Meet the Finalists
Fall 2014
Andrew Yee
PASSIO Surgical Education, LLC
Surgical Academy is producing comprehensive instructional videos and building an on-line distribution and discussion platform for complex surgeries from world-renowned surgeons.
Bernard Mallala
HingeX (formerly Bridely)
Bridely is an online market place of vendors that allows brides, grooms, and engaged couples to connect with wedding professionals. For each specific vendor type, the platform simulates questions and interactions that occur during a face-to-face meeting between a bride and vendor to identify matches.
Brad Postier
Spectrum Perception, LLC
Spectrum Perception LLC is developing a line of micro-spectrometers for application in academia, the biotech and chemical industries, clinical laboratories, and forensics. These handheld instruments merge the capabilities of a pipette and a spectrophotometer and are designed for a specific assay or class of assays. A proprietary disposable capillary tip will provide a majority of the revenue allowing the instruments to be available at very affordable prices.
Chico Weber
Squarefruit Labs, LLC
Squarefruit Labs is building Persona, a user-friendly robotic 3D printer with advanced features to make 3D printing and automation within reach of novices as well as sophisticated inventors. Persona includes a 7 degree-of-freedom arm that allows users to begin 3D printing with our simple drag and drop interface for custom free-form designs, perform various scanning techniques, and auto-calibration.
Janay Holmes
Learning Makes Sense, Inc.
Learning Makes Sense is an after school program that provides inner city first through fifth graders hands-on activities that engage the five senses. The mission of LMS is to instill kids with a passion and desire for general studies and exploration with programs in social studies, reading comprehension, agriculture, energy conservation, and other S.T.E.M. areas.
Patrice Hill
Inali Jewelry Designs, LLC
Get This, Make That (GTMT), a digital resource, will assist home improvement, do-it-yourself neophytes and enthusiasts in learning what they need, what it looks like and why they need it to shop for and execute home improvement projects. Get This, Make That will also feature Remnants Rehab, where visitors can post, and therefore part with, leftover home improvement supplies.
Taleh Alem
Trilogy Health Services, LLC
Trilogy Health Services aims to open a Pain Management Clinic specializing in mind-body interventions to treat veterans, EMTs, firefighters and police officers. Our goal is to become a major provider of Mind-Body Pain Management, also known as Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), to the VA and other similar organizations.
