"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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