Startup Awards & Contracts

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  • "Your only limitation is your mind." Bruce Lee

Repsol Foundation Entrepreneurs Award 2014: HAWK Tool

Photo of Dr. Rojas at the Repsol Technology Center in Madrid Spain.

HAWK Tool: Repsol Foundation Profile

Out of ~750 application Raptors Design, LLC received one of the six awards from the Repsol Foundation Entrepreneurs Fund for 2014. I used the funds to develop a scaled prototype of the HAWK Tool and test it. The wonderful part of receiving the award is the 5+ weeks of project management including lectures on patents, financial diligence, planning, contingency planning, and more.

Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Technical Assessment Program (TAP) Contract Awarded to Raptors Design

Image timeline showing from the Deepwater Horizon accident the development of the HAWK tool and the organization that have gotten involved in the project.

In March 2016, Raptors Design received a contract with the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Technical Assessment Program (TAP) to demonstrate feasibility of generating a tangled wire mass inside an 11 inch free flowing stream and to measure the stemming of the flow. The tests where a success!