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2018 Competition
One Wild Ride
Infinite Cooling from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology emerged as the top startup company during the 2018 competition. Selected by 300 judges from the investment sector as representing the best investment opportunity and taking home nearly $500,000 in cash and prizes, Infinite Cooling bested 41 other competitors hailing from some of the world’s top universities.
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2018 Competitors
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| Active Energy Systems | Cornell University |
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| Aday Technologies, Inc. | Harvard Business School |
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| Aerospec Technologies | Northwestern University |
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| ALISE | University of Michigan |
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| Alva Motor Solutions | NTNU |
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| Ateios | University of California, San Diego |
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| BackWave Technologies | Northwestern University and University of Michigan |
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| BellaNove | UCLA |
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| CatheCare | Columbia University |
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| Clearcam | University of Texas at Austin |
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| Embryotics | Texas Tech University |
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| Fairway Biomed | Washington University in St. Louis |
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| Feros Freight Innovations | University of Oregon |
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| find technologies | Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Four Growers | University of Pittsburgh |
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| FRED | University of Pittsburgh |
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| Infinite Cooling | MIT |
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| Instapath Inc | Tulane University |
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| Iterative Scopes | MIT |
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| Lapovations | University of Arkansas |
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| Lunula Health | Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| MedKairos | The University of Michigan |
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| Noleus Technologies | Rice University |
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| NUMiX | Northwestern University |
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| Oculus Prime | Georgia Institute of Technology |
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| OptiML | Duke University |
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| OZÉ | MIT |
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| Paragon Real Estate Technologies, Inc. | Yale University |
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| PolarPanel | University of Houston |
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| Rubi | Brigham Young University |
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| SalvePeds | University of Notre Dame |
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| SeatPotato | University of Texas at Austin |
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| Sight Echo | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
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| Smart Blox | University of Arizona and Queensland University of Technology (Australia) |
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| Smartenius Inc. | University of Delaware |
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| Sonodontics | University of Michigan |
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| Spine Align | Johns Hopkins University |
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| SurgePower Materials | Texas State University |
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| Syntr Health Technologies, Inc | University of California, Irvine |
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| Uchooze Lunchbox | University Of Arkansas |
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| WCB Robotics | Birla Institute of Technology and Science (Pilani, Rajasthan, India) |
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| Wunderite | Boston College |
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Previous Competitions
For 21 years the Rice Business Plan Competition has provided student startups with mentorship, guidance and capital to help support them on their entrepreneurial journey! In 2020, the competition went virtual for the first time. Check out a few of our previous competitions' content, including elevator pitch videos, final pitches, photos and LivePlans.