Technology Platforms and Services: Innovative ventures utilizing the power of technology, automation, and digital connectivity to transform traditional industries and enhance operational efficiency. Each team demonstrates how innovative platforms and intelligent systems can bridge gaps, streamline processes, and create smarter, more sustainable solutions. From robotics and logistics to community-based platforms, these ventures showcase the next generation of tech-driven services designed to optimize performance and user experience across diverse sectors.

Teams: 5 - GUYS Trucking, FairMatch Sports Inc., Mycel, Cora Technologies, BiteCheck 

Future of Fashion: The Future of Fashion category encompasses ventures that redefine “fashion” in its broader sense, in the way products, materials, and systems are designed, created, and reimagined. These projects integrate creative design, circular thinking, and sustainable innovation to transform how we live, use resources, and interact with the world around us. By turning waste into opportunity and exploring new approaches to material and product creation, these ventures demonstrate how thoughtful design can shape a more responsible, conscious, and forward-thinking future.

Teams: Re-Tyred by Rolltech, Grain Loops, Fashion Footprint, Loopi, Dress Makers Street

Reduce and Reuse : The Reduce & Reuse category includes ventures focused on environmental responsibility, efficient living, and smarter use of resources. These projects aim to minimize waste, repurpose existing materials, and improve how people use their time, energy, and everyday systems. By encouraging thoughtful habits and supporting circular design, these ventures demonstrate how intentional innovation can reduce excess, extend the life of resources, and contribute to a more resilient, sustainable future.

Teams: RideWise, WastED, NextEra Inc.,CommuteU, Instant Quote Energy Systems

Sustainability and Energy: Highlighting ventures shaping a cleaner, more energy-efficient planet. Each team focuses on innovative ways to conserve resources, reduce emissions, and promote environmental responsibility, tackling pressing global challenges from waste reduction to renewable efficiency. Together, these projects showcase how creative solutions in sustainability and energy can power a more resilient and eco-conscious future.

Teams:  Vivid Energy, Sustainovators, Ecyce, Food Waste Stoppers, Subvision Robotics 

Safety and Performance: Showcasing innovations that enhance both human safety and performance through thoughtful technology and design. Teams in this category shows how intelligent systems  and adaptive tools can protect, empower, and enhance people's lifestyle, move, and work. From safeguarding vulnerable individuals and ensuring focus on the road, to optimizing athletic performance and workplace awareness, these teams demonstrate the power of innovation to make everyday experiences safer, smarter, and more effective.

Teams: Serene-Elderly AI Companion Wearable, HUD, Endura, SmartSilence - Noise Cancelling Headphones, Tech4Ease

Technology Platforms & Services Category Top Winner: Mycel

Every day, trucks wait, payments lag, and brokers profit from the chaos between shippers and carriers. Drivers lose hours; businesses lose trust. We saw million-dollar rigs running like garage startups from the dot-com bubble, disconnected, delayed, and disoriented. Mycel closes that gap. It’s the network that connects every player in the freight industry, clients, drivers, and dispatch, in real time. Loads are matched instantly, docks prepare before arrival, payments trigger automatically, and communication flows without brokers siphoning value. Mycel transforms a fragmented industry into a synchronized ecosystem where time, trust, and capital finally move at the same speed.

Sustainability & Energy Category Top Winner: Subvision Robotics

Subvision Robotics is developing ZIMA, the world's first ship hull cleaning rover that uses the preventative power of UVC light to stop microscopic growth before it begins. Non abrasive treatment reduces drag, cuts fuel use and emissions, and protects coatings while meeting tightening port rules.

Reduce & Reuse Category Top Winner: RideWise

Our solution looks into the issue that students of SFU who commute daily face. Daily commuters face the issue where bus and skytrain services are often inefficient, due to delays or track issues. Some students also travel nearly an hour just for a one way commute to campus. In comparison, some students with a car travel less than half the time to get to campus. In order to tackle this situation, we’ve decided to create an app that will focus on reducing the number of single occupancy vehicles, saving costs for both drivers and riders, cutting emissions and traffic congestion, and building a community around commuting.

Future of Fashion Category Top Winner: Loopi

Loopi makes bag return and reuse second-nature. Reusable bags are collected at grocery store points where staff scan bags for tracking while app users can link their membership to earn points every time they borrow or return a bag. The Loopi app tracks your reuse stats and turns sustainable habits into real rewards (like groceries, ride-shares, and park passes!), making sustainability simple, fun, and rewarding.

Safety & Performance Category Top Winner: Endura

Endura aims to empower endurance athletes with fueling solutions that eliminate compromise and deliver personalized performance.