UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge Business Plan Winners 2013

Congratulations to all the winning teams in the 2013 UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge business plan competition. Read Bruce Bigelow’s roundup over at Xconomy San Diego. Presentation videos from the winning teams at the May 31 and June 7 events are linked below.

May 31 was the BioTech/MedTech track

First Place: DevaNano (students affiliated with UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering). Watch DevaNano’s Inanc Ortec give the winning presentation here on YouTube.

Second Place: Wolf Biosciences (students affiliated with UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering). Watch Adam Young from Wolf Biosciences give his talk here on YouTube.

Audience Choice: Electrozyme (students affiliated with UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering). Watch Joshua Windmiller from Electrozyme give his talk here onYouTube.

June 7 was the Tech/Innovation track

First Place and Audience Choice: GrollTex (students affiliated with UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering) Watch Aliaksandr Zaretski give the winning talk.

Second Place: LumaWake (students affiliated with UC San Diego Rady School of Management) Watch Chris Shively give the LumaWake presentation.

(Our preview blog post is here.)

UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge

The Entrepreneur Challenge is a UC San Diego student-run organization that promotes the commercialization of the research and innovation that occurs on the Torrey Pines Mesa, in San Diego.

The mission of the Entrepreneur Challenge is to foster community involvement and technological innovation by bringing multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and business-minded students together with local area entrepreneurs and professionals in order that they might shape the world of tomorrow by securing the health of San Diego’s economy today.

The Entrepreneur Challenge focuses on start-ups from the inception phase to the early seed-stage. Their goal is to give teams the confidence and resources necessary to launch a successful company that otherwise might not exist.