The Rice Alliance has announced the 42 teams who will compete for $800,000 in prizes during the 2009 Rice Business Plan Competition, April 16 – 18, 2009.
From a company providing a college sports recruiting web platform, to another company developing a way to deliver pharmaceuticals to the brain using intranasal delivery technology, this year’s field is shaping up to be quite competitive.
The Rice Business Plan Competition has grown steadily since its inception. They now have a page of success stories on the website. It’s interesting to find out about how the teams have fared from years past. Several of the companies I judged in the preliminary rounds, CertoLabs, Optimal Vision Corporation, SampleSaint, and Secure Surfer (formerly Internet Security Company) have all found success after the competition.
Congratulations to the below teams that will compete! I’m looking forward to hearing about your companies and what your plans are.
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University |
Company Name |
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Rice University |
80legs |
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University of Michigan |
Audiallo |
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Iowa State University of Science and Technology |
Avello Bioenergy, Inc. |
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University of South Florida |
BNL Largo |
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Cornell University |
Bombyx Technologies |
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University of Chicago |
CaptainU |
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University of Virginia |
Clean India |
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Carnegie Mellon University |
Dynamics Inc. |
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University of California, Berkeley |
E&M Devices |
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Stanford University |
Econetix |
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University of Utah |
ElutInc |
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Illinois Institute of Technology |
eMotion |
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Southern Methodist University |
Enterprise Theory |
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Queen’s University |
Epitherapeutics |
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Thammasat University |
EzyTex |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
High Definition Glass |
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Johns Hopkins University |
Hydrangle Systems |
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University of Michigan |
Ikanos Power |
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University of Washington |
Impel NeuroPharma |
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University of Chicago |
In Context Solutions |
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University of California Berkeley |
Integrated Diagonostics |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Intellidemia |
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Harvard |
iShoe |
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University of North Dakota |
Machine Visionaries |
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Stanford University |
Miret Surgical |
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University of Waterloo |
NALION Technologies |
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University of California at San Francisco |
Nano Precision Medical |
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University of North Carolina |
NextRay |
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University of Texas at Dallas |
PassPro-tech |
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Babson College |
Perfuzia Medical, Inc. |
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Purdue University |
Si Metal |
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University of Arkansas |
Silicon Solar Solutions |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Simprint Nanotech |
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Southern Methodist University |
Skillman Downstroke, LLC |
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Johns Hopkins University |
Tendix, LLC. |
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Troy Research Corporation |
SOCIAL VENTURE COMPETITION
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SP Jain – Mumbai |
Green Oil |
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Cambridge |
Inderm |
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Dartmouth College |
MPedigree Logistics |
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Colorado State University |
PowerMundo |
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Brown University |
Solar Cycle |
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University of Virginia |
TeleMed Africa |