At the Concept $5K Finals - formerly the Velocity Fund Finals - teams featuring nanotechnology engineering students took one of four $5,000 awards, plus the $500 People’s Champ prize, for students with business ideas. The annual pitch competition changed from an onstage pitch to a video, and from a packed crowd to a virtual audience. Unfazed by these rapid changes and ever the entrepreneurs, the awesome finalists quickly adapted and produced some incredible videos as they fully embraced this new virtual competition.
SMRTCoat (Daniel Stranart, Luke Wiersma and Han Liu, nanotechnology engineering), which is developing a spray-on, colour-changing solution to detect contact that could cause concussions in young athletes was one of the $5,000 award winners.
"This is great news that clearly validates the idea and the work we put into it. Concept gave us an awesome stage to show what we’ve done. Now it’s onto the next steps of establishing our IP moving forward." -Daniel Stranart
You can watch SMRTCoat's pitch online: