Craig Valentine

Vitamin water, bottled tea, energy drinks, fruit drinks: the bottles sit on the shelves as the premixed ingredients drift to the bottom of the bottle or lose their potency. And single-serve powdered mixes are messy and easily spilled. Flava Cap has figured out a way to keep these ingredients in the bottle cap as packaging. Its patented technology is a bottle cap that releases powdered ingredients when twisted onto any bottle of water. The caps are sold independently and fit any standard, single-serve water bottle. With this concept, Flava Cap taps into an enormous global beverage market.

1. Packaging
2. Strategic Planning

• Innovation Award Winner

  UMKC Small Business and Technology Development Center
  • October 2011

  KANSAS CITY, MO. -- The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) Small Business & Technology Development Center (SBTDC) hosted the 3rd Annual Missouri Entrepreneurs Celebration on Thursday, Oct. 13, in Pierson Hall on the UMKC Volker Campus. The event brought together a variety of business, community, city, state and university leaders to celebrate Kansas City's entrepreneurial legacy and to highlight the achievements and successes of Missouri companies that are leading the way in entrepreneurship and innovation.
  
  The highlight of the Celebration was the presentation of the annual Excellence in Innovation Awards to three Missouri businesses. The winners and the other 12 finalists represent three categories of entrepreneurship: Innovation in the Arts; Innovation in Business; and Innovation in Technology. Following are the 2011 Excellence in Innovation awardees:
  
  http://www.umkc.edu/news/news-release.asp?id=1126
  

• Patent Issued: Universal Closure Apparatus with Delivery System

  USPTO
  • November 2012

  U.S. Patent Application
  Universal Closure Apparatus with Delivery System

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• Video (1 min Pitch)
• Video (Solve the mess)

Honors and Awards:

2011 UMKC Missouri Business Innovations Award Winner