2010 Winners
2007 Winners
1st Place: ($25,000)
Revolution Foods
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Revolution Foods transforms school food service by providing healthy meals, nutrition education, and operational support for schools in California. We provide schools with a comprehensive and robust meal solution that nurtures the bodies and minds of students. Using many natural and organic products from healthy food suppliers such as Whole Foods, our meals are homestyle, kid-friendly, and made with care. Our focus is on serving communities with traditionally low access to healthy food; a majority of our school customers are public schools in low-income neighborhoods.
2nd Place: ($5,000)
Feed Resource Recovery
Babson College
Feed Resource Recovery provides the food industry cost-effective waste disposal solutions that capture and reuse valuable nutrients and energy from previously discarded food waste — mirroring nature’s regenerative cycles. Feed Resource Recovery’s onsite waste conversion systems produce renewable energy and organic fertilizer from the food waste generated by supermarkets and restaurants. Employing the intelligence of nature, Feed’s systems redefine the meaning of garbage and break the wasteful cycle of food production in the United States, where more than 40 percent of food is simply thrown away.
2nd Place: ($5,000)
d.light design
Stanford Graduate School of Business
1.6 billion people live without electricity, spending up to one-third of their income on kerosene. They represent a $38B fuel-based lighting market. LED technology provides lighting solutions that are cheaper, safer, and brighter than fuel-based lighting. d.light is a for-profit company and our mission is to develop and commercialize sustainable lighting and power solutions for off-grid rural markets.
2nd Place: ($5,000)
Verdacure
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Verdacure is an affordable high-quality natural ingredients medicine producer. Its first product, PerioVerda is the only periodontal disease solution that can inhibit bacterial growth and promote growth of gum tissue that will help patients to save time and money. The great business opportunity from PerioVerda allows a symbiotic business model, where selling PerioVerda to patients with access to dental service providers pays the activities provided affordable mobile dental education and treatment for rural villagers who have no dental care access, which allows Verdacure's technology and expertise to be deployed equally to both targets, while delivering superior financial and social benefits.
Social Impact Assessment (SIA) Winner
d.light design ($5,000)
Stanford Graduate School of Business