The Competition is underwritten with the generous financial support of several venture capital funds, with lead financing provided by Sevin Rosen Funds. High potential ventures require strong entrepreneurial vision and execution. The plan, and management's ability to communicate it, gets management, investors and product inventors all on the same page, ready for action. Contest participants receive valuable exposure to leaders in new venture creation and the opportunity to enhance their skills in business development. The objectives of the Competition are to support students and alumni in their entrepreneurial endeavors in new venture creation, to encourage commercialization of promising ideas emerging from UC Berkeley's strong technology tradition, and to build bridges between UC Berkeley and the Bay Area entrepreneurial community.
Participants form teams to develop and submit business plans based on realistic, marketable ideas.
Rules of the competition can be found on the website. A panel of new venture professionals will select eight finalists. The winning entry will be announced at the event. For questions or comments regarding this page, send e-mail to Andy Bouman Technical questions or comments regarding the Haas School Web site may be directed to the Webmaster .