Ag tech startup wins top prize as UW’s Dempsey competition awards $92,500 across finalists

BioBead won the top prize at the Demsey Startup Competition, awarded by Trish Held (left), manager of philanthropy at the BECU Foundation, and received by BioBead’s Jared Espinosa and Renee Davis. (UW Photo) The big winner at the University of Washington’s 29th annual Dempsey Startup Competition was BioBead , a startup launched by a UW team with an ag tech solution for boosting soil health and crop production. The company won $25,000 from BECU as well as the $2,500 Voyager Capital Best Business