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Funeral planning idea wins $25k top prize at UW student startup competition
May 28, 2021 at 4:16 pm
The AfterLife Listings team from the University of Washington during a virtual presentation. Clockwise from top left: Co-founder Clara Kobashigawa, co-founder Aidan Shev and UX specialist Brendan Tran. (UW Photo)
A team of University of Washington students whose mission is to simplify planning and transactions related to burial plots, has won the $25,000 grand prize in the 2021 Dempsey Startup Competition hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship.
AfterLife Listings and its online marketplace beat out three other teams that reached the final round of the all-virtual contest. The results were announced on Friday. Now in its 24th year, Dempsey Startup is designed to give students practice in the putting together a team, writing a business plan, pitching to investors and learning the dynamics around venture creation.
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