SWEAT Equity

The Sweat Equity Challenge (SEC) is a competitive application idea challenge that gives you the tools needed to turn your app or software idea into an NC State Startup! SEC is designed to gather the best app ideas from the NC State community and then connect them with the funding and technical expertise necessary to make them a reality.

Open to anyone within the NC State family (including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and employees of all kinds), SEC assists NC State innovators with:

obtaining real voice of customer and market feedback to validate the idea,
funding the professional development of a prototype
launching a startup around the technology
connecting that startup with the VC and entrepreneurial community

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NoviSystems is a software development group that lowers the barrier of entry for organizations in applying their human intuition to large and often messy datasets through intelligence augmentation. We have demonstrated our value in many domains, but have focused on the life sciences, helping patients and families in the Rare Disease community as well as pharmaceutical companies.

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HighEd Tech is an education technology startup whose mission is to help innovative software ideas born on university campuses through sound and time testing research methodologies reach a broader audience. Current app development focuses on streamlining the management and supervision of practicum, intern, and volunteer students (SuperVise) and mentor-mentee relation for underrepresented STEM students (eSTEM).

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The Problem

Great ideas abound but lack professional coding and business development support

Do you have a software idea just waiting to be launched?
Don’t know if your idea has a market?
Need coding support? Need help building your team?
Do the scenarios to the right sound like you?

The Solution

A software development program with built in market validation and professional prototype creation and support. Office of Research Commercialization’s Sweat Equity Challenge can help you turn your app idea into the next great NC State startup.