{"id":2002,"date":"2016-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-778\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T20:03:25","slug":"innovation-anthology-778","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2016\/05\/03\/innovation-anthology-778\/","title":{"rendered":"#778: TEC VenturePrize 2016:  Dakota Supplies Inc Fast Growth Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 778.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winner of the<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> 2016 TEC Venture Prize<\/span> in the Fast Growth Category is Dakota Supplies Inc.<\/p>\n<p>This Alberta startup is well on its way to cleaning up the airline industry.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s with a product called<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Moppitt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s essentially a stick mop with a retractable head and canisters of cleaning solution inside. <\/p>\n<p>Co-founder Debra Humphries explains.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">DEBRA  HUMPHRIES: <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">&nbsp;It has aviation cleaning and disinfectant inside the  product. &nbsp;So it doesn&#8217;t just wipe up the spill. &nbsp;It actually will  protect against germs and it helps in occupational health and safety for  sanitization. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>According to Dakota&#8217;s CEO Vaughan Payne, the market potential for the Moppitt is sky high.<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><br \/>VAUGHAN  PAYNE: &nbsp;<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The intent is to go after the top 200 airlines in the world.  &nbsp;The business plan has a very detailed financial program. &nbsp;And we have  basically &nbsp;categorized every airline in the world and driven it down to  the number of aircraft per airline fleet, the number of bathrooms,  galleys, how often they would fly. &nbsp; &nbsp;The numbers are actually  staggering when we think about the number of cartridges that would be  used. &nbsp;<br \/><\/span><br \/>Other target markets for the Moppitt include ambulance, hospital, and buses.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Learn more at INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY.COM<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02016-05-03<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dakota Supplies Inc invents novel cleaner for transporation industry and cleans up at the 2016 TEC VenturePrize Business Plan Competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,37,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alberta","category-awards-and-competitions","category-innovation","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/16TECVP_DakotaSupplies.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}