The Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) is the world’s richest and largest graduate-level student start-up competition. It is hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. The Rice Alliance is Rice University’s internationally-recognized initiative devoted to the support of entrepreneurship. This will be the 21st year
of the competition. In that time, it has grown from nine start-up teams competing for $10,000 in prize money in 2001, to 42 start-ups from around the world competing for more than $1 million in cash and prizes.
WORTH
- There will be over $1.0 million in prizes, and all 42 startups that compete at Rice University in Houston are guaranteed to win cash prizes, if the event in held in-person. Currently, the minimum cash prize is $500 for the in-person competition, and the grand prize winner receives a $350,000 investment (typically in the form of a convertible debt note, without geographic restrictions) in both an in-person event and an remote/virtual event.
ELIGIBILITY
Your startup is eligible if you:
- are student-driven, student-created and/or student-managed
- have at least two current student founders or management team members, and at least one of those students is a current graduate degree-seeking student
- are from a college or university anywhere in the world
- have not raised more than $250,000 in equity capital prior to July 1, 2020
- have not generated more than $100,000 in revenue prior to July 1, 2020
- are seeking funding or capital (or will be in the next 12 months)
- are a potentially viable investment opportunity.
DEADLINE: February 8 2021
To apply and for more information visit here
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