MIT.nano has introduced seven new corporations to hitch START.nano, a program aimed toward dashing the transition of hard-tech innovation to market. This system helps new ventures by way of discounted use of MIT.nano’s services and entry to the MIT innovation ecosystem.
The developments pursued by the newly engages startups embrace wearables for well being care, inexperienced alternate options to fossil fuel-based power, novel battery applied sciences, enhancements in information methods, and interconnecting nanofabrication information networks, amongst others.
“The transition of the grand concept that’s imagined within the laboratory to one thing that 1,000,000 folks can use of their arms is a journey fraught with many challenges,” MIT.nano Director Vladimir Bulović stated on the 2024 Nano Summit, the place 9 START.nano corporations offered their work. This system supplies assets to ease startups over the primary two hurdles — discovering stakeholders and constructing a well-developed prototype.
Along with entry to laboratory instruments essential to advance their applied sciences, START.nano corporations obtain recommendation from MIT.nano skilled employees, are related to MIT.nano Consortium corporations, acquire a broader publicity at MIT conferences and neighborhood occasions, and are eligible to hitch the MIT Startup Alternate.
“MIT.nano has allowed us to push our mission to the frontiers of sensing by implementing superior fabrication methods utilizing their equipment,” stated Uroš Kuzmanović, CEO and founding father of Biosens8. “START.nano has surrounded us with thrilling friends, a powerful assist system, and a highlight to current our work. By profiting from all that this system has to supply, BioSens8 is shifting sooner than we might anyplace else.”
Listed here are the seven new START.nano individuals:
Analog Photonics is growing lidar and optical communications expertise utilizing silicon photonics.
Biosens8 is engineering novel gadgets to allow well being possession. Their analysis focuses on multiplexed wearables for hormones, neurotransmitters, organ well being markers, and drug use that may give perception into the physique’s well being state, opening the door to customized drugs and proactive, data-driven well being choices.
Casimir, Inc. is engaged on power-generating nanotechnology that interacts with quantum fields to create a steady supply of energy. The workforce compares their expertise to a photo voltaic panel that works in the dead of night or a battery that by no means must be recharged.
Central Spiral focuses on lossless information compression. Their expertise permits for the compression of any kind of information, together with these which are already compressed, decreasing information storage and transmission prices, decreasing carbon dioxide emissions, and enhancing effectivity.
FabuBlox connects stakeholders throughout the nanofabrication ecosystem and resolves problems with scattered, unorganized, and remoted fab information. Their cloud-based platform combines a generative course of design and simulation interface with GitHub-like repository constructing capabilities.
Metal Fuels is changing industrial waste aluminum to onsite power and high-value aluminum/aluminum-oxide powders. Their method combines present mature applied sciences of molten metallic purification and water atomization to develop a self-sustaining reactor that produces alumina of upper worth than our enter scrap aluminum feedstock, whereas additionally gathering the hydrogen off-gas.
PolyJoule, Inc. is an power storage startup engaged on conductive polymer battery expertise. The workforce’s objective is a grid battery of the longer term that’s ultra-safe, sustainable, lengthy dwelling, and low-cost.
Along with the seven startups which are actively utilizing MIT.nano, 9 different corporations have been invited to hitch the newest START.nano cohort:
- Acorn Genetics
- American Boronite Corp.
- Copernic Catalysts
- Envoya Bio
- Helix Carbon
- Minerali
- Plaid Semiconductors
- Quantum Community Applied sciences
- Wober Tech
Launched in 2021, START.nano now contains over 20 companies and eight graduates — ventures which have moved past the preliminary startup levels and a few into commercialization.
