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Article: DFJ Gotham Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson Award $250,000 to Winning Team at Second Annual DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge.
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- May 16, 2008
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Cornell's Widetronix Beats 8 Other Teams with New, Longer-lasting Pacemaker Power Supply
NEW YORK -- Leading early-stage venture firms DFJ Gotham Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson announced today that Widetronix from Cornell secured first place at the second annual DFJ East Coast Venture Challenge at Columbia Business School yesterday. Widetronix's plan to market a pacemaker power supply with a 25-year life span won the competition's prize of $250,000 in seed funding, the largest purse of any student business plan competition in the country.
Teams participating in the challenge came from Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, ...