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Burton D. Morgan Competition — Fall 2025 Finalists: Top 10 Teams
The Top 10 finalists in Purdue's Fall 2025 37th Burton D. Morgan Venture Concept Competition, with founders, venture notes, the final event, and links to profiles where evidence is strong.
Historical archive — Fall 2025. This page was published in 2026 from Purdue, organizer, founder, and team sources.
The Fall 2025 competition selected 10 standout venture concepts from a field Purdue said included 120 teams and nearly 250 students. The finalists were publicly announced before the December 10 final in this organizer post.
Top 10 Fall 2025 finalists
| Venture | Founders listed in the announcement | Profile |
|---|---|---|
| Circle | Devak Charapalle, Chakravarthy (Chuck) Mallarapu | Profile |
| FrameCut | Shubham Agarwal, Bhushan Udaykumar | Profile |
| Illume | Manjushree Murthy, Sanketh Raj Patil, Dhruba Pujary | Profile |
| Inara | Akshada Dake | Profile |
| Litmetrics | Surya Kazipeta, Archana Tatavarti | Profile |
| LyoOptic | Evgenia Vorozhbit, Denis Vorozhbit | Profile |
| Metis | Rohin Gupta, Ashish Chenna, Devansh Khandelwal, Tanay Gondil | Profile |
| Oppit | Liam Scherb, Quinten Lane | Profile |
| PipeLine | Ben Gottlieb, Filippa Rodriguez | Profile |
| Synq | Yash Burange, Sahil Shaikh, Praneeth Kukunuru, Aarya Sontakke | Profile |
What the Top 10 were building
Purdue's current competition archive now records the Fall 2025 concepts themselves. Among the non-Top-3 finalists, Circle addressed university STEM learning and retention with course-level AI contextual intelligence and intervention; Metis focused on helping organizations train employees to adopt AI tools through sandboxed simulations designed to reduce regulatory risk; and Synq focused on developer visibility and merge-conflict reduction.
One source discrepancy is worth preserving rather than silently resolving: the organizer's finalist announcement names Evgenia Vorozhbit and Denis Vorozhbit for LyoOptic, while Purdue's later competition archive names Denis Vorozhbit and Jane Vorozhbit. The LyoOptic profile records both source versions.
The final event
The official Purdue final-event page says the Top 10 presented on December 10, 2025 in Rawls Hall.
Purdue reported:
- 120 teams;
- nearly 250 students;
- Engineering: 37%;
- Business: 26%;
- Science: 25%;
- Polytechnic: 10%;
- Other: 2%.
The judge panel listed by Purdue was Drew Beechler, Landon Young, Katelyn Vierk, Mickey Swortzel, and Mitch Black.
Which finalists won
The Top 3 were:
- PipeLine — $10,000
- Oppit — $7,000
- Litmetrics — $5,000
See the Fall 2025 results recap.
Special-prize finalists
Best Customer Discovery
- Nova Solutions — Elliot Drel, Marlee Brimner, Monishka Paarth, Adam Hernandez
- Scouti — Vir Sawhney, Benjamin Callaghan
- SeniorTechHelp — Eitan Bajwol
Best Pivot
- Additive Education — Kenneth Halls, Jacob Brooks, Keira Bosland
- Bridge — Jay Katariya
- MoMoney — Dheeraj Aaditya, Kerem Can, Sandhya Gopinath
This Could Be BIG
- Nuvora — Javad Jafarov, Javid Dovlatov
- PoliStock — Aditya Pachpande, Mahit Mehta, Nivan Gujral, Aryan Kiran C
- U-bet — Sophia Vina, Chris Andreou
The later results named Nova Solutions, Bridge, and PoliStock as the $1,000 category winners.
For the application-period context, see the Fall 2025 cycle archive.