Top University Startup Communities

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Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students: Stanford's largest student group devoted to entrepreneurship.

BASES has 5773 members and 449 startups.

E-Challenge is an annual business plan competition conducted by BASES with the purpose of developing the next generation of entrepreneurs.

E-Challenge Competition 2008 has 872 members and 212 startups.

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[OLD] Social e-challenge Competition 2008 [INACTIVE] has 936 members and 240 startups.

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Embrace Stanford spin-off commercializing a $25 incubator for premature infants in developing countries.

Rapid Suturing "safety and efficiency... one incision site at a time"

Leaders

Eli Rabek From the United States, majoring in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford, Co-President of Stanford BASES, VP of Sigma Nu Fraternity (Beta Chi chapter). Currently looking into cool opportunities for after graduation!

Heesun Lho Korean, 22, who grew up in the US, majored in Human Biology at Stanford and currently continuing in a Masters of Education program, Co-President of BASES

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The MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition is designed to encourage students and researchers in the MIT community to act on their talent, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow's leading firms.

MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition has 259 members and 253 startups.

Inventors can test their ideas with passion during a 60-second pitch and be rewarded by eight $1000 prizes, including the soon-to-be famous "crowd favorite," and the $2500 grand prize.

MIT 100K Elevator Pitch Contest has 7 members and 3 startups.

The MIT $100K Business Plan Contest is designed to help you generate ideas, form teams, and incubate startups that change the world.

MIT $100K Business Plan Contest has 232 members and 224 startups.

Leaders

J. Frederic Kerrest 2nd year MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management, Lead Organizer MIT $100K Business Plan Contest, leader of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program. Background in software development and high-technology entrepreneurship. 5 years in BizD...	Diana Huidobro Civil Industrial Engineer graduate from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, currently pursuing MBA degree at MIT Sloan School of Management.
Tamara Mendelsohn

Groups

The Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) is the leading student-run organisation at the University of Cambridge with a focus on Venture Capital for technological innovations

CUTEC has 4045 members and 111 startups.

CU Entrepreneurs is the society for budding entrepreneurs in Cambridge. Take part in the Entrepreneurs' Challenge to benefit from essential training, join a great network, win up to £20 000 and be ready to set up your business by June.

CUE has 95 members and 31 startups.

Featured startups

Cambridge Temperature Concepts (the geeky bit) physiological temperature datalogging and wireless transmission (the application) ovulation detection for identification of the fertile window to assist couples in starting a family (the business bit) with 1 in 7 couples having...

Short Fuze Limited Anyone can make animated movies.

Leaders

Anne Dhulesia Doing a PhD in chemistry - biophysics in the group of Pr. Dobson, University of Cambridge, UK. Vice President of CUTEC: External Relation and Development

Theodoros Koutroukides President, Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC). Biotech PhD candidate, Cambridge University

Groups

Founded in 1999, the competition has evolved to become the marquee entrepreneurship event at Berkeley, and one of the nation’s foremost business plan competitions, nurturing entrepreneurial action across the UC Berkeley community.

UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition has 573 members and 169 startups.

The purpose of GSVC is to actively support and promote the creation and growth of successful social ventures around the world. We define a social venture as an enterprise that has both financial and social goals integral to its purpose. We striv...

Global Social Venture Competition has 93 members and 67 startups.

ST@B! was formed to bring together undergraduate, graduate, and faculty entrepreneurs from UC Berkeley to interact with members of the greater entrepreneurial ecosystem.

ST@B: Startup @ Berkeley has 107 members and 79 startups.

The Entrepreneurship Association at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business is dedicated to creating and fostering a dynamic entrepreneurial environment for its members by providing innovative opportunities, meeting forums, and resources.

Haas Entrepreneurs Association at Berkeley has 548 members and 48 startups.

UC Berkeley and Stanford University will again join hands to launch a second tech conference on clean solar power entitled “Big Solar.” The symposium will bring together key solar energy policy makers, industry leaders, and academia to raise awarenes

Berkeley-Stanford CleanTech Conference has 297 members and 21 startups.

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WeGame A service that allows gamers to record what they do in video games.

IndieGoGo IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen.

Leaders

Angus Hildreth BA and MA degrees in Mathematics from University of Cambridge, currently pursuing MBA at Berkeley.	Kevin Casey MBA candidate at Haas School of Business in Berkeley. Founder of apparel sales/marketing /distribution business. President of the Haas Entrepreneurship Association.
Corey Reese I work for an early stage venture capital firm in San Francisco, Alsop Louie Partners (www.alsop-louie.com.)	Albert Fong My current experience is in High Tech Product Development. My goal is change into a career in social entrepreneurship. My desire is to meet a like-minded set of people to engage with.

Groups

Genesis is a social entrepreneurship competition that aims to bring together social entrepreneurs, students, NGOs, innovators, incubators, corporations and financiers

Genesis 2008 - IIT Madras has 2911 members and 11 startups.

Let's build an enterprising India.

Entrepreneurship Cell IIT Kharagpur has 849 members and 13 startups.

Creating leaders through entrepreneurial thinking ...

Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL), India has 68 members and 8 startups.

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InstantKarma InstantKarma connects NGOs' with possible donators.

Leaders

Shruti Srivastava Pursuing Electrical Engineering degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Co-Founder and Chief Consultant at Student Consultancy Group, Student President of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Madras President of ASES, India.	Subhendu Panigrahi Indian, majoring in Agricultural and Food engineering. Club Leader of Entrepreneurship Cell.. Believes Entrepreneurship is orgasm of life and would love to have multiple ones.
Pranav Theegala Student at BITS-Pilani, India, currently pursuing B.E(Hons) in Electronics and Instrumentation, Core member of Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Coordinator Conquest 2009, Aspiring Entrepreneur, adventure enthusiast

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Get inspired by top speakers, learn from our workshops, meet like-minded people at the lavish social events, run a company while you study and get the support and advice you need, all entirely for FREE by joining us at www.oxfordentrepreneurs.co.uk.

Oxford Entrepreneurs has 470 members and 170 startups.

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zoombu A travel search engine that finds integrated routes from your front door to your destination.

Miomi Miomi is a revolutionary new way of organising and viewing the Internet on the basis of time, allowing you to travel back to the dawn of time, or forward into the distant future.

Leaders

Victoria Lennox President of Oxford Entrepreneurs, Director of NACUE

Jordan Poulton

Groups

Do you have an innovative idea but don't know what to do? Are you itching to start your own business yet unsure of what it takes? If you answered yes to these questions, Start-Up@Singapore will offer you the entrepreneurial experience of a lifetime.

Start-Up@Singapore has 22 members and 29 startups.

NES plugs its members into the world of entrepreneurship through seminars, projects, networking opportunities, and other social and recreational activities.

NUS Entrepreneurship Society has 1491 members and 38 startups.

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iMooveonline Mooveonline aims to be the best online shopping mall so as to link all the online shopping and service businesses.

Leaders

Jing Jin	Veerappan Swaminathan Singaporean, 23, Mechanical Engineering major & Technopreneurship minor at NUS, Intellectual Property Engineer, Former Lead, Start-Up@Singapore 2008 - national business plan competition, Varsity Floorball Team
Min Xuan Lee

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Venture Cup is the Danish business plan competition. We work to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs.

Venture Cup Denmark has 457 members and 339 startups.

Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy unites and develops strong competences and experiences with entrepreneurship education at the universities of the Øresund region.

Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy has 10 members and 4 startups.

StudieVirk is a crossuniversity network. Please join and find enterprising people for your startup idea, project and business - or let them find you! Founded in Denmark at 2005. All the best and enjoy!

StudieVirk has 459 members and 31 startups.

Featured startups

Wölwa Group Use Case based project cost estimation platform built as a Web 2.0 Software as a Service (SaaS), which incorporates historical data to provide highly accurate estimates, within 10% of actuals.

Obecto Obecto is a company focused on building human-centered Rich Internet Applications with a team, eager to apply its wisdom of experience, its deep knowledge of technology and its innovative ideas in software engineering.

Leaders

Martin B. Justesen Danish, 38, majoring in Social Science, Danish Language and Educational Studies. Founder of crossuniversity network StudieVirk. Selfemployed and openminded about new projects.	Torsten Kolind Danish, 28, Biotech graduate, working at YouNoodle
Pål Fernvall	Christian Vintergaard Managing director for the Øresund Entrepreneurship Academy, PhD in entrepreneurship, innovation and venture capital

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SU Innovation at Stockholm University, Sweden, support students, researchers and entrepreneurs in developing business ideas and starting companies.

Stockholm University Innovation has 83 members and 5 startups.

Excitera is the non-profit, student-driven entrepreneurship association at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.

Excitera has 3473 members and 23 startups.

EIC is Sweden's premier Business Plan Competition for university students, organized by Excitera, the student run Entrepreneurship Association at KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

Excitera Innovation Challenge 2008 has 1403 members and 43 startups.

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Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden has 469 members and 13 startups.

VentureZone inspires and supports students and researchers att Linköping University in forming startups and working with innovations. We are a part of the innovation support system in the cities of Linköping and Norrköping

VentureZone has 696 members and 16 startups.

Featured startups

bankbookr Bringing fresh, innovative and easy-to-use personal finance tools to online banks and financial institutions that will help them improve customer loyalty, drive traffic and increase sales.

Leaders

Fredrik Hagenius Swedish, 24, majored in Marketing at Göteborg University, cofounder of Young Entrepreneurs of Sweden, currently living in Zürich	Alexander Petersson Swedish, 22, bachelor engineer at the Royal Instistute of Technology, also majoring in Economics at Stockholm University.
Karl Eldebo Business Coach at Linköping University, MBA international business controlling, experience fields: market research and financing

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UC Davis Business Plan Competition organized by MBA students of the Graduate School of Management. The goal of the contest is to promote entrepreneurship at UC Davis and within the greater Sacramento region.

Big Bang! Business Plan Competition has 1115 members and 36 startups.

Featured startups

Micromidas, Inc. Micromidas converts organic waste into biodegradable plastics, simultaneously solving the problem of wastewater treatment while producing high-performance bioplastic.

Leaders

Jonathan Pettingill Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts graduate from UC San Diego, pursuing MBA at UC Davis. Co-Chair of Challenge for Charity and Director of Technology at Big Bang Business Plan Competition.