Local startups compete in Alabama Launchpad competition for $100,000 prize
Nearly a dozen Alabama startup companies, including seven from Auburn, competed in the Auburn Regional Alabama Launchpad competition Thursday at the Courtyard by Marriott in Auburn. The competition was made up of teams from Lee, Tallapoosa, Chambers, Macon and Russell counties and the teams had 10 minutes to pitch their business plans to the judges, […]
Baylor University Hosts 10 Finalists from Universities Across the World for its Global New Venture Competition
Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business will host its seventh annual New Venture Competition Feb. 23-24 at the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, 1621 S. Third St. The competition is a two-day business plan and elevator pitch competition promoting student entrepreneurship. Competitors from accredited universities across the globe receive expert feedback, coaching […]
Schurz Communications awards funding to four Purdue student startups
Schurz Communications Innovation Challenge, an incubation competition for student entrepreneurs working in online and mobile media technology, awarded funding to four Purdue University startups. The competition provided a total of $10,500 in cash prizes to four startups. The Purdue Foundry in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the competition. As first-prize winner, One-Man […]
Cisco Innovation Challenge helps students launch their ventures
Everyone needs to do their part to conserve water. But what if entire communities could work together to eliminate the unnecessary waste of this valuable resource? That’s the idea behind Green Plant Framework/Aquifer Systems, founded by Joshua Parde. The system allows users to compare the total volume of water delivered from a municipal source to […]
U Chicago’s New Venture Challenge winner AMOpportunities lands $1.1M in seed funding
AMOpportunities, a Chicago-based startup that helps connect international medical students to short-term training programs in the United States, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding, the company announced Thursday. The startup, which won the University of Chicago’s New Venture Challenge in June, was founded in 2013 from a dorm room at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The company […]
$25k Startup Competition Seeks Case Western Student And Alumni Founders
Late in the summer, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) partnered with university trustee and venture capitalist Bob Pavey, JumpStart and the Morgenthaler family to introduce the new Morgenthaler-Pavey Startup Competition. Designed to identify and support high-potential startup companies coming out of CWRU, the annual competition is currently seeking applications from ventures whose founding teams include at […]
Northwestern alumnus bets big on nanomedicine through awards
David Kabiller wanted to pursue a career in medical research when he showed up at Northwestern University in the early ’80s on a tennis scholarship. The Deerfield native ended up studying economics and finance, getting an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management en route to a successful career on Wall Street. But he never […]
ASU hosts entrepreneurship and innovation contest with $100K prize – The State Press
or the second year, ASU will host an innovation contest with a grand prize of $100,000 for any college entrepreneur with enough savvy to impress a panel of business and tech experts. The ASU Innovation Open is a contest that partners with electronics distributor Avnet and others to showcase innovative entrepreneurs around the world. To apply to the competition, […]
Two University of Waterloo startups Canadian finalists in annual James Dyson Awards
The James Dyson Award has come calling again and two University of Waterloo projects have been named national runners up and are off to the international finals in October. Winners of the prestigious award, named after the inventor of the famous vacuum cleaning system, can receive up to $50,000 to help commercialize their project, with […]
University of Georgia Idea Accelerator to welcome largest class to date
The University of Georgia Idea Accelerator will soon welcome its fall 2017 class, potentially the largest in its four year history. The UGA Idea Accelerator is an eight-week program run by the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), in conjunction with the UGA Entrepreneurship Program and Four Athens, a local tech and entrepreneurship incubator. Students in each class work to develop viable […]