TigerLaunch is the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club’s premier annual startup challenge in which teams of students submit either a business plan or a product demo, present their startup to an audience and panel of judges, and compete for tens of thousands in prize money.
The application deadline for TigerLaunch 2011 has passed. Check back for updates on the application for TigerLaunch 2012, which will go live sometime in January.
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)
