Three pitch competitions were rolled into one awards ceremony that conferred more than $400,000 in prize money for the 2021 Big Idea Competition at The University of Texas at Dallas. The event, presented jointly by UT Dallas and UT Southwestern Medical Center, also featured guest speakers Ross Perot Jr., chairman of The Perot Group, and Anurag Jain, chairman and CEO of Access Healthcare. More Competitions, More MoneyTwo UT Dallas students captured the top prize in the UTDesign Startup Challenge, a program offered in partnership with the Jonsson School. Perot said the goal at Perot Jain is to build up promising young entrepreneurs rather than a specific startup company. “We like to do early seed-round funding for great entrepreneurs or great ideas,” Perot said.