Forming a Team
Detailed eligibility rules found on pages 4-5 of the Official Guidebook.
To be eligible for the competition, your team must:
- Have 2 – 4 team members
- Be current students (undergraduate or graduate) or have graduated May 2022 or later
- Have at least one member that is a current full-time university undergraduate or graduate student anywhere in the world
- Designate a point-of-contact person responsible for communication with competition organizers
- Have team members that each currently hold fundamental, fully vested, equity-holding positions within the company and have a combined ownership of at least 25% of the founder’s equity in the company
- Not have members on multiple teams in the competition
- Be present during the entire competition and at the time of the prize presentations to be eligible for prizes
Business plans submitted by teams should be for ventures that are:
- Early stage
- For-profit
- Potentially seeking initial investment capital
Submissions should not include:
- Buy-Outs
- Entity Expansions
- Real Estate Ventures
- Not-For-Profits
- Subsidiaries
- Recapitalizations
- Sole Proprietorships
- Single- Member LLCs