The Minnesota Cup has advanced 21 teams of Minnesota-based entrepreneurs, innovators, and inventors to the third round of the 2014 competition – the tenth annual. Finalists were chosen from 70 semifinalist teams across seven divisions, in a record year of 1300 total participants.
Energy/Clean-Tech/Water Division:
75F—Deepinder Singh, Blue Earth County
Friction Reduction—Gary Pozarnsky, Hennepin County
Pelican Lake Holdings—Robert Anderson, Grant County
Food/Ag/Beverage:
Locally Laid Egg Company—Jason Amundsen, St. Louis County
Punk Rawk Labs, Inc.—Alissa Barthel, Hennepin County
Trovita Health Science—William Brown, Hennepin County
General:
DocentEDU—Matthew Nupen, Washington County
JenTra Tools—Travis Kelley, Cass County
YOXO—Jeff Freeland Nelson, Ramsey County
High Tech:
Elevate—Joe Stanton, Dakota County
InfiniRAM—Martin Fenner, Washington County
OMG Transit—Matt Decuir, Hennepin County
Life Science/Health IT:
Andas Inc.—Joseph Jensen, Hennepin County
SpineThera—Jeff Missling, Hennepin County
SynapseBLUE—David Sullivan, Hennepin County
Social Entrepreneur:
Begins with a Dreamer—Joy McBrien and Kristi Hemmer, Hennepin County
Twin Cities Mobile Market—Leah Driscoll, Ramsey County
Verde Environmental and Medsaway—Carter Anderson, Dakota County
Student:
Tech Bank, LLC—Austin White-Pentony, Hennepin County
Ilos Videos—Sean Higgins, Crow Wing County
Jonny Pops—Connor Wray, Rice County