Rice Business Plan Competition
Congrats to the 2022 Grand Prize Winner: LIDROTEC
The Largest and Richest Intercollegiate Startup Competition
The competition, just completing its 22nd 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 20 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 2 million in cash and prizes.
Congrats to all the startups that competed in the 2022 competition. See the results!
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The 2023 RBPC will take place MAY 11-13
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Grow Your Startups. Build The Future.
In 2022, $2 Million in cash, investment and in-kind prizes was announced at the Awards Presentation!
Funding. Mentorship. Connections.
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Billion In funding raised by startups
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