The MassChallenge start-up accelerator program crowned 15 winners and awarded $1 million in cash prizes Wednesday night, capping four months of intensive business training in a ceremony at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.
The biggest checks were for $100,000 and went to Hemova Medical, maker of a medical device for improving kidney dialysis; MoneyThink, which offers personal finance courses to urban teens; RailPod, maker of a robot that inspects railroad tracks; ViralGains, a digital marketing firm; and 99Degrees Custom, which manufactures personalized apparel in Lowell and Lawrence.
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