Ten startups will attend the Digital Forum as part of the university's Startup Challenge in partnership with GCV and Extreme Tech Challenge.
Ten startups nominated by University of California (UC) will pitch their business models to corporate investors from across the world at the Digital Forum, run by our sister site Global Corporate Venturing, in January 2021.
The invitation is up for grabs for five finalists across two tracks in the fifth edition of UC’s Startup Challenge, a contest open to businesses allied to the university.
Finalists will be selected by UC leaders and industry specialists by mid-December 2020. After pitching at the Digital Forum, two winners from the cohort will each receive $50,000 in prize funding.
UC Startup Challenge runs in partnership with startup contest and accelerator organiser Extreme Tech Challenge.
Victoria Slivkoff, global head of innovation and entrepreneurship for University of California, said: “I am thrilled to be partnering again with Extreme Tech Challenge and Global Corporate Venturing to create better pathways for UC founders to scale their world-changing startups.”
This year’s competition winner was Cayuga Biotech, a UC Santa Barbara-linked haemostatic drug developer. The same company was also one of three to be selected by Extreme Tech Challenge, together with Educational Vision Technologies and FarmSense.
– This article was amended to correct the number of UC startups invited to the Digital Forum
