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Dobson Cup 2016 Winners Announced

Published: 9 May 2016

Dear 2016 平特五不中 Dobson Cup Participants, Judge-Mentors, and Supporters,听

We're excited to announce the听!

Congratulations to all of the winning teams. Many thanks to everyone who participated. We would also听like to thank all of the Pitch Phase and Finalist judge-mentors, and volunteers who contributed towards making this year's startup competition a resounding success!

2016 MCGILL DOBSON CUP AWARD WINNERS听

Social Enterprise Track Award Winners

1st Place $10,000 鈥 Vent Over Tea

Vent over Tea provides a free active listening service that pairs people who need to vent with an empathetic listener to chat in a local coffee shop.

2nd Place $7,000 鈥 Still Good

Still Good Inc. reduces food waste by transforming ugly fruits and vegetables from farms, distributors and grocery stores into delicious soups, sauces and jams.

3rd Place $3,000 鈥 Ent-O-Mix

Ent-O-Mix aims to alleviate malnutrition through its nutrient dense instant mixes that produce traditional dishes. The products are nutritionally enhanced with insect flour to improve the protein and iron profile.

Health Sciences Track Award Winners

1st Place $15,000 鈥 Caldose

Caldose designs, develops, and fabricates high quality calorimetry-based radiation measurement equipment for the absolute determination of the delivered dose in the medical application of radiation to the treatment of cancer.

2nd Place $10,000 鈥 NXTSENS Microsystems Inc.

Empowering tailored micro technology by offering customizable sensing solutions on scalable standardized processes; drastically reducing development cost and time to market for our long tail customers enabling a new frontier in sensing technology

3rd Place $4,000 鈥 MotionCorrect Inc.

Create a solution to monitor patient movement during magnetic resonance scans to make it safer for patients, more efficient for clinicians, and save millions of dollars annually for hospitals.

Honourable Mention 鈥 PATTERNS

PATTERNS (Polymer Actuation Technology for Treatment, Empowerment, Recovery, & New Solutions) is committed to developing non-invasive and advanced solutions for the rehabilitation of physical disabilities and the improvement of everyday movement.

Small & Medium Enterprise

1st Place $15,000 and Food and Agribusiness Convergent Innovation Prize $5,000 鈥 YUMiTRITION

A professional nutrition business offering a monthly subscription box and an interactive knowledge platform to provide continuous support, inspiration, and motivation for people with blood sugar control needs.

2nd Place $10,000 鈥 Meo Electric

Meo Electric provides personalised, all-inclusive electric vehicle charging solutions to businesses and individuals. We offer Canada's first turnkey EV infrastructure solution including consultation, sales, installation, and monitoring.

3rd Place $4,000 鈥 AdUp

AdUp is an online marketplace for physical advertisements. AdUp allows small businesses to pick and choose locations that cater to their target demographics and gives venues such as bars and restaurants a platform to monetize unused space.

Grit Prize $2,500 鈥 Vision Wear

Vision Wear is a lacrosse lifestyle apparel brand that embodies the grassroots culture of the lacrosse community through bold expression; made by a bro, for a bro.

Honourable Mention 鈥 Appetite

A social food sharing platform for people to buy and sell the meals that they prepare in their own kitchens.

Innovation Driven Enterprise

1st Place $15,000 鈥 Taiga Motors

Taiga Motors is developing the world's first production electric snowmobile

2nd Place $10,000 鈥 PERSITONE

PERSITONE produces cement-free, carbon-negative construction blocks. Our blocks are as durable as current commercial blocks, less expensive to make, and each block permanently sequesters 1 kg of CO2.

3rd Place $4,000 鈥 Colab

CoLab connects scientists with the tools they need to do research

Grit Prize $2,500 鈥 Polar Labs

Polar Labs is a 平特五不中-based R&D company that makes freeze resistant products, and lives at the curious intersections of engineering and microbiology. Snowcrete, our first product, aims to revolutionize the construction industry by allowing contractors to pour and set concrete at temperatures significantly lower than currently possible.

Honourable Mention 鈥 UGo Smoothies

Developing the world鈥檚 first all鈥恘atural automated smoothie vending machine

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