Dear Haas Community,

The 2001 UC-Berkeley Business Plan Competition Organizing Committee wants to 
share a little joy with everyone at Haas:

Last night's Final Event completed this year's Competition with RAPT 
Technologies walking away with both the $50,000 first prize and the $5,000 
People's Choice Award (as voted on by the audience). RAPT has developed a 
dramatically faster and more cost-effective technology for etching and 
polishing optical and semiconductor materials. 

Aprotea Biochips earned $25,000 for second place. Aprotea developed a 
patent-pending biochip for parallel analysis of 100 to 10,000 protein 
samples, and is designed to be bio-compatible with virtually all proteins and 
capture agent libraries. 

TruVideo rounded out the top three with a $10,000 prize. They offer superior 
digital image quality over broadband compared to existing technologies. The 
company intends to take advantage of the convergence of wireless technology 
and the Internet to become the standard video platform for the emerging 
web-enabled wireless device market. 

We would like to extend our congratulations, once again, to everyone who 
participated, especially the hard-working entrepreneurs who made this year's 
competition such a success. The six teams that made the Finals are listed 
below. (Take note First Years: there are a lot of upperclassmen in the list. 
We hope to be reading your names listed here next year)

Best regards,

The 2001 Berkeley Business Plan Competition Organizing  Committee


2001 Berkeley Business Plan Contest Winners and Finalists

First Place ($50,000): RAPT Technologies
Peter Fiske MBA 2002
Jeff Carr Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Mona Alves Founder, President and CEO, CHAT Communication Services

Second Place ($25,000): Aprotea
Robert Otillar PhD Candidate, UCSF
Thomas McVey - EMBA
Kent Duncan PhD candidate, UCSF
Eva Raschke Scientist, Sangamo BioSciences, Inc.
Daniel Ratner PhD candidate, UC Berkeley, Materials Science and Engineering
Antonia Sequeira J.D. candidate, Boalt School of Law

Third Place ($10,000): TruVideo
Joseph DelCallar MBA 2001
Avideh Zakhor Professor of Electrical Engineering, EECS
Greg Chew BS EECS UC Berkeley.
Steven Stokols MBA 2002
Raj Manghani MBA 2001

People,s Choice Award ($5,000) RAPT Technologies


iMeda Solutions
Keith Wilcox MBA 2001
Heather Anderson MBA 2001

Solocom
Darin Boyd MBA 2001
Christine Mar MBA 2001
Joe Alioto MBA 2001
Jay Badenhope MBA 2002

Windoscope
Steve Schultz MBA 2001
Greg Simon Senior Staff Engineer, Motorola
Manu Chatterjee Senior Staff Software Engineer, Motorola
Gavin Bourne Business Development, Palm,