Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize
What is it?
The Sabin Prize supports student and faculty efforts to start a sustainable for-profit business through cash prizes totaling $25,000. This venture prize competition also provides quality feedback from professional judges, extensive mentoring from faculty, and opportunities for participants to meet and pitch their ideas to top venture capitalists and leading industry professionals.
The Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize (the “Sabin Prize”) is an initiative created with the generous support of the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation and managed by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (“the Center”). It will be awarded to the best Yale student and/or faculty ideas for a product, service, project or program that advances a more sustainable way of life.
The Sabin Prize seeks to:
When is It?
The following are key deadlines for those interested in competing for the Sabin Prize:
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Sabin Prize Deadlines |
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Round #1 - Letter of Interest (LOI) - Due for those interested in competing for the Sabin Prize and eligibility is determined. We strongly encourage teams to submit an LOI to determine eligibility. |
LOI accepted until March 22, 2013 5:00 pm |
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Round #2 - Applications - Due for the prize by the student and/or faculty team to be evaluated by a panel of judges that are professional investors to determine the finalists. Contestants are still eligible to submit Round 2 applications even if they did not submit a Letter of Interest prior to the deadline. |
March 22, 2013 5:00 pm |
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Round #3 - Finalist Presentations - Delivered to a panel of judges and a public audience on the venture to determine a final winner. |
April 18, 9am-2pm |
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Winning Announcement of the Sabin Prize and runner-ups will take place at a special award ceremony in honor of the finalists and prize winner. |
April 18, 2pm |
Sabin Prize Contestant Workshops
The following are key dates of workshops centered on key aspects of starting a venture. All workshops will be two hours long and conducted by Yale School of Management Professor, Maureen Burke. All dates are tentative and will be confirmed shortly.
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Workshops |
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Market Research |
November 9th, 2012 |
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Intro to Accounting and Financial Modeling Click here to download workshop ppt Introduction to Financial Statements: Overview of Accounting, Balance Sheets and Valuation |
January 25, 2013 at 12:00 pm |
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Business Writing and Presentations |
February 15, 2013 at 12:00 p.m. |
Speaker Series
The Andrew Sabin Family Foundation also provided support for a speaker series (“Sabin Prize Series”) on environmental ventures, entrepreneurship and finance. This speaker series is intended to provide students and faculty with an opportunity to learn from real world entrepreneurs who are advancing more environmentally sustainable ways of living.
The following are scheduled talks by companies and organizations in the Sabin Prize Series:
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Company/Speaker(s) |
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Good Derivatives: Innovation in Environmental Finance w/Dr. Richard Sandor |
September 10th, 2012 |
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Scaling Up Innovation – Andrew Shapiro, Founder and Partner, Broadscale Group |
February 13th, 2013 |
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February 19th, 2013 @ 11:45am |
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February 27th, 2013 @ 4:30pm |
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April 12th, 2013 @ 8am to 4pm |
There will be social activities following each of the presentations in the Sabin Prize Series.
For more information about the Sabin Prize or the Sabin Prize Speaker Series, please visit our website at www.yale.edu/cbey.
For More Information
For more information on the Sabin Prize, please access the following document:
For more information about the Sabin Prize, please visit www.yale.edu/cbey or contact Stuart DeCew at stuart.decew@yale.edu.
Other Competitions
To learn more about other competitions that you might enter your social or environmental venture in - click here.
Judges Portal
For judges only, to access the applications submitted to the Sabin Environmental Venture Prize - click here.
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