Haft två fantastiska dagar i Lund där jag för andra året i rad haft förmånen att få sitta i juryn för Sveriges största tävling inom entreprenörskap Venture Cup. Vi har fått lyssna på fantastiska pitchar och efter lång överläggning kom vi fram till följande vinnare. Lika roligt var detta tt få umgås med så otroligt smarta och kompetenta människor i juryn, läs mer om dem här.
Ikväll är det en sprakande regionsfinal i Venture Cup. Har bytt Nord mot Väst. Häftiga idéer, massor av inspiration och nostalgi! #venturecup #venturecup2015 (på/i Elite Park Avenue Hotel)
In its 16th year, The Swinburne Venture Cup is a team event that brings an entrepreneurial experience to the classroom. Students are given the chance to win $20,000 to support a new venture or company. Teams submit a business plan outlining the business concept and the winning team is decided from the concept that conveys the most promising combination of significant capital gains potential, attractive investment possibilities and actual implementation.
2015 Swinburne Venture Cup winners
Pitch Winners $500 each
Heat 1 – intTrust
Heat 2 – Parkiteer
Heat 3 – Solar Trailer Generator
1st Place Winner $20,000 Cash – iChoose Care
2nd Place Winner $4000 Cash - intTrust
3rd Place Winner $2000 Cash – Hotel Curator
4th Place Winner $1000 Cash - Parkiteer
5th Place Winner $750 Cash – Solar Trailer Generator
6th Place Winner $500 Cash – Modular Shipping Container
Best Individual Presenter $250 Cash – Grace Richards
Swinburne Travel Scholarship $5000 – Hotel Curator
Davies Collison Cave Services to the value of $5000 – Solar Trailer Generator
Teams
iChoose Care
Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Entrepreneurship
Removing ambiguity and confusion in the disability service industry by providing a central platform for participants and their families to research, compare and review disability providers.
Major prize winners! L-R: iChoose Care team members Melroy D’Souza, Grace Richards and Robert Wilson, with Graham Goldsmith (Swinburne Chancellor) and Seth Jones (CEO Swinburne Ventures Ltd).
intTrust
Masters of Information Technology (Professional Computing), Bachelor of Computer Science (Honors) and Bachelor of ICT
Portal for job, social and networking, which is dedicated to internationals students. The portal would link international students in Australia to registered employers, while also providing an online social network for students.
Parkiteer
Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) Honors
The Parkiteer app provides the user with a list of car parks, ranked by either distance from intended destination, distance from current location, or price (at the selection of the user), from where the user can instantly book his or her desired car park space.
Solar Trailer Generator
Bachelor of Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
A trailer mounted 32 Amp 3 phase power system employing roof mounted hydraulic sun-tracking solar panels that optimise solar power collection.
Modular Shipping Container
Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Modular homes for Australian customers that are constructed from shipping containers and built overseas.
The Hotel Curator
Graduate Certificate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The Hotel Curator is for design conscious affluent millennials who currently have no access to a service that connects them to the world’s most creative hotels with the ability to purchase a curated selection of high quality niche products currently offered within these luxury hotels.
Guest Speaker and 2015 Winner Travis Heaven (bodyguardapp.com.au).
Congratulations to all the winners, and the entrants, for making this year's competition an outstanding success. Thank you to the judges for their time, insights and support for the 2015 Venture Cup. Thanks also go to the sponsors and to the many staff who helped to promote the competition, and mentored many of the entrants.
Venture Cup in Sweden was just launched this week. I have to say that the Swedes love their competitions and platforms for showing off your business ideas. From the many that I have been to, the common theme is 'just say your idea'. They are really trying to embrace the idea that if your idea sucks, maybe your next idea will be better, a sort of American entrepreneurial mindset. It's good. And I hope to be entering into this also.
We are proud to announce that NordicMeetup #4 will be co-hosted with VentureCup. We are glad to welcome the participants attending VentureCup Software Final to NordicMeetup pre lounge. Once again it is time to gather the Copenhagen startup scene to hear the latest news from the startups, the people and companies surrounding the startup scene and most of all connect, catch up and hang out! WHERE We will meet at our usual venue - Ruby WHEN June 8th 2011 at 7:30 pm. Register your free ticket now. Event tags: #NordicMeetup #NM4 #VentureCup #vcfinal2011 Follow the NordicMeetup Gignal photo credit: society_flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum