Leading up to the event, we got some brief air time on King 5 News: http://www.king5.com/on-tv/KING-5-Morning-News-tech-report-an-all-Seattle-start-up-edition-78997467.html (watch around -1:30).

The numerous last minute changes and adding the NASCAR MSD 6TN CDI box to the demo rig paid off and we convinced the judges (consisting of VCs, Angels and the like and some press) that Aquapulser Engineering was indeed the most exciting startup in the NW region this year! The presentation was very well received and seemingly people were very interested in this. And why wouldn’t they!? The blue high energy plasma sparks flying off the tungsten electrodes were only the coolest thing they had seen since….I dunno – the iPhone??

We left with this:

The MIT Enterprise Forum NW hosts the Northwest Startup DEMO – Fall 2009. For the very first time, this event is in partnership with all six of the angel organizations in the pacific NW area, including Alliance of Angels, Keiretsu Forum, Puget Sound Venture Club, Seraph Capital Forum, Tacoma Angel Network and Zino Society.

The DEMO event finalists who have made it through a rigorous screening process, will be demonstrating their exciting new products and services, and sharing how they created them on December 10^th.

This fall’s finalists are:

• Aquapulser Engineering: Offers an add-on ignition module that converts weak sparks into a high-current plasma
• Basic Athletic Measurement: Builds the world’s first athletic testing platform to drive consistency, reliability, and validity into global athletic performance measurements and ratings
• Exponential Entertainment: Provides HollywoodPlayer™, a multi-platform games service for users to discover, share, and play with real scenes from Hollywood movies
• Limeade: Supplies cross-platform mobile and social wellness tools
• Pharaoh Software: Develops a system which controls Windows applications through a UI to provide automated technical support
• Zooppa: The world’s largest source of user-generated advertising

Excitement abounds! Here is a picture of the demo rig we used to present and subsequently blow the judges’ minds: