Utah Business Innovation Awards Summit Recap

September 3, 2026

Presented by Nucleus, the 2026 Innovation Awards honor the innovative companies and individuals who are reshaping entire industries with technologies and approaches that turn long-accepted limitations into solved problems. BioUtah President and CEO, Kelvyn Cullimore, participated as a judge for the event.

Congratulations to this year’s life sciences industry honorees, many of whom are BioUtah members, who dominated five of the nine categories:

Medtech Devices & Diagnostics:
1st: Foldax: TRIA Heart Valve
2nd: Bloom Surgical: SWICS
3rd: Lumea: BxBoard®

Biotech & Therapeutics:
1st: Seek Labs: Sequence Ablation Therapeutics (SAT)
2nd: Intactis Bio: Biohybrid Processing Unit
3rd: Rebel Medicine: Alevatrix™
Honorable Mention: Vira Regen: OsteoVolt

Digital Health, Wellness & Care Services:
1st: Cove: Brain Reset Device
Honorable Mention: Vital Touch Virtual Patient Services: Remote Care Operating System

AI & Software Platforms:
2nd: Lucidity Sciences: Lumawarp
3rd: Elnora AI: Elnora

Consumer Products & Lifestyle:
1st: FrostByte Defense Technologies: FrostByte

In addition to the awards, the event held a pitch competition. Three of the eight presenters were from life sciences companies:

• Simerdeep Singh Gupta, PhD: Anziva Pharmaceuticals
• Raushan Singh, PhD: Light-Hope Diagnostics
• Jakob Travis: Frostbyte Defense Technologies

Congratulations to Jakob Travis, who won the $3,000 first-place prize!

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