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xFoundry Launches Before You Share Xperience Competition
Student teams build digital products to help users verify online content sources.
In brief
Student teams build digital products to help users verify online content sources. xFoundry's Before You Share Xperience competition challenges university students to create products that help users recover sources and context behind online content. Originally reported by Financialpost.
xFoundry launches competition
xFoundry announced Before You Share Xperience, a student venture competition to build digital products that help users recover sources and missing context behind online content.
Over 30 universities join
More than 30 universities have signed on to bring the competition to their students, with registration opening today.
Student teams build products
Teams of three to six students from at least three academic disciplines develop products with a clear path to market.
Competition timeline
Registration closes February 28, 2027, with elimination rounds March 27-31, 2028, and final judging April 3-7, 2028.
Funding opportunity
Winning teams enter xFoundry's six-month Xcelerate program and may receive up to $1 million in SAFE investment from Xponential Venture Fund.
Rigorous product testing
Teams build, launch and test products against standards for source quality, user retention and commercial demand over an 18-month competition.
Expert endorsement
Ted Koppel, CBS News 'Sunday Morning' senior contributor, called the competition a worthy challenge to help citizens verify information in an era of misinformation.
The essence
xFoundry's Before You Share Xperience competition challenges university students to create products that help users recover sources and context behind online content.
