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Colorado Bio-Technology Firm Wins TiE-Rockies Next Great Idea Competition; MicroPhage Inc. Edges Two Other Colorado Companies To Win Inaugural Business Plan Competition.
Business Editors
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2003
MicroPhage, Inc., a Golden-based company developing high-speed bacteria detection technologies, has been named the winner of "The Next Great Idea: TiE-Rockies' Search for Tomorrow's Technology Business," a region-wide competition to identify and help develop the best new technology business concepts in the Rocky Mountains.
MicroPhage was selected by a panel of prominent national venture capitalist firms at an event at the Pepsi Center in downtown Denver Tuesday night chaired by John Hansen, Secretary of Technology for the State of Colorado and attended by over 120 business leaders from around Colorado. MicroPhage edged out two other Colorado companies after each company presented its business plan live to the panel and the audience. Secretary Hansen announced the winner at the conclusion of the event.
"We are very proud to have MicroPhage as the inaugural winner of the Next Great Idea Competition," said Vipanj Patel, president of TiE-Rockies. "The purpose of the competition was to identify and celebrate the great entrepreneurial efforts in Colorado and the quality of the finalists reflects that intention. It's just unfortunate we could only have one winner."
MicroPhage, based in Golden, Colo., at the Colorado School of Mines, develops high-speed bacteria detection technologies that it plans to commercialize in markets including food safety, environment contamination, water safety, evaluation of infectious agents in humans and animals, industrial pathogens, biological warfare threat agents, and other clinical applications.
"This is a great honor and a validation of MicroPhage's vision," said John H. Wheeler, CEO of MicroPhage. "The competition and the great companies it identified demonstrate the wealth of business ideas and entrepreneurial spirit in Colorado. We are very pleased to serve as the inaugural winner of the TiE-Rockies' competition."
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