Jeanann Grubbs

Co-founders Paul Stewart and Frank Murdock started up SkinStasis Skin Care earlier this year to meet "a big unmet need" in the cold sore/herpes virus field, where they say there's been "no real new pharmaceutical development" for over 20 years.

Working out of BioLabs at Pegasus Park, they teamed up with Irving's Cosmetic Laboratories to launch NextLeap—which uses tranexamic acid to shorten the time to recovery of normal appearance to as little as 24 to 48 hours, the co-founders say.