MBET News
Some news on the success of current MBET students from Howard Armitage, the Director of CBET:
...the LaunchPad$50K winners were announced today at Bingeman's in front of a crowd of 500 people. I'm delighted to let you know that we came close to a complete sweep.
MBET teams won the Gold, Silver and .5 Bronze. Our Cellugen Team came first and won $25,000; College and University Explorations came second and won $15,000 and Zapweed, consisting of two Guelph students (one of whom is coming to MBET next year) and an MBET student came third winning $5,000.
In addition, two other MBET teams were ranked 4th and 6th.
Which is pretty incredible news. And more incredible news from other business competitions:
Recently, our MBET teams have performed exceptionally well in local and international business competitions. From over 200 submissions to the prestigious JUNGLE venture capital competition in San Jose, CA, that included Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, and MIT, two MBET teams placed in the final 8. Another team, with a promising cancer treatment, came second in a recent Ivey competition and has now made it to the second round of the Boomer Venture Business Plan Competition in Santa Clara. We are currently in the final round in a major Hong Kong competition with a nanodrivers company project.
So while being in the first MBET class was an incredible experience, it looks like things just keep getting better. Congratulations to all the MBET students winning these awards and best of luck on getting the businesses off the ground!
