KeriCure™ Skin Protectant line hit the shelves today in Tampa, marking the first sale of the product to a retailer. The Sweetbay on the first floor of the USF Health Morsani Pharmacy added the line to the pharmacy counter in a stylish display unit. USF Health staff are recommending the product to patients as an after care product, supporting the growth and awareness of the KeriCure products.
View the full press release by clicking here.
KeriCure Inc. CEO Kerriann Greenhalgh was among others on a panel interviewed by County Commissioner Mark Sharpe for USF Connect on May 31, 2013.
Guests include:
Mark Sharpe – Host and Hillsborough County Commissioner
Joy Randels – Entrepreneur
Ken Evans – Startup Monkey
And from USF Connect:
Paul R. Sanberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., Senior Vice President for Research & Innovation, President of the USF Research Foundation, Distinguished University Professor
Valerie Landrio McDevitt, Assistant Vice President, Patents and Licensing, US Registered Patent Attorney
Dr. Kerriann Greenlaugh (Green-law), Founder and CEO of KeriCure
Suzanne Schwitalla (Swi-talla), Founding President, Ability Worldwide
Mazen (Mah-zen) Hanna, Chief Science Officer, Thar Pharmaceuticals
Full video courtesy of Hillsborough County, FL via YouTube
KeriCure Inc. is sponsoring the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Tournament. For more information on this event, please click here.
KeriCure Inc. has been named a “Hole Sponsor” of the FICPA Suncoast Scramble. For more information on this event, please click here.
KeriCure Inc. was featured in the Tampa Bay Business Journal as a presenter at the Florida Venture Forum:
Seventeen companies will present at the Florida Venture Forum’s early stage venture capital conference.
KeriCure Inc. a Wesley Chapel firm that specializes in wound care products, is the only company headquartered in the Tampa Bay area among the 17 listed in a statement from the Florida Venture Forum.
KeriCure was formed to commercialize an advanced platform polymer technology, KeriCure Quick Seal Liquid Bandage, exclusively licensed by University of South Florida to KeriCure, with an initial focus in the over-the-counter natural product market, a $6 billion retail U.S. market, the statement said.
Two other presenters have local connections.
Tampa Medical Innovations in Bonita Springs has licensed a unique technology from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center that eliminates the most common cross contamination hazard in the practice of IV therapy.
BungoBox in Casselberry, which rents recycled and recyclable moving boxes, has a franchise in Tampa.
The conference will be held on May 10 at the Reunion Resort in Orlando. Each of the presenters will make 10-minute pitches to an audience of venture capitalists, private equity investors, angel investors, investment bankers, financial intermediaries and entrepreneurs.
Original article courtesy of Tampa Bay Buisness Journal