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Finalists
First Place Finalist: Arovia
$50,000
Arovia makes SPUD, the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display, the first and only desktop-sized display that collapses like an umbrella for portability. It’s the big screen that works with your mobile life!
Second Place Finalist: Admetsys
$35,000
Admetsys was formed to explore the next generation of diabetes treatment technology: patient-adaptive learning algorithms, coupled with counterbalancing medication delivery. The union of these with automated blood glucose measurement and state-of-the-art visualization has created a transformative product.
Third Place Finalist: M&S Biotics
$25,000
M&S Biotics is developing an autonomous IoT solution to detect, track, count, and locate surgical items within the operating room in real-time. Effectively automating the surgical counting process while providing downstream analytics regarding instrument utilization by leveraging machine learning.
Fourth Place Finalist: VastBiome
$15,000
VastBiome applies machine learning methods to model how the gut microbiome influences disease. We enable pharmaceutical companies to select the best patients for clinical trial enrollment by predicting patient response to immunotherapy.
Fifth Place Finalist: Advanced Scanners
$10,000
Advanced Scanners is a seed stage medical device company, making a 3D optical scanner and computer vision system to augment a surgeons capabilities in the operating room. This will improve precision, reducing the amount of brain tissue removed, reducing potentially catastrophic, but avoidable, side effects.
Sixth Place Finalist: AtmoSpark Technologies LLC
$5,000
AtmoSpark Technologies LLC develops atmospheric water generation systems that provide constant freshwater to those with limited access or in remote locations around the world. It’s first product Blu Element enables cruising sailboat owners with unreliable water makers to reduce downtime risk up to 80%, saving up to $16,000 per year.
Elevator Pitch
Elevator Pitch First Place: ResponderX
$5,000
After the deaths of two Bryan, TX firefighters in 2013, ResponderX was founded by a firefighter with a technical background to use emerging technology improve the safety of first responders. Our patented system allows for real-time tracking and locating of firefighters inside of buildings, something which is not currently possible.
Elevator Pitch Second Place: Yotta Solar
$3,000
Yotta Solar has developed a modular energy storage device, SolarLEAF™; battery storage integrated with photovoltaic (PV) installation designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency on commercial buildings. SolarLEAF™ will expand solar energy use by reducing the soft costs of design and installation.
Elevator Pitch Third Place: PolarPanel
$2,000
PolarPanel is a solar energy startup focused on bringing clean, reliable, and low-maintenance refrigeration technology to the commercial cold chain. PolarPanel is specifically targeting rail by retrofitting refrigerated railcars with NASA-developed solar technology that removes the need for both battery and a large diesel generator.
Additional Prizes
Aggie Angel Network Investment Prize: Arovia
Arovia makes SPUD, the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display, the first and only desktop-sized display that collapses like an umbrella for portability. It’s the big screen that works with your mobile life!
Amerra Visualization Services Prize: Arovia
Arovia makes SPUD, the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display, the first and only desktop-sized display that collapses like an umbrella for portability. It’s the big screen that works with your mobile life!
Biotex Services Prize: M&S Biotics
M&S Biotics is developing an autonomous IoT solution to detect, track, count, and locate surgical items within the operating room in real-time. Effectively automating the surgical counting process while providing downstream analytics regarding instrument utilization by leveraging machine learning.
Goose Society of Texas Investment Prize: Arovia
Arovia makes SPUD, the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display, the first and only desktop-sized display that collapses like an umbrella for portability. It’s the big screen that works with your mobile life!
Goose Society of Texas Investment Prize: M&S Biotics
M&S Biotics is developing an autonomous IoT solution to detect, track, count, and locate surgical items within the operating room in real-time. Effectively automating the surgical counting process while providing downstream analytics regarding instrument utilization by leveraging machine learning.
Paragon Innovation Prize: Vitls
Vitls has developed a revolutionary platform that enables healthcare providers to continuously and remotely monitor a patient’s vital signs, in the most unobtrusive way possible. Their wearable collects body temperature, pulse, respiration rate, O2 saturation, sleep, & movement for up to 6 days.
Ramey & Schwaller IP Legal Services Prize: Advanced Scanners
Advanced Scanners is a seed stage medical device company, making a 3D optical scanner and computer vision system to augment a surgeons capabilities in the operating room. This will improve precision, reducing the amount of brain tissue removed, reducing potentially catastrophic, but avoidable, side effects.
Research Valley Launch Prize: ResponderX
After the deaths of two Bryan, TX firefighters in 2013, ResponderX was founded by a firefighter with a technical background to use emerging technology improve the safety of first responders. Our patented system allows for real-time tracking and locating of firefighters inside of buildings, something which is not currently possible.
Thomas | Horstemeyer IP Legal Services Prize: VenoStent & Alleviant Medical
A JLABS startup company born from Vanderbilt University IP, VenoStent, Inc. is developing a shape memory polymer external stent to improve the quality and length of life for the >2 million – and growing – dialysis patients worldwide.
Alleviant Medical is developing a minimally-invasive device to treat congestive heart failure that is intended to relieve symptoms, improve quality of life, and reduce hospital readmissions for over 6 million patients suffering from this condition nationwide.
TEES Cleantech Prize: Yotta Solar
Yotta Solar has developed a modular energy storage device, SolarLEAF™; battery storage integrated with photovoltaic (PV) installation designed to reduce cost and expand development of energy storage and grid resiliency on commercial buildings. SolarLEAF™ will expand solar energy use by reducing the soft costs of design and installation.
TMCX Investment Prize + Accelerator Admission: Vitls
Vitls has developed a revolutionary platform that enables healthcare providers to continuously and remotely monitor a patient’s vital signs, in the most unobtrusive way possible. Their wearable collects body temperature, pulse, respiration rate, O2 saturation, sleep, & movement for up to 6 days.
TMCX Accelerator Admission: VenoStent
A JLABS startup company born from Vanderbilt University IP, VenoStent, Inc. is developing a shape memory polymer external stent to improve the quality and length of life for the >2 million – and growing – dialysis patients worldwide.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist: SABER Corporation
SABER is developing an antimicrobial bandage to provide a cost-saving solution by helping hospital staff reduce healthcare associated infections (HAIs). At SABER we are utilizing blue light technology to protect patients, prevent life-threatening infections, provide cost savings to hospitals and the healthcare system, while allowing the comfort of knowing that your wound is safe.
Semifinalist: Stream Biomedical
Stream Biomedical is an early stage company founded to address unmet therapeutic needs for individuals suffering as a result of neurological trauma and/or degeneration. Stream is initially developing an acute stroke therapy, a biologic drug which has shown preclinically to be neuroprotective and neuroreparative resulting in dramatic functional improvement.
Semifinalist: Sunrise Health
Sunrise Health is an app for text-based group therapy and peer support where patients with substance abuse or mental health conditions can receive 24/7, stigma-free support. We use artificial intelligence to catch clinically relevant information within messages, so existing providers can focus their time on patients most in need.
Semifinalist: Verdegen
Verdegen’s GO! Mosquito Repellent Gel is modeled on the success of hand sanitizer and hand soap wall-mount dispensers. Verdegen’s dispenser-based products are designed to put repellents where people need them, and lets communities/businesses protect their residents/customers.
Semifinalist: Xyber Technologies
Data centers consume 3% of the world’s power and consume over 160 billion gallons of fresh water each year for cooling alone. Xyber Technologies has developed a cooling system, for new and existing data centers, which reduces power consumption by 40% thereby saving the average data center over $500k per year.
Alternate: RevatisAM
RevatisAM proposes a global concept in regenerative veterinary medicine based on the combination of growth factors, scaffolds, and regenerative stem cells. RevatisAM hosts the first biobank of autologous pluripotent muscle-derived mesenchymal stem cells, which express a unique healing potential in a variety of pathologies like locomotion disorders.
