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UVA Entrepreneurship Cup

The University-wide competition that seeds student ideas.

$100Kawarded across three stages
3stages a year
5Concept tracks

Overview

Run by the Foundry and open to every school, the E-Cup carries an idea through three annual stages — Concept, Discovery and Launch — awarding about $100,000 in all. Concept surfaces raw ideas across five tracks, Discovery pays teams to de-risk them, and Launch backs the ones ready to become companies.

  • Concept — $25,000 across five tracks, $1,000 each to the top five in every track
  • Discovery — $25,000, five projects at $5,000 each, for de-risking the idea
  • Launch — up to $50,000 in prize money and in-kind resources
  • Tracks: Engineering & Healthcare Technologies, Social Entrepreneurship, Consumer, Business-to-Business and UVA Wise
  • Teams of up to six, with at least one current UVA student — undergraduate through postdoc

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TranslationThe Foundry1,850 studentsThe SchoolsWise & NOVAUVA beyond GroundsThe SchoolsCollege of A&Smost students · no unitTranslationBatten i.Lab22 teams · 5 schoolsCapitalGalant Challenge$37M since 2012The SchoolsEngineeringCoulter · VentureForwardTranslationJefferson Trust$17.8M since 2006

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