11th Annual Cade Prize Announces Winning Innovations from Inventors in Florida
The Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention is proud to announce the 2020 First Place Cade Prize Winner – Nutrivert for its Nutrivert Antibiotic Replacement.
Congratulations to added Cade Prize Winners: Second Place Winner – Redhill Scientific for its Thin Film Plasma Reactors, Third Place Winner – Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory for its Neural-Enabled Prosthetic Hand System, Fourth Place Winner – Covanos for its C-HEART, and Fifth Place Winner – Structured Monitoring Products for its VetGuardian.
These five Cade Prize Winners share $50,000 in Prizes and each winner also receives $2,000 of in-kind legal services.
“We were inspired by the high-caliber of innovative Cade Prize submissions. It is thrilling to see such important innovation happening throughout the region, and we are honored to identify and celebrate innovation with the Cade Prize,” said Richard Miles, co-founder of the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention.
“We want to thank our esteemed panel of judges from Alabama, Florida and Georgia,” Miles added.
The Cade Prize Awards Ceremony was hosted virtually on September 30th from the Cade Museum in Gainesville, Florida.
The featured speaker was Chad Corbitt whose Tutor Matching Service won the inaugural Cade Prize over a decade ago, and is now in 500+ schools in 10 countries and enjoys a newly signed partnership with Amazon.
This year, the Cade Prize was expanded beyond Florida to also include Alabama and Georgia.
The five Cade Prize winners were selected from 21 Fibonacci* Finalists, comprised of entries from independent groups and research universities throughout Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.
Florida Fibonacci Finalists (in alphabetical order) were
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Company Name |
Innovation/Invention |
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Adaptive Neural Systems Laboratory |
Neural-Enabled Prosthetic Hand System |
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Agriculture Intelligence |
Agroview |
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Aviana Molecular Technologies, LLC |
Digital Biosensing Platform with Artificial Intelligence |
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BIUWAVE LLC |
Hybrid Biometic Underwater Vehicle |
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Cognosetta, Inc. |
CS0022-class compounds for the treatment of tinnitus |
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Connected Wise LLC |
Smart Vision V2X System |
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Engineering Technologies, LLC |
The Platypus |
|
Lightguard |
Lightguard |
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MARVLOUS |
Multimedia Augmented Reality Vocabulary Learning (MARVL) application |
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Nhu Energy |
Advanced Systems for Clean Energy Transformation (ASCEnT) |
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PQSecure Tech |
Suite-Q |
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Redhill Scientific |
Thin Film Plasma Reactors |
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Stentiford Safety Services |
Sten Step |
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Structured Monitoring Products |
VetGuardian |
The Cade Prize celebrates pre-seed and seed stage innovations and has been an important part of the journey to market for past Finalists and Winners.
The Cade Prize thanks Scott Mackenzie, Cade Prize Awards Ceremony Chair, Presenting Media Sponsor Florida Trend Magazine, and added sponsors, the Community Foundation of North Central Florida, COX Communications, Gainesville Sun and Saliwanchik, Lloyd & Eisenschenk (SLE Patents).
For more information, visit www.cademuseum.org
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