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Spotlight on e-Fest Ventures

Since 2017, e-Fest has given undergraduate innovators the chance to win money to nurture their business ideas; network with other students, professors and entrepreneurs; learn from their peers; and showcase their business on a national stage. Undergraduates who pitched their ideas at past e-Fests have continued to innovate. Below is a look at past participants, their journeys since e-Fest, their perspectives on the challenges they’ve faced, and their advice for students hoping to start their own ventures.

ECGO, 2022
ECGO | The Future of Conscious Recycling

ECGO, 2022

1014 1014 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Nutrivide, 2022

Nutrivide, 2022

1858 1034 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
ExpressionMed, 2022
ExpressionMed

ExpressionMed, 2022

1856 1034 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Telo, 2021

Telo, 2021

Four University of Minnesota students founded the health-tech solutions company Telo to develop innovative devices for mobility-compromised people.

150 150 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Vascugenix, 2019

Vascugenix, 2019

The Speed Torque, developed by the third-place 2019 e-Fest winner, is helping surgeons increase speed and efficiency at critical moments.

760 400 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Past e-Fest Winners Continue Innovating

Past e-Fest Winners Continue Innovating

The undergraduates who pitched their ideas at past e-Fest competitions, and who came away with cash prizes, have continued innovating since then.  During the summer of 2020 we caught up…

760 400 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Yellow Card, 2017

Yellow Card, 2017

A Bitcoin exchange platform, founded by Auburn University students, is making financial management possible in Africa.

760 400 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Vetiver Solutions, 2018

Vetiver Solutions, 2018

This social impact award winner from e-Fest 2018 is promoting economic and environmental sustainability to help impoverished Haitian communities.

150 150 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Go Goldens, 2018

Go Goldens, 2018

Our 2018 e-Fest winner’s transportation-based idea has evolved from school bus routing, to ride hailing at senior communities, and now to helping seniors stay healthy and safe.

150 150 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition

LivingWaters System, 2019

The team at LivingWaters Systems, which won the Social Impact Award at e-Fest2019, believes that clean water is a fundamental human right, but that not every corner of the world shares this right equally.

150 150 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
Orindi Cold Endurance Mask, 2018

Orindi Cold Endurance Mask, 2018

This e-Fest winner wants cold storage workers, asthmatics and others to be as comfortable in the extreme cold as they are inside.

760 400 e-Fest | Undergraduate Entreprenuership Competition
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