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Read this month's Innovation Newsletter for all the recent news from the Lester Center.
A plan to make clean energy affordable around the world
to poor, rural households without access to electricity
won the grand prize at the 2008 Global
Social Venture Competition April 18 at the Haas School.
The winning team, MicroEnergy Credits Corporation (MECC)
from Columbia Business School in New York, received the
$25,000 cash prize. This year's Global Social Venture Competition
celebrated the preliminary round entry of a record 245 teams
from 23 countries, up from 160 teams last year. See
the full story here.
Berkeley's Venture
Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) team won the Entrepreneurs'
Choice award in the Western Regional Competition on March
7, 2008 at USC. The Haas team, called San Andreas Capital,
consisted of Kevin Kopczynski, Michael Pearce, Tony Mak,
and Kaiann Drance, all MBA 08; and Kaan Ersun, MBA 09. The
team also placed third in the competition.
Lester Center announces the winners
of the 2007 INTEL+BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CHALLENGE
1st place Navaris Medical, Germany
2nd place NRG Fuels, Israel
3rd Place Trivial Solutions, Brazil
People's Choice Award Qmodule, Russia
