
First Prize: $75,000
MabLab, Columbia University and Harvard University
MabLab is the first at-home rapid test strip capable of screening for the five deadliest lacing agents, which accounts for 91% of overdoses from laced drugs — resulting in more than 1.5x increase in testing efficacy over current products on the market.
Second Prize: $30,000
Exactics, Tulane University and University of Chicago
Exactics has created QuickLyme® which is a lab-free rapid test that allows users to test ticks on themselves or their pets. Exactics is an affordable, 15-minute diagnostic solution that can not only determine if the tick is carrying Lyme disease, but whether the tick has actually transmitted the disease.
Third Prize: $20,000
TranscribeGlass, Yale University and Cornell University
TranscribeGlass is the world's first smart glasses designed for people with hearing loss, providing real-time subtitles for conversations. Lightweight, comfortable, and discreet, it delivers over 93% accurate speech recognition with <300ms latency—even in noisy, multi-speaker environments.
Previous Competitions
- 2024 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2023 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2022 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2021 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2020 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2019 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2018 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2017 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2016 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2015 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2014 Tulane Business Model Competition
- 2013 Tulane Business Plan Competition
- 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition
- 2011 Tulane Business Plan Competition
- 2010 Tulane Business Plan Competition
- 2009 Tulane Business Plan Competition
- 2008 Tulane Business Plan Competition