John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge

Congratulations to all the teams that competed at the 35th John Ruffatto Startup Challenge on Friday night. It was great to see so many students passionate about entrepreneurship. We are very grateful to all our donors and sponsors that helped make this event possible, including our title sponsors Ontra Marketing Group and Missoula Economic Partnership. This year, we were able to award over $50k in prizes to the up-and-coming student entrepreneurs in Montana.

2024 Award Winners:

StarSync Studio, ProSoles, and SafeHaven Home Services.

People's Choice Award - Soda Summit
Best Elevator Pitch - I.B. Delicious
Brandon Speth Award for Passion, Poise and Charisma - Carson Crary of I.B. Delicious
Athena Award - Shienagreata Medrano of BrightSite
Intent to Launch - Soda Summit
Most Innovative - MineralFi
ESG Award - Skid Homes
MonTEC Startup Award - SafeHaven Home Services
HealthTech Award - GlutenGuard
Creativity Award - MindBodyMat

The finalists are set! Join us for tonight's live event in the ALi Auditorium as these four student teams compete to take home the grand prize at the 33rd annual John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge. Doors open at 4 p.m. and the programming begins at 5 p.m.

Telepathy Inc. improves coherent LiDAR to eliminate the last barrier to an autonomous vehicle future. Telepathy Inc., along with seven other teams will be competing in the 33rd John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge this Friday at 5 p.m. in the ALi Auditorium in the UM College of Education. The event is free and open to the public!

Telepathy Inc. - Elevator Pitch