Venture Sharks Prelims

Venture Connectors has chosen eight semifinalists to compete in the preliminary round of its 9^th annual Venture Sharks™ business competition! During the event, all eight entrepreneurs will present their business plans to a panel of savvy investor sharks fishing for the next great deal. The field will be narrowed to four finalists, who will then vie for more than $30,000 in cash and prizes at Venture Connectors’ regular monthly lunch on May 2. Doors open at 5 p.m., and pitches start at 5:30.

The semifinalists are:

• Crispy Club, a conversational commerce tool offering design-driven products
• Desicorp, developer of a dried blood transfusion unit
• Get Clean Online.com, a do-it-yourself, home-based addiction recovery program
• Innovative Therapeutix Inc., developer of LullaFeed, a feeding device for infants that uses music reinforcement
• MyNurse, a mobile platform that enables patients and families to easily find a caregiver in real time by geolocation
• Parasite ID LLC, developer of a test strip for lice
• TackleHack.com, an open-source e-commerce marketplace dedicated to hunting, fishing and outdoor goods
• White Dog Data LLC, developer of a wireless sensor used in distilling barrels

Jump in the water with the sharks at our prelims event!