From 2020 CNYBAC Medical Device Innovation Challenge Graduate Team, Vita Innovations:

I am really happy to share three exciting recent news regarding Vita Innovations:

1. We have been awarded the Cornell University 2021 Student Business of the Year! A special thanks go to all the incredible mentors and judges from Entrepreneurship at Cornell who made this possible, including all of our Cornell eLab Accelerator mentors (Todd Zion Delia Hughes Ken Rother Steven Gal Tom Schryver), Kathi Durdon, MA, CCRP from CNYBAC for her constant support, and of course, to our CFO, Julia Isakov for her awesome pitch!

2. We have been selected for the Verizon and CGI U 2021 Social Innovation Challenge and will be receiving mentorship and Stage 1 funding as part of VentureWell’s E-Team program. Thank you to Clinton Global Initiative, Verizon, and VentureWell for this opportunity!

3. We recently completed the #LaunchPadFellowship. A special thanks to Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars, Techstars, and Future Founders for helping accelerate our progress and milestones! A special shoutout to Felix Litvinsky for his ever-constant support and advice, Paige Marie Cabianca & Jordyn Goldzweig for an awesome peer group, and Nikin Tharan, Erick Froede, Kevin Liu, and Tina Hrabak for their mentorship!

We are truly humbled by all the support and look forward to continuing our progress!