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<\/a>The Arizona Commerce Authority (ACA) finished up the Fall 2012 Arizona Innovation Challenge<\/a> Grant by announcing<\/a> the six winners:<\/p>\n- \n
- Athena Wireless Communications, Surprise, AZ<\/li>\n
- Instant BioScan, Tucson, AZ<\/li>\n
- Post. Bid. Ship, Tucson, AZ<\/li>\n
- Serious Integrated, Chandler , AZ<\/li>\n
- Stat Doctors, Scottsdale, AZ<\/li>\n
- Stimwave Technologies, Scottsdale, AZ<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
This is a great collection of companies that show a lot of promise. We are pleased to see the ACA making strong investments in the state\u2019s technology sector. The bi-annual business plan competition awards qualified, innovative startups and early stage companies up to $250,000 in grant funding capital to grow their business, ultimately advancing innovation and technology commercialization opportunities in Arizona. Winning companies were selected from a pool of more than 200 applicants and 25 semifinalists.<\/p>\n
PADT is very honored to note that we have connections with three of the winners:<\/p>\n
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Serious Integrated<\/a> is a company that PADT has made several investments in and we are also proud to have them as a customer. We just recently covered<\/a> them in this very blog. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Post. Bid. Ship. is another company that PADT has invested in, in this case through the ATIF<\/a> Sidecar Fund 1. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Stimwave Technologies<\/a> is one of PADT\u2019s rapid prototyping<\/a> customers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Several of PADT\u2019s owners also participated as early round judges to help select the semifinalists. We had to recuse ourselves from a large number of applications because so many of our customers are involved, which is great to see.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to all the finalists and to the winners, and we look forward to meeting new companies in the next competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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