Finalists
First Place Finalist: Allotrope Medical
$50,000
Allotrope Medical has developed StimSite, a smooth muscle stimulation technology that allows surgeons to rapidly and safely identify critical tissue structures such as the ureter during surgery. With seamless workflow integration and 100% per case profit margins, StimSite delivers a key solution to a major challenge in surgery today.
Second Place Finalist: Sensytec
$35,000
Smart Cement Technology helps engineers and O&G Operators to monitor cement/concrete conditions accurately and continuously for a lifetime.
Third Place Finalist: Polyvascular
$25,000
PolyVascular is creating polymeric transcatheter valves for children and adults with congenital heart disease. Our pulmonary valve already exceeds the performance and durability requirements and has >2 yrs of excellent performance in sheep. This platform technology will serve as the basis for the development of other cardiovascular valve solutions.
Fourth Place Finalist: Bezoar Laboratories
$15,000
Bezoar Laboratories, LLC is an R&D company based on Bryan, Texas currently developing a novel patented probiotic that reduces methane by 50% in cows and steers while increasing feed-efficiency.
Fifth Place Finalist: Bondwell Technologies
$10,000
Bondwell Technologies is a launch stage research and development company targeting the most critical and expensive step in antibody drug manufacturing. Our high-efficiency, low-cost solution could change the frontier of cancer drug manufacturing and therefore, greatly increase access to these life-changing drugs.
Sixth Place Finalist: Intelligent Nanofiber
$5,000
Intelligent Fiber is the producer of a high adsorption material that can be adopted and used in insulation, waste cleaning, desert greening, air filtration, oil recovery, and sound absorption applications. Commercial benefits include medical supplies, pet supplies, and industrial applications.
Elevator Pitch
Elevator Pitch First Place: VeraDermics
$5,000
VeraDermics is an innovative, dermatology-focused company working to develop novel drug delivery mechanisms for skin conditions with unmet need.
Elevator Pitch Second Place: NovoThelium
$4,000
NovoThelium provides a tissue engineered matrix for nipple areolar regeneration after mastectomy.
Elevator Pitch Third Place: Allosense
$3,000
Allosense Inc. delivers an easy user experience for integrating smart sensors and analyzing data. We design and manufacture “always connected” asset trackers that use satellite, cellular, and mesh connectivity. Our trackers incorporate a suite of sensors for monitoring high-value assets in real-time.
Elevator Pitch Fourth Place: Feel the Color
$2,000
Feel the Color is a company that will create smart embroidered tags with braille, alphabet lettering, and symbols that use technology to help identify clothing colors and garments.
Elevator Pitch Fifth Place: HiPR Innovation
$1,000
HiPR Innovation, Inc. is developing the first smart, dynamic, and proactive wheelchair cushion system to prevent pressure ulcer development in wheelchair-bound patients.
Special Prize Winners
Southwest Pediatric Device Prize: HiPR Innovation and VeraDermics
HiPR Innovation, Inc. is developing the first smart, dynamic, and proactive wheelchair cushion system to prevent pressure ulcer development in wheelchair-bound patients.
VeraDermics is an innovative, dermatology-focused company working to develop novel drug delivery mechanisms for skin conditions with unmet need.
Aggie Angel Network Investment Prize: Allotrope Medical
Allotrope Medical has developed StimSite, a smooth muscle stimulation technology that allows surgeons to rapidly and safely identify critical tissue structures such as the ureter during surgery. With seamless workflow integration and 100% per case profit margins, StimSite delivers a key solution to a major challenge in surgery today.
Innovators Legal: Endpoint Security and Polyvascular
Endpoint Security Inc is securing wireless communication. The company is developing a product that authenticates fixed wireless devices in industrial, commercial and home environments. It uses the devices’ natural RF signal as a fingerprint, uniquely identifying and authenticating each device.
PolyVascular is creating polymeric transcatheter valves for children and adults with congenital heart disease. Our pulmonary valve already exceeds the performance and durability requirements and has >2 yrs of excellent performance in sheep. This platform technology will serve as the basis for the development of other cardiovascular valve solutions.
Paragon Innovations Prize: Allosense
Allosense Inc. delivers an easy user experience for integrating smart sensors and analyzing data. We design and manufacture “always connected” asset trackers that use satellite, cellular, and mesh connectivity. Our trackers incorporate a suite of sensors for monitoring high-value assets in real-time.
Thomas | Horstemeyer IP Legal Services Prize: Xebec and Sensytec
Xebec is a consumer hardware brand equipping modern professionals with the tools needed to remain productive in the mobile workplace. We created a laptop attachment that adds two additional screens to any laptop, instantly boosting your productivity by over 50%. Maximize portability without sacrificing productivity.
Smart Cement Technology helps engineers and O&G Operators to monitor cement/concrete conditions accurately and continuously for a lifetime.
Amerra Visualization Services Prize: EM Device
EM Device Lab enables physicians to provide quick and effective abscess treatment. The Quickloop Abscess Treatment Device improves outcomes, shortens provider time, decreases patient pain and decreases cost.
Schwegman, Lundberg and Woessner IP Legal Services Prize: TexPower
TexPower was spun out of UT Austin in early 2019, aiming to commercialize the world’s first cobalt-free cathode materials that require no changes to other components of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) while enabling at least 10% higher energy density, 25% lower raw material costs, and a more secure LIB supply chain.
Hollinden Marketing and Strategists Servies Prize: Polyvascular and NovoThelium
PolyVascular is creating polymeric transcatheter valves for children and adults with congenital heart disease. Our pulmonary valve already exceeds the performance and durability requirements and has >2 yrs of excellent performance in sheep. This platform technology will serve as the basis for the development of other cardiovascular valve solutions.
NovoThelium provides a tissue engineered matrix for nipple areolar regeneration after mastectomy.
BioTex Services Prize: EM Device
EM Device Lab enables physicians to provide quick and effective abscess treatment. The Quickloop Abscess Treatment Device improves outcomes, shortens provider time, decreases patient pain and decreases cost.
Axle-Box Services Prize: Bezoar Laboratories and Sensytec
Bezoar Laboratories, LLC is an R&D company based on Bryan, Texas currently developing a novel patented probiotic that reduces methane by 50% in cows and steers while increasing feed-efficiency.
Smart Cement Technology helps engineers and O&G Operators to monitor cement/concrete conditions accurately and continuously for a lifetime.
BVEDC Launch Prize: Bezoar Laboratories
Bezoar Laboratories, LLC is an R&D company based on Bryan, Texas currently developing a novel patented probiotic that reduces methane by 50% in cows and steers while increasing feed-efficiency.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist: Articulate Labs
Articulate Labs develops wearable devices that accelerate rehabilitation by intelligently augmenting a patient’s everyday muscle usage with electrical muscle stimulation. By leveraging everyday activity to actively combat muscle atrophy and inhibition, AL devices make rehabilitation more accessible, convenient, and effective.
Semifinalist: Energy Bionics
Carbon produces a line of devices that were designed with fit, form, and functionality in mind. Carbon 1.0 harvests solar energy to enable and power mobile and IoT devices, allowing for device charging through a wristwatch.
Semifinalist: Katz Water Technologies
Katz Water Technologies (KWT) seeks to solve the world’s toughest water problems by using waste energy to purify water and recycle the waste components. KWT’s flagship technology is the ability to perform the entire thermal distillation process inside a heat exchanger which drastically reduces capital and operational costs.
Semifinalist: Olifant Medical
Olifant Medical’s mission is to furnish creative solutions for the acute care provider’s technical challenges. Our vision is to create better patient and provider experiences. We are currently developing technology in the airway management space for use in pre-hospital, emergency medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and military settings.
Semifinalist: Solenic Medical, Inc.
Solenic Medical Inc. is a medical device company developing an innovative non-invasive way to treat infections on metallic implants in the body. Solenic will leverage the unique properties of alternating magnetic fields generated to eradicate biofilm on the surface of medical implants including prosthetic joints and trauma related implants.
Alternates
Alternate: ElecTrip
ElecTrip uses technology, professional drivers, and electric vehicles to transport businesses professionals, corporations, and other customers in between Texas cities in the most safe, productive, and sustainable way possible. With custom pickup and drop-off capability, ElecTrip offers a cost competitive and comfortable travel service.
Alternate: FastVisa.us
FastVisa builds the platform to streamline the Immigration and Visa process, making immigration and visa preparation easier, faster, and much more affordable. It is committed to ensuring that organizations helping immigrants apply for legal status have a comprehensive, low-cost technology platform designed with greater efficiency than ever before.
Alternate: Rectify, Inc.
Rectify automates privacy with secure redaction for document distribution. Rectify is helping corporations solve the manual data protection techniques with our technology that automatically identifies and removes private data with minimal human interaction.
Alternate: Valhalla Healthcare
Valhalla Healthcare is a team of physicians and data scientists on a mission to leverage AI/ML to deliver the healthcare everyone deserves. Our first solution is Allevia, an intelligent patient intake system that automates clinical documentation for healthcare providers.
