Competition Sponsors

  • Lockheed Martin
  • TVC – Technology Ventures Corporation
  • Sandia National Labs
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Public Service Company of NM
  • Altela
  • Anderson School TIP Endowment
  • vSpring Capital
  • KickStart
  • Sun Mountain
  • Peacock Myers, IP Law Services
  • Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

UNM Technology Business Plan

About the Competition

TBPC The UNM Technology Business Plan Competition encourages UNM students from all UNM schools and colleges to collaborate on teams that commercialize technology products developed at UNM, Sandia National Labs, Los Alamos National Lab, or elsewhere in the state. These student-owned startup firms bring inventions from lab to market and have the potential to TBPC offers team exposure for their business and prize funding for their firm.

The complete rules contain helpful information and should be read thoroughly as a first step in the process.

Upcoming Events

Protocell
  • FEB 8, 2012, Before 5PM - Intent to Present (I2P) Forms Due Before 5PM: Business Plan Competitions (EC & TBPC) (More...)
  • FEB 10, 2012, 11:30AM (ASM 1064) - Business Plan Competitions, Seminar 4 (More...)
  • FEB 24, 2012, 11:30AM (ASM 1064) - Business Plan Competitions, Seminar 5 (More...)
  • MAR 23, 2012, 11:30AM (ASM 1064) - Business Plan Competitions, Business Plan Competitions, Seminar 6: Financials -- REQUIRED for EC & TBPC (10/21/2011 or 3/23/2012) (More...)
  • APR 5, 2012, Before 5PM - Written Plans and Competition Entry Forms Due Before 5PM: Business Plan Competitions (EC & TBPC) (More...)
  • APR 20, 2012, All Morning, Afternoon, and Evening - Technology Business Plan Competition and Entrepreneurial Challenge, Competition and Awards Day (More...)

NOTE: The Technology Business Plan Competition (TBPC) is specifically focused on creating new technology companies with proprietary intellectual property, firms that can be funded by venture and/or angel capital groups. The TBPC is not open to projects better suited to the Entrepreneurial Challenge (EC), even if the project includes a technology component. Students should check with Dr. Sul Kassicieh, sul@unm.edu, early in the process if they are not certain which competition is a better fit.

SEMINARS: The series of six seminars is sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory and helps to prepare students for the UNM Technology Business Plan Competition. A leading professional in the field of accounting, business finance, new business funding, technology management, business plan presentation skills, or other related area will offer students an extension of the knowledge they gain in the classroom.

See the Flash Presentation from Last Year's Competition

"The UNM Technology Business Plan Competition is an unprecedented opportunity in my academic experience. I am not sure that without it my partners and I would be pursuing our own start-up firm. The competition allows students from diverse backgrounds to get their feet wet by meeting entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, scientists and engineers. It allows the opportunity to exercise all the business disciplines within a real business paradigm. This competition was the capstone of my MBA education."

J.B. Tuttle, Marketing Director for Microtection, LLC. Microtection (formerly MicroHound) won the $25,000 Michael Gallegos Prize for Entrepreneurship in 2009 and is working to commercialize a portable trace explosives and narcotics detector developed at Sandia National Laboratories.
Web site: http://microtection.com/

Microtection