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The University of Minnesota Twin Cities supports student founders through the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship at Minnesota Carlson. MN Cup, a program of the Holmes Center, is the statewide startup competition with a student division and a published non-dilutive prize pool.
Include. Minnesota has a university entrepreneurship center and a large non-dilutive startup competition with a student division..
How we know this: the figures on this page come from the linked sources (last verified 2026-10-08); what those sources do not state is left unknown.
At a glance
Indexed programs
2
All currently active
Top direct funding
$400,000
MN Cup
Equity
No equity on indexed programs
Program mix
2
Entrepreneurship Center · Pitch Competition
Programs to explore
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2 programs indexed
Pitch Competition
MN Cup
Pitch Competition$400,000
funding range
- Last activity
- 2026-04-03
- Participants
- Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students +more
- Verification
- Partially Verified
Entrepreneurship Center
Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Center—
funding range
- Last activity
- —
- Participants
- Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students
- Verification
- Partially Verified
From students
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Post a startupFunding and Equity
MN Cup's 2026 call says businesses compete for a share of more than $400,000. The announcement says there is no entry fee and no equity is taken. The about page says more than $6.2 million in cash prizes has been given since 2005. Prize splits inside the student division are not on the captured pages.
Recent Activity
The 2026 application window was March 2 to April 3, 2026. A College of Science and Engineering student notice repeated the April 3, 2026 deadline and the student division.
Known Startups and Winners
Named winners were not published on the official pages captured for this listing.
Research gaps & things to verify
Missing Information
- 2026 student-division winners were not on the captured pages.
- BizPitch and MVP Challenge award amounts were not on the undergraduate index.
- Separate detail pages for those named programs were not captured, so they are not given their own program notes.
More about this ecosystem
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities supports student founders through the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship at Minnesota Carlson. MN Cup, a program of the Holmes Center, is the statewide startup competition with a student division and a published non-dilutive prize pool.
This page is a researched public listing compiled from official university sources. It is unclaimed and has not been verified by the school.
News & articles
2 news articles and official sources documenting entrepreneurship programs, winners, and activity at University of Minnesota.
2 sources
Official sources(2)
University of Minnesota
Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship
The Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship is the University of Minnesota's entrepreneurship hub in the Carlson School of Management. The undergraduate page says it supports emerging entrepreneurs through experiential courses and outreach.
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University of Minnesota
MN Cup
MN Cup is a program of the Holmes Center and a statewide new-venture competition. The about page says it was founded in 2005 with the University of Minnesota, has served more than 32,000 entrepreneurs, awarded $6.2 million in cash prizes, and takes no equity.
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