{"id":319790,"date":"2026-06-02T21:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319790\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T21:53:18","slug":"round-rock-healthcare-startup-wins-chamber-pitch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319790\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Rock healthcare startup wins Chamber pitch competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe <a href=\"http:\/\/roundrockchamber.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Round Rock Chamber<\/a> held an expanded version of its <a href=\"https:\/\/roundrockchamber.org\/round-rock-startup-day-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">startup competition<\/a> in May, with Imagine Devices, a medical device company, taking home the $10,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Of the six companies that participated in the \u201cShark Tank\u201d-like pitching competition, two businesses were geared toward the health care industry.<\/p>\n<p>About the businesses<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imaginedevices.us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imagine Devices<\/a>, led by Iman Salafian, Ph.D., PMP, pitched the development of the Trinity Tube, a multifunctional feeding tube that provides enteral feeding, internal vital signs and respiratory pressure monitoring all in one device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longhornlifesciences.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longhorn Life Sciences<\/a>, led by Miles Massidda, Ph.D., pitched iDetect, a wearable wound sensor that flags surgical infections before a patient begins presenting symptoms, according to the chamber.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Round Rock Chamber held an expanded version of its startup competition in May, with Imagine Devices, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,79756,114677,114674,114675,114678,57733,114676],"class_list":["post-319790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-round-rock-business-news","tag-round-rock-chamber-of-commerce","tag-round-rock-chamber-startup-competition","tag-round-rock-chamber-startups","tag-round-rock-health-care-news","tag-round-rock-healthcare-news","tag-round-rock-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}