SourceFill, was the undergraduate track winner at the 28th annual Be Your Own Boss Bowl (BYOBB), hosted by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute (IEI) at the Fox School of Business. 

Created by Erez Yarden, a senior majoring in management information systems at Fox, SourceFill aims to act as a middleman between brands and factories, handling tasks such as finding suppliers, negotiating quotes, managing production timelines and compiling key supply chain information in one central platform. 

“We enable brands to manufacture globally without building their own supply chain team,” Yarden told the panel of judges at the competition’s finale event on April 22. “Factories around the world speak many languages. We speak them all.” 

Started in 1997, BYOBB is a pitch competitions for young entrepreneurs. It is hosted by IEI at Fox, but the competition is open to undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, staff and alumni from each of Temple’s 17 schools and colleges.  

Participants attend workshops with guest speakers, mentors and coaches who help them develop their pitching and entrepreneurial skill sets.  

The competition culminates in a final event where eight finalists, four each from the undergraduate track and upper track (comprised of graduate students and alumni) present a seven-minute pitch to a panel of judges. Participants compete for more than $100,000 in cash prizes and in-kind service packages, including $10,000 for the winner of each track and an additional $40,000 for the grand prize winner.