi Chinta, Associate Dean of SBPA, was the onsite final competition Co-Chair. Dr. Sung Namkung was the onsite final competition host.
Three final judges are Selvon Malcolm Waldron, Meka Parker and Nicole Roberts Jones. Qualifier judges are Dr. Amit Arora, Dr. Dazhong Wu, Dr. Yolandra Plummer, Dr. Sung Namkung and Dr. Andrew Wyner.
Top 10 Teams in the Qualifiers
| Ranking | Team Names | Team Members |
| 1 | BotLearner Inc. | Angela Dong (Poolesville High School, MD) |
| 2 | Davenger Pump | Joy Deng (Amity Regional High School, CT) Karishma Balamurugan (Amity Regional High School, CT) |
| 3 | Kinari | Anivarth Parthasarathy (Trumbull High School, CT) |
| 4 | Optix | Pranav Gadde (Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, IL) |
| 5 | MoneyMind Games | Roger Vincent Shi (Canyon Crest Academy, CA) Aadi Jariwala (Canyon Crest Academy, CA) Daniel Cho (Canyon Crest Academy, CA) |
| 6 | Mpoxdetection.ai | Artem Lavrentyev (Kazakhstan) Edigyev Galym (Kazakhstan) |
| 7 | Nureva | Sabrina Lu (Riverside High School, VA) David Greig (Riverside High School, VA) Anvit Kaladi (Riverside High School, VA) |
| 8 | Team MotorMate | Daniel Syed (International Academy Central, MI) Anirudh Ankem (International Academy Central, MI) Armaan Gugneja (International Academy Central, MI) |
| 9 | CertaPill | Harshith Akurati (Marquette High School, MO) Vibhav Chinta (Marquette High School, MO) |
| 10 | Rescue Reach | Joseph Mathew (Poolesville High School, MD) Rohan Shah (Poolesville High School, MD) Vittal Rajagopalan (Poolesville High School, MD) |
