Meet student entrepreneurs who will change the world and compete for $340,000 in funding.
More than 100 of the top entrepreneurial-minded students in the world pitched their ventures for a chance to compete in the 2021 ASU Innovation Open. The top ventures have been selected to participate as semifinalists! Tune in LIVE to see who will win. ASUio winners will be awarded a total of more than $300,000, with the top two ventures earning grand prizes of $100,000 each.
When: THISFriday February 5th, 1 pm MST
Where: Zoom – a URL will be shared with all registrants.
Call for Code: Innovation, Equity, and Climate Change
Call for Code: Innovation, Equity, and Climate Change is a 25-hour long codeathon hosted by IBM, CGI U, Edson E+I, and Changemaker Central, designed to develop technical solutions to the issues surrounding climate change, environmental justice, and more.
Prizes for solutions using IBM Cloud services:
Build solutions and win cash prizes awarded for the top three teams:
First place: $1,000 and acceptance into CGI U 2021 that will provide the winning team with access to virtual year-round mentorship; a social impact curriculum; an invitation to attend the annual CGI U student meeting; and more.
Want to get feedback on your next great entrepreneurial idea? Come to Quick Pitch night hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Innovation committee at Changemaker Central. During the event, you will be given the opportunity to have a Q&A session with an experienced entrepreneur along with two minutes to pitch your idea in whatever stage it is and receive feedback from a panel of fellow students, alumni, or faculty. Your idea can be something you thought of recently or a more mature idea. At the conclusion of the pitches, the panelists will decide on a winner and that person will be invited back to the Quick Pitch Final to re-pitch their idea with the chance to win a prize.
The Rice Business Plan Competition is the world’s richest and largest graduate-level student startup competition. It is hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is Rice University's internationally-recognized initiative devoted to the support of entrepreneurship, and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business. 2020 was the 20th year for the competition! In that time, it has grown from nine teams competing for $10,000 in prize money in 2001, to 42 teams from around the world competing for more than $1.5 million in cash and prizes. Even in the virtual environment, the competition provided an unparalleled experience for the participants by designing a diverse program over the course of three-days, with significant time designated for feedback and interaction with the judging panel
When: Applications are due THIS Tuesday February 2 at 11:59 PM.
The E-Team program supports dedicated science- and engineering-based student teams from across the nation in bringing their high-impact innovation out of the lab and into the market. Every year, we award over $700,000 in non-dilutive E-Team grants to these early-stage student science and tech startups who are on the path to launching innovations with a social, health, or environmental impact. In the past two decades, VentureWell has provided over $8M in grants to more than 550 entrepreneurial teams. Our 180+ alumni ventures have received over $122M in follow-on funding since taking part in the E-Team program.
When: Stage 1 application deadline is February 3rd 2021
The Tulane Business Model Competition seeks early-stage ventures that can demonstrate how they are adapting to their customers’ needs. The contest rewards those that are creating commercially viable ventures through breaking down an idea into a key business model hypothesis, have tested their assumptions with customers and have applied Customer Development/Lean Startup principles to refine the model for improved success. Last year, we awarded $125,000 across 3 ventures, with the first prize team taking home $75,000.
When: Apply by Wednesday February 10th 2021
For more information and to see the complete rules, visit http://lepage.tulane.edu or contact Emily Egan at eegan@tulane.edu or 504.865.5462.
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