CAS alumni, recent graduates, and students won prize money at the Innovate@BU New Venture Finale last month. The New Venture Competition (NVC) is Innovate@BU’s largest annual competition and awards $64,000 to early-stage BU entrepreneurs. Albert Jimenez (CGS’16, CAS’18, Wheelock’21), Yasmin Morais (CAS’18), and Abhishek Valivarthi (Sargent’21) won the top prize, which includes $18,000 towards the growth of their start-up, RefEd. Their app provides education resources to refugee students.
Additionally, Rishab Nayak (CAS’21), with Madison Rifkin, a senior at Northeastern University, won in the general ideas track for Mount, which sells fleets of electric scooters. You can read more about both projects in BU Today.