Custom fishing rod startup founded by West Virginia State business management major Caleb Currence.

A system to address the need for small loans for short periods of time through peer-to-peer lending, invented by WVU Finance majors Alex Cappadona and Akshay Suresh

A coffee concentrate invented by WVU management major Mackenzie Halliday and biochemistry major Zach Swartz

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A nano-chip system for tracking pet health records invented by WVU animal and nutritional sciences major Emma Adams.

A roller skating rink with an innovative 21st century design, by Marshall University management major Reggie McIver.

An electric violin manufacturer founded by WVU industrial engineering major Andrew Percy.

With The Easy Leash, my goal is to increase the ergonomics and overall safety of walking your dog by incorporating a braking mechanism into a retractable dog leash. Doing so allows the user to gradually slow down their dog, thus eliminating the aggressive jerk caused by the locking button typically found on retractable leashes.”

A café that will provide unique food and beverages while caring for the environment in the eastern panhandle, by Shepherd University business administration major Michelle Lemus.

A brand of wireless heart monitors invented by University of Charleston pre-physician assistant major Sarah Ball.

Cooper is a technology company driven by the vision to create effective solutions for healthcare using state of art AI. Cooper provides a unique end-to-end virtual assistant chatbot for patients, doctors and hospitals. Cooper chatbot uses AI to answer medical questions, automate patient paperwork and transcribe dictations into EHR. Cooper thrives to provide a transformative healthcare experience to its customers.

Evolve is a platform transforming the startup industry with a technology-driven, hassle-free user experience. Evolve’s mission is to matchmake people with similar startup ideas or find people to team up with — Evolve provides a solution to helping entrepreneurs find people who can help them with skills they are lacking, or matchmake people who have similar ideas for a startup.

We make any software easier to use by learning from its experienced users in order to help its novice users.

Haast is a location-based augmented reality (AR) loyalty platform with a level-based progression. We provide local businesses with customer acquisition and retention free of charge and their clients with a great AR – gaming experience platform, where they can compete for rewards and redeem them at retails. Our revenue mainly consists of creating a location-based marketing – we charge other companies to put the rewards near their locations.

Traditional advertising has been on the decline and can be replaced with influencer marketing through booming social media platforms. However, influencer marketing poses many problems for advertisers such as spending too much time and effort searching for influencers, restricted
communication due to agencies, and leaving out smaller-scale influencers and advertisers. OutFluencer cuts out the middleman, takes advantage of micro-influencers in order to promote businesses, and gives control back to the users to create what they want with who they want.

Sentry uses drones to dispatch supplies and first-aid instantly to those in highway collisions.

The Savory Club is a restaurant coupon promotions service that profits off users and not vendors. Starting at around $5 a month, users will have access to coupons that can save them up to $100 a month (35$ average if a user eats out three times a week). We are the only company to bring this idea to the United States, as there are multiple corporations with this business in the Middle East and Asia.

A summary of our business is that we are a blockchain solution to employment and education verification. By integrating blockchain with a decentralized cloud platform(IPFS) we have a method that is 45% faster and 90% cheaper than our competitors.

Truga is a company that seeks to innovate and improve the long-haul trucking sphere with semi-autonomous long range trucks. The company is currently in its early stages of prototyping, business development, and fundraising. The company is headed by Stefan Blandin, a software engineer and NASA roboticist.

Custom watercolor art.