Meet the Winners

"Winning the grand prize was one of the most profoundly wonderful moments of my life. It's a beautiful feeling to have work you've striven and labored so hard on to be uplifted and recognized in such a way."

— Sam Baker, CEO, WriggleBrew

2024 Grand Prize Winner

WriggleBrew

Invented a process that uses bioreactors to decompose plastic waste and turn it into organic plant fertilizer

Technology  |  $10,000

AiWover — Boston, MA

AI-guided, cloud-based baby monitoring system

Environmental  |  $10,000

WriggleBrew — Orlando, FL


Process that uses bioreactors to decompose plastic waste and yield organic plant fertilizer

Energy  |  $10,000

SynMatter — Orlando, FL

Smart materials that create sustainable, higher performance and longer-lasting products

Healthcare  |  $10,000  

Rahm Sensor Development, Inc. — Orlando, FL

Zero-touch monitoring of heart rate, repiratory rate, and body temperature.

Wildcard  |  $10,000  

VeriChem — Lakewood Ranch, FL

Drug detection tool that preserves sample integrity and improves the accuracy of drug detection

2023 Grand Prize Winner

CranioSense

Boston-based startup, CranioSense was awarded the grand prize of $50,000 and legal services for developing IPASS, an intracranial pressure assessment and screening technology that measures intracranial pressure in seconds, without the need to drill a hole in the skull or insert a sensor into the brain.

2022 Grand Prize Winner

NEPTUNYA Ocean Power

NEPTUNYA Ocean Power, based out of Boca Raton, Florida, took home the grand prize for OCTOPODZ, a technology tha unlocks offshore renewable energy. Their offshore wind turbine drastically lowers energy costs through reduced weight and a floating design that eliminates the need for a separate foundation substructure. The invention could dramatically increase renewable energy adoption by power companies and other energy consumers.

2021 Grand Prize Winner

SPKL

Technology created by a USF College of Engineering team to precisely measure blood flow in the body’s tissues — allowing for more accurate medical assessments of strokes, brain injuries and a wide range of diseases.

2020 Grand Prize Winner

Nutrivert

A company commercializing antibiotic replacement technologies developed by and with Auburn University researchers was the first to win outside of Florida.

2019 Grand Prize Winner

Anchor Biologics

Develops tissue-anchoring drugs to ensure the right dose goes to the right place for the right amount of time.

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