Second Breath Inc., a business group created by Union students, will participate in its second major entrepreneurial competition.
The company, created by Shane Hubbell ’08, Jay Shah ’08 and Gordon Single ’07, was named one of 10 semifinalists in the fifth annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (SEED) National Collegiate Venture Forum.
Second Breath is offering Cric-Kits to aid in a cricothyroidotomy, an emergency procedure performed on patients suffering from an obstructed airway.
The SEED competition was sponsored by TechKnowledge Point, a California company that runs a subscription Web site, http://www.EntrePoint.com, which assesses colleges on their entrepreneurship education. SEED finals will be held in March in Santa Barbara.
Shah and Hubbell, who are both majoring in biology and economics, are Second Breath's acting CFO and acting CEO, respectively. Single, who majored in mechanical engineering, is acting COO.
Second Breath placed second in the Tech Valley Collegiate Business Plan contest last year and took top honors at Union’s annual business plan competition, sponsored by the College’s Entrepreneurship Club.