{"id":8253,"date":"2018-09-20T12:31:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=8253"},"modified":"2018-09-20T12:31:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T19:31:33","slug":"new-ventures-from-ucsb-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/new-ventures-from-ucsb-students\/","title":{"rendered":"New Ventures from UCSB Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/33938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/rokupicts\/33938.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>After eight months of activities and curriculum the UCSB New Venture Competition culminated with six teams presenting a pitch and a question-and-answer session for a panel of expert judges and an enthusiastic audience of peers, faculty and mentors.<\/p>\n<p>The finalist teams, pared down from an initial pool of 32, represented diverse technologies and industries. The top six teams were: <strong>MoreSolar<\/strong>, utilizing wind power as a novel method for cleaning solar panels to increase efficiency; <strong>Adomi<\/strong>, addressing California&#8217;s housing shortage with a scalable solution that is also profitable to homeowners; <strong>Okra Systems<\/strong>, software for engineers that streamlines the process of selecting and qualifying microcontrollers; <strong>Snip<\/strong>, a social media platform for podcast lovers that allows users to curate and share podcasts; <strong>Soilight<\/strong> utilizing the microbes in soil to provide energy for low-powered applications; and <strong>Veneta<\/strong>, a web- and mobile-based software service that streamlines inventory management research labs.<\/p>\n<p>Meet these young tech entrepreneurs and see who landed in the top spot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/33938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch 2018 New Venture Competition Finals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After eight months of activities and curriculum the UCSB New Venture Competition culminated with six teams presenting a pitch and a question-and-answer session for a panel of expert judges and an enthusiastic audience of peers, faculty and mentors. The finalist teams, pared down from an initial pool of 32, represented diverse technologies and industries. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[733,734,29,64,2],"tags":[732,137,735,736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}