Tufts New Ventures Competition
2026 Judges and Screeners
Semi-finals Judges
Sebastian Coates
Cofounder & CEO of Tellescope, a UHC Techstars 2020 company
Bob McTighe
Board Director, Acadia Center and Potencia
Hillary Sieber
Chief of Staff, General Catalyst
Amanda Wang
Cofounder and CEO, Potencia
Frank Yandrisevits IV
Account Executive - International Business, ARInsights
Screeners
Ty Blitstein
Project Officer
Michelle Bornstein
Senior Product Support Manager
Judy Charamand
TrakCare GenAI Innovation Research Team Lead
Akshay Chintamaneni
NPI Value Stream Manager
Tony Cueva Bravo
Head of Business Development and Strategy, Rebill.com
Evan Dietrich
Quantitative Researcher
Zach DiMuccio
Co-founder
Katie Furey
Cofounder, Equiballot
Hadley Haselmann
Culture of Inclusion Specialist, Applied Materials
Bobby Johnson, DMD, MD
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Resident and Co-founder of Duo Toothpaste.
Maggie Kullman
B2B Marketing Manager, Mastercard Data & Services
Sean Lee
Daniel Lewis
Co-Founder & COO at Winno
Christopher May
Mechanical Engineering Manager at Cala Systems
Saumya Mehta
CEO
Patrick Mulcahy
Business & Lab Operations, Sanofi
Andrew Murray
Co-Founder at Rezzi
Isabella Passaro Montero
COO and Co-founder, medikana
Matt Purdy
Senior Associate, Breakthrough Energy Fellows
Alfredo Ramirez
COO/CMO/Co-Founder at Prosal
Mohit Saini
Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy Graduate, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
Collins Sirmah
Cofounder, Afriprot
Paget Stanco
Principal at Gemini
Sebastian Useche
Co-founder
Devan Venkataramen
Deployment Strategist, Palantir Technologies