Riley And Jain Win Tech Contest In Boise

Thursday, May 17 2012

Josh Riley (Marketing – Professional Golf Management) and Tushar Jain (Bio & Ag Engineering 2012 PhD graduate) won the Next Gen category at TechLaunch 9.0 in Boise last week for their MuPOR Technologies, LLC that is seeking to commercialize an ultra-fast fermentation process developed by Tushar as part of his PhD program. They previously won the Innovative Ventures category of the Vandal Innovation and Enterprise Works (VIEW) competition. They took their VIEW winnings and registered the company with the Idaho Secretary of State and have begun looking for a location in the Moscow area to set up shop.

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