2015 Business Plan Competition Winners
Meet the BPC winners! These 10 teams collectively won $117,500 in cash prizes.
89 judges from all over the world have chosen the 2015 winners.
Congratulations to all the teams!
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Total Participants Entered
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Total Team Represented
$117k
Total Cash Awards
Means Database
Grant Nelson GWLAW '16
Maria Belding
The MEANS (Matching Excess and Need for Stability) Database: We are an online communication platform that gets food out of the dumpster and into the emergency feeding system
$42,500
Luther King Capital Management 1st Place Winner ($35,000)
GWupstart Best Nonprofit Social Venture ($7,500)
QUORUM
Joshua Hone CCAS'17
Elizabeth Wuller CCAS '17
Alex Wirth
Jonathan Marks
Quorum is an online legislative strategy platform that provides unique quantitative insights in the U.S. Congress through interactive visualizations and up-to-date statistics.
$25,000
2nd Place Winner ($15,000)
Blank Rome's Best Undergraduate Venture ($10,000)
Project Dharavi: Redefining Waste
Evan Young ESIA '15
Muhammad Obuz CCAS '16
By providing an incentivized, in-home sanitation system to families, Project Dharavi will help create a healthier, safer world for those at the base of the pyramid.
$17,500
3rd Place Winner ($10,000)
Quinn Prize for Best International Venture ($7,500)
THE RIVAL, LLC
Myles Field GWSB '15
Joshua Strupp SMPA '15
Margeaux Abrams SMPA '15
Nicholas Long ESIA '16
The Rival modernizes campus journalism to significantly benefit both students and advertisers.
$5,000
4th Place Winner ($5,000)
Medconnect
Laira Roth GWSPH '16
Amy Rutkowske GWSPH '16
MedConnect removes barriers to healthcare with a customized telemedicine solution for health service delivery organizations to bridge the gap between patients and their providers.
$10,000
Audience Choice Award ($5,000)
Veterans Prize ($5,000)
G.R.I.D
Mariam Adil ESIA '15
Caroline Bailey ESIA '15
Kiran Javaid
Rizwan Nursat
There are more than one billion people living under $1.25/day and half a billion playing video games worldwide. GRID offers a complete spectrum of services that will mainstream video games into the practice of International Development.
$7,500
GWupstart Best For-Profit Social Venture ($7,500)
Bleed Freeze
Elizabeth Philips SMHS '15
Hamid Shokoohi SMHS Faculty
Neal Sikka SMHS Faculty
Romil Patel SEAS '15
Bleed Freeze is a simple and effective device that helps control nosebleeds in children and adults.
$5,000
Honorable Mention ($5,000)
Gutfeeling
Jung Hyun Yu SEAS '16
Raja Mazumder SMHS Faculty
Hiroki Morizono SMHS Faculty
Krista Smith CPS '13
GutFeeling provides an inexpensive and fast analytic service of the gut microbiome for health and lifestyle monitoring.
$5,000
Honorable Mention ($5,000)
Connecting4Good
Floyd Jones ESIA '15
Andrew Kestler
C4G does the last-mile lift for mobile products in West Africa, and delivers affordable, well-connected smartphones into the hands of more people.
$5,000
Honorable Mention ($5,000)
Your Health Concierge, Inc
Caroline Sparks GWSPH Faculty
Christian Brewer GWSPH '15
Shakita Jenkins GWSPH '14
Doris Bryant
Your Health Concierge, Inc. will provide wellness services to seniors 55 and over. As the baby boomer generation ages, seniors want to age in place, maintaining health and wellness.
$5,000
Honorable Mention ($5,000)