Cozad Competition

The Cozad Competition (CNVC) is designed to encourage students, researchers, and community members to create new sustainable businesses. Teams are invited to create a venture around a topic of their choice. The competition process offers teams assistance in the form of: mentors to help guide them through the phases of venture creation, workshops to help with idea validation, pitching skills, customer development, and more as well as and courses to enhance their skills and knowledge. Teams who make it to the final rounds of competition will have the opportunity to meet with venture capitalists, early stage investors and successful entrepreneurs who will serve as judges for the finals round. The judges will determine up to 10 finalist teams that will present their ventures at the finals event. These teams will compete for an estimated $50,000 in cash, plus valuable in-kind prizes.