On Tuesday, organizers of the annual MN Cup competition announced this year’s nine division winners, who are set to present to a review board on Oct. 6 for a shot at $50,000.

Launched in 2005 by local serial entrepreneurs Dan Mallin and Scott Litman, MN Cup is a free competition for early-stage ventures in Minnesota. Calling itself the country’s largest statewide startup competition, MN Cup has awarded more than $5.8 million to Minnesota-based startups, which have gone on to raise more than $1.1 billion, according to a press release.

Winners across eight divisions each receive a $25,000 reward, while the youth division winner and semifinalists receive $20,000 split among them.

More than 3,600 entrepreneurs entered this year’s competition, per the release.

All nine division winners may compete for the $50,000 grand prize on Oct. 6 at the McNamara Alumni Center, from 4 to 7 p.m.

This year’s division winners are:

• Energy, Clean Tech, & Water: Minneapolis-based Swinergy, a startup converting livestock waste into energy.

• Education & Training: Waite Park-based Impacks, a startup working with schools to create affordable and convenient school supply packs.

• Food, Agriculture, & Beverage: Worthington-based Precision Health Technologies, a supplier of activated plant phenolic solutions meant to improve livestock health.

• General: Delano-based Delano Bat Company, a company that bills its baseball bats as hitting like metal but looking and sounding like wood, using a patented process called FZN Technology.

• High Tech: Brooklyn Park-based Echo Data Analytics, a provider of data analysis which aims to improve EMS response times through its data collection

• Impact Ventures: The Commons, developers of an app that aims to keep schoolchildren from getting distracted by their smartphones while maintaining smartphone use for legitimate academics and emergencies. 

• Life Science & Health IT: Minneapolis-based AcQumen Medical, innovators of a blood-flow monitoring system for high-risk patients, with an emphasis on reducing infant mortality. 

• Student: Minneapolis-based Charm Social Tonic, producers of non-alcoholic beverages with natural additives intended to promote stress relief.

• Youth: Minneapolis-based Enkrypticom, a patent-pending algorithm that offers quantum-resistant security for computing.