Student teams that compete at CMU VC are truly offered a unique value proposition - exposure, funding, and feedback. Early stage companies require significant prototyping funds before a working product can materialize. In order to help teams grow from the experience, the CMU VC aims to objectively reward innovative teams with capital, services, and constructive feedback from experts in a variety of technical and legal domains. All participants MUST be undergraduate students. Teams with graduate students or students not enrolled in a university are not eligible to participate. Teams with member(s) taking a leave of absence are still eligible to participate. Participants are NOT required to be Carnegie Mellon students. The CMUVC is open to any and all undergraduate students. Submissions should be the individual or teams original work.