NextDrop, which counts two CEE students among its founders, was the winner of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business's Global Social Venture Competition. The prize was $25K.
The GSVC is the largest and oldest student-led business plan competition for social ventures from around the world. The mission of the GSVC is to catalyze the creation of social ventures, educate future leaders and build awareness of social enterprises. The competition supports the creation of real businesses that bring about positive social change in a sustainable manner.
Systems Engineering alumna Anu Sridharan (MS, '10) and Emily Kumpel (PhD candidate, Systems), are part of the creative team behind NextDrop, a project that addresses the challenge of unreliable piped water in developing countries by providing households with reliable, near real-time information about water arrival via the mobile phone infrastructure.