The BioVentures initiative at UAMS held its fourth-annual Private Equity Roundtable May 13-14 in Little Rock. The forum allowed BioVenture’s biotech startups to pitch their technologies and services to national venture capitalists.

Want to stand out among a field of promising startups? Then hand out custom breast prosthetics to a group comprised mostly of middle-aged men. That’s exactly what ContourMed CEO Susan Cassidy did.

It’s not often one gets the chance to compare biotech startups to cattle. But Mike Douglas was not unlike a cattleman taking his prize bulls to market last week.

Startups solicited investments ranging from $20,000 to more than $5 million. VCs in the house represented the West Coast, Boston, Austin and points in between. BioVentures director Mike Douglas expects funding to find its way to “2 or 3″ firms that pitched this week.