We’re excited to announce that Bonsai, co-founded by Shashank Vinay Kumar (BS’22), is one of 28 student-led teams headed to California to pitch in the semi-finals of the 2022 Blackstone LaunchPad Pitch Competition during the Startup Grind Global Conference.
Bonsai, which only just launched in 2020, is developing a ticket-resolution and lead-generation tool that uses machine learning. If the name Bonsai sounds familiar, it’s because the team took home the first-place $25,000 prize in the student track of the 2021 UT Dallas Big Idea Competition last fall.
The 28 student teams from 24 network schools were selected from a nomination pool of over 130 startups. These students represent the top candidates based on four criteria: Innovation, Business Model and Viability, Team, and Pitch Quality. They will compete to be one of five finalists pitching for a chance to win a total of over $50,000 in prize money and in-kind prizes.
For more information about the UT Dallas LaunchPad, please visit innovation.utdallas.edu. Learn more about the broader Blackstone LaunchPad network at blackstonelaunchpad.org.
