Angelica O鈥橦ara 鈥19, McKenna Murtha 鈥19, Quinn King 鈥20, Alec Gillinder 鈥20
Student startup companies developed during the took the top two prizes at the 2018 黑料不打烊 Impact Prize Competition organized by. The winners were selected for presenting the most innovative and implementable ideas to help solve civic, environmental, economic or other public challenges as part of a campuswide social entrepreneurship challenge.
, won first place and $6,500 in funding. Their wearable, portable IV system allows patients to remain mobile while receiving treatment. King and Gillinder also won the SU Campus session of Invent@SU in the summer of 2018.
, took second place and $3,500. Their device, a system for first responders at mass casualty incidents, measures vital signs of multiple patients through armband units that relay data to a central onsite monitoring device. O鈥橦ara and Rafi won first place at the New York City session of Invent@SU in the summer of 2018. McKenna Murtha 鈥19 of Newhouse has also joined the startup company.
Invent@SU teams Halo and FitPet were also finalists for the Impact Prize. , and .
鈥淧articipation in the Invent@SU acceleration program has consistently been a pivotal success factor for winning teams,鈥 says Blackstone Launchpad Executive Director Linda Hartsock.聽 鈥淚nvent@SU provides the framework for ideation, iteration, discovery and feedback, as well as prototyping and pitching. Students who participate in Invent@SU are well prepared to work with us on next steps related to product and business model development, and take their inventions from concept to commercialization. 聽The Invent@SU鈥揃lackstone LaunchPad powered by Techstars partnership is truly unique, and provides an integrated roadmap to help students succeed at being both inventors and entrepreneurs.鈥
This is the second year in a row that Invent@SU teams have finished at the top of the Impact Prize competition. In 2017,
