Rice Business Plan Competition
Startup competition · run by Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, Rice University · Houston · United States · Global
Student startup competition in Houston where university teams pitch panels of investors over several rounds, judged as a real early-stage investment decision.
Apply on the programme's own siteRice Business Plan Competition terms
Read from the programme's own page on October 29, 2026, and re-read every morning. A figure nobody states is left empty rather than estimated.
- Application deadline
- January 29, 2027
“January 29, 2027 11:59 PM CST - Applications close; deadline to submit applications” check it
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