Banking & Finance  March 12, 2015

CSU Blue Ocean Enterprises Challenge announces competitors

FORT COLLINS – Organizers of the Colorado State Blue Ocean Enterprises Challenge business pitch competition on Thursday announced the 28 startups that will compete for the $250,000 grand prize.

They also announced that entrepreneur Jeff Hoffman will deliver the competition’s keynote address on May 30. Hoffman has served as CEO of multiple public and private companies, and has worked for the likes of Priceline.com, uBid.com and others.

The second-annual challenge is being held May 27-30 in conjunction with Fort Collins Startup Week.

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Thirteen startups were chosen to compete in the Collegiate Track and 15 in the Enterprise Track from a field of more than 130 applicants hailing from five states. The 13 competitors in the college division will vie for $20,000 in cash, business mentoring, and a spot in the Enterprise Track. The enterprise division will feature a bracket-style format in pursuit of the $250,000 grand prize that also includes a 12-month business-mentoring program.

The 13 startups in the college division represent CSU, the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado Mesa University. They include:

• Axios Impact Investments, Colorado State University

• BOOM Algae, University of Colorado Boulder

• Change Composites, Colorado State University

• ChemWithRay, Colorado State University

• GameCentrics LLC, Colorado State University

• Native, University of Colorado Boulder

• NuBru Coffee, University of Colorado Boulder

• QuadshoX, Colorado State University

• Rocky Mountain Sriracha, Colorado Mesa University

• The Space Research Company LLC, University of Colorado Boulder

• Viagozo, Colorado State University

• Wise Art Foods LLC, Colorado State University

• YOUglycemia, University of Colorado Boulder

The 15 Enterprise Track competitors include:

• Behavioral Response Technologies, Boulder

• Conspire, Boulder

• Content BLVD, Los Angeles

• Extrude to Fill, Loveland

• Jebbit, Inc., Boston

• Kapta, Boulder

• Membrane Protective Technologies, Inc., Fort Collins

• Mozio, San Francisco

• Notion, Denver

• OptiEnz Sensors LLC, Fort Collins

• Parkifi, Morrison

• QBLabs, Parker

• Shelvspace Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz.

• Synkera Technologies, Inc., Longmont

• VerbalizeIt, Inc., New York

FORT COLLINS – Organizers of the Colorado State Blue Ocean Enterprises Challenge business pitch competition on Thursday announced the 28 startups that will compete for the $250,000 grand prize.

They also announced that entrepreneur Jeff Hoffman will deliver the competition’s keynote address on May 30. Hoffman has served as CEO of multiple public and private companies, and has worked for the likes of Priceline.com, uBid.com and others.

The second-annual challenge is being held May 27-30 in conjunction with Fort Collins Startup Week.

Thirteen startups were chosen to compete in the Collegiate Track and 15 in the Enterprise Track from a field of more…

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