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Behind the Scenes at the Annual Rice Business Plan Competition

By David A. Kaplan and Anne VanderMey

It may not have the ubiquity of Facebook or the scale of Wal-mart, but NuMat Technologies someday could change the world just a little bit. At least that's what the audacious student entrepreneurs behind it believe. Download the entire Fortune article (PDF).

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Black Locus, 2011, named Start-ups to Watch in 2012 | Inc.com
Auditude, 2005, sold to Adobe for $110 million
Are You a Human, 2011, New Ways to Captcha Bots
Dynamics, 2009, Announces Multiple Volume Launch Agreements for Next-Generation Magnetic Stripe Payment Cards
ClearCount’s (2004) SmartSponge System Named 2011 International Design Excellence Awards Finalist
MicroTransponder, 2008, Tech Titan award-2010, Frost & Sullivan Early Stage Investment of the Year Award-2011
C3Nano, 2010, winner of NASA Game Changer Award
Veron Medical Tech, 2003, Launches New SPiN Drive Application for Bi-Planar Virtual Fluoroscopy View
ATDynamics, 2004, fits entire trucking fleet of 300 with TrailerTails
OsComp, 2010, customer orders in excess of $2.2 million
SmarterShade Graduates from GreenStart, San Francisco’s Cleantech Accelerator
MicroGREEN, 2003, Series B financing round generated $6.9 million
Ambiq Micro, 2010, 3 startups that showcase the future of chips
Rebellion Photonics, 2010, finalists for the Prism Awards for Photonics Innovation.
Polytorx, LLC, 2003, sells Helix, concrete additive, worldwide in 30 countries

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