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April 04, 2019 | Tom Ballard

Lia Winter and team selected for UGA’s “Next Top Entrepreneur” pitch competition

It’s another pitch opportunity for Lia Winter and her team from Winter Innovations.

After capturing two recent competitions – $15,000 in the annual “Brown-Forman Cardinal Challenge” hosted by the University of Louisville and $21,500 in the annual  “Stu Clark Investment Competition” at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, the developer of EasyWhipTM surgical device has been selected as a finalist in an event week after next.

It’s the annual “Next Top Entrepreneur” competition hosted by the University of Georgia (UGA). The event is set for 5 to 8:30 p.m. April 18 in the NEW Studio 225 Incubator Space that is the home of the UGA Entrepreneurship Program.  The event with a cash prize of $10,000 to the winner is open to student start-up teams from all over the country. The competition is being held during “Techstars Startup Week Athens” that begins April 11.

 

 


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