New Venture Seed Competition | Information & Dates

January 19, 2023
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Do you have a great idea you want to bring to market? Are you a current USC student, faculty or staff or recent graduate? Join The New Venture Seed Competition (NVSC) as participants in the largest venture competition on campus!

The New Venture Seed Competition (NVSC) is for members of the USC community with a great business idea – student, recent graduate (SP 2019 to the present), faculty or staff member.

The NVSC offers learning opportunities and a prize pool of over $150,000. It is largest entrepreneurship competition on campus.

Application Deadline: Friday, February 10, 2023 | 11:50 PM PST

Grand Prize Winners

One Platinum Prize of $ 35,000 (Sunstone Management Award)

One Gold Prize of $ 20,000 (Victoria L. Wilson Memorial Award)

Two Silver Prizes of $ 15,000 each

Two Bronze Prizes of $ 10,000 each

One $5,000 Prize (Wrigley Sustainability Prize)

Concept Prize Winners

First Place – $ 7,500

Second Place – $ 5,000

Third Place – $ 2,500

Lowenstein Foundation People’s Choice Award – $ 2,000

Semi-finalists: $1,500

 

Information Sessions

January 24, 7-8 PM, JFF 240

January 25, 7-8 PM, Zoom only

January 30, 12-1 PM, JFF 414

February 2, 12-1 PM, JFF LL102

February 6, 12-1 PM, JFF 414

February 7, 7-8 PM, JFF LL 102

Register to attend an information session: https://usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50DMtYNJMV5He6O

Application & Competition Information: https://www.worldlabs.org/opportunity/new-venture-seed-competition

Published on January 19th, 2023Last updated on January 19th, 2023