{"id":89453,"date":"2024-11-08T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=89453"},"modified":"2024-11-12T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:43:26","slug":"first-place-business-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_08_2024\/first-place-business-pitch","title":{"rendered":"First-Place Business Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sridhar Viamajala, a professor in the Department of Bioengineering and founder and CEO of Avani Enterprizes, a high-yield recycling process, pitches his technology to a panel of judges Thursday evening at the UToledo Business Incubator\u2019s Tech419 Pitch Competition. Five regional entrepreneurs competed and Viamajala won the competition and the grand prize of $10,000 in business funding.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-89454\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Tech419-PITCH-MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Sridhar Viamajala, a professor in the Department of Bioengineering and founder and CEO of Avani Enterprizes, a high-yield recycling process, pitches his technology to a panel of judges Thursday evening at the UToledo Business Incubator\u2019s Tech419 Pitch Competition.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Tech419-PITCH-MAIN.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Tech419-PITCH-MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The second-place prize of $5,000 in business funding went to Jomoko Graves\u00a0with EZ-FIT, and the third-place prize of $2,500 went to Dr. Burton Rogers\u00a0with CerviStrength Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>CerviStrength Solutions team members David Uhlenhake, left, a UToledo alumnus, and Rogers, right, demonstrate their device that tests a patient\u2019s neck strength on Tech419 judge and 2022 pitch competition winner Todd Hendricks Jr.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-89455\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Tech419-2-STORY.jpg\" alt=\"CerviStrength Solutions team members David Uhlenhake, left, a UToledo alumnus, and Dr. Burton Rogers, right, demonstrate their device that tests a patient\u2019s neck strength on Tech419 judge and 2022 pitch competition winner Todd Hendricks Jr.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Tech419-2-STORY.jpg 748w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Tech419-2-STORY-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_08_2024\/first-place-business-pitch\"><img width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Tech419-PITCH-MAIN-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dr. Sridhar Viamajala, a professor in the Department of Bioengineering and founder and CEO of Avani Enterprizes, a high-yield recycling process, pitches his technology to a panel of judges Thursday evening at the UToledo Business Incubator\u2019s Tech419 Pitch Competition.\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Dr. Sridhar Viamajala, a professor in the Department of Bioengineering and founder and CEO of Avani Enterprizes, a high-yield recycling process, pitches his technology to a panel of judges Thursday evening at the UToledo Business Incubator\u2019s Tech419 Pitch Competition. Five regional entrepreneurs competed and Viamajala won the competition and the grand prize of $10,000 in business funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":89454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,32,34,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89457,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89453\/revisions\/89457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}