Winners
EBPC participants join a diverse ecosystem of entrepreneurs and mentors to support them in launching their ventures—which means you don’t need to be a winner to win big. Explore how EBPC founders are leveraging innovation to eliminate barriers for underserved communities and to create equitable outcomes for all learners across the education landscape.
Since 2010, the competition has awarded more than $1.5 million in cash prizes. Winners have gone on to secure more than $150 million in funding.
2023 Winners press release
2023 Finalists press release
2023 Competition press release
The finalists also received a portion of $50,000 in Amazon Web Services credits and $1,500–2,000 cash each from Catalyst @ Penn GSE.
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$40,000 Foundations of the Michael & Lori Milken Family Grand Prize
Unlocked labs
Unlocked Labs empowers and employs justice-impacted individuals to design and build technology that promotes human flourishing and enables decarceration.
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$25,000 Cognativ Inc. Prize
Skizaa
Skizaa helps education leaders make real-time data-driven decisions by collecting and analyzing data from rural schools in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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$10,000 Magnitude Digital Prize
Storyshares
Storyshares is a literacy organization, dedicated to dreaming up a new shelf in the global library filled with diverse, compelling, and accessible books to engage & inspire the millions of underrepresented teens and adults and transform them into readers.
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$5,000 Audience Choice Prize presented by Osage Venture Partners
Unlocked labs
Unlocked Labs empowers and employs justice-impacted individuals to design and build technology that promotes human flourishing and enables decarceration.
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$100,000 investment from Conscious Venture Partners
EdVisorly
EdVisorly partners with top 4-year university enrollment teams to expand awareness for their institution across motivated and talented community college transfer students.
