Rice Business Plan Competition for startups 2024 (Over $1 million in investment & cash prizes))

Application Deadline: 31st January, 2024

Rice Business Plan Competition, entering its 24th year, gives collegiate entrepreneurs real-world experience to pitch their startups, enhance their business strategy and learn what it takes to launch a successful company.

Hosted and organized by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship—which is Rice University’s internationally-recognized initiative devoted to the support of entrepreneurship—and Rice Business. Over 23 years it has grown from nine teams competing for $10,000 in prize money in 2001, to 42 teams from around the world competing for more $1 million in cash and prizes. It is the largest and richest student startup competition in the world.

Benefits

• More than $1 million in investment and cash prizes
• Mentoring From Entrepreneurs, Leaders And Investors
• Receive real-time, informative feedback and guidance from sector specialists and entrepreneurs
• Compete against top-ranked and emerging global student-led startups
• Networking with potential venture capitalists and other investors

Eligibility

• is student-driven, student-created and/or student-managed
• has 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
• has not raised more than $250,000 in equity capital prior to July 1, 2023
• has not generated revenue of more than $100,000 in any 12-month period prior to July 1, 2023
• is seeking funding or capital (or will be in the next 12 months)
• is a potentially viable investment opportunity

For more information and application.