Photo Submitted New Venture Development instructors and UNCL team members pose with their winnings at the Ivey Business Plan Competition in Ontario, Canada. From left: David Hinton, Michael Burton, Clayton Woodruff, Payton Lenz and Sarah Goforth. A graduate student entrepreneurship team from the U of A won first place in Canada’s prestigious Ivey Business Plan Competition , securing $20,000 to put toward their innovative solution of deterring bicycle theft without the need for a bike lock. UNCL Co., short for Universal Network Controlled Lock, is an app-enabled security device that retrofits to public bike racks, allowing riders to secure and monitor their bike without the burden of carrying a heavy lock. UNCL is the third U of A team to win the competition, held this year from Jan. 20-21 at the Morrissette Institute for Entrepreneurship at the University of Western Ontario. Previous U of A winners include Learning DifferentiatED and Picasolar in 2012 and 2013, respectively. UNCL emerged from the New Venture Development course sequence in the Sam M. Walton College of Business . The team formed when the four co-founders met in the NVD class, where CEO Michael Burton recruited them to work on his idea for a […]
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Invest The Invisible Impact
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Invest The Invisible Impact
