On April 7, 20 teams of California State University, Northridge students took part in the semi-finals of the Bull Ring, the entrepreneurial competition that is called CSUN’s version of Shark Tank where these teams “fast pitch” their business ideas to a group of judges made up of business leaders. Created through the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics in partnership with the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), this competition originally featured nearly 60 student teams pitching their ideas.

After the semi-finals, five finalists were selected: CTHRU (team members: Narek Zaribian and Ish Hunanyan), EduCode (team members: Arman Aivazian, Jazmin Perez and Ibram Uppal), Take Sessions (team members: Jonathan Saeidian and Joseph Saeidian), ThinkFit (team members: Mark Swanson, Brian Swanson and Rene Sanchez) and Vibe Probiotics (team members: Abed Rahman, Erika Elizalde, Katie Teevin, Jonathan Lopez and Mackenzie Bacalzo).

The Bull Ring finals take place on April 26 at 6 p.m. For more information go to csunbullring.com.

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