DuaScript, which makes software for compounding pharmacies, has won St. John’s-based Genesis’s Pitch & Pick competition, amid a field of heavily software-focused competitors.

The company, founded by pharmacist Jonathan Edwards, is building software to remotely validate the ingredients community pharmacies use to compound custom prescriptions. Edwards plans to charge a $1,000 per month subscription fee, for which pharmacies will receive access to a database of 200 recipes, as well as having the option to purchase more for $1.50 apiece.

The Pitch & Pick competition featured companies from the fall cohort of Genesis’s Evolution “pre-incubator,” which helps young companies spend eight weeks validating their ideas and finding product-market fit.

Each company gave a four-minute presentation and took questions, before being judged by a panel of four judges representing Pitch & Pick’s industry sponsors.

DuaScript won $2,000. A runner-up prize of $1,000 went to Sewtra, which is developing an app for public speakers and university professors that will offer instant file transfers, document annotation and other tools useful in classrooms.

Community choice award winner SmartBin, meanwhile, won a $500 community choice award for founder Aneesh Raghupathy's route-optimization and operational software and hardware suite for the waste management industry.

The prizes represent an increase from this summer's iteration of Pitch & Pick, which awarded $1,500 for first place, $750 for the runner-up and $250 for the community choice winner.

“The collaborative and innovative approach seen in this cohort was extraordinary,” said Aidan Moores, Genesis’s startup development lead, in an email. “They worked together as colleagues to support each other, and genuinely want to see each other thrive and succeed.

“While these are the eight finalists from the cohort, there were 10 other ventures that showed grit and determination, and the future is bright in the tech sector, given the passion and ingenuity that was demonstrated by all participants in this cohort.”

Here’s a look at the other competitors:

Driven Student

Harshal Deshpan

Driven Student is a student-founded yard maintenance company with an on-demand lawn care app.

GoCabs

Samuel Ilunga

GoCabs is a platform for booking cab rides, which is meant to work with any cab company, similar to how Uber Eats allows users to order from a range of restaurants.

Orca

HuSam Basema

Orca is an online marketplace targeting cities underserved by Amazon.com’s next day delivery service·

Technishe

Manya Khanna and Vilakshan Khanna

Technishe is building triage software to help reduce emergency room wait times and congestion.

XR eXam Corporation

Jeff Weeks

XR eXam is building an online exam platform that will allow students to take tests in virtual reality, which it says is a more secure format.