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Prizes

Rice Business Plan Competition

Status

Usually opens in December and January and February

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
$1,000,000

Over US$1m in cash and prizes distributed across the field, the largest student startup competition prize pool in the world

Funder

Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, Rice University

private · regional

Deadline: One call a year — Applications close in the winter (typically February) for an April competition in Houston

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Student-led ventures from universities worldwide. Must not have raised more than a published limit in outside equity.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work · UEI and SAM.gov registration, explained

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://rbpc.rice.edu/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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