Natsima Nutraceuticals team members Lancelot Riley (left), Fiona Bowley, Oshane Solomon, Shanea Wint, and Alston Miller after placing first in the National Business Model Competition last Friday.
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) has been crowned winner of the National Business Model Competition (NBMC) and will represent Jamaica at the upcoming International Business Model Competition (IBMC) in Silicon Valley, California.
Its the fourth-consecutive year that NCU has walked away winner of the competition since it’s inception in 2013.
The Mandeville-based student-entrepreneur team, Natsima Nutraceuticals, made their winning presentation to a panel of private sector judges in the final round of the national competition last Friday, beating 13 other teams from four universities to also take home $2m in cash prizes along with the all-expense paid trip.
Runners-up were GenesisWay (first) and SOTARE (second), also from NCU; and ShopMobi (third) from the University of the West Indies.
