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Raptor Tank Business Pitch Competition

Raptor Tank Winner and Check
2024 Raptor Tank Winner Sone: Team members - Yonatan Tussa, Telmen Bayarbaatar, Melvin Sere, and Andy Heredia.

2024 Raptor Tank Competition

The 12th edition of Raptor Tank, a business pitch competition, brought together a talented group of Montgomery College student entrepreneurs who presented their innovative ideas to a panel of judges. They competed for a share of a $5,000 prize pool aimed at turning their business concepts into reality.

Congratulations to the winning team, Sone, at the 12th Annual Raptor Tank competition!  Team members: Yonatan Tussa, Telmen Bayarbaatar, Melvin Sere, and Andy Heredia.

This is what real-world learning looks like: students supporting students, turning classroom concepts into game-changing ideas

  • 6 student teams pitched their brilliant business ideas
  • Over 100 people in the audience
  • $5,000 in prizes
  • Entirely student-run and funded by @mbi.cafe

Raptor Tank is a student-run program sponsored with profits from the student-run Macklin Business Institute Cafe on the Rockville campus, and in partnership with the Montgomery College business program and MC Enactus. This program is designed to promote student start-up ideas and economic development by bringing together students with mentors and judges from the entrepreneurial community in a real life business challenge.  

Interested? Please sign up using our Intent to Participate formnew window

Interested participants may contact mcraptortank@gmail.com


For more information about the program, watch some of our videos from prior years below:

See a playlistnew window of all of the Fall 2020 Raptor Competition presentations
Behind the scenes video focus on student impact of Raptor Tank program
Raptor Tank Finalists Overview, 2015-2016
2016 Raptor Tank MCTV Documentary