Business Plan Competition Winners
2024 Winners
- High Tech Track First Place: Jonathan Burgess, Sai Chandrika, Matthew Laster (Burgess Aerospace Innovation)
- Main Street Lifestyle TrackFirst Place: Marian Gutierrez (The 405)
- Rising Entrepreneur TrackFirst Place: Dania Zavala (Piensa Consulting)
- Elevator PitchFirst Place: Md Mijanur Rahman, Niklas Schulmeyer, Louis Alarcon Aneiva, Nicoletta Fala (Capt. AI.N)
2023 Winners
- High Tech Track
First Place: Alicia Young, Viswanath Nukala, Lauren Hara (Pherolize)
Second Place: Elo Enwa (AI)
Third Place: Joel Quarnstrom, Carson Taylor, Tristen McCarter (SmartCaps)
- Main Street/Lifestyle Track
First Place: Rafiu Ali (Tutor Saab)
Second Place: Alison Conway (Castoff's Creatives)
Third Place: Marian Gutierrez (The 405)
- Social Track
First Place: Dania Crivelli and Jazmin Lopez (Piensa Consulting)
Second Place: Sneha Dharwad (Fish for a Cause)
- Rising Entrepreneur Track
First Place: Kayla Ellis (Events Unboxed)
Second Place: Kevin Heupel, Saeed Manouchehri (BioSeal XE)
Third Place: Alejandro Garcia-Montiel (Miggo Mundo)
2022 Winners
- High Tech Track
First Place: Kayla Ellis (Events Unboxed)
Second Place: Camden Swan (918 Crepes)
Third Place: David Berman (Pollinator Seeds and Friendly Weeds)
- Main Street/Lifestyle Track
First Place: Patrick Bruce (Titan)
Second Place: Alexis Drake, Amy Campbell, Aaron Chambers, Rosty Bruce (ParkingU)
Third Place: Habib Boloorchi (Retinator)
- Social Enterprise Track
First Place: Eden McCormack (Wave)
Second Place: Alejandro Garcia-Montiel (Miggo Mundo)
- Rising Entrepreneur Track
First Place: Jacob Miller and William Colton (Paldara)
Second Place: Rachel Brown (Strides)
Third Place: Kevin Heupel, Saeed Manouchehri (BioSeal XE)
2021 Winners
- High Tech Track
First Place: Saeed Manouchehri, Kevin Heupel, Sugandhi Akula, and Parna Ghosh (BioSeal)
Second Place: Brock Wright (Melanin Technologies)
Third Place: Soumya Patra, Nathan Neilitz, Bhavana Erukulia, Diako Mahmodi (Apeiron Solutions)
- Main Street/Lifestyle Track
First Place: Sarah Elzay and Emily Geest (Enlighten)
Second Place: Chris Greene (Smart Homed)
Third Place: Bardia Batala (Homish)
- Social Enterprise Track
First Place: Courtney Brown (AgSposure)
Second Place: Tonmoy Ananda Paul (ma)
- Rising Entrepreneuer Track
First Place: Jacob Miller and William Colton (Paldara)
Second Place: Rachel Brown (Strides)
Third Place: Jdiobe Muwanika (Jdiobe Food Industries)
2020 Winners
- High Tech Track
First Place: Jacob Miller and William Colton (Paldara)
Second Place: Alvin Ngo, Brittany Laub (Ndiglo)
- Main Street/Lifestyle Track
First Place: Joshua Martinez, Katie Kuzdak, Daniel Archer and Joshua Hawkins (Deox)
Second Place: Austin Patton/Dalton Dison/Thomas Campbell (Mont. Capital)
Third Place: Reid Riseling and Michael Buckley (Rip Dip Sip)
- Social Track
First Place: Rachel Brown (Strides)
Second Place: Peter Angela (Empads)
Third Place: Muwanika Jdiobe (Jdiobe Food Industries)
2019 Winners
- High Tech Track
First Place: Brooks Robinson and Rabecca Wiseman (Contraire)
Second Place: Hossein Khaleghian (One Voice)
Third Place: Steve Trost (sybaGold)
- Main Street Track
First Place: Afshin Aghayan (Groundwater Explorer)
Second Place: Pete Craver, Daniel Woodruff, Austin Patton (Infinite Prints, LLC)
Third Place: Marissa Commey, Imani McGill (I Am)
- Social Enterprise Track
First Place: Rachel Brown (Strides)
Second Place: Queena Smith (I(k)new)
Third Place: ShawnDea Dunzy (EcoConsulting)