Rice Business Plan Competition
Usually opens in December and January and February
Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.
Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.
Over US$1m in cash and prizes distributed across the field, the largest student startup competition prize pool in the world
Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, Rice University
private · regional
Deadline: annual_call — Applications close in the winter (typically February) for an April competition in Houston
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: deeptech, health, energy, any
- Stage: idea, pre_seed
Student-led ventures from universities worldwide. Must not have raised more than a published limit in outside equity.
Source. https://rbpc.rice.edu/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked