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New Orleans-based SafePush took domestic the $100,000 funding prize on the Prime Stakes Pitch Pageant that closed out Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week on Thursday evening.
SafePush is a biomedical product building corporate this is creating a disposable instrument that regulates how temporarily a medicine is injected right into a affected person. The instrument, which attaches to the end of a syringe, is meant to get rid of human error when administering high-alert drugs.
Lately, the drift charge of an injection is incessantly left within the fingers of the nurse maintaining the syringe. When drugs are injected too all of a sudden, catastrophic accidents or dying may result. The patented SafePush instrument goals to get rid of the guesswork inherent to that procedure by way of capping the drift charge of the injection.
“No device exists these days to do that,” says Robert Edwards, a member of SafePush’s government crew.
The $100,000 prize used to be awarded by way of two teams of Louisiana-based traders: Innovation Catalyst and Crimson Stick Angels. A panel of 3 judges—Chris Meaux of Mallard Bay, Amanda Martin of Studyville and Scott Whittaker of Stone Pigman—made up our minds the winner.
Along with that funding, SafePush will now have the danger to compete in opposition to one of the maximum promising startups from all over the world for a $a million grand prize on the Startup Global Cup in Silicon Valley on October 4. The Startup Global Cup is gifted by way of Pegasus Tech Ventures, a undertaking capital company that has invested in tech juggernauts like Airbnb, Mujin, SoFi, SpaceX and X (previously Twitter).
The 2 runners-up eventually evening’s pageant had been Falaya and Leroy’s LipSmack’n Lemonade, either one of which might be founded in Baton Rouge.
Falaya is a web based platform that goals to streamline the home-selling procedure. Closing yr, the corporate expanded into Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and Texas.
Leroy’s LipSmack’n Lemonade strains its origins to a front-yard lemonade stand arrange by way of 4-year-old Leroy Hayward III to lift cash for the Kids’s Health center of New Orleans. The emblem has won a large number of buzz in recent times, and its lemonade can now be present in grocery retail outlets around the Capital Area in addition to in Alex Field Stadium, the Pete Maravich Meeting Heart and Tiger Stadium.
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