Keenan Center recognizes BOSS competition winners

The Autumn 2020 Best of Student Startups (BOSS) Finale was recently held - naming Transfer Base the winner. Presented by the Keenan Center for Entrepreneurship, BOSS provides teams of Ohio State students the opportunity to create and pitch new products, services or technologies to a panel of entrepreneurs and leaders after a semester-long workshop. 

Led by Alex Zorniger, a 2nd year MBS student, Transfer Base is a SaaS company that provides tools to help technology-based organizations discover and efficiently access valuable university research and researchers in order to increase their revenue through new products, services, and business lines. 

Over the course of the semester, more than 40 student startup teams went through a series of entrepreneurship workshops, developing pitch presentations for their ideas. Five groups, including Transfer Base, were chosen to participate in the finale. The other finalists included:

• Fitz (second place) - a startup designed to crowdsource closet data to help confidently purchase fitted apparel online while saving retailers billions. Team member: Jack Hutchinson.
• Post Game - Life After Sports (People's Choice) -  a charitable organization that leads former athletes to professional development, community support, financial education, mental health and awareness, and physical
• health and wellness resources after college sports. Team members include: Javonte Lipsey, Dashena Stevens and Oneal Wanliss.
• 3rdWheel - a date planning service where a person can create a date based on their friends and loved one’s preferences that solves the problem of time and effort by providing an automatic set up of the entire plan from start to finish. Team members included: Sheli Gilman, Shreyas Rajkumar, Julianna Bottomley, Reema Rao, Eva Mazzola, Tyler Liu, Roger Liu and Ajay Kirtikar.
• Opendemia - a website that makes it easy for students, when given research writing assignements, to keep notes organized, automate the in-text citation and full works cited process, saving it all for future use. Team members include: Nathan Sardo, Zac Graber, Josh Sauder and Landon Grim.