Matthew Silver Runner-Up in MIT 100K Elevator Pitch Contest

Posted October 17, 2007

PoET student Matthew Silver (Engingeering Systems Division) and his start-up, IntAct Labs, finished runner-up (out of 176 entrants) in the recent MIT 100K Elevator Pitch Contest, winning $1,000. The MIT $100K entrepreneurship competition recognizes that great ideas need to be completed by great team for successful ventures. With the Elevator Pitch Contest, inventors can test their ideas with passion during a 60-second pitch.

IntAct Labs is a technology development company dedicated to the vision of a world powered by renewable, biological energy technologies. They are working to integrate developments in the fields of synthetic biology and bio-energy production into the next generation of energy products.