1st Place, $7,500.00
Allied Strategy LLC
University of Nebraska
Team Members: Colby Thomson, Britton Nielsen and Jeff Runyan
Advisor: Terrence Sebora
Description: Allied Strategy offers enterprise-class solutions enabling the integration
of verification information such as credit and motor vehicle reports into real-time
decision systems. Allied's flagship "verification server" targets P&C Insurance
providing cost systems and competitive advantage through increased process efficiency
and manageability, vendor independence, and industry standard XML formats.
2nd Place, $1,500.00
Flexon Solutions, LLC
University of Iowa
Team Members: Bryk Lancaster and Mike "Blaze" Keller
Advisor: David Hensley
Description: Flexon Solutions was founded in August 2003 to identify and develop
cost-effective road safety solutions including a pavement marking retroreflectometer.
The first wave of products will be delivered in March 2004 with product sales beginning
by first quarter of 2005.
3rd Place, $1,000.00
Venecian Pet Spa and Resort
University of Houston
Team Members: Matteo Reginato and Amy Tabor
Advisor: Shena Cherian
Description: The Venecian Pet Spa and resort is a business catering to high income
pet owners. The Venecian provides upscale boarding, grooming, and spa services to
dog and cat lovers.
Honorable Mention, $500.00
CapturCam
Syracuse University
Team Members: Kimberly Salley, Jeremy Calandrino, Magdalena Chwaleba, Brian Nelson
and Richard Reginelli
Advisor: Michael Morris
Description: CapturCam sells memories, immediacy and convenience as an impulse purchase
to a captive market. The company will rent the latest digital video cameras for
low hourly rates at high traffic vacation locations, and then send the images to
the customer via CD/DVD/electronic file to the customer's home address.
infoUSA Graduate Division
1st Place, $10,000.00
Veran Medical Technologies, Inc
Vanderbilt University
Team Members: Evan Austill, Jr., Jerome R. Edwards, Benjamin S. Hearrin
Advisor: Bruce Lynskey
Description: Veran Medical Technologies, Inc. (Veran) is a Nashville corporation
developing Dynamic Track3™ A patent pending technology that enables physicians to
visualize the live position of instruments superimposed on dynamic images in the
procedure room, Dynamic Track3™ Provides real-time, three-dimensional Global Positioning
System for instruments, making procedures faster, less invasive and more accurate
while increasing hospital throughput.
2nd Place, $3,000.00
Nature's Own Company
Indian School of Business
Team Members: Subramani Ramachandrappa, Sanjay Jha, Gp. Cpt. R.N. and Kaushal Khakhar
Advisor: Ramachandran K.
Description: NOC produces designer flowers using a proprietary (potent pending)
technology. This makes ordinary paper hygroscopic, enabling it to absorb moisture
from the atmosphere and retain a natural look and feel. NOC's flowers are vastly
superior to both natural flowers and artificial flowers.
3rd Place, $2,000.00
Shepherd Alert Systems
Loyola Marymount University
Team Members: Paul Rawson, Jose Ramos, Fabien Pelloux, and Danielle Lawler
Advisor: Fred Kiesner
Description: SHEPHERD ALERT SYSTEMS-is a GPS based, "always on" electronic warning
system that constantly monitors the location of a child, young adult, senior citizen,
or anyone that requires supervision. If the person under supervision leaves a user
defined geographical area (can be finely defined to a small area) a warning signal
is emitted and a graphic representation pops up on the computer screen, constantly
advising where the person is. The base unit is called the SHEPHERD, the mobile units
are called the SHEEP. The product is great for individual monitoring, or group monitoring
such as children at a summer camp. It handles multiple SHEEP.
Honorable Mention, $500.00
Neuronetrix
University of Louisville
Team Members: Jennifer Middleton, Chase Burton, Botty Conklin and Greg Floyd
Advisor: Van Clouse
Description: Neuronetrix is developing the first system to screen newborns for dyslexia,
a learning disability that affects one in every ten people. Eighty percent of the
illiterate adults are dyslexic, and illiteracy costs the nation about $300 billion
each year.
Honorable Mention, $500.00
Nutrimens Management Systems
University of Nebraska
Team Member: Tom Rathje
Advisor: Terrence Sebora
Description: Nutrimens Management Systems create, manages, and markets products
from food supply chains. Growers and manufacturers of food products fully participate
in the value they add to branded products under the Nutrimens business model, enhancing
margins and moving away from commodity based systems.
