# Inara: Fall 2025 Burton D. Morgan Finalist

> Inara was a Top 10 Fall 2025 Burton D. Morgan finalist founded by Akshada Dake, using AI to help organizations select the right sustainability technologies for a site.

By buildpurdue Team · September 28, 2026 · 2 min read

Source: https://www.buildpurdue.org/blog/inara-burton-d-morgan-finalist-fall-2025

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> **Historical finalist profile — Fall 2025.** This page was published in 2026 from founder-linked sources.

**Inara** was a Top 10 standout venture concept in Purdue's Fall 2025 37th Burton D. Morgan Venture Concept Competition.

**Founder:** Akshada Dake

## What Inara pitched at Burton Morgan

Purdue's competition archive describes the **Fall 2025 pitch** as an AI solution helping organizations pursuing sustainability outcomes **select the right technology for their site without wasting time, money, or political capital figuring out what works**.

That broad site-selection problem is the historical competition concept and should be the starting point for the profile.

## Later product detail

A later founder-linked Inara post discusses commercial-property rooftop solar and describes simulation of the commercial environment to identify intersections of profit and green technology. That is useful evidence of how the venture was being developed **after** the competition, but it should not be presented as though Purdue's December 2025 record defined the pitch that narrowly.

## Why the concept fits Burton Morgan

The idea is not simply "solar software." Its framing combines:

- a specific buyer environment: commercial property operators;
- an economic constraint: capital allocation and split incentives;
- a sustainability opportunity: underused built infrastructure; and
- a decision problem: where clean-energy integration is both feasible and financially attractive.

That is consistent with the competition's emphasis on customer problems, value creation, market opportunity, and execution risk.

## After the competition

Dake later publicly identified herself as a Burton Morgan finalist and a participant in Venture X2, suggesting the concept continued beyond the December final.

## Sources

- [Purdue's Burton D. Morgan competition archive](https://business.purdue.edu/centers/communication-center/case-competitions/burton-d-morgan-business-concept-competition.php)
- [Akshada Dake's profile tying her to Inara Data](https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshada-dake)
- [Founder-linked Inara post on commercial solar modeling](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akshada-dake_most-large-scale-solar-projects-replace-fertile-activity-7446336875205672960-vrPj)
- [Akshada Dake reflecting on Burton Morgan participation](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akshada-dake_super-cool-news-i-was-a-finalist-at-bmvcc-activity-7500204911687753728-24r6)
- [Fall 2025 finalists overview](/blog/burton-d-morgan-finalists-fall-2025)

## More Fall 2025 coverage

- [Fall 2025 winners and results](/blog/burton-d-morgan-winners-results-fall-2025)
- [Fall 2025 cycle archive](/blog/burton-d-morgan-venture-concept-competition-fall-2025)
- [Complete Burton D. Morgan guide](/blog/burton-d-morgan-venture-concept-competition)