Big Idea Business Plan Competition: Impact Award
Each Spring the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center hosts the Big Idea Business Plan Challenge
Thanks to our generous award sponsors over the years (Fire Neural Network, Study Edge, and Parisleaf), the following teams have each received a $1,000 Award):
- 2025 – The Online Experience (Valeria Pinzon Trujillo)
- 2024 – Cordelia Bioscience (Jessica Tittl), also won first place
- 2023 – Coastal Resilience Solutions (Dr. Shelby Thomas), also won first place
- 2022 – Purposed Studios (Wanda Baez)
- 2021 – Upskill Talent (Erika Nang)
- 2020 – Bl!nk (Ryan Widgeon)
- 2019 – SEB Plastics (Sarah Burns)
- 2018 – CitySmart (Purnendu Mukherjee, Riddhi Bagri, and Thomas Trozzo)
- 2017 – Lake House Initiative (Gabriel Hensley)
- 2016 – BehaviorMe (Christian Medina, Andrea Villegas, Ana Escalante, and Andres Chavez)
- 2015 – Immersed Games (Lindsey & Ryan Tropf)
- 2014 – AqUV (Rob Damitz, Erica Gonzaga, and Daniel Blood)
More information about UF’s annual Big Idea Business Plan Competition.
