Finalists for BREW High-Stakes Pitch Competition Selected
01/08/2021
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – Three companies have been selected as finalists for the BREW 10 High-Stakes Pitch Competition, which is offering a $50,000 investment prize to the winning company at a hybrid virtual and in-person pitch event on Thursday, Jan. 21. The finalist companies are Omnidek, BioCAID, and Relief Telemed.
Each of the three companies was selected after an initial pool of 57 total applicants was narrowed to nine semi-finalists by a team of judges with extensive knowledge and experience in identifying investment potential. Each of the nine semi-finalist companies submitted a detailed business plan for review before giving closed-door pitches to a panel of judges comprised of accredited investors, who selected the three finalists.
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they have these high water vehicles. when i look at that, i m glad they re here. i spoke to one woman who told me she had five feet of water in her home in 2016 during this storm in that area of dunham springs. right. reporter: is that an area of concern for you? certainly people are concerned about flooding. i will tell you firsthand that in 2016 my home flooded. i did not have as much as the lady in dunham springs. but i had enough that kept me out of my house for over a year. and so as a result of 2016, i believe our people are smarter, that we are being more proactive. we are prepared and we are doing everything that we know how to do to deal with this weather event. reporter: the bottom line is, you don t want people out, right? stay safe. absolutely, absolutely. we are encouraging people to stay off of the roadways, and they have been doing that. to shelter in place. to keep in contact with baton rouge government, through our red stick ready app and we re keeping the li
guys have been out. they re just trying to get a handle on all of this. they have been looking at the drainage systems, because they re worried that the water isn t going to be able to get out of the area, the water that does drop on this area of baton rouge, they re worried because the gulf is pushing the water this way, the water here is just going to sit and settle and flood these areas. so luckily the national guard is here. they have high water vehicles, which can get through high water and be able to rescue folks. they re also doing security in the area, so they re keeping an eye on things. and we spoke with the mayor earlier, and she said she is confident that her city can handle all of this. and we also talked with her about shelters and preparedness and here s a little bit of what she said. we re encouraging people to stay off of the roadways, and they have been doing that. to shelter in place, to keep in contact with baton rouge government through our red stick ready app. a
with isis fight winding down, turkey wants he want to end it support to a key ally in syria. launching attacks across the border against kurdish forces, today, the pentagon warrant on kara to pull back. i think the degree to which focuses taken out the reason we are in syria, which is to go after isis, is the degree to which it damages the overall effort. so it is not helpful to have these operations go on. we recognize that. we are working with the turks to minimize that red stick of the u.s. military s partnership kurdish fighters against races has come at a cost, turkey has fought a decades long battle against a kurdish separatist group responsible for killing tens of thousands. a top kurdish official warned the u.s. it could take action soon. those who support the terrorist organization will become a target in this battle. the united states needs to review its soldiers and elements giving support to terrorists on the ground and such a way as to avoid a confrontation with turkey
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