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Thirty-six teams selected from 234 entrants from around the world
The Rice Business Plan Competition would like to congratulate the teams selected for the 2008 competition. More than 230 entries were submitted, and from those 36 teams were chosen based on their executive summaries to compete in the April 3-5 event.
The teams will contend in four categories: life sciences, sustainability, information technology, and consumer goods and products. Winners of each grouping will go on to compete for the grand prize which is valued up to $325,000. All 36 teams will take home a prize and receive valuable feedback from more than 150 judges, who themselves are successful entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders.
Eight international teams will be represented this year, hailing from Canada (2), the United Kingdom (2), China, India (2), and Denmark.
The competition hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship along with the Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University has sustained tremendous growth this past year, increasing prizes to $600,000 as well as gaining FORTUNE Small Business as the national media sponsor.
University | Company |
Texas Schools | |
Rice | Lab Extensions |
SMU | LAB802 |
Texas A&M | AiB Pharma |
Texas at Austin | qcue |
Texas at Dallas (UTD) | MicroTransponder |
Other U.S. Schools | |
Arkansas at Little Rock | TruSource Technologies |
Brigham Young (BYU) | Klymit |
Carnegie Mellon | NeuroBank |
Chicago | Etoh Pharmaceuticals |
Duke | Cerene Biomedics |
Georgia | Boreas Snowboards |
Georgia Tech | DiagNano |
Harvard / Hanover Medical School (Germany) | Enexra |
Illinois at Chicago | BioRegenix |
Illinois at Chicago | HeartSounds |
Kennesaw State University | HydroCoal Technologies |
Maryland | Callinex |
Maryland | Remedium Technologies |
Michigan | Potentia |
MIT | Project Einstein |
MIT | Aura BioSciences |
Northwestern | Wine with a Passion |
Ohio State | Traycer Diagnostic Systems |
Oklahoma | Perpetual Pharmaceuticals |
UCLA | FiberView |
UNC, Chapel Hill | Nolia Athletic Apparel |
Virginia | Husk Power Systems |
Wake Forest | Filigree Nanotech |
International Schools | |
Aarhus (Demark) | IMMUTELL |
BITS Pilani (India) | Vidyut Shakti |
Cambridge (UK) | Auto TB |
Hong Kong (HUST) (China) | Zeopane Microneedles |
IIT Kharagpur (India) | Diamas Coats |
Lancaster University (UK) | GlucoFast |
Waterloo (Canada) | Everlighting Innovation |
Waterloo (Canada) | Throne Technologies |
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About Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship (Rice Alliance) is Rice University's flagship initiative devoted to the support of technology entrepreneurship. The Rice Alliance is a collaboration among the Brown School of Engineering, the Jones Graduate School of Management, and the Wiess School of Natural Science.
Since its inception in late-1999, the Rice Alliance has assisted in the launch over 215 new technology companies, which have raised more than $350 million in early stage funding. The mission of the Rice Alliance is to support the creation of technology-based companies and the commercialization of new technologies. The Rice Alliance provides entrepreneurs with a collaborative network and forum for support, education, and exchange of ideas. It offers entrepreneurs access to the human and financial capital needed for success.
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Contacts:
The Padgett Group
CJ Pappas
713-590-3771
or
Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship
Mary Lynn Fernau
713-348-5374
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