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Celebrating its 25th year, the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship hosted the celebrated Rice Business Plan Competition this month, doling out more than $2 million in investment and cash prizes to the top-performing teams.
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Intero Biosystems — a life science company that has developed the first cell-derived human “mini gut” replicating cell types, spatial structure and function of the human intestine — took home the grand prize at the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition.
14 Apr
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Five student-founded startups have been named finalists for Rice University's prestigious pitch competition, hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship later this month. The teams will compete for a share of $100,000 in equity-free funding at the H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge (NRLC).
11 Apr
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In 2023, the PhD Excellence Initiative attained an important milestone: former fellow Brandy Edmondson became the first to earn her PhD, graduating from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Rice Business.
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