Y50K Winners 2009

Prize Winners

Launch Capital Grand Prize: WakeSmart

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Wiggin and Dana Legal Services Prize: WakeSmart

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Best Business Plan Prize: WakeSmart

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Best Pitch Prize: Grassland Meats

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Best Social Enterprise Prize: Grassland Meats

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Best Undergraduate Entrant Prize: Wakesmart

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Finalists

AccuScholar

AccuScholar provides high value Web 2.0 applications for primary and secondary schools. With a focus on user-friendly design and customer support, AccuScholar fulfills the currently unmet need for easy-to-use school management software. Primarily targeted at school administrators, AccuScholar makes managing school data simple. Teachers and students also love the easy access to information that AccuScholar provides. Currently, AccuScholar offers modules for conference scheduling, textbook inventory, and club management.

Team members: Nick Fishman, Samad Jawald, Max Uhlenhuth

Glaumetrix

Glaumetrix is developing an implantable intraocular pressure sensor for improved
management of glaucoma. Elevated intraocular pressure is the only parameter used to
treat the disease today. There are many reasons why IOP measurements taken in the
office may lead the physician to erroneously conclude that the IOP is well- controlled.
Rather than relying on a few isolated data points, with this device, physicians can review
a data stream of patients’ IOP to optimize glaucoma management.

Team members: Vincente Diaz, Paul Di Capua, Amir Cohen

Grassland Meats

Grassland Meats will sell grass-finished beef to food distributors and wholesalers. The
Company will process meat by operating USDA certified mobile slaughter units in rural
ranching towns in the United States. Competitors have limited, seasonal supply and are
geographically isolated, selling primarily through farmers’ markets in small quantities.
The Company will be uniquely positioned to pool supply from numerous small beef
producers, enjoying economies of scale while maintaining artisan-level quality.

Team members: Kate Carman, Leslie King, Elizabeth Scherer, Elizabeth Turnbull

SportPass

ASportPass will sell rights to purchase tickets to premium sporting events through its
website. Rights will be to buy tickets for tournament soccer matches (for specific
teams). Soccer fans will buy the rights in advance, and at less than the face value of
the ticket. The SportPass will be valid if their team makes it to a specific stage of the
tournament and will expire if such team does not advance.

Team members: Isidro Garcia, Jorge Hinojosa, David Mizrahi, Duncan Montero, Olivier
Muyshondt

UnVOXT Mobile

On the road to universal, free voice and data access, the few remaining barriers are
often carrier-imposed. UnVOXT brings free or affordable unified communications to the
world’s hands, even where conventional carriers don’t (or won’t) reach. UnVOXT is what
the metropolitan mesh and the developing world never knew they had in common – but
would love to know.

Team members: Steve Broner, Qing Yang

WakeSmart

WakeSmart has developed a cell phone application that monitors the user’s sleep cycles
using a Bluetooth wristband accessory to wake the user at the optimal time, whether
from a full night’s sleep or a nap, leaving them refreshed and ready to start their day.

Team members: Arun Gupta, Greg Nemeth, Robert Stickgold