Big break

Jacqueline Darna is becoming Tampa's poster child of successful startups.

The 31-year-old CEO and medical inventor of No Mo Nausea anti-nausea wristbands continues to impress as she works to expand to big-box stores and teeters on the brink of completing large orders that will make No Mo Nausea a seven-figure company in 2017.

Darna, an anesthesia clinician, came up with her wristbands after a complicated pregnancy led her doctor to suggest she be put in a medically induced coma to stop her postpartum nausea. Darna came up with an all-natural way to reduce the nausea instead — a combination of aromatherapy and acupressure on her wrist that she's since developed and marketed into a line of anti-nausea wristbands. She filed a provisional patent in January 2014, went to production six months later, and within the first 18 months of business was selling to 12 countries in more than 1,000 stores.