Cozad New Venture Competition Winners

Congratulations to the six official winners of the 2017 Cozad New Venture Competition. On the Non-University Resource Track, Trala took home the first place prize ($15,000), followed by Mesh++ for the second place prize ($10,000), and VR MD in third place ($1,000). On the University Resources Track, Automated Energy Systems won first prize ($10,000 and $5,000 for Best Energy Startup Award), Steady won second prize ($5,000), and PhantomCor took home third prize ($1,000). Many of these startups have used services provided by Research Park, such as iVenture Accelorator, EIRs, and participation in NSF I-Corps.

Automatic Energy Systems won the I-Start prize, which awards a basket of first-year professional services through EnterpriseWorks at Research Park. More information on I-Start Professional Service Assistance could be found here.

Automated Energy Systems, Mesh ++, inContAlert, and PhantomCor also won six months of lab space at the EnterpriseWorks Incubator.

To find out more about the 2017 Cozad New Venture Competition winners, visit the Technology Entrepreneur Center website.