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2023 Innovators to Watch: Abhishek Sastri of FLUIX, Inc.
As an engineering student at the University of Central Florida, Abhishek Sastri of FLUIX Inc. turned his side hustle into a profitable business.
The Florida High Tech Corridor named winner of Community Innovation Award by the Site Selectors Guild for Cenfluence.
Determined to extend his wife’s life, Peter Travers of LifeBridge Innovations built a Tumor Treating Fields device from the ground up.
As a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Dr. Christina Drake, was so inspired by the technical smarts and problem-solving abilities of the starship Enterprise’s chief engineer, Geordi La Forge, that she decided to pursue a similar path.
It wasn’t until he built a VR flight simulator prototype for a senior design project, however, that the thought of creating a business to pursue these ideas crossed his mind. Encouraged by feedback from his professors and local industry leaders, Naids turned his project into a spinoff company and co-founded Talon Simulations in 2015.
