Yesterday 13 undergraduate teams shared their entrepreneurial visions at the 2025 Big iDeas Pitch Competition. Each team presented an idea inspired by personal experiences or real-world problems, with solutions designed to create impact and change the game.
Congratulations to the winners:
Elevated, Diyaa Shah, Neema Mwangi, and Linh Vu
Impact Threads Apparel, Daniel Kauffman and William Wright
Sanum, Carlos Alvarez Maumejean
HAWTCHA, William Zhao
Grace, Cecilia Tipping
BOOTCAMPUS, Johnna Sterett
MIO, Iyanna Christie
Quoting AI, Holden Price
SunTap, Manuel Albarran
A special thanks to our judges (all SMU alumni!) Josh Baier (TIMIO News), Jasleen Dhillon (Assistant Director, Hunt Institute), and Moe Janmohammad (Adversarial Security Lead, Toyota), as well as the SMU Women’s Innovative Network for their support.