Sunstone supports student entrepreneurs at CSU-wide competition
Imagine gathering nearly 100 of the top university innovators and entrepreneurs in California together in one place, pitching their ideas in a competition to win enough money to start making their dreams come true.
Well, you don’t have to imagine anymore. On May 5, the Sunstone CSU Startup Competition will do just that at San José State University. Teams from 18 of the 23 California State University campuses will gather in a pitch competition with a total of $200,000 in prize money at stake.
Hosted by the SJSU SpartUp Program, this is the second year of the Sunstone Startup Competition. In 2022, teams from five campuses gathered at Cal State Long Beach for the first competition under the auspices of the CSULB Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Sunstone Management, a diversified private capital sponsor firm headquartered in Irvine, Calif., focuses on early-stage startup companies through partnerships with higher education institutions, governments, accelerators and more. Sunstone sponsored the event through its donor-advised fund, Sunstone Community Fund.
“The founders of Sunstone Management believe that the California State University system, with its 23 great universities and more than 500,000 creative and talented students, will be responsible for creating several new technology startups that will shape the future of the California economy — the 4th largest economy in the world,” said Sunstone CEO John Keisler.
Two pre-qualified teams of student entrepreneurs from each campus will pitch their startups to panels of expert judges. There will be five tracks in the competition — two product tracks, two services tracks and a social entrepreneurship track.
Judges will evaluate pitches based on desirability, feasibility, and viability. There will be first, second and third place awards in each track, winning $25,000, $10,000 and $5,000 respectively.
This is a competition…
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