Biola’s Startup Competition housed by the Office of Innovation is set to begin after the Nov. 16 sign up deadline. This year’s prize of $30,000—divided among the top three winners—will be awarded on April 8, 2021. Eligible competitors go through four rounds and are coached by experts in business...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this story stated that Miller had not yet received the money and that the prize was $10,000. ParaBrands actually won a total of $15,000 in prize money, which Miller received in his business account on March 26, 2020. The article was edited on March 27, 2020 at 7:18...

(This story was originally published in print on Apr. 25, 2019). It all started about four years ago, when senior business administration major Anthony Raffa came up with the idea of an app that functions as a virtual closet. Unlike other brands that create outfits based on the clothing available...

(This story was originally published in print on Mar. 28, 2019). From the time ParaBrands co-founder and sophomore business administration major Nick Rumer was a child, one of his biggest dreams was to own his own business. Now, with ParaBrands taking first place at the Biola Startup Competition, Rumer...

“Wow, the Lord is real. He is present and he wants us to run with this and make it a movement,” said Nick Rumer, sophomore business administration major and CEO and co-founder of ParaBrands. After years of dreaming about running his own business, Rumer is seeing God’s work in producing a clothing...

Junior marketing major Zihao Wang, graduate student You Chae and Public transport bus driver Grace Leal created Polymigo—a language learning platform geared towards children that combines augmented reality with a children’s book. They entered the Biola Startup Competition and won the third place...