Think Beyond Plastic Awards Ceremony

Innovation Trumps Pollution

When selecting the pre-finalists, the A-Spark investment team seeks applicants that present an offering that best addresses the plastic pollution crisis. Successful applicants will be determined solely on their investor deck’s presenting a clearly articulated outline of their business idea/model along with supporting technologies (if appropriate). Key success factors that A-Spark will be looking for include:

1) a novel solution to a problem that has yet to be addressed;

2) simplicity in implementation of the solution;

3) impact and scalability for a world market;

4) an outline of developmental objectives; and

5) ecological and financial sustainability.

The following pre-finalists have been invited to submit business plans and continue to compete.PulpWorks, Inc.
PUSH underground
Dirtball
VIRES Corp
Rockstock
DGrade
EcoLogic, LLCMycodev Group
EggPlant
Bio-on
EcoPost
tru2earth

Think Beyond Plastic is an innovation competition for entrepreneurs working on solutions to the plastic pollution crisis. Eligible contestants compete for a first prize investment of $50,000 and $5,000 credit towards legal work for an existing business and a $10,000 investment and $3,000 credit for legal work for the most innovative business idea.