SCBIO caps annual conference in Charleston with $5,000 pitch competition

To close out the SCBIO 2023 conference, three South Carolina early startups in the life sciences industry pitched venture capitalists in a “Rapid Fire: SC Super Pitch” competition in the ballroom of the Gaillard Center with hundreds of attendees in the crowd. Each company had an eight-minute pitch and then two minutes for questions and answers. Three venture capitalists — who had just spoken on a panel about how to give a good pitch — determined the winner, who was awarded $5,000 from SCBIO, a statewide, non-profit, industry association. Zylo Therapeutics, based in Greenville, won the pitch competition and received the cash prize. Zylo Therapeutics created and patented “Z-Pod” technology through a powder that can mix with a wide variety of topical creams to enable sustained release properties and increased dosing abilities of those creams. Read more >>