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Josh | Sparkcharge | Syracuse University

Moving electric vehicle adoption forward
$100M+ valuation and 35 employees

Jack | Klaw | Binghamton University

Recycling glass to make lower-cost asphalt
Over $500k invested, projects with DOT

Linda | Levelle | Cornell Tech NYC

Making nutrition for female athletes
Raising pre-seed funding

Orville & Cynthia | Scrap-It | Farmingdale

Cleaning and recycling on-demand
Growing business on Long Island

Jialin & Josh | Soulo | SUNY Stonybrook

Enabling aging in place
Initial sales, product development

More than 50 colleges and universities represented

Recent highlights

Nearly 50% participation from under-represented founders

More than 500 college and graduate students compete each year

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More than 50 donors and philanthropists

Our Supporters

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Project-based learning modules, called Project Builders, that guide users step by step through creating and pitching a venture.

Sharable projects that help students collaborate to improve their projects, while coaches, partners, peers, investors and managers can add feedback along the way.

Membership Directory that allows a community to engage with projects and help them develop.

Project scoring and evaluation functionality that enables students to showcase their business idea and have it graded by real judges.

KEY TOOLS FOR NYBPC

Key Tools for the NYBPC

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Support the NYBPC

Economic advancement

support making entrepreneurship more accessible for economic empowerment and talent development

Early access to innovation

find out what inventions and innovations are coming from campuses, and help to shape innovation challenges

Incredible branding opportunity

broad reach into colleges and universities, amongst students and professionals, and hundreds of mentors and judges from the business community

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Safety, Power & Mobility: Defense, Energy & Renewable Energy, First Responder, Infrastructure, Mobility & Transportation
Health & Wellbeing: Health IT, Life Science, Medtech, Wellbeing
Food & Agtech: Agricultural Technology, Food Product, Food Service
Learn, Work & Play: Education, Entertainment, Gaming, Media, Art
Products & Hardware
Software & Services

2023 Tracks

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	Application Date	Competition Date	Location
Capital Region	March 27	April 1	UAlbany
Central New York	March 20	March 31	SUNY Oswego
Finger Lakes	March 20	April 12	RIT
Long Island	February 23	March 31	Online
Mid-Hudson Valley	March 10	March 31	Marist
Mohawk Valley	February 19	April 14	SUNY Poly Utica
New York City	March 27	April 11	Online
North Country	March 23	March 31	Saranac Hotel
Southern Tier	April 7	April 14	Online
Western New York	March 26	April 7	UBuffalo

Regional Dates

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Round One: (Asynchronous and Online)

April 18: Student deadline to submit materials for the state Finals.
April 19-24: First round judges will review submissions.
April 24: Judges will deliberate and choose the top teams from each track to move onto Round Two.
April 24: Students moving on to pitch on April 27 at Round Two will be informed.

Round Two: (Live and In-person) - April 27, 2023

9:00 AM-12:00 PM: The top teams from each track will pitch live to judges. Pitches will be eight minutes and followed by six minutes of Q&A.
1 PM: Track winners announced live. The top team in each track will move on to the Grand Prize Finals.

Round Three: Grand Prize Finals (Live and In-person) - April 27, 2023

The Grand Prize Finals will take place as part of Upstate Capital’s event, Venture NY.
Location: Syracuse, NY. All student competitors will pitch in-person.

2023 Finals

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