MIT $100K Launch Contest
Supports MIT-affiliated teams building full business plans through a final competition and broader venture exposure.
The MIT $100K Launch Contest is the grand finale of the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, a student-organized program founded in 1989 through MIT Sloan School of Management. Held each May, the Launch contest requires full business plan submissions and awards a $100,000 grand prize — the largest single non-dilutive prize in the three-contest annual cycle. MIT and the competition take no equit…
Supports MIT-affiliated entrepreneurial teams across all industries through the grand finale business plan competition awarding a $100,000 non-dilutive prize each May.
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