Local Startup Lapovations Awarded $100,000 Small Business Award

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Jared Greer, center, receives the winner’s check at the 2018 SEC Student Pitch Championship, with Carol Reeves, left, of the U of A, and Blake Petty, right, of Texas A&M University.

Lapovations, a medical device company started by U of A alumni, has been awarded a $100,000 Small Businesses Innovation Research Phase II Matching Grant from the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. The grant builds on a similar $1 million Small Business Innovation and Research award Lapovations received from the National Science Foundation in 2020.

The purpose of the grant is to support continued development of the trademarked AbGrab, a laparoscopic…

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