IQinetics • The Formula 1 of electric motors • Our motor controllers increase battery life up to 100%, reduce motor vibration and noise, and increase output power by 5%. • Wide range of robotic applications, including drone, 3D printer, and gimbal motors • Looking to partner with drone, gimbal, and 3D printer manufacturers • Matt Piccoli (Co-founder, CEO/CTO) • Jon Broome (Co-founder, CMO/CFO) www.iqinetics.com | Twitter: @iqinetics Jon Broome | jon@iqinetics.com
Amsterdam Fluidics Problem: Chemotherapy isn’t effective; it also kills • healthy cells. Encapsulation lets drugs target cancer cells, but is a slow, expensive manufacturing process. We replace the process with a single chip. Market: There is a $7.4 billion market of drugs currently • being encapsulated. We sell to pharma companies and clinical trials to incorporate cost-efficient encapsulation into their manufacturing. Founders: Niyathi Chakrapani (business & biology), • Anirudh Kaushik (mechanical engineering), Juhanna Robberts (engineering & biology) Looking for: Seed funds, experts in microfluidics or • pharmaceuticals to validate our technology. www.amsterdamfluidics.com Niyathi Chakrapani | niyathic@wharton.upenn.edu
Cognitive Operational Systems, Inc • COSY is a SaaS company that provides on shelf inventory accuracy. • Application: Beacon-less localization and AI to enable mobile, drone, and robot applications • Market: Retail Store Operations • Jonas Cleveland, CEO, and Professor Kostas Daniilidis • Looking to further business development relationships in field www.cosyrobo.com | Twitter: @cosyrobo Jonas Cleveland | jclev@cosyrobo.com
Blue Sky Nano is a Philadelphia-based nanotechnology company focused on engineering innovations to confront challenges in environmental sustainability NanoSense is our concept is for a drinking water contamination sensor based on on an internet of things platform and enabled by nanotechnology and microfluidics. • Co-Founded by UPenn Alumni Matt Serota and Mitch Steinberg • Currently Prototyping, Fundraising, and Recruiting! BlueSkyNano.com | matt@blueskynano.com | mitch@blueskynano.com
Low-cost, portable, networked biolab that automates the design, culture, and testing of microbes • Simplifies and accelerates the design of innovative biological solutions and broadens participation for non-traditional users • Supports solutions in Synthetic Biology, Microbiome Research, Bio-Prospecting, Bio-industrial Manufacturing, and Consumer Products for the Design & Applied Science Markets • Orkan Telhan (Chief Designer, Ph.D.) | Michael Hogan (Principal Engineer) | Karen Hogan (Chief Scientist, Ph.D.) • Currently fundraising and selectively enrolling customers for beta testing www.biorealize.com | @biorealize | info@biorealize.com
CPR Connect Saving Hearts, Saving Lives With cardiac arrest, every minute counts. • CPR Connect aims to reduce emergency response times • and improve patient outcomes for cardiac arrest victims. Founder, Farrah Alkhaleel; CEO, Dara Bakar • Market: Over 500 million composed of at-risk patients • Currently fundraising and looking for research partners • Novel wearable pulse oxygen sensor + mobile application www.cprconnectsystem.com Farrah Alkhaleel | farrah.alkhaleel@gmail.com
Ostiio Devices Novel, ‘smart’ bone-expanders for use in the pediatric skull. • Problem: A variety of birth defects require boney expansion to • recapitulate normal anatomy. Current devices that achieve this protrude through the patient’s skin for months after the operation, and function like a car-jack. This primitive design leads to significant morbidity and very low satisfaction. Market: Cranio-maxillofacial fixation/distraction ($150 million) • Inventors/Founders: • Dr. Jesse A. Taylor, Pediatric Plastic Surgeon • Ari M. Wes, Research Fellow, Medical Student • We are currently looking for additional funding, as we continue • our prototyping efforts and move towards animal testing. Ari Wes | arimwes@gmail.com
Changing the way we see brain health • NeuroFlow uses bio-metric data in real time to analyze mental • stimulation data, and objectively quantify stress, in order to optimize mental health processes. Christopher Molaro, CEO/Co-Founder – Chris is a combat Veteran • and graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY. He co-founded literacy non-profit, Things We Read, and is now an MBA candidate at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Adam Pardes, COO/Co-Founder – Adam is a graduate of Tufts • University, and currently pursuing his PhD in bio-engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an InSITE Fellow and president of Penn’s chapter of the Society of Bio-Engineering. Currently raising a seed round • www.neuroflowsolution.com chris@neuroflowsolution.com | adam@neuroflowsolution.com
• Biodegradable gold nanoparticles to treat cancer • Improves effectiveness of radiation therapy • For radiation oncologists treating solid tumors • Debra Travers, President and Chief Executive Officer • Founders and Scientific Advisors (University of Pennsylvania) David Cormode, PhD Jay Dorsey, MD, PhD Andrew Tsourkas, PhD Rabe’e Cheheltani, PhD • Currently seeking $1.3M seed round and pharmaceutical/ device partners www.polyaurum.com | dstravers@polyaurum.com
Keriton Breast Milk Management & Lactation • Analytics for Neonatal ICUs Current breast milk management systems are • manual, labor-intensive and highly error prone; with no insights about mom’s pumping. A suite of 4 products – Keriton Kare Mom (one-stop app for • moms), Keriton Kare Nurse (process automation at the NICU), Klassify (dashboard for lactation consultants), Konnect (messaging & photo sharing platform) Vidur S. Bhatnagar (MS in Robotics candidate @ University • of Pennsylvania) – Founder & CEO Looking for early pilot customers & research partners • www.keriton.com | @KeritonInc | info@keriton.com
Empower your employees to grow with – not out of – • your company. Description: HR software that helps Fortune 1000 • companies find the best internal candidates for their open roles $3 billion market for internal hiring and talent mobility • CEO: Joseph (Nike Innovation, advising Microsoft and • Facebook, Berkeley/Wharton) CTO: Nikhil (Second time CTO, product at Fintech startup, Harvard/Wharton) Looking for: advisors, customer introductions (currently • serving Fortune 1000 clients like Nielsen) www.twinelabs.com | team@twinelabs.com
Ultrathin Robust Nanoplates Strong, lightweight, flexible nanohoneycomb material Withstands extreme deformations without cracking Applications: Nanorobotics, medical devices (biocompatible) Inventor: Dr. Igor Bargatin Looking for: Commercialization partners Contact: Ryne DuBose rdubose@upenn.edu
Virtual-Physical Smart Blocks Circuit-enabled building blocks feed back to a virtual environment New levels of interactive play and modeling Inventor: Dr. Rahul Mangharam Looking for: Commercialization partners Contact: Ryne DuBose rdubose@upenn.edu
3D Nanoprinting Nanoscale 3D printing Precise control & variety of materials Applications: electronics, microelectromechanical systems Inventor: Dr. Robert Carpick Looking for: Commercialization partners Contact: Ryne DuBose rdubose@upenn.edu
Solid State DNA Sequencing Sequencing DNA through nanopores in 2D materials High speed sequencing in graphene, Silicon Nitride Inventor: Dr. Marija Drndic Looking for: Commercialization partners Contact: Ryne DuBose rdubose@upenn.edu
Flying Smartphones Autonomous robots navigate using smartphone All computing and sensing uses phone’s native capabilities Inventor: Dr. Vijay Kumar Looking for: Commercialization partners Contact: Ryne DuBose rdubose@upenn.edu
Tunable Adhesion Microstructures provide adhesion that turns on or off No sticky adhesive residue, no electricity, no vacuum required Inventor: Dr. Kevin Turner Looking for: Commercialization partners Contact: Ryne DuBose rdubose@upenn.edu
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