Past Winners

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2024 SVBPC!

1st Place: Sequio, an AI-driven personalized educational learning platform (Vashisht Anand, MS Engineering Management & team), winner of the $10,000 prize sponsored by Jay Fulcher, Raj Shah & the Lucas College & Graduate School of Business.

2nd Place: Plastic Purge, a sustainable solution for recycling plastic waste (Devon Rodriguez & Rishi Birudaraj, BSBA Entrepreneurship majors), winner of the $5,000 prize sponsored by Alfonso de la Nuez.

3rd Place: Car-Rillo, a user-friendly automotive dealership management platform (Clayton Carillo, BSBA MIS & Shawheen Wingrove, BSBA Marketing/Honors student), winner of the $2,500 prize sponsored by Dave Hadden.

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2023 SVBPC!

1st Place: CreditCliq (winner of the $10,000 award sponsored by Forest Systems, Inc)

2nd Place: MPS Tech (winner of the $5K award sponsored by Alfonso de la Nuez)

3rd Place: StohunX (winner of the $2.5K award sponsored by Dave Hadden)

Congratulations to the Winners of the 2022 SVBPC!

1st Place: Opticost (winner of the $10,000 award sponsored by Dr. Nancie Fimbel)

2nd Place: MetaDoin (winner of the $5K award sponsored by Hooman Bolandi)

3rd Place: Fearless Fitness (winner of the $2.5K award sponsored by Dave Hadden)

Honorable Mention: BetterConnects

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 SVBPC!

1st Place: TransCrypts  (winner of the $10,000 award sponsored by Dr. Nancie Fimbel)

2nd Place: Vessel Athletics  (winner of the $5K award sponsored by Hooman Bolandi)

3rd Place: Gen/US  (winner of the $2.5K award sponsored by Dave Hadden)

View recordings of the 2021 finalists’ presentations.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 SVBPC!

1^st Prize – Winner of the Bill Barton grand prize award of $10,000 – Fabio Schmidberger for Medixflow - the digital voice assistant for senior care facilities.

2^nd Prize – $5,000 award sponsored by Hooman Bolandi – Mohak Rastogi for Surplus – a platform that allows restaurants to reduce food waste by selling excess food at a discount to students.

3^rd Prize – $2,500 award sponsored by Dave Hadden – Austin Tse for Bay Commons – creating dorms for adults.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 SVBPC!

1^st Prize  – Ambii team  – Winner of the Bill Barton grand prize award -  The world's first AI driven jukebox - empowering groups to listen together, enabling each individual with the ability to influence the music that plays for the entire group. 

2^nd Prize  – ParkStash team - Award sponsored by Hooman Bolandi- ParkStash is the Airbnb for parking - a mobile app that connects people having unused driveways/carports to someone looking for a parking spot.

3^rd Prize  – BAYbies' Spot team - $2,500 award sponsored by Dave Hadden, Arlo Inc. The BAYbies’ Stop is a one stop shop that comes to you and delivers affordable, good quality, gently used baby and children’s clothing.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2017 SVBPC!

1^st Prize – Vinder – Winner of the Bill Barton grand prize award of $10,000 -  ( A peer-to-peer online community oriented marketplace connecting home gardeners, community gardens, and urban farms with community members looking for local produce.  Team lead: Sam Lillie)

2^nd Prize – Syminar - $5,000 award sponsored by Valin Corporation ( Bringing Classrooms online in Virtual Reality, targeted at nursing students.  Team lead: Bryan Dang)

3^rd  prize – Exceed - $2,500 award sponsored by Dave Hadden, Arlo Inc. - ( An online platform to make US college admissions more accessible to foreign students, particularly the Chinese market. T eam:  Joshua Beisiegel, Audrey Yik, Joy Yan)   

All three teams received an additional award in the form of complimentary legal advice valued at $1,000 per team from the Webb Law Firm.  

Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 SVBPC!

1^st Prize – PlayCause – winner of the Bill Barton grand prize award of $10,000 - (Athlete crowd-funding platform for charity; team lead: Peter Lee)

2^nd Prize – Hygiea - sponsored by the Lucas College & Graduate School of Business (Waste Management IoT platform; team: Pratik Vyas, Saiman Shetty, Parshad Patel)

3^rd Prize – Minute.tech - sponsored by Dave Hadden, Arlo Inc. - (Crowd-sourced tech support for non-techies; team: Douglas James, Nigel Vega, Ryan Wall)  

 4^th Prize – Cumulus Mobile Testing - sponsored by Solix Technologies – (Automated mobile testing as a service, using crowd-sourced smartphones; team: Stephanie Reyes, Matthew Trettin, William Wilson, Hung Diep)  

All four teams received an additional award in the form of complimentary legal advice valued at $1,000 per team from the Webb Law Firm. 

Congratulations to the winners of the 2015 SVBPC

1^st Prize: Storsh - 1^st Prize: Bill Barton award of $10,000
Costa Bakouros, Nicole Ingersoll, Anthony Leonard, Dylan Neu 
STORSH: Have you ever heard anyone complain about storage running up on his/her IPhone? We’ve heard it numerous times from our families, classmates, and colleagues. Storsh is a local storage case company for the IPhone. The idea is simple; buy the case, turn on the app, and use your new storage.

2^nd Prize: EZ-Stem - 2^nd Prize: Solon Suarez award of $5,000
Sally Luvsantseren 
EZSTEM: We are repurposing an existing ferromagnetic nanoparticle technology for application in cell culture laboratories. Our technology eliminates the need for chemical cell passaging and effectively improves the quality of cell cultures with a mechanical passaging method. 

3^rd Prize: EasyReader - 3^rd Prize: Dan Doles award of $2,500
Andrew Perez
EASYREADER: Our application scans (takes pictures of) physical text, and converts this text to audio files to be read aloud. This is extremely valuable to the vision impaired who often have a hard time reading, as well as college students assigned chapter readings on a weekly basis.

4^th Prize: BizApp - 4^th Prize: Dave Hadden award of $1,500
Ashish Batwara 
BIZAPP: For businesses that sell products using WhatsApp or online marketplaces, BizApp, provides a unified multi-level, multi-channel well-structured product-selling platform.

Best written plan: SRAT Basket - Best written Business Plan award of $500 
Madi Knowles, Bryce Cano, Tyler Charron 
SRAT Baskets is committed to go beyond the simple gift to accommodate unique requests and produce the most individualized fraternity or sorority themed baskets on the market via online ordering.  Greek members, like myself, need this product and have no convenient solution