COHORT 5
Transforming the world of diabetes management
Alertgy gives diabetics and the world’s 2 billion pre-diabetics a way to non-invasively monitor their blood glucose levels on demand, providing trending information and automatic alerts if levels are too low or high. Using advanced materials and sensor technologies enabled by a smartphone application, Alertgy’s patented wristband platform eliminates the need for implanted sensors, patches, or devices that use chemical reactions or fluid transfer through the skin, or other intrusive measurement techniques.
Enabling tomorrow’s data expansion
Axion Technologies develops Quantum Random Number Generators (QRNG) and optical splitters/multiplexers. Its patented technique for scrambling light provides quantum random numbers for use in numerous computing applications, including encryption and data simulation. These applications protect data and expand the usefulness of simulations for more secure networking. Axion’s technology allows 200+ nodes to be served using a single QRNG device. The same technology can be used to split a single laser signal into 200+ or to combine 200+ laser signals, enabling the design of unique solutions to meet the growing bandwidth needs of IT networks.
Digitizing microscopes for earlier pathology detection and better treatment
Custom Surgical is modernizing ophthalmology by providing an effective way to record, store, and analyze medical procedures and leverage them to diagnose and treat patients. Its optical system, the MicroREC, allows ophthalmologists to connect any smartphone camera to the optical path of their microscopes, while its data management platform allows them to easily store and share their videos and images on the cloud. Custom Surgical is simultaneously developing mobile applications that use Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence to help train eye surgeons, improve surgical outcomes and allow early diagnosis of eye pathologies.
Improving breeding success with real-time embryo health evaluation
EmGenisys is enabling genetic progress in animal production by maximizing the efficiency of in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer (ET). Using computer vision to train machine learning models to analyze embryo cell changes, EmGenisys developed a noninvasive, onsite software test to evaluate embryo health in real-time. The result is a comprehensive embryo health evaluation which delivers standardized and consistent results, empowering ET practitioners to manage their embryo programs with objective data and improve pregnancy outcomes of IVF/ET up to 20%.
Accelerating microprocessing with lasers and liquids – literally cutting edge
LIDROTEC’s patent-pending wafer-dicing laser technology enables thinner cuts with a virtually 0% damage rate, providing significant cost savings and productivity increases to the semiconductor industry. Its innovation is in the efficient use of liquids in the laser processing zone, which cool and rinse wafers while the laser cuts out the chips. The benefits of this unique technology are thinner cuts with higher precision, no damages to the material, clean surfaces without debris, and higher processing speeds, with no adaptations needed to the production process.
Building next-generation optoelectronic interconnects and processors for high-bandwidth processing
LightSpeed Photonics’ mission is to enable future datacenters with at least 10 times more data processing capabilities than what current systems are capable of. LightSpeed’s technology is modular, scalable, multi-processor systems with free-space optical interconnects. Their team is building proprietary optical interconnects and modular processors with co-packaged optics for data centers and edge cloudlets, addressing the need for increased real-time processing of data bandwidth-intensive applications like video streaming, AI, cybersecurity, and smartNICs (Network Interface Card) at low power. Their core technology IP is to integrate lasers which enable multi-terabit communication between computing chips through the air.
Building the first specialized search for optics and photonics components
MEETOPTICS’ Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven platform helps engineers and researchers in the optics and photonics industry access and compare products and technologies from trusted manufacturers. With MEETOPTICS’ comprehensive, up-to-date database, users can quickly discover specialized suppliers and available products in minutes instead of weeks. Photonics-tech manufacturers have a direct channel to customers at the moment of purchase and can showcase updated technical capabilities without investing resources.
Delivering higher efficiencies and energy density than traditional solar technologies
Acquired 7/2024 by SunDensity
QD Solar combines two light-absorbing nanomaterials — perovskite and quantum dots — to take solar beyond efficiencies achievable using silicon solar cells. Incorporating these active materials in a tandem cell architecture efficiently harvests more of the sun’s available radiation in real-world conditions. With nine patent families across nine countries, QD Solar can offer a roll-to-roll solar sheet that is low cost, flexible, durable, and lightweight, and that can be easily integrated into existing solar panel manufacturing supply chains.
Empowering next-generation chip makers with quantum-photonic modelling tools
Quantopticon offers design automation software to support the rapid, cost-effective development of high-quality, peak-performing quantum-photonic devices. Its modelling software, Quantillion, eliminates the need to carry out multiple-iteration trial-and-error prototyping. By ensuring right-first-time, optimised device designs, Quantopticon will unlock the pathway to rapid, high-yield, low-cost manufacturing of quantum-photonic systems, revolutionising the design process in the emerging quantum technology industry.
Enabling a new era of space safety, mission assurance, and transparency
SCOUT is changing the way space operations can be done by building vision-based autonomy solutions for Earth and space that let systems better identify and avoid risks and failures. Space traffic will grow 40x this decade, and understanding the congested orbital environment is key for space safety and mission assurance. SCOUT provides alternatives to the terrestrial sensing paradigm with on-orbit imaging systems and autonomy software for automated detection, tracking, and characterization of space objects and orbital debris.
Putting shortwave infrared (SWIR) technology in the palm of your hand
Stratio offers infrared imaging solutions for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), medical imaging, precision farming, laser material processing, and food/plastic sorting. Stratio’s BeyonSense® is the world’s first smartphone-compatible shortwave infrared (SWIR) camera, designed to be 5x lighter and 20x cheaper than technology currently on the market, at 10x less power consumption.