ICE Contestant Community

Welcome to the ICE Contestant Community! Here you can find out:

• All about what it takes to win the Competition,
• Find out what others have gained from participating.
• See who has won in the past.
• Get answers to your questions.

We want this to be a great resource for you and the community, so contact us to let us know if you have suggestions, questions, critiques – anything that you think would help support the efforts of entrepreneurs in the Clean Energy Cluster.

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Mentors Provided

Get Your Idea Funded!

Are you an engineer with a great technology for changing the rules of the energy game? Or a marketing expert with a novel business concept for providing lower energy costs to consumers or commercial customers? Or do you 'just' have a lot of enthusiasm for working in a startup company with the potential to make a difference in our energy security and climate change problems?

We've had winners in each of those categories in the first two years of the $125K Ignite Clean Energy Business Presentation Competition. A few examples:

• Solasta has a state-of-the-art nanomaterials technology that may revolutionize the efficiency - and economics - of solar cells;
• PowerHouse Enterprises leverages the cost savings of modular building to bring to market cost-competitive, high efficiency homes that are beautiful and have solar cells;
• Feed Resource Recovery is the brainchild of a Babson business school student who is using existing technology to process food waste into fuel and fertilizer;

Get a Team!

If you have an idea and a team, our goal this year is to supply your team with three mentors. If you have an idea but need expertise in business or technology, we'll help you find teammates. If all you have is enthusiasm for working on a team doing clean energy business development - or you just want to get more experience at being an entrepreneur - we'll help you find a team.

Our goal is to help build the clean energy cluster by providing entrepreneurs with the tools and contacts to take their companies to the next level. Clusters are composed of companies at all levels, from the most cutting edge, high risk/high reward tech-based startup to the companies that offer supplies and services to the major corporations in the sector. While the high risk/high reward companies get the most attention, they are just one important component of the cluster. Thus, ICE is open to all compelling business ideas, from those based on the hottest technology to those that use old technology in a new way.

Why a Business Plan Competition?