Aggie Student Startup Team Rings NASDAQ Bell

A student startup team from Texas A&M University rang the opening bell Monday, Oct. 10, at the NASDAQ Stock Market in New York City.

Blake Teipel '16 and Brandon Sweeney '18 founded TriFusion Devices, which won the world’s richest and largest student startup competition, the 2016 Rice Business Plan Competition. They were invited to participate in the morning ceremony, along with representatives from RBPC and Texas A&M, including Philippe Hercot, executive professor and director of Aggies on Wall Street at Mays Business School.

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TriFusion–now called Essenthium–was the first Texas A&M team to win the Rice competition. The team received checks totaling nearly $400,000. Read more about the team on the Mays website.