Past New Venture Winners
2022 New Venture Fair
The New Venture Fair was back in person in 2022! There were 60 startup projects this year, including from Cal Lutheran’s undergraduate, graduate, and Executive MBA in Europe programs, in addition to students from Oaks Christian High School, Thousand Oaks High School, Bakersfield Christian High School, and a middle school team from Start-Up Kids and One Spark Academy. The student projects were also available to view online for one week leading up to the in-person expo, and members of the community voted for their favorites.
| Prize | Team | Startup Idea | Members | Prize $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best Executive Summary | Compeer |
Simplify applying and hiring. |
Peter Amoroso |
$500 |
| Best Brochure | 360 Mountain |
Guiding ferrate climbing beginners safely on their way up rock faces before they climb. |
Stefan Boubela |
$500 |
| Best Sign | SpotMe | Ensuring cyclist safety with a smart-lighting flexible LED panel, mounted to helmets or clothing, controlled by an app. | Hans-Juergen Handler Manuel Pripfl Barbara Prosen Peter Schwarz Armin Treichler Radovan Tucovic |
$500 |
| Best Sign Hustle | MVP Everything | Lifestyle brand that ties together the sports, fashion, and music industries. | Nick Acosta | $1,000 |
| Best Video | Insite | Swipe your career - match with the perfect job. | Dominic Haffner Julia Rabitsch Sophie Spitzer Martina Stiegler |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth (track) | CODA | Connecting creatives for recreational and professional reasons. | Tatiana Gutride Ethan Craig Allison Pine |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth (track) | Chicken on the Move | A one-stop shop knowledge exchange platform to support you in your life as a global nomad. | Gernot Grasser Claudia Koerbler Andreas Nickl-Steiner Elma Sadaj Lena Wirl |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth (track) | Go Global |
Improving the way you study abroad. |
Christina Whyte |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth (track) | Waqo Handpicked | Providing high-quality, natural products and formulations, with the passion to share African herbal beauty secrets with the world. | Bontu Wako | $1,000 |
| Beat Booth (track) | Metasouvenirs | With NFT souvenirs, you can finally own a piece of your most loved sights and places. | Tibor Zajki-Zechmeister Michael Maier Rudolf Scholz Johannes Sobe |
$1,000 |
| Best MVP | Metasouvenirs | With NFT souvenirs, you can finally own a piece of your most loved sights and places. | Tibor Zajki-Zechmeister Michael Maier Rudolf Scholz Johannes Sobe |
$2,500 |
| People's Choice - CLU (online) |
Chicken on the Move | A one-stop shop knowledge exchange platform to support you in your life as a global nomad. | Gernot Grasser Claudia Koerbler Andreas Nickl-Steiner Elma Sadaj Lena Wirl |
$500 |
| People's Choice - HS (online) |
Athleague | Providing opportunities for athlethes to find competition and community. | Gabriel Lara Om Patki Devansh Kaushik Yvon Kim |
$300 |
| People's Choice - CLU (in person) |
MVP Everything | Lifestyle brand that ties together the sports, fashion, and music industries. | Nick Acosta | $500 |
| People's Choice - HS (in person) |
Fithub | Connecting the virtual world with the fitness world in a flexible, cost effective way for everyone. | Danny Schultz Lukas LeChau Tyler Flosi |
$300 |
| Best Booth High School (track) |
Staffify | Connecting businesses downsizing with businesses hiring to ensure that no hard working person will go jobless for long periods of time. | Dylan Rubin Jack Nowlin |
$300 |
| Best Booth High School (track) |
Catch | Helping to save more animals one adoption at a time by matching people with their perfect pets from shelters and foster organizations. | Caleb Zirretta Isabella Marasco Preston Cook |
$300 |
| Best Booth High School (track) |
Fat Wax | An environmentally-friendly surf wax. | Trevor Bennett Lucas Nave |
$300 |
| Best Booth High School (track) |
Monster Strike | Bringing back Trading Card games to the eyes and reach of kids all over the world. |
Gavin Saint |
$300 |
| Best Booth High School (track) |
Precision Platters | Facilitating finding restaurant options for those with dietary restrictions or food preferences. | Ava Whittaker Falon Butcher Paris Boyd |
$300 |
| Best Booth High School (track) |
LifeProof Shoes | At-home, DIY kit that keeps your shoes cleaner for longer and is environmentally friendly. | Chelsey Luc | $300 |
| Best MVP | Metasouvenirs | With NFT souvenirs, you can finally own a piece of your most loved sights and places. | Tibor Zajki-Zechmeister Michael Maier Rudolf Scholz Johannes Sobe |
$2,500 |
2021 New Venture Fair (virtual)
The New Venture Fair went virtual in 2021. The student projects were available to view online for an entire week, and judges and members of the community voted for their favorites.
| Prize | Team | Members | Prize $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Executive Summary | ParkRite |
Griffin Kerscher |
$500 |
| Best Brochure | Today We Shape The Future |
Ariana Avila Torres |
$500 |
| Startup for Good | Yalla |
Tamar Haddad
Devon Pesantes
Kassandra Diaz Katelin Jamal Matt Miller |
$500 |
| Startup for Good | ALL | Jessica Lopez | $500 |
| Startup for Good | BaseChow | Joshua Tulier Natalie Kim Emilio Mora Nicholas Schaub |
$500 |
| Startup for Good | Today We Shape The Future | Ariana Avila Torres Nirvana Amaya Camila Stephens Joseph Casas Zach DeHovitz |
$500 |
| Startup for Good | TripleX - Smart Biowaste | Verena Fallmann Carina Gross Andreas Stemberger |
$500 |
| Startup for Good | Sage Start | Erin Hakim | $500 |
| People's Choice | TripleX - Smart Biowaste | Verena Fallmann Carina Gross Andreas Stemberger |
$500 |
| People's Choice | bikeCredible | Rudolf Hollmann Ryan Ignacio Michael Leitner Nikolaus Voller |
$500 |
| Best Booth | ParkRite | Griffin Kerscher Miguel Mendoza Tushar Singh |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | Medical Expert | Luzia Derflinger Krisztina Hajdu Johannes Leitner Kristina Tsvetanova |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | Adoptimal | Valerie Boeckel Claudia Felsberger Melanie Leber |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | The Maven | Jiaying Liu Saurav Aggarwal Thomas Hamburger Wehida Niazi |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | EZ Media | Evan Vega Barrett Laroda Jenna Loy Victor Dontsov |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | Instasmile | Malwin Haas Thomas Neger-Loibner Thomas Rockenbauer Franz Thauerboeck |
$1,000 |
| Judges' Choice | Adoptimal | Valerie Boeckel Claudia Felsberger Melanie Leber |
$2,500 |
SEE 2021 TEAM PROJECTS
2020 New Venture Fair (virtual)
The New Venture Fair went virtual in 2020. The student projects were available to view online for an entire week. Judges and members of the community engaged via Q&A and voted for their favorites.
We are so proud of our students' resilience and the ingenuity and creativity they demonstrated in their projects. The online competitions also made a significant global impact!
| Prize | Team | Members | Prize $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Executive Summary | Cater Time |
Cameron Hashemi |
$500 |
| Best Brochure | Herbin' Planting |
Cameron Jones |
$500 |
| Startup for Good | Mobile Mart |
Tracy Thompson
|
$500 |
| People's Choice (website) | We Clean Beaches |
Tyler Nishikawa |
$500 |
| Best Booth | Herbin' Planting | Cameron Jones Anna Liljas Alison Rhodes |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | StudioKit | Laura (Lour) Vosilla | $1,000 |
| Best Booth | We Clean Beaches | Tyler Nishikawa Brian Merritt Nicole Ashmore Mckenna Levasseur Tripp Antonio Valle Marc Quezada Allyssa Reyes |
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | ad-on |
Fritz Kleemann |
$1,000 |
| People's Choice (MVP) | Creator Capitol |
|
$500 |
| Best MVP | Pass It On | Blacke Rocha Monica Robles |
$1,500 |
| Best MVP | StudioKit | Laura (Lour) Vosilla | $1,500 |
2019 New Venture Fair
| Prize | Team | Members | Prize $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Executive Summary | Pa'rriba | Kassey Guzman Magana | $500 |
| Best Sign | Pa'rriba | Kassey Guzman Magana | $500 |
| Best Brochure | Specs4Kids |
Stefan Lackner
Veronika Neubauer
Lukas Schweighofer
Matthias Traub
|
$500 |
| Best Recorded Pitch | RecruitU | Chad Taylor | $500 |
| Best MVP | Bodhi Hub | Marvin Rue Jr | $2,000 |
| Best Booth | ReSmoothIT | Daniel Doff-Sotta
Petra Ebner
Thomas Makrandreou
Thomas Reifmesser
|
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | Austro-Hops | Isolde Fastner
Christian Kuebek
Andrea Reisinger
Sabrina Surenjan
|
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | Flushy | Stefan Matschiner
Josef Poernbacher
Andreas Schadler
Wolfgang Troppauer
|
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | ASIS Composter |
Johann Dias
Matthew Hart
Kaija Schoeld
Ella Soiland
|
$1,000 |
| Best Booth | RecruitU | Chad Taylor | $1,000 |
| People’s Choice | Rush Life |
Landon Navarro
Mackenzie Thomas
|
$1,000 |
2018 New Venture Fair
| Prize | Team | Members | Prize $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best Pitch | #Local | Garrett Kay, Nick Loomis, Austin Janik | $500 |
| Best Brochure | Red Rose Project | Brianna Bryan | $500 |
| Best MVP | FamWe | Evan Brandt | $750 |
| Best MVP | #Local | Garrett Kay, Nick Loomis, Austin Janik | $750 |
| Best Booth | RecruitU | Chad Taylor | $500 |
| People's Choice | Virtual Athletics | Austin Janik, Joshua Janik | $500 |
| Advance to NVVC | FamWe | Evan Brandt | $500 |
| Advance to NVVC | Liborio Markets | Daniel Medina | $500 |
| Advance to NVVC | ProductionHog | Lour Vosilla | $500 |
| Advance to NVVC | Red Rose Project | Brianna Bryan | $1,000 |
| Advance to NVVC | Virtual Athletics | Austin Janik, Joshua Janik | $1,000 |
| NVVC First | Virtual Athletics | Austin Janik, Joshua Janik | $5,000 |
| NVVC Second | #Local | Garrett Kay, Nick Loomis, Austin Janik | $2,500 |
| NVVC Third | Red Rose Project | Brianna Bryan | $1,250 |
2017 New Venture Competition
2017 Awards:
Grand Prize: Weave (Austin Janik, Joshua Janik, Dominic Lunde)
First Place: ChorStor (Evan Brandt, Jake Gould)
2nd Place: HypoxAware (Tyler Gross, Ryan Gibson)
3rd Place: SoleFit (Molly Strawn, Machenzie Hiatt, Bhushan Parulekar, Sam Ott)
4th Place: Startup Kids (Tyler Lucas, Nathaniel Thompson, Dariush Apfelthaler, Zujaja Tehreem)
People's Choice Award: ChorStor
2016 New Venture Competition
2016 Awards:
Grand Prize: Coding Autism (Oliver Thorton)
First Place: RepWatch (Ryan Angel, John Ikudaisi, Robert Kyler, Alexis Schomer)
2nd Place: Xchange (Jonathan Luu)
3rd Place: Jam In (Brianna Bryan, Josh Cardena, Parker Boone, Devin Dimattia, Nick Keithley, Omar Marroquin, Karly, Absher)
4th Place: SkyEarth (Matthew Kromka)
People's Choice Award: Xchange
2015 New Venture Competition