{"id":5020,"date":"2025-10-15T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5020\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T15:26:08","slug":"student-startup-wins-45000-in-trinity-universitys-stumberg-venture-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/5020\/","title":{"rendered":"Student startup wins $45,000 in Trinity University\u2019s Stumberg Venture Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 This year, the student startup Handidoor won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/14\/5-teams-of-trinity-university-student-entrepreneurs-to-compete-for-25000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/14\/5-teams-of-trinity-university-student-entrepreneurs-to-compete-for-25000\/\">10th Annual Louis H Stumberg Venture competition<\/a> hosted by Trinity University. The contest, which normally awards a $25,000 prize to the winner, surprised the team of students with an extra $20,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Handidoor is a company co-founded by Nathaniel Troxel and Xadrian Huerta, focusing on creating an accessible and mobility-friendly automatic door opening device. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">The two Trinity University students took inspiration from Troxel\u2019s own life experiences when he dealt with remotely opening and closing doors. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cI was in a car accident a couple of years ago, and during my rehab process, I had to use a wheelchair, a walker, and a cane,\u201d said Nathaniel Troxel. \u201cAnd I found out that it was extremely hard to move around my house, especially when it came to opening and closing doors. So then we began to think about who else had this problem and a solution that could help benefit those people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Handidoor has also secured $5,000 from the initial seed round of the competition and another $500 for being the \u2018fan favorite\u2019 within the audience during Tuesday night\u2019s competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">For more coverage of this event, you can visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.edu\/directory\/departments-offices\/center-innovation-and-entrepreneurship\/co-curricular-experiences\/stumberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.trinity.edu\/directory\/departments-offices\/center-innovation-and-entrepreneurship\/co-curricular-experiences\/stumberg\">Trinity University\u2019s Website<\/a>. Applications for the next round of the Stumberg Competition are currently open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 kNAFkD cuqaEv article-text\">Read more:<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 This year, the student startup Handidoor won the 10th Annual Louis H Stumberg Venture competition&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[910,163,82,84,83,5255,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-5020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-san-antonio","11":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","12":"tag-san-antonio-news","13":"tag-san-antonio-startup-week","14":"tag-trinity-university"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}