Do you want to witness the birth of great businesses of the future?
Do you want to see how entrepreneurship overlaps with social causes?

Then come and see the TigerLaunch Final at 2 p.m. on February 20th in
McCosh 10.

TigerLaunch is a “business plan competition” in which contestants
present their detailed business ideas to a panel of judges. This year,
there are TWO tracks including the regular Business Entrepreneurship

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TOP TEN:

Cocherapy

Cocherapy provides free videos of speech therapy for cochlear implant users, and functions as a social networking tool that allows the community to connect and learn from each other.

em[POWER]

em[POWER] will turn the high organic content of landfill waste into a renewable energy source, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and providing a sustainable revenue stream for communities living on landfills.

Filtron Nigeria

Filtron Nigeria aims to improve the quality of life and health of millions of people across Nigeria by providing them access to clean drinking water through the production and distribution of low-cost ceramic water filters.

Full Harvest Foundation

Full Harvest Foundation assists ex-offenders in re-builiding their lives and achieving self-sufficiency by equipping them with professional and culinary arts skills learned through training and hands-on experience.

ITSERA

ITSERA aims to improve the lives of Thai women by training and employing them with crafting luxury handbags sold in developed markets.

Malaria Webtools Initiative

Malaria Webtools Initiative aims to create an accessible, community-shared web tool that informs policymakers about malaria in a way that is customizable, maximizing value for that user.

NJ Alliance for Civic Engagement

The NJACE is devoted to supporting civic engagement of NJ’s youth. The NJACE seeks to remove the barriers for youth civic engagement and provide the resources and environment to enable youth to enter into the public debate as equal players.

Project Thrive

Project Thrive aims to bring modern agricultural inputs and farming techniques to Cambodia and to combat human trafficking through a profitable enterprise.

Sauti Ya Kina Mama

Sauti Ya Kina Mama promotes women’s breast health in Kenya by educating in order to change perceptions about breast cancer and to improve outcomes for breast cancer patients.

Social Xchange

SocialXchange.org strives to enable a new era of online volunteering by offering non-profits access to an online workforce while offering volunteers access to online civic engagement opportunities.

OTHER SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENTRIES:

Class Connect

Class Connect aims to facilitate communication and management in primary and secondary school education by leveraging web and cell phone technologies.

Covering All Care for Kids

CAC aims to make sure that every child with cancer in America receives full treatment and support by raising funds to provide affected families with financial aid.

Freedom Fashion

Freedom Fashion aims to free the maximum amount of rural artisans from poverty and degradation by increasing U.S. consumer demand and visibility of their crafts.

International Development Action Network

IDAN advises African and Chinese stakeholders through a high-level network of researchers and experts, in order to bring the most benefit to the poorest African citizens.

KIPP SIP

KIPP SIP harnesses the energy, interests, talents, and skills of college students to tackle issues in education reform. KIPP SIP offers to KIPP schools and regions concentrated manpower, fresh perspectives, and exposure so that today’s KIPP SIP interns will become tomorrow’s KIPP teachers and school leaders.

Make It, Inc.

Make It, Inc. offers financial literacy classes – in creating savings accounts, understanding credit, planning for college and retirement, etc. – and provides the technological and online resources necessary to educate low-income citizens about their finances.

myGift

MyGift will create applications that allow its users to quickly find reputable charities and facilitate easy and fluid donations. MyGift will provide its users with a comprehensive list of categorized and searchable charities with an intuitive interface to promote regular use.

Veterans’ Campaign

Veterans’ Campaign uses an integrated training approach to help veteran candidates improve their chances of getting elected into public office.

BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP TOP TEN:

Bright Investments

Bright Investments seeks to increase the installed solar capacity in New Jersey by making participation in solar energy generation available to a massive, untapped market segment.

CoAx Systems

CoAx Systems plans to bring to market its unique, patentable approach to designing wellfields for ground-source, “geothermal,” heat pumps, reducing the installed cost of geothermal heating and cooling systems by 30-40%.

GiveTexts

GiveTexts is a social textbook price comparison website where for every purchase made through GiveTexts, we make a donation to the charity of the purchaser’s choice.

GreenShop

GreenShop.com is an online and mobile phone shopping utility that allows users to look up a product’s environmental impact and price and compare it to those of similar products.

KeyDrop

KeyDrop is a key-activated energy-saving light switch designed to replace the standard light switch next to the exit inside the room.

Muugu.com

Muugu.com aims to create a single website that connects all devices and games to one database, social network, currency economy, and contest technology.

ReVino Reclaimed Wine Bottles, LLC

ReVino Reclaimed Wine Bottles, LLC seeks to unleash the economic and environmental potential of reclaimed glass wine bottles by collecting, sterilizing, and redistributing them to create price-competitive and eco-friendly alternatives to new wine bottle production and disposal.

TransACTion Technologies

TransACTion Technologies digitizes sales receipts as well as other standard retail media to reduce environmental and business costs of paper waste, while providing both retailer and consumer with convenient tools to optimize their sales and purchases, respectively.

Twitterlytix

Twitterlytix is a consulting company that specializes in Twitter analysis for clients ranging from corporations to politicians and government leaders.

Zwaldo

Zwaldo is a free website and set of associated mobile applications that allows students to see where their friends are on a map and see what they have been saying. They can text, email or call these friends directly through the site and application.

OTHER BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENTRIES:

GEM.COM

GEM.COM allows businesses to receive payments, free of charges and transaction fees through a cloud computing payment network.

Groupling

Groupling helps people discover what’s going on around them and stay up-to-date on and connected with that which they find important.

Hypermile, LLC

Hypermile aims to make it easier for everyone to save fuel by helping them ‘hypermile’ on a daily basis.

TheFlexibleFlyer

TheFlexibleFlyer finds you flights and hotels based on what you want to see instead of where you want to be. Spend more time traveling and less time searching.

YourWorldLive

YourWorldLive develops iPhone/Android applications that utilize a map interface to help users find events, people, and posts.

Zimzarra.com

Zimzarra capitalizes on the knowledge economy, connecting visionaries with the necessary organizational frameworks and specific skill sets they need to deliver their ideas from inception to exhibition.