International student-entrepreneurs with innovative ideas to disrupt broken systems will face off again on Sunday, December 12th at Bard MBA campus in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The young entrepreneurs will be pitching projects to a panel of industry professionals and successful social entrepreneurs, judging each idea’s ability to disrupt existing paradigms in a sustainable way. RebelBase is thrilled that the Disrupt to Sustain Pitch Competition (D2S) will once again be powered by our platform.In what is sometimes referred as the “shark-tank-for-good contest”, D2S judges reward the entrepreneurial concepts that are most likely to achieve impact at scale and affect widespread social and environmental gains, sustaining regions and communities. Undergraduates from the Open Society University Network’s (OSUN) entrepreneurship course will compete head to head against Bard MBA teams. Winners earn a cash seed prize and consulting sessions with experts in a range of fields.
Participants use RebelBase to accelerate their ventures, building profiles for their innovations and for themselves, as they complete “builders”. These sharable profiles help “rebels” collaborate to progressively improve their projects, and the projects give D2S judges a way to assess the feasibility of the ventures beyond a 5-minute pitch. Thus participants showcase details of their end results from projected impact, financial models, to branding.
In last year’s competition, a Bangladeshi team from BRAC University walked away with the $1,500 first prize for the vision to improve the quality of and access to childcare services in the city of Dhaka. Team Roots made the case that early childhood education could be upgraded through a branded training model for home child-care providers, leading to higher incomes for child-care workers and better outcomes for kids. Runners-up in 2020 included a company focused on algae-based textile fibers and a business model for green retrofits for homes in low-income neighborhoods.
Disrupt to Sustain is hosted by the Bard MBA in Sustainability, the world’s leading green MBA program, according to the Princeton Review. You can find more details on this year’s competition here.
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