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Register for the Big Bang! on Startup Tree by March 3, 2025
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The UC Davis StartupTree community is your hub to expand your network—and learn about events, competitions, resources and programs on campus and beyond.
Most of the time, small things are overlooked and go unnoticed.
People assume that it is just one small item. How much harm can it really do?
When our group came together in a biodesign class, we wanted to bring attention to small things everyone uses—such as bandages, which millions of people use and that can add up to have a negative impact on the environment. Our product, Biobandage, is a 100% plastic-free, kombucha-based bandage designed to help heal wounds faster than traditional adhesive bandages. Biobandage uses kombucha’s byproduct, bacterial cellulose.
Our senior program manager, Niki Peterson, was featured on the All Things Napa radio show on KVON-AM - 1440 AM 96.9 FM. Peterson talks about our institute approach to innovation and entrepreneurship—and opportunities to get involved, including the UC Davis Big Bang! and the Think. Do. Discover speaker series. Listen to the show >
Empowering Communities in Little Bang! Poster Competition
JusCheckIt is developing an easy-to-use search engine that helps people understand their basic legal rights, the laws and the legal process, and provides access to legal representation.
JusCheckIt’s concept and team has been in development for the last six months, with our focus being toward defining our core market and evaluating potential long-term revenue streams. Over the course of the next year, we plan to compete in the full slate of Little Bang! and Big Bang!
UC Davis Students, Alum Win Poster Competition Award
Blog by Team Hitcher
Hitcher is a community-oriented ridesharing app that helps connect city dwellers and local communities to coordinate transportation for day-to-day errands and commutes.
Note: Economics and design double-major undergraduate Julie Xu wrote this blog about team Sorbit’s entrepreneurial experiences in 2018. Sorbit won a $250 competition award and a 500 Venture Well / TEAM BioInnovation award in the November 2018 Little Bang! Poster Competition: Session 1. Xu is also a 2018/19 EQUIP scholar.
Medical Innovations Win Big in 20th Annual UC Davis Business Competition
by Marianne Skoczek
A team of UC Davis graduate students captured both the $20,000 first prize, sponsored by Lorin Johnson and Marrone Bio Innovations and the $10,000 Health Sector Award, sponsored by Bayer Crop Science in the 20th annual Big Bang! Business Competition on May 20.
113 teams—representing 315 aspiring entrepreneurs—entered the 20th annual UC Davis business competition, the greatest number in Big Bang! history.
The competition drew teams from across UC Davis, as well as from the Sacramento region and throughout California, the U.S. and the world.
