TECHNOLOGIES CHANGING THE FUTURE
PORTFOLIO
COHORT 5:April-September 2022
Alertgy’s patented wearable wristband platform and application provide affordable, effective, noninvasive continuous glucose monitoring for existing and pre diabetics, and health-conscious people.
Axion Technologies has developed a patented technique for scrambling light to provide quantum random numbers, which can be used in computing applications to protect data and expand the usefulness of data simulations.
Custom Surgical offers optical systems and software that digitize medical microscopes or slit-lamps, allowing the seamless capture, storage, and broadcasting of high-quality medical imaging without blocking the binoculars.
LIDROTEC creates patent pending wafer dicing laser machines for the semiconductor industry that enable thinner cuts with a 0 percent damage rate.
LightSpeedAI Labs offers optoelectronic interconnects and lego-like processors that will address the need for increased, real-time processing of data bandwidth-intensive applications like video streaming, AI, cybersecurity, and smartNIC at low-power.
MEET OPTICS is a specialized photonics search hub that enables researchers and engineers to find and compare products and technologies from trusted suppliers in minutes instead of weeks.
QD Solar has developed a low-cost, lightweight, flexible, high-power density solar sheet that offers efficiency well beyond that of silicon solar.
Quantopticon creates automation software tools supporting the rapid, cost-effective development of high-quality, peak-performing quantum photonic devices, which are key to the emerging quantum technology industry.
SCOUT offers on-orbit imaging systems and autonomy software for automated detection, tracking, and characterization of space objects and orbital debris.
Stratio produces AI-assisted visible and infrared imaging solutions for Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), medical imaging, precision farming, forensic, and food/plastic sorting.
COHORT 4:April-September 2021
2EyesVision Reduces Uncertainty in Multifocal Corrections
2EyesVision’s SimVis Gekko™ allows patients to experience the real world through multifocal corrections and express their preference in less than 10 minutes.
Andluca Technologies Improves the Energy Efficiency of Buildings
Andluca Technologies’ wireless smart glass system can be installed quickly and non-disruptively to reduce building energy use by up to 40%.
Dynocardia Developed a Different Way to Measure Blood Pressure
Dynocardia’s ViTrack™ is the first cuff-less, wrist-wearable technology to offer direct, beat-to-beat measurement of BP with the accuracy of intra-arterial lines.
Infrascreen Designed the Next Generation of Greenhouse Screens
Infrascreen provides growers with the ability to selectively filter the natural radiations that flow in or out of greenhouses, resulting in a drastic reduction in energy consumption.
Layer Metrics Protects Build Integrity for Born-Certified Parts
Layer Metrics is enabling reliable metal additive manufacturing with its precision measurement and optical inspection system that captures every critical data point of every layer, in real time.
Mesodyne’s Compact Generators Convert Fuel to Electricity Via Light
Mesodyne’s patented LightCell technology enables long endurance, reliable, efficient, silent power generation anywhere, any time, from any fuel.
Momentum Optics Delivers Affordable Custom Optics
Momentum Optics is developing a disruptive manufacturing technology that enables rapid fabrication of technically challenging optics, achieving 5x faster production and at least 10x lower costs.
One Silicon Chip Photonics Transforms Motion Sensing
One Silicon Chip Photonics (OSCP) is advancing the safety and accuracy of autonomous vehicles and drones with its high-performance Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU).
Owl AI is Solving Our Most Pressing Automotive Safety Issues
Owl Autonomous Imaging’s patented 3D Thermal Ranger™ provides HD thermal imaging with precision ranging representing a 200x improvement in resolution and cloud density over LiDAR.
PreAct Technologies Saves Lives with Sensors That Can Tell When a Crash is Imminent
PreAct Technologies’ TrueSense™ sensors make it possible to angle car seats away, deploy airbags earlier, and raise the car suspension just before a crash occurs, to vastly reduce injuries and deaths.
COHORT 3:April-September 2020
AkknaTek Reduces Refractive Surprises After Cataract Surgery
AkknaTek’s Lens Reviewer helps eye surgeons ensure safe, accurate lens positioning and makes postoperative management of dislocated intraocular lens (IOLs) more intuitive and straightforward.
ExPrimary Makes Bioanalytical Tools More Accessible
ExPrimary is miniaturizing and reducing the costs of bioanalytical instrumentation to advance personalized healthcare and shift disease management from reactive to preventative.
Haqean Fights Drug Counterfeiting with Quantum Randomness
Haqean’s SID-Q anti-counterfeiting solution helps pharma manufacturers and hospitals to ensure product safety and efficiency.
Kilo Medical Solutions Improves NICU Light Conditions
Kilo Medical Solutions’ Brise-Solette can be applied to incubators to mimic the light and sound of the womb and alert nurses when care is needed while collecting data for improved treatment.
Nordetect Helps Farmers Speed Soil Testing and Optimize Fertilizer Use
Nordetect’s lab-on-a-chip device and test kit reduce soil testing time from days to minutes, driving faster decisions that impact crop yield and input cost while mitigating environmental pollution.
Rubitection Saves Lives with Early Bedsore Detection
Rubitection’s handheld optical probe and mobile app help care providers detect and monitor bedsores before they become deadly, with implications for the broader skin health market.
SaNoor Enables the Internet of Underwater Things
SaNoor’s laser LiFi solutions overcome the challenges of underwater settings to provide reliable wireless data transmission beyond 10 Gb/s.
SunDensity Enhances the Energy Output of Solar Panels
SunDensity’s Photonic Smart Coating (PSC) technology increases the energy efficiency of opto-electronic devices such as solar panels and architectural glass.
Think Outside Reveals Key Data About What’s Beneath the Snow
Think Outside’s durable, lightweight Sknow sensors use radar technology to inform the hydropower industry of the true water potential of the snow in the mountains.
Simulated Inanimate Models Makes Surgical Training Risk-Free
VIOMERSE (previously Simulated Inanimate Models / SIM) combines lifelike hydrogel models with educational software and AR to give surgeons immersive training without risks to patients.
COHORT 2:January-June 2019
Augmentiqs Transforms Microscopes into Smart, Connected Devices
Augmentiqs evolutionizes the microscope with an electro-optical module that retrofits into existing microscopes, facilitating augmented reality of the eyepiece and live-image capture of tissue samples.
Circle Optics Eliminates Stitching for 360 Video in 12K
Circle Optics has completely eliminated stitching (the process of aligning multiple images pixel-by-pixel to create a unified image) through a revolutionary camera design, enabling shareable, immersive, real-time experiences.
Efferent Labs Implantable Biosensors for Real-Time Monitoring
Efferent Labs’ biosensor system transmits live data through the cloud to data acquisition and analysis software, providing real-time information to researchers and clinicians.
Lumedica Vision Makes it Easy to Diagnose Retina Disease
Lumedica creates affordable scientific and medical instruments for diagnosing retina disease that are easier to acquire, transport, and use in optometry offices and field clinic settings all over the world.
Mango teQ Transforms Ride Experience for Motorcyclists
REYEDR, a helmet-mounted heads-up display (HUD) from Mango teQ, uses holographic technology to create a virtual display within the rider’s immediate field of view.
Neurescense Images Individual Brain Cells Firing in Real Time
Neurescence enables unprecedented understanding of brain disease mechanisms and the effect of drugs on the formation of neuronal circuits and their relation to task performance.
Opalux Protects Identification with Tamper-Proof Holograms
Opalux has developed an innovative security feature that permanently engraves an individual’s portrait and personal data inside a color-shifting hologram that is impossible to counterfeit.
Organic Robotics Tests Artificial Skin for Smart Garments and Robots
Organic Robotics Corporation has developed a stretchable smart material that can sense its own shape and measure surface pressure, giving robots a sense of touch for a variety of commercial applications.
Ovitz Individualizes Vision Correction with Custom Lenses
Ovitz captures over 64 unique data points to characterize a patient’s visual function with high accuracy, providing individualized vision correction not possible with other methods available today.
VPG Medical Enables Seamless Cardiac Monitoring
VPG Medical’s HealthKam leverages smart device connectivity to provide cloud analytics and feedback to healthcare professionals, improving cardiac diagnoses and therapeutic strategies.
COHORT 1:January-June 2018
Arovia- Finalist
Bounce Imaging- Finalist
Double Helix- $1 Million Investment
Intelon Optics- $500K Investment
LighTopTech- Finalist
Lumotune- Finalist
Molecular Glasses- Audience Choice Award
Positive Science- $250K Investment
Tarsier Optics- Finalist
Think Biosolution- $250K Investment
Accuret- Runner Up
Mosaic Microsystems- Runner Up
