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Augsburg Entrepreneur Cup

The Augsburg Entrepreneur Cup creates innovative business opportunities for Augsburg students while positively impacting the Twin Cities’ entrepreneurial community.

The objective of the Auggie Cup is to accelerate the development of Augsburg students to achieve future entrepreneurial success through core curriculum, collaboration between undergraduate and MBA students, incubator experiential learning and exposure to local business leaders through the Innovation Speaker Series.

Student teams comprised of one MBA student, two undergraduate business majors, and two graphic design majors, spend the fall semester developing an entrepreneurial business venture that culminates in a final presentation at the Auggie Cup in December. A panel of judges, including members of the Business Advisory Council, Augsburg faculty, and potentially the major sponsor, select the top three teams. Winning teams earn up to $30,000 in prize money.

2025 Augsburg Entrepreneur Cup

Student members of the first place Auggie Cup Team, representing Navatar Health.
First place winners of the 3rd Annual Auggie Cup, Team Navatar! From left to right, Ryan Harvey ’26, Jacob Henry ’26, Alanna Franklin ’25, David Perdue, Founder/Principal of Navatar Health, Bri Mccutchan ’25, Jacqueline Zimmerman ’26 (MBA).

Read more: Ideas take the stage at the Auggie Entrepreneur Cup

Previous Auggie Cup Winners

2024

First Place: AcQtrac Medical (Jim Schewe, Salma Gelle, Adela Leville, Kat Chaney)

Second Place: SmartAuger (Luke Peters, Jakob Mohrlok, Manny Weiss, Nolan Mehle, Destiny Azonwu)

Third Place: CorRen Medical (Patrick McMonagle, Danny Ho, Char Waver, Pachia Vang, Anthonella Laurens)

Read more: Entrepreneurship Students Compete for Cash Prizes in Auggie Cup

2023

First Place: Vaske (Phil Holt, Emmanuel Jean, Brynn Hostettler, Isabella Barrientes, Valerie Yang)

Second Place: Prairie Port (Mohamed Elshobery, Sibille Okadjo, Simon Tewalt, Ikram Barre, Estefaney Pina, Shah Hasan, Casey Kreie, Ana Pena)

Third Place: Point B (Allen Davis, Sadia Mohamed, Sasha Ortiz, Lauren Damgaard, Katie Strombeck, Andre Ziemer, Blake Carpenter)

Read more: Augsburg’s Inaugural Auggie Entrepreneurship Cup a Success!

Sponsors:

  • Tom ’72 and Karen Howe
  • Mike Nathan and Sara Armstrong
  • Big Stone Capital Group
  • Modulate Capital
  • Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation
  • Blaze Credit Union
  • Bill Urseth

Contact Catherine Hurley for event sponsorship opportunities.