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First-Place Business Pitch

First-Place Business Pitch

November 8, 2024 | News, UToday, Alumni, Business and Innovation, Engineering
By Staff


Dr. Sridhar Viamajala, a professor in the Department of Bioengineering and founder and CEO of Avani Enterprizes, a high-yield recycling process, pitches his technology to a panel of judges Thursday evening at the UToledo Business Incubator's Tech419 Pitch Competition. Five regional entrepreneurs competed and Viamajala won the competition and the grand prize of $10,000 in business funding.

The second-place prize of $5,000 in business funding went to Jomoko Graves with EZ-FIT, and the third-place prize of $2,500 went to Dr. Burton Rogers with CerviStrength Solutions.

CerviStrength Solutions team members David Uhlenhake, left, a UToledo alumnus, and Rogers, right, demonstrate their device that tests a patient's neck strength on Tech419 judge and 2022 pitch competition winner Todd Hendricks Jr.

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