It was voted the best of three select hi-tech ideas pitched Dragon's Den-style to Julie Meyer, chief executive of Ariadne Capital, a leading champion for entrepreneurship in Europe.
Chris won a £500 cheque to help him start his venture once he graduates in philosophy and politics in July. He will also visit Ariadne Capital in London.
It was part of the launch of an exciting enterprise centre at the university which is helping create the next generation of successful young entrepreneurs.
The Centre for Excellence in the Teaching and Learning of Enterprise (CETLE) will now be based in the copper-clad futuristic Ron Cooke Hub building at the heart of the £750million university campus expansion at Heslington East.
More than 100 people representing business and academia saw the vice-chancellor, Prof Brian Cantor, officially welcome CETLE to its new home.
He said: "The outstanding facilities offered by the York Centre for Excellence in the Teaching and Learning of Enterprise provide students and staff alike with the space to be creative, enterprising and productive.
"Enterprise is vital to the future of the university, helping us to develop innovative teaching and research, and fostering good relations with our key business partners in the city, the country and worldwide." The Ron Cooke Hub is one of the flagship buildings on the Heslington East expansion which has been built with public and private funding, including support from the European Regional Development Fund.
It houses an integrated network of support for start-up businesses and is part of the university's pioneering concept, already established on York Science Park, of linking businesses to research centres on an academic campus.
Among the features at the opening which wowed the visitors was The Cube – a room in which three dimensional images and music surround the viewer.
Others who earned the right to pitch their ideas to Ms Meyer, a dragon on BBC's Online Dragon's Den, were Storm, a team of students ready to market their cheaper, more effective presentation software; and Dreamgate, the name under which Russian-born student Nina Roussakoff markets her PC games aimed at women.
