Now in its 20th year, the $100K Competition is open to students from all academic disciplines across campus, but the winningest teams over the years have combined members from technical disciplines with members from the Sloan [business] School.
Over the years, more than 100 real companies with an aggregate market cap of more than $10 billion have emerged from among the contestants. Akamai, Zipcar, and Virtual Ink are familiar names that began as student ideas in this incubator. Get a glimpse of the future by checking out the list of semi-finalists here. The winner will be announced Wednesday.
Working in partnership with the MIT $100K Business Plan Competition, the MIT Clean Energy Prize aims to provide a platform to educate, network, and celebrate a new generation of energy entrepreneurs. The CEP is open to any team of two or re with at least one student from a U.S. university.
On Tuesday, the winner of the $200,000 CEP will be announced. The categories are biomass, clean hydrocarbons, energy efficiency and infrastructure, renewables, and transportation. You can check out the 25 semi-finalists here.
Stay tuned for the winners, meantime, keep dodging those potholes.
