Founders Award PHÖNIX 2018 granted to five outstanding companies

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New companies were honored in 2018 for the fifth time at the ceremony of the PHÖNIX Founders Prize held on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and the Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs.

All in all, the prize was awarded to the best spin-offs, startups and prototypes in five categories.

The prize winners included the education network talentify, which created talentify.me, a free of charge online platform with a learning tool from pupils for pupils; PhagoMed Biopharma, a biotech company specializing in the development of authorized human therapeutic applications for phage therapy; UriSalt, which develops simple and non-invasive tests for doctors‘ practices, pharmacies and private self-testing; Blue Danube Robotics, a spin-off of the Vienna University of Technology specializing in the safe collaboration of people and robots; and Angel Valve Vienna (AVVie), a medical engineering start-up developing implants to treat heart valve disease.