Cleantech Venture Challenge 2008
The Robert H. and Beverly A. Deming Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Leeds School of Business welcomes you to the Cleantech Venture Challenge 2008. With the support of our affiliate sponsor, The Cleantech Network™ LLC, we have named and designed the Cleantech Venture Challenge (CVC) as the premier student competition showcasing emerging opportunities in the cleantech sector.
Cleantech Network offers market research and thought-leadership services with a mission to provide insight, opportunities and relationships that accelerate the growth of cleantech markets. The Cleantech Venture Challenge teams represent the best and brightest business ideas in clean technology from universities around the world. The 2008 CVC was held February 28-29, at Sheraton Four Points Southeast in Denver, Colorado.
Escalating worldwide competition for resources, such as energy and water, and related environmental issues are creating substantial demand and opportunities for innovation, new technologies, and new ventures to serve existing and emerging markets. This competition seeks plans that capitalize on emerging market conditions and propose business concepts that promise significant financial reward while enhancing ecological sustainability.
The prestigious G. Chris Andersen Award of $25,000 will be shared among the four finalist teams. Additionally, the top-ranked team with a clean energy technology business plan, will be invited to present its business plan at the 21st annual National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Industry Growth Forum in November 2008. The NREL forum is widely recognized as the premier investor venue for the clean energy industry. Also, Investor’s Circle (IC), angel investors who support early stage sustainable companies, will circulate the first place team’s executive summary to investors. Student teams are invited to submit business plans that:
Demonstrate venture-grade, for-profit business models, practices, and/or technologies with high growth potential; and
Provide innovative solutions, services or products in the cleantech sector that reduce environmental impacts or improve ecological sustainability.
The competition is held in conjunction with the third annual Sustainable Opportunities Summit, www.sosummit.org
More Information
For more information about the Cleantech Venture Challenge competition please contact Patty Graff at 303-735-4970 or patty.graff@colorado.edu
