BC’s Clean Venture Competition and Forum is the first and only undergraduate venture capital competition in Canada is taking place this Saturday, March 20th at UBC.

In January 132 students across 34 teams entered this competition and they are now down to 8 finalists.

Students will solve a real-world issue by developing a fantasy venture idea, presenting that plan to students posing as investors, and negotiate financing. Leaders in the venture capital, engineering, and entrepreneur industries will be present and will give direct feedback to the contestants.

Students can compete as either venture capitalist teams or entrepreneur teams. Entrepreneurs will be given an engineering focused problem, out of which they need to form a fantasy start-up. The entrepreneur teams will pitch to the Venture Capitalist (VC) students outlining their business plan: the technology they wish to implement, how they plan to implement it and basic projected financials. The VC’s will then evaluate each presentation and offer financing with a set amount of capital. There will be two rounds of negotiations between teams.

Organized by the UBC Venture Capital Private Equity Club, the Competition and Forum is an all-day event taking place from 10:30am – 6:00pm on March 20th at the Middlefield Group Lecture Theatre (HA 098) inside the Sauder School of Business in UBC .

The event is a unique opportunity for students to improve their general business acumen and knowledge of venture capital financing while networking with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

Tickets are still available for $15 and available online.

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