The Investor Pitch Semi-FinalsPart of the 11th Annual Duke Start-Up ChallengeWednesday, March 23rd, 12noon @ Fuqua - Energy & Environment - MBA2008 Classroom
- Healthcare & Life Sciences - Seminar Room B
- IT & Media - Seminar Room C
- Products & Services - Seminar Room D
- Social Enterprises - Seminar Room E
- Women-led Startups - Lilly Classroom
- Undergraduate-led Startups - Mosler Classroom
All Duke students, post-docs, staff, alumni and faculty are welcome to attend. Next Steps
Statistics on the Semi-FinalistsWhich school is the team leader enrolled in?
| Pratt | 24 | | Trinity | 12 | | Fuqua School of Business | 9 | | Nicholas School of the Environment | 2 | | Law School | 2 | | Sanford School of Public Policy | 1 | | The Graduate School (Fuqua PhD) | 1 | | The Graduate School | 1 |
What year is the team leader graduating?| 2011 | 25 | | 2012 | 14 | | 2013 | 11 | | 2014 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | | 2016 | 1 |
Listing of Semi-FinalistsOut of the 110 initial entries, seventy judges helped select seven teams for each track. In the case of a tie for seventh place, we allowed both teams to advance, which is why some tracks have eight teams.
Each track was judged by a different set of judges.
Functional Tracks All teams can enter one functional track
Energy & Environment- CarBone - CarBone has developed a process that recycles waste animal bone for use in modern electronics. Team Lead: Kenneth Gould, Trinity '13, kenneth.gould@duke.edu
- Dynamo Micropower - Dynamo Micropower enables emerging applications with its disruptive, low cost, power dense power plant. Such applications include residential trigeneration, robotics, hybrid vehicles and portable power. Team Lead: Ivan Wang, Graduate School '13, ivan.wang@duke.edu
- Epiphyte Energy Solutions - Epiphyte Energy Solutions is a financial services company that saves home renters money on energy bills by providing energy efficiency upgrades to the home through contracts with property owners. Team Lead: Maura Farver, Nicholas School '12, mmf8@duke.edu
- HyTower Energy Storage - The HyTower pumped-hydro system builds on proven technology to deliver safe, reliable energy storage at higher efficiency and lower cost than competing technologies into a growing $1.5B annual market. Team Lead: Matt Kaufmann, Fuqua '11, mak45@duke.edu
- Integrated Energy Management Services - IEMS is the best energy management service firm for homes and small businesses. We provide a fully integrated approach to energy management that empowers consumers to plan and control their energy spending and while reducing costs. Team Lead: Adriana Perez, Pratt '11, adriana.perez@duke.edu
- Revenergy Solutions - Revenergy Solutions aims to utilize the power of the sun to provide a unique low cost solution to the lack of readily available hot water in emerging economies. Team Lead: Shana Patadia, Nicholas School '12, rotimi.thomas@fuqua.duke.edu
- Waste to Watts - Our mission is to create innovative products from repurposed electronic waste to meet the energy dilemmas of the developing world. Team Lead: Adam Kurzok, Pratt '12, adam.kurzrok@duke.edu
- World of Pellets - World of Pellets is a bioenergy company that will build and operate a state-of-the-art wood pellet production plant in the department of Magdalena, at the Caribbean coast of the Republic of Colombia. Team Lead: Steven Burkholder, Fuqua '11, steven.burkholder@fuqua.duke.edu
Healthcare & Life Sciences - ProBiop (formerly ARFI TransAccura) - An ultrasound device that uses a technology called Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI, pronounced ARF-EE) for imaging the prostate when performing biopsies. Team Lead: Peter Prakobkit, Pratt '11, kp99@duke.edu
- Asclecia - Asclecia, providing revolutionary treatment of schizophrenia. Team Lead: Margaret Upshur, Pratt '12, margaret.upshur@duke.edu
- Camras Vision - Company that will help save the vision of glaucoma patients. Team Lead: Roberto Alfaro, Fuqua '11, roberto.alfaro@camrasvision.com
- ClearBolus - Bolus is a gel material used in radiation therapy to help focus and direct the radiation. ClearBolus, is a fully transparent bolus made of FDA-approved materials that will revolutionize a market made up of completely opaque or semi-opaque boluses. Team Lead: Hon Lung Chu, Pratt '11, hc57@duke.edu
- Docendi Interactive - Using medical games to recreate clinical scenarios, Docendi Interactive enables physicians and other healthcare professionals to “learn better”. Team Lead: Noah Kalman, Fuqua '12, noah.kalman@fuqua.duke.edu
- Fortis Orthopedics - Fortis Orthopedics has developed the MiHip system which provides for safer and easier insertion of the device, while delivering enhanced stability in the surrounding bone to prevent loosening and the need for revision. Team Lead: Kelly Waldman, Trinity '11, kelly.waldman@duke.edu
- Hydrangle Systems - Hydrangle Systems has discovered a way for men diagnosed with prostate cancer to maintain potency while undergoing prostate cancer treatment surgeries. Team Lead: Laura Paulsen, Pratt '11, lpaulse1@gmail.com
- Medici Medical Technologies - Medici develops innovative devices to restore control to women suffering from urinary incontinence (UI). 28M Americans suffer from UI and most see little improvement in their conditions, despite $20B spent annually on this problem. Team Lead: Jeff Kovick, Fuqua '11, jeff.kovick@fuqua.duke.edu
IT & Media - EpistemLogic - The World's First Practical Contextual Search Engine. Team Lead: Luis Rios, Graduate School, Fuqua (PhD) '16, luis.rios@duke.edu
- FingrPrint - FingrPrint is both a skin and a widget for any Chromium-based web browser that allows for the personalization of the Web. Team Lead: Fabio Berger, Trinity '13, fabioberger1991@gmail.comLifeDash - LifeDash is a single-view platform enabling busy professionals to easily manage their online accounts in a single place. Team Lead: Ted Getten, Fuqua '12, ted.getten@fuqua.duke.edu
- Schedulator - Schedulator is a tool for university students that helps in planning courses every semester, buying textbooks, and coordinating schedules with friends. Check us out at www.dukeschedulator.com. Team Lead: Niru Maheswaranathan, Pratt '11, niru.m@duke.edu
- Sidewalk - Sidewalk is a tool for local businesses to increase customer traffic. Sidewalk makes it incredibly simple for local merchants to publish time-sensitive deals. Team Lead: Rhianon DeLeeuw, Fuqua '11, rtd12@duke.edu
- The Cluster Hub - The Cluster Hub is an online platform that helps teams maximize their potential by tackling these problems on three fronts: through the personal portal, group portal, and community portal. Team Lead: Divya Iyer, Pratt '11, james.wedgeworth@gmail.com
- Watu Research - Connecting BOP populations in developing countries with organizations that want to serve them by revolutionizing how market research is conducted. Team Lead: Bassaam Fawad, Fuqua '12, baf18@duke.edu
Note: Shapea dropped out of IT & Media on 3/15/11. FingrPrint was next highest, so they have been added.
Products & Services (Miscellaneous) - 70Sesame - An Advertising-Based SMS App Platform in China. Team Lead: Stephanie Chang, Pratt '11, shc15@duke.edu
- Asteria Propulsion - Asteria Propulsion is developing innovative micro rocket engine technology that will revolutionize the satellite industry by enabling affordable access to space for small satellites. Team Lead: Natalya Brikner, Pratt '13, nab22@duke.edu
- Drive Safe - A smart phone application that prevents accidents and saves money. Team Lead: Mitchel Gorecki, Pratt '13, mitchel.gorecki@duke.edu
- FrutyYooty Inc - Presenting a healthier alternative-frozen yogurt-to China. Team Lead: Albert Hu, Pratt '14, yd27@duke.edu
- inSightful Technologies Forget Me Not Smart Safety Seat - It is a parent's worst nightmare: 38 children die of hyperthermia every year in the United States from being left in a hot car. inSightful Technologies has developed the Forget Me Not Smart Safety Seat to prevent this type of tragedy. Team Lead: Brandon Sights, Pratt '12, brandon.sights@duke.edu
- Power On The Go - Power-on-the-go offers a peerless innovative technology to charge Smartphones wirelessly using wireless power. Team Lead: Srinivas Sai Shreyas, Pratt '11, ss321@duke.edu
- ShelfRelief - The best way to buy and sell books among college students. Team Lead: Tito Bohrt, Trinity '13, hjb5@duke.edu
Social Enterprises - ServiSaurus (formerly 21st Century Durham) - Bringing small businesses, non-profits, and individuals into the future of web design. Team Lead: Matthew Pleatman, Pratt '13, mlp36@duke.edu
- Accion Emprendedora USA - Accion emprendedora will offer business management education, training and coaching for Hispanic entrepreneurs in North Carolina to help them overcome the barriers they have for growth and economic development. Team Lead: Ignacio Torres, Sanford '11, itorresk@gmail.com
- BuyWithCause - BuyWithCause revolutionizes the way nonprofits raise money and how local businesses market to their customers. Team Lead: Joe Levy, Trinity '12, jal50@duke.edu
- Human Capital - The pursuit to privatize the student loan market in order to provide students with more tolerable methods of debt repayments. Team Lead: Kim Eric, Trinity '13, sep27@duke.edu
- Represent.ME - Represent.ME is a website where constituents and candidates create profiles, fostering a new era of Democratic responsiveness. Don't ask what you could do for your country, ask what your country should do for you. Team Lead: Christopher Abkarians, Trinity '12, cra14@duke.edu
- Shared Roots - Shared Roots: Protecting the environment, bolstering rural economies and improving consumer health. Team Lead: Karl Goodman, Law '11, karl.goodman@gmail.com
- Universal Water Supply Technologies - Technological and social solutions to rural water supply problems in developing countries. Team Lead: Andrew Mang, Pratt '12, andrew.mang@duke.edu
- Urban Acre (formerly WAYAACP: Rice for Liberia) - Economic opportunity, food security and youth empowerment to secure the future of Liberia. Team Lead: Michael Bernert, Pratt '12, mjb46@duke.edu
Special Interest TracksSpecial interest tracks give teams additional opportunities to advance. Students can compete in them in addition to the functional tracks, as an additional "shot on goal".
Undergraduate-led Startups Must be led and pitched by undergraduates only - 70Sesame - An Advertising-Based SMS App Platform in China. Team Lead: Stephanie Chang, Pratt '11, shc15@duke.edu
- CarBone - CarBone has developed a process that recycles waste animal bone for use in modern electronics. Team Lead: Kenneth Gould, Trinity '13, kenneth.gould@duke.edu
- FingrPrint - FingrPrint is both a skin and a widget for any Chromium-based web browser that allows for the personalization of the Web. Team Lead: Fabio Berger, Trinity '13, fabioberger1991@gmail.com
- Fortis Orthopedics - Fortis Orthopedics has developed the MiHip system which provides for safer and easier insertion of the device, while delivering enhanced stability in the surrounding bone to prevent loosening and the need for revision. Team Lead: Kelly Waldman, Trinity '11, kelly.waldman@duke.edu
- Represent.ME - Represent.ME is a website where constituents and candidates create profiles, fostering a new era of Democratic responsiveness. Don't ask what you could do for your country, ask what your country should do for you. Team Lead: Christopher Abkarians, Trinity '12, cra14@duke.edu
- Schedulator - Schedulator is a tool for university students that helps in planning courses every semester, buying textbooks, and coordinating schedules with friends. Check us out at www.dukeschedulator.com. Team Lead: Niru Maheswaranathan, Pratt '11, niru.m@duke.edu
- ShelfRelief - The best way to buy and sell books among college students. Team Lead: Tito Bohrt, Trinity '13, hjb5@duke.edu
Women-led Startups Must be led and pitched by women only - 70Sesame - An Advertising-Based SMS App Platform in China. Team Lead: Stephanie Chang, Pratt '11, shc15@duke.edu
- Asclecia - Asclecia, providing revolutionary treatment of schizophrenia. Team Lead: Margaret Upshur, Pratt '12, margaret.upshur@duke.edu
- Asteria Propulsion - Asteria Propulsion is developing innovative micro rocket engine technology that will revolutionize the satellite industry by enabling affordable access to space for small satellites. Team Lead: Natalya Brikner, Pratt '13, nab22@duke.edu
- E-Clean - Reducing hospital acquired infections (HAIs) through increased hand hygiene compliance. Team Lead: Jessica Liu, Pratt '11, jessica.liu@duke.edu
- Fortis Orthopedics - Fortis Orthopedics has developed the MiHip system which provides for safer and easier insertion of the device, while delivering enhanced stability in the surrounding bone to prevent loosening and the need for revision. Team Lead: Kelly Waldman, Trinity '11, kelly.waldman@duke.edu
- Little Black Box Group - The LITTLE BLACK BOX GROUP offers the music Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) a new leading edge technology for general licensing. Team Lead: Carrie Cottingham, Law '11, carolyn.cottingham@duke.edu
- Towerview Education & Technology - The big financial talent gap offers a great market opportunity for high quality finance education and training in China. Towerview will capture this excellent opportunity by targeting not only the individuals but also local enterprises. Team Lead: Lina Ren, Fuqua '11, lina.ren@duke.edu
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