BiD Challenge: 

2005 Prize Winners

  • 2005 winners

    2005 winners

The BiD Challenge 2005 resulted in 10 winners. The entrepreneurs received €2,500 to €20,000 to start up their business.

1st prizes:

  • Noel Percil - Pelletizing plant for waste plastics
  • Rinette Soeropawiro - Cultivating Edible tropical mushrooms on agricultural waste
  • Harm van Oudenhoven - El castillo de cacao
  • Hervé Millet - Karité butter

2nd prizes:

  • Jonah Nobleza - Integrated mobile service units for coconut processing
  • Siem Haffmans - Ragbag
  • Enrique de Mul - Cocowood production in Mozambique
  • Jessy Rai - Pet products for poverty reduction

Student and Wackiest idea Prize

  • Pepijn Steemers - Fish Forward
  • Orna Otto - Production of glass beads

Also many non-winning business plans of the BiD Challenge 2005 are very promising. We provide them the opportunity to present their plans on this website. Besides that they are presented in the BiD Challenge book 2005. We challenge potential partners and investors to make it happen with these BiD entrepreneurs! Up to now this resulted inalready more than 10 start-ups partnerships of non-winning entrepreneurs.