Deadline: 19 February 2024
Entries are now open for the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, considered the most prestigious and well-funded education business plan competition, attracting innovative ideas from around the world.
The Milken-Penn GSE EBPC celebrates and nurtures purpose-driven ventures that seek to address systemic inequities in education through innovation.
They share an urgency with education entrepreneurs to transform global education systems to create boundless opportunities and equitable outcomes for all learners, particularly those who have been marginalized and underserved by society. Through the ecosystem of entrepreneurs, judges, mentors, and sponsors, they seek to elevate diverse voices and empower changemakers to design and scale impactful solutions that address the most persistent and emerging issues across the education landscape.
Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition participants work closely with industry experts to hone their pitch and develop their venture along four focus areas:
- Leadership
- Product
- Market
- Finance
A Legacy of Innovation
- Launched in 2010 as a partnership between Penn GSE and the foundations of the Milken families, the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC) culminates with a live competition of education business ventures, judged by a panel of industry experts.
- Welcoming entrepreneurs with innovative ideas in education from around the world.
- Educational entrepreneurship ventures can address a wide range of educational issues. They encourage applications in every conceivable educational setting–from early childhood through corporate and adult training, in settings and contexts anywhere in the world.
- By entering the EBPC, participants join an education ecosystem of engaged investors, entrepreneurs, practitioners, and researchers all striving to address persistent and emerging problems in education.
For more information, visit UPenn Graduate School of Education.
