Woman smiling.


Susana presented on SunChild Collective LLC, a curated online marketplace for trendy fashions and goods created by artisans around the world, combined with a mission to support artisans in their trade.



The Chapman University student team won 6th place and $1,000 this past weekend at the Richards Barrentine Values and Ventures ™ Business Plan Competition at Texas Christian University. The Chapman team, lead by Susanna Davidoff, was one of 28 teams from around the world competing in the third annual entrepreneurship competition for undergraduate college students. The competition is different than other business plan competitions because the for-profit startup presented must also contribute social value in some way.

Susana is a student at Chapman’s
Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences
majoring in graphic design.  She is a non-business major and competed against teams that were predominately business students and presented as teams (SunChild was the only team with 1 presenter).  She is currently wrapping up the last semester of her senior year and enrolled in Management 369 Launching a new Venture (K5 Launch), Management 379 Launching a new Venture (incubator), and taking an independent study course in the eVillage that focused on this competition.

“When she began taking classes at the Leatherby Center’s eVillage, she had not taken one business class,” noted Chris Buckstein, director of Chapman’s eVillage and also Susanna’s coach for the competition.  “And though she has been challenged, she has found a way to persevere and ultimately launch through the program.  In fact, Susanna’s business went live two weeks before the competition and she has seen sales spike as a result of their exposure while at TCU. “

Susana ended up presenting three times: the first round, then the lightning round for all the teams who came in 2nd in the first round, then, because she won the lightning round, she competed again on Saturday among the finalists.

Susanna’s company, SunChild Collective, creates a curated marketplace where unique high-end goods designed and/or made by artisans from around the world, are selectively chosen. A portion of the proceeds go to help the artisans with community and personal aid; ranging from buying them needed tools and supplies to organizing farmers markets.

More information can be found at
www.sunchildcollective.com