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Finalists
First Place Finalist: Starling Medical – Houston, TX
$50,000
Starling Medical is a digital health device company developing an AI and tech-enabled platform as a safer, smarter alternative to urinary catheters for individuals with neurogenic bladder dysfunction.
Second Place Finalist: Ictero Medical – Houston, TX
$35,000
Ictero Medical is building a minimally invasive ablation system to provide definitive therapy to high-risk patients with gallstone disease. Our device, the CholeSafe System, leverages existing workflows widely utilized by interventional radiologists, allowing physicians to offer their patients the benefits of surgery without the risk.
Third Place Finalist: Koda Health – Houston, TX
$25,000
Koda Health uses AI to guide difficult conversations in healthcare, starting with proactive medical care planning. Our data-driven, personalized, digital platform ensures patients receive the care that is important to them, while curbing the financial burden in the last years of life.
Fourth Place Finalist: Microsilicon – Houston, TX
$15,000
MicroSilicon invents and deploys IoT devices for the Energy Industry that reduce Operator Cost and Increase Production by taking a continuous chemical fingerprint of multiphase fluid as it passes through the wellhead or other surface facilities. The real-time data is analyzed by AI/ML techniques on the Cloud to optimize actionable information.
Fifth Place Finalist: Vitanova Biomedical – Kerrville, TX
$10,000
Vitanova Biomedical is a San Antonio-Texas based preclinical stage biotech company developing a University of Texas invented targeted cancer therapy platform technology, Light Activated Intracellular Acidosis (LAIA) therapy. LAIA therapy has proven capable of killing >80% of cancer cells in five different cancer types including breast and prostate.
Sixth Place Finalist: CodeWalker – Houston, TX
$5,000
CodeWalker visually images source code functionality with 2D and 3D maps that reveal the program’s logic flow, potential security vulnerabilities, performance issues, hidden bugs, and unintended processing outcomes. CodeWalker saves significant developer time, accelerates project time-to-market, and provides an unparalleled understanding how software functions.
Elevator Pitch
Elevator Pitch First Place: EmGenysis – Houston, TX
$5,000
EmGenisys provides a digital, non-invasive, embryo assessment platform for livestock. Combining computer vision and machine learning, we created the world’s most comprehensive embryo evaluation system measuring embryo cellular activity in real time. This improves pregnancy outcomes up to 20% to contribute to the sustainability of animal production.
Elevator Pitch Second Place: SkyPaws – Cedar Park, TX
$3,000
SKYPaws is a patent-pending wireless vitals monitoring device for pets in-hospital. We currently measure heart rate, ECG, and temperature. In the future, we will add capabilities for oxygen saturation and respiratory rate. The 2.5″ device is secured to the patient using a kinesio-tape and all of the vitals data is then streamed onto any device.
Elevator Pitch Third Place: Solenic Medical – College Station, TX
$2,000
Solenic Medical Inc. is a medical device company with an innovative non-invasive way to treat infections on metallic implants in the body. Solenic leverages the unique properties of alternating magnetic fields to eradicate biofilm on the surface prosthetic joints and trauma implants retaining patient mobility without surgery.
Elevator Pitch Fourth Place: TYBR Health – Houston, TX
$1,000
TYBR Health is dedicated to preventing post-surgical internal scars and their devastating consequences. Our approach is unique in that our multidisciplinary team leverages modern advances in regenerative medicine coupled with established engineering principles to develop an easy-to-use adhesion barrier for open and minimally invasive surgery.
Special Prize Winners
Southwest Pediatric Device Prize: HERO Medical and Solenic Medical
A Nurse Practitioner from Texas and an Australian Naval Lieutenant teamed up to tackle the gap in emergency care of Traumatic Head Injuries. HERO Medical Technologies is developing a cap-shaped rapidly applied hemorrhage-control HERO “Smart” Bandage and mobile app that leverages artificial intelligence to automate vital sign and patient monitoring.
Solenic Medical Inc. is a medical device company with an innovative non-invasive way to treat infections on metallic implants in the body. Solenic leverages the unique properties of alternating magnetic fields to eradicate biofilm on the surface prosthetic joints and trauma implants retaining patient mobility without surgery.
Aggie Angel Network Investment Prize: Vitanova Biomedical
Vitanova Biomedical is a San Antonio-Texas based preclinical stage biotech company developing a University of Texas invented targeted cancer therapy platform technology, Light Activated Intracellular Acidosis (LAIA) therapy. LAIA therapy has proven capable of killing >80% of cancer cells in five different cancer types including breast and prostate.
Innovators Legal: Microsilicon and Vitanova Biomedical
MicroSilicon invents and deploys IoT devices for the Energy Industry that reduce Operator Cost and Increase Production by taking a continuous chemical fingerprint of multiphase fluid as it passes through the wellhead or other surface facilities. The real-time data is analyzed by AI/ML techniques on the Cloud to optimize actionable information.
Vitanova Biomedical is a San Antonio-Texas based preclinical stage biotech company developing a University of Texas invented targeted cancer therapy platform technology, Light Activated Intracellular Acidosis (LAIA) therapy. LAIA therapy has proven capable of killing >80% of cancer cells in five different cancer types including breast and prostate.
Paragon Innovations Prize: DrillDocs Company and Solenic Medical
DrillDocs’ computer vision system, CleanSight™, will revolutionize rig shale shaker monitoring and reduce Operators’ drilling costs. We install robust, surface-based autonomous and non-intrusive sensors, that provide new data about the size, shape, and quantity of drilled rocks that will alert the drilling team to downhole events and anamolies.
Solenic Medical Inc. is a medical device company with an innovative non-invasive way to treat infections on metallic implants in the body. Solenic leverages the unique properties of alternating magnetic fields to eradicate biofilm on the surface prosthetic joints and trauma implants retaining patient mobility without surgery.
Amerra Visualization Services Prize: TYBR Health
TYBR Health is dedicated to preventing post-surgical internal scars and their devastating consequences. Our approach is unique in that our multidisciplinary team leverages modern advances in regenerative medicine coupled with established engineering principles to develop an easy-to-use adhesion barrier for open and minimally invasive surgery.
Schwegman, Lundberg and Woessner IP Legal Services Prize: TEZCAT Laboratories
TEZCAT Laboratories is a discovery-stage biotechnology company that is committed to the R&D of novel biologic-based therapeutic approaches to provide new treatment options for cancer patients. The technology aims to offer a better treatment paradigm for patients with the most recalcitrant cancers, who have significant unmet clinical needs.
Hollinden Marketing and Strategists Servies Prize: TYBR Health
TYBR Health is dedicated to preventing post-surgical internal scars and their devastating consequences. Our approach is unique in that our multidisciplinary team leverages modern advances in regenerative medicine coupled with established engineering principles to develop an easy-to-use adhesion barrier for open and minimally invasive surgery.
BioTex Services Prize: Ictero Medical
Ictero Medical is building a minimally invasive ablation system to provide definitive therapy to high-risk patients with gallstone disease. Our device, the CholeSafe System, leverages existing workflows widely utilized by interventional radiologists, allowing physicians to offer their patients the benefits of surgery without the risk.
Axle-Box Services Prize: AVA Propulsion and SKYPaws
Aerial Vehicle Automation creates large fixed pitch multirotor drone platforms to autonomously carry payloads 200 lbs+ distances up to 300 miles. Applications include transport of parts & supplies to remote areas, military and lifesaving missions. These vertical takeoff aircraft require no road or runway & are 20x cheaper/hr versus helicopters.
SKYPaws is a patent-pending wireless vitals monitoring device for pets in-hospital. We currently measure heart rate, ECG, and temperature. In the future, we will add capabilities for oxygen saturation and respiratory rate. The 2.5″ device is secured to the patient using a kinesio-tape and all of the vitals data is then streamed onto any device.
BVEDC Launch Prize: HelioWAVE Technologies
HelioWAVE Technologies, LLC is leveraging innovative microfluidic-based systems to revolutionize the way in which the sterility of biopharmaceutical products are evaluated. Its flagship HelioSAFE product line will drastically reduce the cost, timeline, and efficiency of sterility testing, and thereby promoting the delivery of life saving medicines.
pH Partners Investment Prize: Koda Health and Starling Medical
Koda Health uses AI to guide difficult conversations in healthcare, starting with proactive medical care planning. Our data-driven, personalized, digital platform ensures patients receive the care that is important to them, while curbing the financial burden in the last years of life.
Starling Medical is a digital health device company developing an AI and tech-enabled platform as a safer, smarter alternative to urinary catheters for individuals with neurogenic bladder dysfunction.
West Webb Albritton and Gentry Prize: RiverWalk Therapeutics
Riverwalk Therapeutics is an early stage therapeutic company developing a suite of small molecules for potential efficacy in cancer, particularly metastatic disease. The drug candidates have a novel mechanism of action and are showing promising efficacy in multiple cancers, including breast and lung cancer.
Semifinalists
Semifinalist: Advanced Surgical Retractor Systems, Inc.
Advanced Surgical Retractor Systems, Inc. d/b/a ASR Systems is dedicated to the design, development, and commercialization of innovative surgical retractor systems. Our mission is to advance the way surgeons operate and help improve patient outcomes.
Semifinalist: Icii Technologies
Icii is changing AI by making it possible for AI to be Everywhere! Every sensor, every device, and every location. Today, AI is limited to powerful and expensive computing equipment. Icii is revolutionizing AI through its AI to chip platform that moves AI processing into a low power computer chip.
Semifinalist: Industrom Power
Industrom Power LLC is a clean energy technology company that has developed a novel, patent-pending, renewable energy recovery power system; this mobile power system offers:
– Distributed, dispatchable, reserve power
– Increased power and efficiency
– No greenhouse gas emissions
It is energy source agnostic and uses no water.
Semifinalist: Max-IR Labs
Founded in 2017, Max-IR Labs develops infrared solutions for industrial process control, medical diagnostics and biochemical analysis. We are moving infrared technologies from the lab into the field, bridging the gap between laboratory research and real-world application solutions meeting the needs of industrial, biomedical and defense end-users.
Alternates
Alternate: SparkSigma
SparkSigma is developing SyncroScan™, the only handheld portable diagnostic and therapeutic device that can identify and destroy any pathogen (bacteria/viruses/fungi) instantaneously on any surface. The company will focus initially upon wound care and surgery applications.
