# Synq: Fall 2025 Burton D. Morgan Finalist

> Synq was a Top 10 Fall 2025 Burton D. Morgan finalist building a simpler version-control and project-management workflow for developer teams.

By buildpurdue Team · September 28, 2026 · 1 min read

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

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

**Synq** was a Top 10 standout venture concept.

**Team:** Yash Burange, Sahil Shaikh, Praneeth Kukunuru, and Aarya Sontakke

## What Synq was building

Purdue's competition recap describes the **Fall 2025 pitch** as a **DevOps tool giving developers the visibility to eliminate merge conflicts and improve collaboration**.

Earlier founder posts described Synq more broadly as a unified version-control and project-management platform intended to reduce merge conflicts, tool switching, and setup complexity for developer teams.

Early versions included:
- a CLI intended to simplify collaboration;
- live syncing;
- file locking;
- a web dashboard for sharing and version tracking; and
- project-management functionality.

Later product material continued to focus on making repository changes easier to understand and coordinate in real time.

## Before Burton Morgan

Synq had already been publicly testing the idea months before the final. The founders posted about surveys, a proof of concept, a waitlist, and an MVP during Summer 2025.

That makes Synq a useful example of a team entering Burton Morgan with an already-active student project and using the competition as another structured validation step.

## Sources

- [Sahil Shaikh's Top 10 finalist announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sahil-shk_proud-to-share-that-synq-made-the-top-10-activity-7404256438765744129-SVNE)
- [Yash Burange on the Synq MVP](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yash-burange-35872b1a1_very-happy-to-have-worked-on-this-project-activity-7352562953893629952-noH4)
- [Aarya Sontakke on the launch](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aarya-sontakke_if-you-code-then-this-application-is-for-activity-7352569063308472320-3hYX)
- [Purdue's 37th competition recap](https://business.purdue.edu/news/features/2026/burton-d-morgan-venture-concept-competition.php)
- [Synq product site](https://www.synq.website/)

## More Fall 2025 coverage

- [Fall 2025 finalists overview](/blog/burton-d-morgan-finalists-fall-2025)
- [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)