Summer Venture Studio Demo Day & Hall of Fame Afterparty
Rice University's Liu Idea Lab for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (Lilie) invites you to the 2025 Summer Venture Studio Demo Day!
Enjoy dynamic pitches from eight cohort companies selected for the 2025 Lilie Summer Venture Studio, an immersive summer accelerator program designed to propel Rice University’s most innovative ventures forward.
After the main event, celebrate our founders' achievements at our after party and meet other Lilie founders from past cohorts!
Parking Lot Links:
Founder's Court Parking Lot
Cambridge Building Entrance 3
Meet the 2025 Cohort!
Aurelia Vitals
Founder(s): Alisha Menon
The human body intelligence company. Cutting edge, non-invasive sensors with AI-driven health insights for wellness to ICUs
Haast Autonomous
Founder(s): Jason Chen | Santiago Brent | Ege Halac
Haast Autonomous leverages advanced aerial technology to revolutionize medical transportation, enabling fast, reliable, and secure delivery of critical supplies like organs, blood, and lab samples.
HEXAspec
Founder(s): Tianshu Zhai | Chen-Yang Lin
HEXAspec provides innovative inorganic fillers and molding compounds for next-gen chip packaging, enhancing chip protection, lowering cooling costs, and unlocking future computing power.
Kaducia
Founder(s): Samek Rangarajan
Kaducia is an AI copilot for medical providers to improve coding accuracy and prevent claim denials.
Labshare
Founder(s): Mingyo Kang | Daniel Kuo
LabShare is the world’s first platform that combines seamless resource sharing and AI-driven lab inventory management.
Morph Labs
Founder(s): Pranai Reddy | Soham Mehra | Nick Cadavid
Building AI powered prosthetics with unparalleled dexterity via non-invasive BCI.
Norra
Founder(s): Benjamin Rubin | Yining Zhang
Agentic asset intelligence platform for skilled nursing facilities.
yAI
Founder(s): Yassin Hafid
yAI’s secure, audit‑ready AI turns financial data into instant, analyst‑grade insights.
In addition to the SVS ventures, Lilie alumni founders will be back! Meet the founders and learn about their post-graduation progress!
Moshi | Anekah Sohkal
USMC | John Li
Actile Technologies | Barclay Jumet
Solidec | Ryan Duchanois
Coflux Purification | Dana Vazquez
Tamos Inc. | Roman Zhuravel
Veloci | Tyler Strothman
Kinnections | Emmie Casey & Tomi Kuye
FIESTA is a 4-day Festival to kick off the school year and celebrate Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Science, Technology, and Art at Rice University happening August 25-28.
Discover the mind-blowing innovations from Rice University faculty, students, and alumni.
Connect with folks across many disciplines and industries who share your interests.
Learn about the resources and upcoming opportunities available to you at Lilie.
Be inspired to take the first steps on your own entrepreneurial journey.
Open to the whole Rice community!