Maine Startups Insider reports on VentureWell funding for students’ spinoff company
Maine Startups Insider reported a medical simulation startup founded by University of Maine students was selected to receive funding and training from VentureWell, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that supports science and technology entrepreneurs. The company, Zephyrus Simulation LLC, began after a group of biomedical engineering students developed a $500 prototype of a manikin with a diaphragm that mimics natural breathing patterns, as well as hyperventilation and obstructed breathing patterns, the article states. Its job is to help train medical professionals to diagnose and respond to critical respiratory situations, according to Patrick Breeding, Zephyrus Simulation’s CEO and a UMaine graduate student in biomedical engineering. Breeding and his co-founders will receive a $5,000 grant from VentureWell to help build the company. The funding comes from VentureWell’s E-Team Student Grant Program. Tech.co also published the Maine Startups Insider report.