1st Place: Stacksafe (Columbia University)

2nd Place: Exponential Storage (University of Maryland)

3rd Place: Centrose (University of Wisconsin)

4th Place: Pulmotect (U of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center & Texas A & M University)

5th Place: Goozex (University of Maryland)

Congratulations to the companies and their university sponsors.

The final round of the National University Startups Competition was held in Washington DC on October 2-3, 2008 at the annual University Startups Conference. The winners emerged from over 400 university startups listed on the University Startups List 08 and after several months of presentations via an online showcase platform to over 300 VC, angel investor and university judges. This inaugural competition was primarily designed to provide a forum for exposure, education and feedback to entrepreneurs and universities on the subject of how to create top-level investment-worthy university spin-outs.

Thank you to all the judges, companies and universities who participated.

For Press Inquiries: To reach the companies or universities, please contact the university sponsors:

Columbia University: David Lerner, (212) 851-4148, dl2303@columbia.edu for Stacksafe (http://www.stacksafe.com)

University of Maryland: Melissa Carrier, (301) 405-9517, mcarrier@rhsmith.umd.edu or Dean Chang, (301) 314-8121, deanc@umd.edu for Exponential Storage (http://www.exponentialstorage.com) and Goozex (http://www.goozex.com)

University of Wisconsin: Allen Dines, (608) 262-2797, ajdines@wisc.edu for Centrose (http://www.centrosepharma.com)

University of Texas: Cathy Swain, (512) 499-4536, cswain@utsystem.edu for Pulmotect (http://www.pulmotect.com)

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