Meet the Finalists of Startup302!
Innovation, impact, and entrepreneurial spirit—these are the rising stars of the science and tech startup ecosystem.
Finalists: Fintech
GradVillage
Grad Village is a crowdfunding platform that helps students raise funds for tuition, housing, meal plans, and school essentials with support from family, friends, and donors. With secure tuition payments and strategic partnerships, we make higher education more accessible allowing students to achieve their educational goals.
Innocuous AI
Innocuous AI improves insurance claims efficiency, reduces litigation, and boosts policy renewals for insurance firms, leading to faster claims payments, better customer experiences, and keeps premiums affordable for policyholders.
Roamstay
AI-driven management and financial services platform to empower HOA management firms to support the 53M Americans who live in 20M professionally managed units with a quality living experience that augments their most significant investment.
Finalists: Environmental Impact
Crystron Materials
Crystron has developed a novel Cathode Active Material (Venus3) by using a proprietary reaction of a Lithium-salt with an iron-based compound. The reaction generates no waste and has zero water consumption. It takes less than an hour to complete which reduces both Opex and Capex.
KiposTech
KiposTech advances Ag biosecurity with all-in-one air disinfection, removing pathogens, dust, and odor to boost farm health & revenue, tackling avian flu first.
Rotate8
Rotate8 simplifies agricultural automation with low cost, modular, repairable, intuitive technology that empowers farmers. Our automation modules create a farm as a robot, integrating into anything that senses or actuates on the farm—from sprinklers and soil sensors to incubators and greenhouses—through one centralized dashboard.
Finalists: Life Sciences
Aeromedical Innovations
We’re focused on pioneering wireless medical devices designed to elevate patient care and boost operational efficiency throughout the healthcare industry. By utilizing advanced wireless communication technology, our innovative solutions provide unmatched freedom and comfort to patients and facilitate a smoother workflow for healthcare professionals.
Fetal Therapy Technologies
Fetal Therapy Technologies is the first female-led pediatric microsurgical device company developing instruments and training models optimized for the uterine environment to improve the safety of life-saving fetal surgical procedures.
Vasowatch
Offers a postpartum hemorrhage biomarker to health systems and payers focused on improving maternal outcomes, enabling a 60% reduction in hemorrhage incidents . Our patent-pending algorithm tests for myometrial fatigue using streaming heart rate data, alerting clinicians to unknown hemorrhage risk ahead of delivery.
Special Thank You To Our Semi-Finalist Judges:
Kristen Castell, CAFÉ; Dora Cheatham, Aternium; Troy Farmer, SBDC; Rob Herrera, The Mill; Anastasia Jackson, Delaware Division of Small Business; Pamela Kinley, Highmark BCBSDE; Liz Nutting, Discover; Dwayne Parker, Highmark BCBSDE; Darren Stephenson, Bronze Valley Gener8tor; Billy Taki, Resilience Capital Ventures; Troy Wilford, University of Delaware Horn Entrepreneurship; Joe Zilcosky, Delaware Division of Small Business.
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Judges
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In-Kind Sponsors:
CAFÉ, Chartline, Delaware Bioscience Association, Emerging Enterprise Center, Growth Stage Incubator, Innovation Space, Pete DuPont Freedom Foundation, Small Business Development Center of Delaware, Women’s Business Center at True Access Capital, World Trade Center of Delaware