2008 Texas Moot Corp
Competition Nears
Thinking of starting a venture? The Texas Moot Corp Competition shows you how new ventures raise venture capital. This year’s ventures will continue the tradition of great UT Austin MBA lead start-ups that trace their fundraising directly to the Texas Moot Corp Competition…
Recent competitors in the Texas Competition include MacuCLEAR (2007, funded by Regent Technologies) Phurnace Software (2006, funded by Lone Star Ventures), Bigfoot Networks (2005, funded by Venio Capital Partners), and uShip (2004, funded by Benchmark Capital).
Come hear the latest venture ideas coming out of UT Austin at the Texas Moot
Corp Finals Competition on Wednesday, February 6 beginning at 4:00 PM
in the Legacy Events Room on the third floor in the McCombs School of Business. The winner
of the Finals will represent the
University of Texas at Austin in the 2008 Global Moot Corp Competition.
Texas Moot Corp Competition Finals Schedule
Wednesday, February 6
The Moot Corp Competition is the world’s premier business
plan competition and was started here at The University of Texas at Austin.
The Texas Moot Corp Competition is open to all graduate level University of Texas
at Austin students.
McCombs School of Business
Legacy Events Room – CBA, Third Floor
4:00 PM Fantasy Action Network (FAN)
Using handheld wireless devices, Fantasy Action Network will provide bar patrons
an innovative way to engage in Fantasy Sports while increasing bar traffic and
revenue.
Kevin Reichle, MBA 2008; Mike Hamilton, MBA 2008: Aaron Trull, MBA 2008; John
Mills, MBA 2008
4:40 PM GenVasive Biosciences
GenVasive Biosciences is an agricultural biotechnology company focused on the
value-added reselling of crop disease protection solutions through RNA-trait
expression that will sell directly to large scale genetically-modified
agribusinesses.
Chris Cano, MS Science & Technology Commercialization 2008; Abhi Ghosh, MS
Science & Technology Commercialization 2008; Doug Whitman, MS Science &
Technology Commercialization 2008
5:20 PM WeSpeak
WeSpeak is a high quality video interpretation service that uses technology
to address the fluctuating and expensive interpretation needs in hospitals and
medical institutions.
Eric Zimmerman, MBA 2008; Ryan Pinto, MBA 2008
6:00 PM qcue, llc
qcue integrates NASDAQ-like capabilities into ecommerce platforms, allowing
primary sellers to dynamically price-to-market while hosting a secondary market
seamlessly integrated with the primary market.
Barry Kahn, PhD Economics 2007; Jitendra Dalvi, MBA 2007; Andrew Mills, PhD
Computer Science 2008