2025 University-Wide Innovation Competition

Sac State University-Wide Innovation Competition

The Sacramento State University-Wide Innovation Competition is an opportunity for student innovators and entrepreneurs to showcase their ideas, technologies, and/or businesses while receiving mentorship, and the opportunity to win prize money and experience personal development.

Two Students pitch plant nursery

Innovation and startup applications are accepted from across the campus, from any College, Department or Center.
All majors are welcome!

About the University-Wide Innovation Competition

If you are a student - innovator, researcher, or entrepreneur looking to, or already working on, building a venture or turning an idea into reality, the University-Wide Innovation Competition is for you. The pitch competition is open to all majors and provides innovative student ideas, technologies, and/or startups with the opportunity to compete for cash prizes. In addition, students can go on to experience other opportunities for undergraduate pitch events such as e-Fest.

Female student pitching her startup venture.

Finalists will be chosen on the strength of their slide deck and answers to these questions:

What problem are you working to address and who has this specific problem?
What is your proposed solution to this problem?
How do you plan on making this business idea sustainable (revenue streams, costs, etc.)?