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2021 Summer Launch

  • by Christina

Check out our special summer issue of Launch for the latest in Aggie Innovator news. Grow your entrepreneurial skill set and expand your network at the UC Entrepreneurship Academy, Leaders for the Future fellowship program, Berkeley Skydeck acceleration program and UC Davis Office of Research Venture Catalyst’s latest Knowledge Exchange webinar. Read the issue > Sign up for the newsletter > 

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‘Moore’ Face Time with the Chancellor

  • by Cody Kitaura | UC Davis

Mahiri Moore Jr., a sophomore who founded Moore Truth More Change to engage Black and Latinx youths, talks with Chancellor May in the latest episode of Face to Face, a new UC Davis video show featuring #AggieInnovators. They met last winter, when the chancellor was Mahiri’s debut guest on his new podcast. Watch the video >

 

25th Annual Big Bang! Business Competition

2024 Big Bang! Finalists

The UC Davis Big Bang! Business Competition provides a forum for innovators to collaborate as they develop and test business ideas.

View our 2024 finalists below.

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What Is Blackstone LaunchPad @ UC Davis

Complement. Catalyze. Convene.

The Mike and Renee Child Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is thrilled to collaborate with the Blackstone Charitable Foundation to bring the latest in entrepreneurship skill building and resources to UC Davis students.

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Congratulations, 2021 Big Bang! Finalists

  • by Christina
Congratulations, 2021 Big Bang! Finalists Forty-five teams—representing 135 aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs—entered the 21st annual UC Davis business competition.

The competition drew students and alumni from across UC Davis, as well as from colleges and universities throughout California. Together, the Big Bang! and Little Bang!

Andy (Che-An) Wu EQUIP Scholar

Andy (Che-An) Wu

  • EQUIP Alumnus
Andy (Che-An) Wu graduated with a B.S. in computer science. Andy’s career goal is to become a tech-entrepreneur and make a huge difference in this world. He is always looking for opportunities to become a better programmer and to make connections with other passionate individuals. Wu’s interests include software engineering, app development and artificial intelligence. Today he is a software engineer at Zscaler.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Create Jobs?

  • by Christina

Founded by Lisa Illes, PHIXED SYSTEMS is featured on the UC Davis Curiosity Gap Blog, excerpted from a story in Forbes exploring how artificial intelligence can create jobs. 2020 Big Bang! award winner PHIXED SYSTEMS is an advanced analytics platform technology for bio-manufacturing. Read the articles: UC Davis > Forbes >

Sorbit won a $250 competition award and a 500 Venture Well / TEAM BioInnovation award in the November 2018 Little Bang! Poster Competition: Session 1.

Sorbit Succeeds in Little Bang! Poster Competition

  • by Julie Xu, Undergraduate Design and Economics Major and 2018/19 EQUIP Scholar
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.

 

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Celebrating International Women’s Day

  • by Christina

This International Women’s Day, we are celebrating the smart, engaged, innovative students and post-docs in our Business Development and Keller Pathway Fellowship programs.

Read how their research will better our world:

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