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Dear Haas Community,
The 2001 Berkeley Business Plan Competition Organizing Committee wants to= =20 share a little joy with everyone at Haas: Last night's Final Event completed this year's Competition with RAPT=20 Technologies walking away with both the $50,000 first prize and the $5,000= =20 People's Choice Award (as voted on by the audience). RAPT has developed a= =20 dramatically faster and more cost-effective technology for etching and=20 polishing optical and semiconductor materials.=20 Aprotea Biochips earned $25,000 for second place. Aprotea developed a=20 patent-pending biochip for parallel analysis of 100 to 10,000 protein=20 samples, and is designed to be bio-compatible with virtually all proteins a= nd=20 capture agent libraries.=20 TruVideo rounded out the top three with a $10,000 prize. They offer superio= r=20 digital image quality over broadband compared to existing technologies. The= =20 company intends to take advantage of the convergence of wireless technology= =20 and the Internet to become the standard video platform for the emerging=20 web-enabled wireless device market.=20 We would like to extend our congratulations, once again, to everyone who=20 participated, especially the hard-working entrepreneurs who made this year'= s=20 competition such a success. The six teams that made the Finals are listed= =20 below. (Take note First Years: there are a lot of upperclassmen in the list= .=20 We hope to be reading your names listed here next year) Best regards, The 2001 Berkeley Business Plan Competition Organizing Committee 2001 Berkeley Business Plan Contest Winners and Finalists First Place ($50,000): RAPT Technologies Peter Fiske MBA 2002 Jeff Carr Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Mona Alves Founder, President and CEO, CHAT Communication Services Second Place ($25,000): Aprotea Robert Otillar PhD Candidate, UCSF Thomas McVey - EMBA Kent Duncan PhD candidate, UCSF Eva Raschke Scientist, Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. Daniel Ratner PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Materials Science and Engineering Antonia Sequeira J.D. candidate, Boalt School of Law Third Place ($10,000): TruVideo Joseph DelCallar MBA 2001 Avideh Zakhor Professor of Electrical Engineering, EECS Greg Chew BS EECS UC Berkeley. Steven Stokols MBA 2002 Raj Manghani MBA 2001 People=01,s Choice Award ($5,000) RAPT Technologies iMeda Solutions Keith Wilcox MBA 2001 Heather Anderson MBA 2001 Solocom Darin Boyd MBA 2001 Christine Mar MBA 2001 Joe Alioto MBA 2001 Jay Badenhope MBA 2002 Windoscope Steve Schultz MBA 2001 Greg Simon Senior Staff Engineer, Motorola Manu Chatterjee Senior Staff Software Engineer, Motorola Gavin Bourne Business Development, Palm,
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