2022 NYBPC Round Two Results

The first place winners of the six tracks competing in the 2022 New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC) have been announced. This year, the first place teams from each track will compete on April 27 for the Grand Prize Award. The NYBPC Grand Prize Finals will take place as part of Upstate Capital’s event, Venture NY. The Grand Prize winner will receive $15,000 and ongoing mentorship to advance their student-led venture.

The top three teams from each track were decided today by judges following round two of the NYBPC Finals. 

Each team competed in one of six industry tracks: Food & AgTech, Health & Wellbeing, Products & Hardware, Safety, Power & Mobility, Media, Art & Entertainment and Software & Services. 

The results of round two are below. Good luck to the six first place teams as they compete at the Grand Prize Finals. For more information about the event, and to register, click here. 

FOOD & AGTECH

Track judges: Rich Honen (Phillips Lytle), Maureen Ballatori (29 Design Studio) and Nick Querques (SUNY Research Foundation) 

1st Place:
Happy Loose Leaf Tea
Syracuse University
Loose Leaf Tea company provides a portable, flexible tea ball with a proprietary mechanism that stops the steeping process when your tea is done. 

2nd Place:
Veggie Bites
SUNY College at Geneseo

3rd Place:
Octo Mix
SUNY New Paltz

HEALTH & WELLBEING

Track judges: Deborah Novick (Westchester County), Dhairya Pujara (Ycenter), Stuart Angert (Independent Health Foundation) and Anthony Magnano (KeyBank Healthcare). 

1st Place: 
Bio- Spire
University of Rochester
Bio- Spire aims to improve healthcare outcomes for patients by filling in the technological gap present in the early detection of sepsis in hospitals. They are focused on developing a medical device that can be used within hospitals to continuously monitor patients for the early detection of sepsis. 

2nd Place:
Illumenar
Syracuse University

3rd Place:
Pawket Vet
Siena College

PRODUCTS & HARDWARE

Track judges: Norm Schwartz, Pia Sawhney (Armory Square Ventures), and Samoria Zurlo (SEFCU)

1st Place: 
Photonect
University of Rochester
Photonect provides fiber to chip attach solutions to optical transceiver companies like CISCO, Luxtera, we provide a 4X performance improvement and a 10X time savings as compared to current industry standards. Our laser fusion technique is unique and is patent protected.

2nd Place:
Spinovations 
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

SAFETY, POWER & MOBILITY

Track judges: Shola Ashiru (New Energy Fund II), Elizabeth Callahan (Buffalo Manufacturing Works) and Allison Ret (Ret Consulting)

1st Place: 
KLAW Industries
Binghamton University
KLAW Industries operates a dual-sided revenue model where we process waste glass sent to landfills into a cement replacement for concrete called Pantheon™.

2nd Place:
DomCat Technologies
Binghamton University

3rd Place:
LiRevive
Rochester Institute of Technology

MEDIA, ART & ENTERTAINMENT

Track judges: Claus Kinder (TechCXO), Jay Katz (Launch NY), and Juweria Dahir (Entrepreneurship for All)

1st Place:
Open Beats
University at Buffalo
Open Beats is a collaborative music production tool and social media application that allows artists to work on music projects synchronously and remotely regardless of their geographic location. Open Beats also helps artists find new artists to collaborate with using machine learning.

2nd Place: 
SWIPS
Rochester Institute of Technology

3rd Place:
Sus Bots
Syracuse University

SOFTWARE & SERVICES

Track judges: Peter Rothberg (Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt), Andrew Reading (Dopkins & Company), and Sonya Tareke (Entrepreneurship for All).

1st Place:
LawnAdmin 
Siena College
Lawn Admin is a landscape business application that assists with essential administrative responsibilities by increasing internal efficiency through; email invoicing, estimate follow-ups, organized scheduling and equipment maintenance logs. 

2nd Place:
Property Gauge
University at Albany

3rd Place:
JDocs
Rochester Institute of Technology

Congratulations to all the teams that have competed at every level of this competition!
Join us in Syracuse on April 27 for great networking opportunities, educational panels, and to cheer on the top six teams competing for the Grand Prize. Register here.