$100,000 Awarded to High-Performing Texas Tech Startups

February 19, 2021

The Presidents’ Innovation Awards recognize early-stage companies exemplifying innovation.

The Innovation Hub at Research Park today (Feb. 19) announced the winners of its annual Presidents' Innovation Awards, through which the presidents of Texas Tech University and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) recognize startups that exemplify innovation and commercialization.

The awards give early-stage startups space and critical access to equipment to become revenue-generating companies.

Texas Tech University President's Awards

EViroTECH LLC: A company that integrates electrochemical technology and biomedical engineering to combat infections and viral transmitted diseases including COVID-19.
Founder: Gerardine Botte, Texas Tech faculty member
Award: $25,000

Captivist: A research and advisory firm creating a mobile application providing customers detailed information to make informed purchasing decisions pertaining to the quality, environmental and sociological health of a product.
Founder: Joyous Njoku, Texas Tech student
Award: $10,000

CritiColl LLC: An application that provides a stress-saving platform for professors with tools to promote academic success for students.
Founder: Matheus Pagotti, Texas Tech student
Award: $5,000

TTUHSC President's Awards

Surgic LLC: The next major step in medical education technology for future health care providers and academic institutions.
Founders: Travis Reiss and Kyle Fenn, Texas Tech alumni; Arham Siddiqui, Texas Tech alumnus and TTUHSC student; and Paul Egan, Texas Tech faculty member
Award: $25,000

Culturally Informed Pain Diagnosis and Relief (CIPDAR): A company that develops digital health diagnostic technology, providing a multilingual, multimodal and multidimensional pain assessment and management tool that is easily accessible to patients from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds, especially those with low English proficiency.
Founder: Shin Ye Kim, Texas Tech faculty member
Award: $15,000

Business Planning System: A company changing the way business plans are written to obtain financing for early-stage bio-medical startups with limited financial and business experience.
Founder: Tracy Shea, West Texas community member
Award: $10,000

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Texas Tech University

A new era of excellence is dawning at Texas Tech University as it stands on the cusp of being one of the nation's premier research institutions.

Research and enrollment numbers are at record levels, which cement Texas Tech's commitment to attracting and retaining quality students. In fall 2020, the university achieved a goal more than a decade in the making, reaching a total student population of more than 40,000. In 2018, the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education again placed Texas Tech among its top doctoral universities in the nation in the “Very High Research Activity” category. Texas Tech is one of 94 public institutions nationally and 131 overall to achieve this prestigious recognition.

Quality students need top-notch faculty. Texas Tech is home to a diverse, highly revered pool of educators who excel in teaching, research and service. The university strives to foster an environment that celebrates student accomplishment above all else. Texas Tech is large enough to provide the best in facilities and academics but prides itself on being able to focus on each student individually.

The momentum for excellence at Texas Tech has never been greater.

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This 40,000-square-foot facility is designed to be a resource for the faculty and students of both Texas Tech and the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center as well as community members interested in launching new ventures. Texas Tech is a national research university, and the Innovation Hub at Research Park is critical to building the knowledge-based economy of West Texas through the development of innovators and entrepreneurs who solve society's problems and develop innovations to make impact.

The Innovation Hub at Research Park is located at 3911 4th Street, Lubbock, TX, just west of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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Among other programs, the OR&I supports responsible and safe conduct of research, faculty development and recognition, interdisciplinary collaborations, externally sponsored research, partnerships with industry and community stakeholders, international research collaboration and the application of research for the benefit of society. The OR&I promotes a culture of creative expression, discovery, innovation and collaboration with the goal of advancing Texas Tech's status as an elite national research university.

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