SiNode Systems took home the grand prize at the 2013 Rice Business Plan Competition, the world’s richest and largest business plan competition. In total, SiNode was awarded over $800,000 in prizes generously sponsored by the GOOSE Society of Texas, the OWL Investment Group, Mercury Fund, Greater Houston Partnership, U.S. Department of Energy, Trailblazer Capital, PKF of Texas, Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, BBVA Compass, Miller, Egan, Molter & Nelson LLP, and others.

Julie Wernau of the Chicago Tribune stopped by our labs to profile SiNode for an article covering green tech start-ups in the Chicago area. The article covered two other local start-ups HEVT and Lanza Tech.

After beating more than 140 teams competing at the north central region Clean Tech Open (CTO), SiNode was one of three teams to win $20,000 in cash and in-kind services as well as the opportunity to compete at the CTO’s Global Forum in San Jose.