Meet The Winners….
The PrincetonEN Startup Competition is an annual Princeton Reunions tradition since 1997. Every year, on Reunions’ Friday, 40+ startups compete for cash and prizes.
Unlike any other business plan competition, our startups are a celebration of Princeton Entrepreneurs across all industries and all “vintages”, in the past 2 years we’ve had Princeton Alumni Startups from 1979 to 2018. Save the date for next year’s 19th Annual PrincetonEN Startup Competition, Friday, May 18th, 2016.
2015 Winners-PrincetonEN Competition
An annual Princeton reunions tradition, on Friday, May 29th, 2015 40 Princeton Alumni Startups competed at the 18th Annual PrincetonEN Startup Competition.
And the winners are…
Grand Prize Winner of $70k in Cash/Prizes
PreeLine by Julia Macalaster ’12
PreeLine is an exciting new digital platform that offers the exclusive opportunity to see, share, and socialize future fashions in advance of the products arriving in stores. See PreeLine’s one-pager. .
FitzRandolph Gateway People’s Choice Prize Winner
Shuflix. “Out of too many leisure choices, we often choose the same one. People need a tool to be spontaneous and adventurous!” See Shuflix’s one-pager. By Javier Alejandro Masis ’13.
Winners of the 2014 PrincetonEN Startup Competition
Winner
International Thermodyne plans to change energy use through PowerFelt, a thin, organic material that produces electrical energy from natural heat and motion. The material produces an electric charge when heated or moved.
People’s Choice Award
Solstice Energy aims to provide solar energy to renters and lower-income consumers by selling solar power as a retail product to community hubs that can then sell it to constituents
2012 – Graphene Frontiers
Graphene Frontiers manufactures graphene films and graphene coated transmission electron microscope (TEM) grids. Graphene Frontiers’ production technology is available for licensing and will enable electronics manufacturers to make high quality, low cost graphene films in production volumes for use as a transparent, flexible conductor in displays, touch screens, and thermal management solutions.
2011 – Tag Optics
TAG Optic’s Inc.’s TAG Lens provides a solution to the analytical equipment industry and the laser manufacturing industry’s efficiency by providing the first ultra-high speed variable focus lens that can do both high depth-of-field and high-resolution imaging and processing.
2010 – Fashionstake (acquired by Fab.com)
Crowdsourced design. With Fashionstake the designer gets 25 percent of the take, the fashionistas get 50 percent, and Fashion Stake keeps 25 percent.
2001 – Princeton Power Systems
“Taking part in the 2001 Princeton Business Plan Contest was an essential milestone in the founding of Princeton Power Systems, Inc. The hard work of generating the business plan and presentation, and critical feedback from the judges, helped us to crystallize and refine what our company would become – and winning helped us pay for our dorms for the summer!” – Darren Hammell ‘01