ReGenerate, a company started by Erb students Paul Davis, Nolan Orfield, and Hunt Briggs, along with chemical engineering Ph.D. student Bobby Levine, won $100,000 in the 2011 Rice Business Plan Competition in April 2011.
ReGenerate designs, markets, and leases on-site waste management systems called Compact Organic Waste System (COWS) that reduce the cost and environmental impact of organic waste disposal for food manufacturing, retail, and service operations.
ReGenerate also won $10,000 in the Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge in April, 2011; $25,000 in the Accelerate Michigan Challenge in December 2010; and $27,500 for second place in the Michigan Business Challenge in February. Last year, the company also took fourth place in the DTE Michigan Clean Energy Prize and received $7,000.
Congratulations to these entrepreneurial U-M graduate students!
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