12 Student Teams Compete for $64,000 on April 26
On Friday April 26, 2019 at Boston University Innovators Night, the annual New Venture Competition will come to a close. From over 100 teams entering the competition last fall, twelve will make their final pitch for a chance at $64,000 in cash prizes.
The New Venture Competition is a three-round pitch competition that takes place over the spring and fall semesters. Students compete in two tracks, tech/for-profit ideas and social impact ideas.
Three teams from each track, six total, will take home between $6,000-$18,000 to help further their venture. Meet the twelve finalists who will compete for the grand prize on April 26.
Social Impact Teams:
- Boston Afterschool Music launched a weekly music program at a K-8 in Roxbury that doesn’t provide music ed. We are looking to reach more students and add instrumental lessons, remaining a stable part of the community.
- BRÜZD rescues excess produce that would otherwise go to waste at the farm level, and delivers them to homes in Boston for less than supermarkets charge.
- Credyty is a student loan financing platform that aims to increase access to upper education in LATAM through Fintech solutions.
- Healthy Gamer is an online platform helping people with video gaming addictions. We are writing a new model to treat this modern epidemic affecting 20M in the US with an addictions specialist from McLean.
- Mæven enhances first-year college students’ academic performance by yielding gamified tutoring experiences in the academic fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Foreign Languages, and Math.
- She Who Reads is a youth mentoring organization for young women in public high school that foster positive changes through goal setting, self-discipline, skill development, and friendship.
Tech/For-profit teams:
- Alcancio is a 100% digital bank that allows cheap, easy and convenient access to financial tools for the unbanked and underbanked in Latin America.
- CoCo College is a platform that exclusively connects students within their own university, where buying and selling books, TV’s, couches and more becomes a seamless interaction.
- Interpret is an app that will use a business model similar to Uber’s to provide real-time, accurate translation services worldwide.
- Pangissimo strives to offer consumers access to affordable surround sound entertainment by designing and manufacturing modular speakers that value sound quality, portability and accessibility.
- Rilla is online platform where entrepreneurs can connect with each other based on anonymous idea matching, learn how to build a new venture, and manage all new aspects of their business.
- VERTO is a secondhand eCommerce platform that facilitates pre-owned exchanges with thorough user-vetting, flexible delivery options including same-day door to door delivery, and no commission fees.
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