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title: San Jose high schoolers win startup competition with ramen company
description: INCubatoredu National Pitch winner Shlurp Ramen won funding at a pitch competition organized for the first time by Pegasus Tech Ventures.
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# San Jose high schoolers win startup competition with ramen company

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San Francisco Business Times

*By: [Sara Bloomberg](https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/bio/42479/Sara+Bloomberg) on October 14, 2024*

Naiya Daswani and her co-founders wanted a better instant ramen that they could enjoy.

"We just live off of instant ramen," Daswani told me. So when she entered her high school's business incubator program, creating a new ramen product seemed like a natural fit.

Daswani, 18, co-founded Shlurp with two other students at the Harker School in San Jose: her co-CEO Emily Mitnick, 17, and Siddhi Jain, 18. Jain is now a student at UC Berkeley.

They won a high school pitch competition organized for the first time by Pegasus Tech Ventures in conjunction with its annual [Startup World Cup competition](https://www.startupworldcup.io/).

[Read More](https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2024/10/14/san-jose-high-school-pitch-competition-ramen.html)

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