Emmanuel Bijaoui’s first time in Kansas — for Tuesday’s Innovation Festival and onboarding for the incoming Plug and Play Topeka cohort — has left the Treat Therapeutics founder with a lasting impression of the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, he shared.
“We always talk about the Animal Health Corridor,” he said after winning the festival’s BioKansas Startup Pitch Competition at the Overland Park Convention Center, “and being here and seeing it on the ground — all the big companies that are around — you really feel that this is the place to be for animal health.”