Startup Spotlight: 29 emerging companies across NC share $1.5M in One NC Small Business Program grants
Summary
The grants were awarded by the One North Carolina Small Business Program with funds from the state’s share of the $2.2 trillion federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. Since 2006, the One North Carolina Small Business Program has helped more than 270 companies in 45 cities, resulting in nearly one thousand jobs and bringing to market hundreds of high-tech products in a wide variety of sectors, including life sciences, chemicals, agriculture, computers, communications, military/defense, pharmaceuticals, energy, materials and others. • Baebies * of Durham: $56,216.07 to develop a new rapid and cost-effective medical test to screen newborn babies for mucopolysaccharidoses, a group of rare metabolic diseases that cause a life-threatening buildup of glycosaminoglycan complex sugars in the body. • BENANOVA of Cary: $75,000.00 to develop safe and cost-effective breathable coatings for respiratory personal protective equipment (PPE), such as face masks, that can be applied to destroy the COVID-19 virus or block harmful chemicals. • Redbud Labs * of Research Triangle Park: $74,215.49 to develop a rapid and sensitive test to detect filoviruses (such as the Ebola virus) compared to other infections with similar symptoms in order to quickly diagnose and treat patients.
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