TigerLaunch

Want to compete for $20,000 to start your own business? The Princeton Entrepreneurship Club is hosting it’s annual TigerLaunch Startup Challenge this spring. Applications are open for innovative product demos and business plans to be entered in one of two tracks – the Entrepreneurship track and the Social Entrepreneurship track.

Apply for TigerLaunch by Friday, March 2

Quick Facts About TigerLaunch:
What: The Princeton Entrepreneurship Club’s annual startup challenge. Submit a first round application answering a few questions about your startup idea and team. After semi-finalists are announced, you will be paired up with mentors and be able to submit either a product demo or a business plan.
Who: Enter as an individual or a team and be judged by expert venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.
Why: To fund the next great startups and business ideas on Princeton’s campus.
When: The initial submission deadline is Friday, March 2 – The final competition day will be held on Saturday, April 7.
Where: Answer a few questions about your startup idea and team and submit your application at the link above. More information will be sent out about the final competition, which will be held at Robertson Hall.
Questions? Contact competitions@princetoneclub.com

Past Results

2012

Entrepreneurship Track

  • First Place: Collections (Tony Xiao and Jordan Lee)
  • Second Place: Waiter d’ (Andy Kaier and Peter Maag)
  • Third Place: Qualtraxx (Patrick Renschler, Santhosh Balasubramanian, and Matthew Kann)
  • Honorable Mention: Nat|Aural (Lukasz Mosakowski and Rob Sicurelli)

Social Entrepreneurship Track

  • First Place: Pasand (Rebecca Scharfstein, Aunna Wilson, Ashley Eberhart, and Alexandra Deprez)
  • Second Place: DUMA (Arielle Sandor, Christine Blauvelt, and Eric Kuto)
  • Third Place: BeneTag (Faaez Ul Haq, Richard She, Hamza Aftab, Farhan Abrol, and Mandy Coston)
  • Honorable Mention: Ubomi Beads (Angela Groves, Krystal Valentin, and Karen O’Neill)

2011

Entrepreneurship Track

  • First Place: Madi (Nicholas De Veaux and Woody Hines)
  • Second Place: swoopTEXT (Michael Perl and Michael Keaton)
  • International Excellence Award: China’s Netflix (Guanchun Wang and Zhen Xiang)
  • Technology and Innovation Award: Chaparral Chemical (Ani Deshmukh)
  • High Potential Award: CompleteSportsReport (Joey Cheek)
  • Semi-finalists: StudentRoadTrips (Jeremy Jennings), Deadlines (Sam Cabot), TrailMix (Faaez Ul Haq, Mohammad Javed, Awais Tariq, Amanda Coston, and Zeerak Ahmed), Handsbook (Ke Wan), and Life-Library (Benjamin Schmechel)

Social Entrepreneurship Track

  • First Place: M-Profesa (Richard She, Josphat Magutt, and Eric Kuto)
  • Second Place (tied): Dhanlink (Danny Growald, Raleigh Allison, and Vishal Chanani)
  • Second Place (tied): My Card My Story (Nikhil Basu Trivedi, Sanchali Pal, Sankalp Gosain, and Fatema Waliji)
  • Best Business Plan Award: SUNSID (Sandeep Raj)
  • Greatest Impact Award: Food Justice Foundation (Taylor Behmke, Tucker Willsie, Kelly Reilly)
  • Semi-finalists: PureWorld (Jason Baum), cu1ture (Zach Goldman), Let There Be Light (Josh Bachner), and SparkIt! (John Monagle)

2010

Entrepreneurship Track

  • First Place: CoAx Systems (Alex Gasner)
  • Second Place: TransACTion Technologies
  • Third Place: ReVino Reclaimed Wine Bottles

Social Entrepreneurship Track

  • First Place (tied): Cocherapy (Caroline Clark and Jennifer King)
  • First Place (tied): em[POWER] (Faaez Ul-Huq, Fahed Shams, Michael Smith, Jacob Hiller, and Dalia Nahol)
  • Second Place: Sauti Ya Kina Mama (Daniel Echelman, Kate Adamson, and Fatu Conteh)
  • Honorable Mention: Filtron Nigeria (Hazel Miranda, Payal Hathi, Sehar Tariq, and Jessie Buendia)
  • Honorable Mention: ITSERA (Cally Robertson, Chris Lumry, and Trace Feng)

2009

  • First Place: Memrise (Greg Detre)
  • Second Place: Exhibytes (Carter Cleveland)
  • Third Place: Sonno (Muneeb Ali)
  • Best Written Business Plan: Sonno (Muneeb Ali)
  • Audience Favorite: Exhibytes (Carter Cleveland)
  • Finalists: Cspot (Cesar Devers), Juvenis (Shawn Kothari), and Lean Sleeves (Sankalp Gosain, Jonathan Lea, and Jesus Escoriaza)
  • Semi-finalists: BusyBody (Ryan Rockefeller and Mark Ungerer), EasyMentoring (Kofi Frimpong), Giraphic Apparel (Daniel Ryan), NicheFinder (Mac Steele and Ben Schmechel), SmartFloor Piezoelectrics (Wenxin Zhu and Mark Xia), and Sol Cycles (Tom Yersak, Nick Frey, Will Watts, Doug Wolf)