Plop
Plop provides university entrepreneurship centers with a curated, auto-updating board of competitions, grants, accelerators, and founder perks. Centers approve each opportunity before it goes live on their custom-branded subdomain, while students subscribe to tailored email digests. The platform costs $50/month billed annually with a 90-day money-back guarantee.
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Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
University entrepreneurship centers struggle to keep students informed about the constantly changing landscape of startup competitions, grants, accelerators, and founder perks. Opportunities are scattered across newsletters, Slack channels, and program websites, causing students to miss critical deadlines and centers to spend excessive time manually curating and updating opportunity boards.
Solution
Plop provides a hosted opportunities board platform that automatically curates national startup competitions, accelerators, grants, startup credits, and student-relevant roles, delivering them directly to each center's approval queue. Center administrators retain full editorial control, approving or rejecting each opportunity with a single click before it goes live on their custom-branded board. Students can subscribe to the board and receive email digests based on their chosen categories and preferred cadence, ensuring they never miss a deadline. The platform includes a dedicated perks page with cloud credits and free tools from providers like GitHub, AWS, and Google Cloud, and posts expire automatically when deadlines pass to keep the board current.
Target Audience
Primary customers are university entrepreneurship centers, innovation hubs, incubators, and accelerators that need a centralized platform to share funding and growth opportunities with their student founders.
Features
- Auto-curated opportunity feed delivering national competitions, accelerators, grants, and student-relevant jobs to each center's approval queue
- One-click approval workflow that keeps center administrators as the final editor before any post goes live
- Custom-branded board with center logo, colors, and subdomain
- Student subscription system with category selection and instant, daily, or weekly email digest options
- Built-in perks page featuring cloud credits and free tools from providers like GitHub, AWS, and Google Cloud
- Automatic post expiration when deadlines pass, with rolling opportunities remaining open
- Spam protection built into the submission and approval process