The Little Bang is a business plan competition where student teams develop an idea for a transportation-related business. Each team creates a poster describing their idea and gives a short pitch to a panel of judges (venture capitalists and transportation experts/faculty). The teams are judged based on the quality of their idea (product, differentiation, market targeted, sources of sustainable competitive advantage, operating model, management team, etc.) The winning team is awarded a monetary prize.
General Competition Information
Sponsored by ITS-Davis, UC CONNECT, the
Student teams and companies prepared posters describing transportation related business ideas and pitched their concepts via short presentations to a panel of UC Davis Faculty and venture capitalist judges
Winning Team receives $5,000 (given by SARTA and the Sacramento Angels) and both the winning team and first runner-up were advanced to the semi-finalist round of the Big Bang Business Plan competition and the UCD Graduate School of Management
The Winner
Boegeskov Energy
Team members:
Kenth B Pedersen Co-founder, CEO pro tem
Matthew D Caldwell Co-founder, Development
Frank D Parker Chief Operating Officer
Derek B Larsen VP Corporate Development
Andrew Berk VP General Counsel
Daniel M Scott VP R&D
Nico Bouwkamp VP Business Development
Andrew Pedersen Technology Analyst