2014 Business Plan Competition Winners
Meet the BPC winners! These 7 teams collectively won $101,000 in cash prizes.
70 judges from all over the world have chosen the 2014 winners.
Congratulations to all the teams!
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Total Participants Entered
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Total Team Represented
$101k
Total Cash Awards
Sensamir
Owais Khalid
Rehan Quadri SMHS '14
Sensamir manufactures edible food products designed to palliate the taste of bitter medications for children and adults.
$35,000
Luther King Capital Management 1st Place Winner ($35,000)
Bitgrid
Justin Hyde CCAS '15
Charles Taylor SEAS '15
Volker Sorger SEAS '12
BitGrid offers software solutions for distributed generation management to build a smarter grid and a more efficient country.
$25,000
2nd Place Winner ($25,000)
Pedal Forward
Chris Deschenes GWSB '12
Matthew Wilins SEAS '14
Jeffery Brenbaum SEAS '14
Elizabeth Hubler SEAS '14
Pedal Forward’s mission is to create sustainable solutions to ill health and poverty through the manufacture, sale, and use of bamboo bicycles.
$12,500
GWupstart's Best For-Profit Social Venture ($7,500)
Capital One Bank's Best Sustainable Technology Prize ($5,000)
Common Sense Action
Sam Gilman
Ryann Roberts GWSPH '14
Lane Farrell CCAS '15
Jevin Hodge CCAS '16
Common Sense Action is a grassroots, bipartisan organization building a movement of millennial voters to bring our generation to the policymaking table.
$10,500
GWupstart's Best Non-Profit Social Venture ($7,500)
Audience Choice Award ($3,000)
Yapper
Rob Wyant GWSB '14
Justin Lichtenstaedter GWSB '14
Dane Hinnen GWSB '14
Yapper aims to change the way people and businesses interact with the ‘here and now’ in this new and always changing mobile society.
$8,000
3rd Place Winner ($8,000)
Small Spacecraft Micropropulsion
Cameron Pavini SEAS '14
Michael Keidar SEAS '07
George Teel SEAS '14
Samudra Haque SEAS '14
Small Spacecraft Micropropulsion provides low power and low mass electric propulsion solutions for Small Satellites.
$5,000
4th Place Winner ($5,000)
DormGen
Richard McConkie GWSB '15
$5,000
AARP Foundation's Older-Adult Focused Innovation Award ($5,000)