PROVIDENCE – Joey Asbell won the 2018 Elevator Pitch Contest held by the Rhode Island Business Competition, the organization announced Thursday.
Asbel’s pitch, Zap Technologies, is a plan to promote electrical-vehicle use with an on-call mobile charging system.
The event took place Wednesday evening at Tech Collective in Providence and featured 39 people, each with a 90-second pitch.
Second place was awarded to Ashton Stoop for his pitch, Clutch Prosthetics, a low-cost mechanical knee joint.
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Asbel, Stoop and eight other pitches were awarded a total of $1,000.
Other winners:
- Rebecca Chernick – C. Easy Test Kit: a system to enable doctors to quickly detect hypervirulent bacterial strains
- Ryan Dubay – SonoSieve: a technology to acoustically separate T-cells to be genetically engineered to fight cancer
- Madison Frye – Koi Prosthetics: a venture to design prosthetic devices for impoverished amputees in developing countries
- Taegon Lee – ToGoBOX: an online marketplace designed to deliver lunch to corporate customers
- Mindy Levine – The Party Elements: a science-themed birthday party company
- Natalia Moriel – SustusMax: a biodegradable suture containing antibacterial and anti-inflammatory agents
- John Round – Aleo BME: a company developing fertilizer enhancers
- Adriano Taglietti – Chitotec: an immunotherapy treatment of an inflammatory protein implicated in a variety of cancers
