Vectech Wins VK Agarwal Innovation Award
April 16, 2019, Baltimore, MD
Vectech, a startup developing innovative insect detection and monitoring technologies, announced today it had won the $10,000 VK Agarwal Innovation Award. Vectech was one of several teams who competed during Johns Hopkins University’s FastForward U Demo Day pitch competition. Adam Goodwin, Vectech's Chief Technology Officer, accepted the award from Ethan Agarwal, founder and CEO of New York-based Aaptiv.
Vectech is developing applied optics and computer vision approaches that are able to identify vector species. Vectech's technology can be implemented in a variety of tools, from public health operations, to citizen science, and entomolgical research.
About FastForward U's Demo Day:
Johns Hopkins University’s FastForward U has several programs to support student-led startups. Demo day is an opportunity for startups around the university to demo and pitch their technologies. Learn more about this year's event here.
About Vectech:
Vectech, LLC is a Baltimore-MD based technology company that specializes in optics and computer vision approaches to detecting and monitoring insects. The company aims to generate data that will promote effective allocation of control resources and prevent vector borne diseases. Learn more here.
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