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New Venture Competition

New Venture Competition

  • Eligibility & Rules
  • Judges
  • Judging Criteria
  • Prizes & Benefits
  • NVC Regions
  • Resources
  • Regional Winners
  • Eligibility & Rules
  • Judges
  • Judging Criteria
  • Prizes & Benefits
  • NVC Regions
  • Resources
  • Regional Winners

ALUMNI GLOBAL FINALE
MARCH 23 – 12-1 PM


Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live competition, each venture presented a brief pitch to the judges and audience, with the more than 400 audience members then invited to vote for a Crowd Favorite winner.

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ALUMNI GLOBAL FINALE
MARCH 23 – 12-1 PM

Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live competition, each venture presented a brief pitch to the judges and audience, with the more than 400 audience members then invited to vote for a Crowd Favorite winner.


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Creating Ventures that Revolutionize

The New Venture Competition is an annual student and alumni competition sponsored by Harvard Business School's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative and HBS Clubs and Associations. The competition is open to HBS alumni founders with early-stage ventures, and winners receive an invitation to the Global Finals Round and NVC Finale. The New Venture Competition alumni track (aNVC) serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential investors, mentors, and advisors. The competition is open to HBS alumni founders, with early-stage ventures, and winners receive an invitation to the Global Finals Round and NVC Finale.

KEY STEPS

  1. APPLY. Applications open November 15, 2022 and close January 30, 2023.
  2. CONNECT. Apply to one of 8 global regions and participate in local programming, mentorship and early-stage feedback opportunities. *Club activities vary by region.
  3. COMMIT. The deadline for submission is January 30, 2023 at 12:00pm noon ET (Boston time). A pitch deck (pdf) is required.
  4. REGIONAL COMPETITIONS. Each region will shortlist applicants to pitch their plans at their local competition—an opportunity to gain invaluable feedback, exposure, and experience. The regional winners will move forward to the global finals round. Each region will determine if their competition will take place in-person or virtually.
  5. GLOBAL FINALS ROUND & ALUMNI NVC FINALE. The selected regional winners will present to a panel of judges in late March. The top 4 teams will also pitch at the Finale event where the Grand Prize and Runner-Up winners will be announced. These events will take place virtually.

Tough Tech Prize

The Rock Center in collaboration with the HBS Digital, Health Care, and Business and Environment Initiatives, offers the Tough Technology Prize as part of the HBS New Venture Competition. Through our collective efforts, we want to recognize (co)founders where the venture has challenging proof-points of development typical of tough technology ventures.

Tough Tech ventures are those working on transformative technology that solves the world's most important challenges through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership. It can also be thought of as being a breakthrough idea in which founders and investors are not likely to realize an early profit.

If you believe that your venture is eligible to be considered for the Tough Tech Prize, then you will find an option to self-select your venture for this prize in the application form.



    KEY DATES 

  • MAR17
    • Friday
      March 17, 2023

    8-10 global finalists are notified and invited to pitch at NVC Finale event

  • MAR21
    • Tuesday
      March 21, 2023

    Global Finalists participate in Final judging round (Closed session)

  • MAR23
    • Thursday
      March 23, 2023

    Global Finale program live: 12-1pm EST

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