Rotman Net Impact

The world’s largest student competition, the Hult Prize, came to the University of Toronto Campus last December 2014 in an event organized by Rotman Net Impact.

”The Hult Prize is a start-up accelerator for social entrepreneurship which brings together the brightest college and university students from around the globe to solve the world’s most pressing issues,” says Jason Visscher (Net Impact President, 2014-15). “It’s the world’s largest crowdsourcing platform for social good and one of the planet’s leading forces for good.”

More than 10,000 applicants from 150 countries enter the competition every year for a chance to win a prize of US$1 million as well as networking, mentorship and coaching opportunities and a meeting with former U.S. President Bill Clinton, whose Clinton Global Initiative cosponsors the competition together with the Hult International Business School.

Incredibly, a quarter of the teams that went through the quarterfinal Hult Prize at U of T made it to the Regional rounds in San Francisco, Dubai and Shanghai. The top team, Attollo will present in the finals at the Clinton Global Initiative.

 Hult Prize at U of T Winners

 First Place: Team Attollo

Second Place: Team Purple Sheep

Third Place: Team Ctrl-F

The 2015 Hult Prize Kickoff will take place on the 3rd week of September. Follow Rotman Net Impact on Twitter and Facebook to get the latest updates.