TechLaunch business competition winners announced

POSTED: 15:22 MDT Tuesday, June 3, 2008

by IBR staff report

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The winners of this year’s “Entrepreneurial Idol” business competition were announced on Tuesday: Caring Technologies, a Boise-based healthcare technology company; agricultural technology firm Syeapps, Inc. of Twin Falls; and automotive technology company R²EV, also of Boise. The contest, which was put on at Idaho TechConnect’s two-day TechLaunch 5.0 event May 28-29, placed 13 start-ups in front of a panel of judges representing the “financing food chain,” according to a release from TechConnect.

Caring Technologies received the $10,000 grand prize sponsored by Idaho National Laboratories, while Syeapps, Inc. won the Perkin’s Coie $5,000 People’s Choice Award. R²EV was the winner of the TechLaunch’s first-ever “Next Gen” division, which brings in winners of Idaho university business plan competitions. R²EV’s energy product – which promised to “REVolutionize clean transportation – won the 2008 Bronco Venture Challenge for Undergraduate Teams.

Caring Technologies specializes in imaging, communication and health management solutions to aide in the diagnosis, treatment and management of behavioral disorders and special needs.

1 Comments

Caring Technologies is terrific - they have a great tool for working with autistic youth, but has additional applications. Ron Oberleitner has put together a great team including names you might know like Curt Rideout.
Both IdaVation keynote speakers rocked as well! (VERY impressive work at U of Utah... 50+ spinouts in less than 4 years? Yowza!)
Anyway, kudos again to Caring Technologies!
Comment By Norris Krueger
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 @ 10:40 PM

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