2024 Student Entrepreneur Impact Prize Winners

Monday, November 25, 2024, By Cristina Hatem

Syracuse University Libraries’ Blackstone LaunchPad (LaunchPad) announced the winners of the 2024 Impact Prize competition for social entrepreneurship, held on Nov. 13 at Bird Library.

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Elizabeth Paulin

Student teams pitched their respective social impact ventures for a chance to win a total of $15,000 in prizes, supported by generous donations from Libraries’ donors. This year’s winners are:

1^st Place: $6,000 awarded to Elizabeth Paulin ’24 (College of Arts and Sciences) of Paulin Capital.
2^nd place: $4,500 awarded to Jordan Pierre ’23, G’24 (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications), founder of Voice.
3^rd place: $3,000 awarded to Olutosin Alabi G’25 (Martin J. Whitman School of Management), founder of Diabetech.
Runner-Ups: $500 each awarded to Ava Lubkemann ’27 (College of Engineering and Computer Science), founder of ReVamped; Alie Savane ’25 (Arts and Sciences), founder of Beta Kola; and Dylan Bardsley ’26 (Whitman School) and Mark Leaf ’27 (Engineering and Computer Science), founders of Clarity.

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Cristina Hatem

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