RI Business Plan Competition Announces 2019 Elevator Pitch Contest Winners
Saturday, December 07, 2019
The Rhode Island Business Competition has announced the winners of its 2019 Elevator Pitch Contest.
The winners were decided following final presentations at Venture Cafe in Providence earlier this week.
"It was wonderful to have such a wide array of presenters who were willing to stand in front of an audience of 100+ strangers to pitch their business idea. The presenters, as well as the audience, learned a lot from the judges who gave thoughtful and constructive feedback on their presentations,” said Anthony Mangiarelli, partner at KLR who served as MC for the event.
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Cerebration's Anqi Zhou, a Brown University student, proposed a technology to combat the involuntary muscle dysfunction for those that suffer from Parkinson's disease.
Her company has a letter of intent to license a patented technology from Duke University called ExeterPlus.
This is a minimally invasive device to eliminate muscle tremor by emitting electrical pulses at certain frequencies to synchronize muscle movement and is easily accessible and manageable for patients.
Second place went to Denise Valenti of Westerly and founder of IMMAD.
Currently, there are no biologic/breathalyzer or impairment testing for marijuana use. IMMAD's product would test for retinal function which would accurately determine if a driver is too impaired to operate an automobile.
Other winners were -
- Hadley Witt of RetroCidal Therapies is looking to license a Brown University patented compound that does not focus on targeting what HIV/AIDS is but instead what HIV needs.
- Joshua Daniel, a Brown University student, pitched Blossom Therapies, a licensed patented technology that aims to ease the anxiety and difficulty of transdermal drug delivery by utilizing a novel touch actuated micropump.
- Brown University student Karlly Feng, pitched her company, Tint, which is a direct-to-consumer skincare brand that delivers organic and healthy products. The product line, Upgr-aid uses scientifically developed formulas to create a singly skin perfector moisturizer product that will adapt to all skin tones.
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