Pureflow, which has developed a high-tech tampon capable of detecting toxic shock syndrome and other infections, was victorious at Newfoundland and Labrador startup hub Genesis’s Pitch & Pints competition for startups from its Evolution accelerator.

The company, which won Best Pitch, is the brainchild of Memorial University engineering students Hannah Doyle & Kamsi Ifeanyichukwu.

The event itself capped off the 10-week Evolution accelerator for entrepreneurs who want help finding product-market fit. Entrepreneurs had four minutes to make their pitches and two minutes to take questions from judges. The program is aimed at companies with less than $1 million in annual revenue.

Meanwhile, Garreth Kippenhuck, Jager Cooper and Andrew Pratt won Best Student Team for Nutraforge, a diet app with a focus on speech-to-text features.

The other companies that competed were:

Speechcatcher

Yvan Rose

Speechcatcher is a “digital linguistic assessment tool.”

Doclin

Tahsin Ahmed Prottoy and Shawon Ibn Kamal

Doclin is a software-to-code platform that allows programmers to have discussions in real time.

Atlantic Biocorp

Dante Enewold

Atlantic Biocorp has developed a process for extracting a substance called chitosan, which is used in industries like pharmaceuticals manufacturing.

MeasAR

Greg Saunders

MeasAR has developed technology to use LIDAR for construction measurements. (LIDAR is Light Detection and Ranging, similar to RADAR but with light instead of sound waves.)