IGE MAINTAINS A RICH PORTFOLIO OF STARTUPS.
Our featured MedTech companies have gone through either our Stage One Bootcamp or are currently in Stage 2 which prepares the startup for launch or scale.
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Electrochemical assays to detect more than 20 different substances in dermal interstitial fluid, including opioids, their metabolites, and affiliated medications. With sensing capabilities validated, FDA approval is in process for a micro-needle device.
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CARI Health received $4 Million in funding from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to develop its sensor device to combat the opioid crisis.
Forbes featured CARI's biosensor chip technology and its application in long-term alcohol or opioid monitoring.
CARI Health won the top cash prize of $300K at the 2022 San Diego Angel Conference.
CARI Health was named a 2022 Cool Company.
CARI Health was named a top 50 MedTech Innovator Accelerator team in 2022
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Dermose has created scalp/hair imaging technologies that rapidly establish the effectiveness of hair growth meds within 45 minutes of topical application. Dermose helps its customers screen three years' worth of hair growth meds in 3 days. For the first time, hair loss sufferers can start the right hair growth treatment without worrying about wasting money or committing to an expensive trial-and-error process.
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NSF I-Corps
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IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage 2
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Joshua Pelz
Luca De Vivo
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LIMBER Prosthetics and Orthotics has developed a seamless digital scanning, design, and fabrication workflow for producing prosthetic devices. Our prosthetic devices are more comfortable at a lower cost. We 3D print using dual-extrusion with engineering-grade materials to locally tailor the material properties of our devices for increased functionality.
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Limber Prosthetics receives Seed Investment from UC San Diego
Limber Provides Prosthetics to Ukranian Soliders
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IGE MedTech Accelerator Bootcamp
IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage 2
Technology Management and Entrepreneurism Program
NSF I-Corps
NSF I-Corps National
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Groundbreaking pathogen identification for near-to-care testing of infections in under 3 hours. Combining digital DNA melting genomic analysis and machine learning, Melio profiles pathogen DNA - to prescribe optimal antimicrobial treatment while reducing the overuse of antibiotics.
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https://melio.tech/
Melio was one of eight female-led startups participating in the mystartupXX program focused on team building, leadership, and more.
Melio has joined the Indie-Bio Accelerator. Watch their latest product video.
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IGE MedTech Accelerator
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Mercury Alert is powered by cutting-edge computer vision algorithms, modified to keep your loved one safe. With a simple, sleek, device mounted in front of a bed, we can detect what a person is doing, including, lying in bed, sitting, standing, away from the room, or falling on the ground, providing safety monitoring and alerting.
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Elder Care in a "Post-Pandemic" Age
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NSF I-Corps
IGE MedTech Accelerator BootCamp
IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage 2
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ReBlood Rx offers a safe, effective, and reliable oxygen delivery system through a new approach of hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier (HBOC)
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IGE MedTech Accelerator
NSF I-Corps
Technology Management Program
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Alingo Loh
Irene Zhao
yiz018@eng.ucsd.edu
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Nanocomposite fabric sensors to evaluate joint, muscle, and complex body movements. Measures progress at home, in the clinic, or on the go. Initially targeted at physical therapists, 1mm also offers smart sensors for fitness training, coaching, and labor-intensive workplace environments.
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2021 Spring IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage One Bootcamp
2021 Innovation Expo:Health & Wellness
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Abreos is dedicated to improving the development and commercialization of biopharmaceuticals with our proprietary Veritope platform.
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Pioneering methods to detect critical levels of activated cell types - linking them directly to conditions such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Accurate predictions of placebo and treatment response, plus validation of new targets for the development of novel therapeutics.
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Spring 2021 IGE MedTech Accelerator Bootcamp
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Allegro 3D offers customizable tissue culture devices to life science researchers and pharmaceutical companies. Our products enable the growth of more functional tissues for reliable results to streamline your research.
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Alpha Fiber is a biotechnology startup that provides a noninvasive solution for detecting potential concussive events in athletes using only cameras. Our multi-camera system can be customized to any size field or venue and is powered by proprietary software that combines computer vision and deep learning to monitor all head impacts in real time. Unlike other impact monitors, Alpha Fiber does not rely on any wearable sensors, eliminating the inconveniences associated with external devices.
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Analytics Ventures (AV) is a venture studio fund dedicated to the inception of new ventures harnessing innovations in Artificial Intelligence. Located in San Diego, California we have built a comprehensive venture ecosystem that includes our own full-time lab of leading AI scientists, an end-to-end operations team, and our own venture fund. We believe that Artificial Intelligence is still in the early stages of its maturity cycle, and as such, the biggest value in the field continues to come from entrepreneurs, researchers, and early-stage investors. We partner with corporations, researchers, and entrepreneurs to provide a proven execution model and best in class AI expertise.
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Astroprint creates software products that empower everyone to create, make, and learn with 3D printers.
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Ateios has developed high-performance, conformal batteries to empower next-generation technologies.
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Ateios raises $1.25 Million in Seed Funding from early-stage venture capital firm, Good Growth Capital.
Ateios competed in the Rice Business Plan Competition and won NASA's $50,000 Space Innovation Exploration award.
Ateios was featured in Connect's annual capital program designed to match top-performing startups with venture capital.
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NSF I-Corps - $1000.00
Technology Accelerator - $50,000
Essentials of Business Workshop
IGE Technology Management Program
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Benrevo has developed a web-based platform that unifies the quoting process from end to end across all stakeholders and lines of business.
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Beyond Acoustic combines the power of ultrasound, optics and AI to deliver a wearable device that enables a new way of navigating daily life for people with visual impairment. Our aim is to reform assistive technology to give independence back to those that may be restricted with existing options in navigation and mobility. Our device is hands free, integrated, and smart so that we can stitch it into todays technology seamlessly and that users can adapt to it with minimal effort.
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Biolinq is redefining how biomedical innovations can be imagined and commercialized through minimally-invasive technology in the diabetes space resulting in a better CGM experience that is not only more affordable, but also pain-free.
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Biological Dynamics's platform offers a novel way to isolate nanoparticles directly from physiological solutions, such as whole blood, plasma or serum.
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BrilliantBiome's mission is to leverage advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to provide a personalized approach to drug addiction and recovery through a better understanding of the gut-brain-axis. Our technology aims to unlock the potential of the gut-brain-axis to play a role in human health and addiction-related co-morbidities.
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Canvas Health has created a platform for physicians and Pharma that captures, aggregates and analyzes whole genome sequencing and patient metadata to identify clinically actionable markers to better diagnose rare disease and streamline orphan disease drug development.
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Canvass Labs is a big data analytics company, focused on security and compliance risk mitigation issues around Open Source Software (OSS) packages.
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Electrochemical assays to detect more than 20 different substances in dermal interstitial fluid, including opioids, their metabolites, and affiliated medications. With sensing capabilities validated, FDA approval is in process for a micro-needle device.
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CARI Health received $4 Million in funding from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to develop its sensor device to combat the opioid crisis.
Forbes featured CARI's biosensor chip technology and its application in long-term alcohol or opioid monitoring.
CARI Health won the top cash prize of $300K at the 2022 San Diego Angel Conference.
CARI Health was named a 2022 Cool Company.
CARI Health was named a top 50 MedTech Innovator Accelerator team in 2022
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CGX is a fast-growing company building innovative wireless physiological monitoring systems that achieve high mobility with research-grade signal quality.
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Cibus Health is personalized, nutrition focused, designed for complete patient recovery. Online service includes personalized food regimens, via an end-to-end EMR solution for hospitals, nutritionists, and health coaches, coordinating with your healthcare provider to support your healthy lifestyle.
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2021 MedTech Accelerator Stage One Bootcamp
2021 Innovation Expo: Health and Wellness
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Cocoon Health is a Silicon Valley based technology company using computer vision for remote health monitoring. The company's first product is a category-defining baby monitor that detects a baby's vitals purely by passively collecting a video feed from the baby monitor and analyzing the data in the cloud.
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Alexander Norbash
anorbash@ucsd.edu
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Crane is developing a Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography compatible needle placement robot to assist interventional radiology procedures.
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Crane presented on its technology at the IGE Virtual Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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IGE MedTech Accelerator
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CureMetrix is committed to the advancement of technology that will improve cancer survival rates worldwide. We are focused on leveraging artificial intelligence and deep learning to develop the next generation of medical image analysis technology that radiologists and patients can confidently rely on.
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Unique wearables to continuously measure blood pressure in both consumer and clinical applications. Non-invasive, flexible sensors offer a highly compliant, real-time solution for hospital and remote healthcare monitoring.
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Curescendo presented on its blood pressure monitoring technology at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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NSF I-Corps - $1000.00
IGE MedTech Accelerator -$3000.00
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DEFENSE is a counter drone security system. We help Medical Facilities secure data from cybersecurity threats posed by drone technologies and help them detect and protect against drone intrusions.
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Dermose has created scalp/hair imaging technologies that rapidly establish the effectiveness of hair growth meds within 45 minutes of topical application. Dermose helps its customers screen three years' worth of hair growth meds in 3 days. For the first time, hair loss sufferers can start the right hair growth treatment without worrying about wasting money or committing to an expensive trial-and-error process.
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NSF I-Corps
IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage 1
IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage 2
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As a dental lab service provider, we use 3D-printers and digital solutions to enable high-quality, affordable crowns and dentures for low-income dental patients.
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Sarah Lin
sarahlindesigns@gmail.com
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Device Vitals's mission is to save patient lives by delivering actionable, real-time insights about the true cost, safety, and usability of medical equipment. We do this by putting a frictionless feedback and help channel (web app) at end users’ fingertips. We hope to grow a network of institutions that share data on our platform, and apply machine learning to help predict incidents and trends.
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Device Vitals exhibited its technology at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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IGE MedTech Accelerator
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Digitalis is a venture capital firm that invests in solutions to complex problems in human and animal health
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Doctible is changing the way healthcare practices engage and communicate with patients by offering best-in-class software to automate back-office tasks while giving them the ability to engage and get feedback from patients.
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EVT's device uses artificial intelligence to autonomously create an online version of a class just by placing it in a classroom.
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Comfortable and aesthetically pleasing in design, the Embrace device provides protection against hip fractures, fall detection/alert, and continuous physical activity monitoring. The Embrace can be worn as a clip-on device, an outerwear or an integrated clothing so it can merge seamlessly into the user’s life. Moreover, Embrace includes a mobile platform where analytical information will be relayed to family members and caregivers so they can track the location in the event of an emergency.
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Epirium Bio is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics that promote mitochondrial biogenesis and function through a novel mechanism of action discovered by the company.
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Exalton’s platform reinvents the way businesses collaborate with each other by enabling truly distributed B2B file sharing, management, and governance. Using distributed ledger technology, we can imagine a future where the opportunities of collaboration are no longer limited by security, access, or visibility.
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Exist Tribe is dedicated to improving the sleep health of the world by offering sleep technologies that use the brain's neural pathways to entrain a natural sleep pattern.
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FixingC02 created breakthrough technology which combines electrochemistry and renewable energy to turn CO2 emissions into valuable fuels and chemicals, closing the carbon loop.
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flashPub has created a community focused platform where researchers can rapidly publish smaller manuscripts with a single figure focused on supporting a single, narrowly scoped claim. Our design focuses on the creation of simple, structured content that can be woven together into larger narratives and truths emerging across the community.
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Florabotics helps farmers improve their profitability through increased yields and reduced costs with connected sensors and software.
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The GALT Prospector high-throughput isolation and cultivation array system now enables scientists to access the vast diversity of microbes on our planet, isolate rare or unique species to understand their functions, and unlock the power of the microbiome.
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GrollTex, for ‘graphene-rolling-technologies’, enables the practical and sustainable manufacture of the wonder material, graphene. This next generation material will be used for advances in flexible electronics, wearables, water desalination, life saving biosensors, and more.
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Hapty Hearts has created technology which alleviates new mothers’ postpartum depression and feelings of isolation by utilizing heart rate feedback to connect mother and child.
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Harvesthru is an online marketplace platform where people can buy, sell or trade homegrown crops. When a user launches the Harvesthru application, a map view home-screen will automatically zoom into the user’s location and shows available crops in the neighborhood with details including descriptions and prices. The application will also have location-based listing view, and live chat system between users.
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Health Link is UCSD’s healthcare startup incubator, bringing together clinicians, academic faculty, and students in engineering, computer science, medicine, life science, and business.
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Hush enables you to sleep through all the noise by combining soothing sounds into earplugs so you’re able to sleep peacefully through the night.
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Hydrostasis is developing a personalized hydration monitor that can provide notifications of dehydration / over-hydration before the user experiences any symptoms. We have a prototype of our hardware sensor, based in diffuse near-infrared spectroscopy. Our analytics platform can show multiple users in one webApp the changes in personalized hydration index, allowing for use in sports and healthcare settings.
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Hydrostasis was awarded $50,000 from the US Department of the Air Force SBIR Program to participate in a feasibility study of product and market fit for the Air Force.
Founder and CEO, Debbie Chen, presented at the Sensors Summit, 10th Annual CATA Clinical Symposium & Leadership Conference, and Digital Medicine and MedTech Showcase on personalized hydration monitoring.
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Medical Device Workshop
Funds: $10,000
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igrenEnergi is a technology innovator in Solar and Energy Storage. Using its patented “Energy Packetization Architecture”, the company has created disruptive products to optimize generation, conversion, storage of energy and enable smart grid interactions.
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Impedea Tech has created an antimicrobial urinary catheter coating capable of preventing biofilm growth on the surface over an extended period of time. Our innovation involves manufacturing the coating and applying it to standard silicone catheters.
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Impedea Tech received a GEM in 2018 for a total of $60,000 and an ACTRI Academic Senate Grant in 2020 for a total of $15,000.
Impedea Tech presented on catheter coating technology at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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IGE MedTech Accelerator
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Leaf4Tree is a technology company specialized in providing aerial and data services and equipment to the Oil and Gas Industry. We aim to lower 25% of our clients annual expenses on Survey, Operation, and Inspection, by providing end-to-end drone solutions
including hardware, software and services.
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LearnSesh uses virtual reality to connect students and educators for real-time collaboration in immersive and interactive VR spaces. These spaces allow for preserved soft-communication through head/hand tracking, improved understanding via dynamic concept-visualizations of previously text-only concepts, and are able to be accessed anytime/anywhere with affordable, portable VR headsets.
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NSF I-Corps
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Lifeform AI creates intelligent interfaces for healthier habits. Our launch product the LifeChair, uses our patented eTextile sensing technology and human behavioral AI to train better sitting habits and improve well-being in real-time. It achieves this using active feedback through our IoT device. The LifeChair includes a partner application where the user may also access a suite of wellness features including guided stretches and performance tracking.
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Lifeform AI received $50,000 in funding from an angel investment firm in Japan, in May 2019.
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Global Innovation Program - Japan
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Joshua Pelz
Luca De Vivo
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LIMBER Prosthetics and Orthotics has developed a seamless digital scanning, design, and fabrication workflow for producing prosthetic devices. Our prosthetic devices are more comfortable at a lower cost. We 3D print using dual-extrusion with engineering-grade materials to locally tailor the material properties of our devices for increased functionality.
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Limber Prosthetics receives Seed Investment from UC San Diego
Limber Provides Prosthetics to Ukranian Soliders
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IGE MedTech Accelerator Bootcamp
IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage 2
Technology Management and Entrepreneurism Program
NSF I-Corps
NSF I-Corps National
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Lyxia is bringing specialty products from microalgae to the global food, nutrition, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, and feed industries.
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Groundbreaking pathogen identification for near-to-care testing of infections in under 3 hours. Combining digital DNA melting genomic analysis and machine learning, Melio profiles pathogen DNA - to prescribe optimal antimicrobial treatment while reducing the overuse of antibiotics.
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https://melio.tech/
Melio was one of eight female-led startups participating in the mystartupXX program focused on team building, leadership, and more.
Melio has joined the Indie-Bio Accelerator. Watch their latest product video.
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IGE MedTech Accelerator
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Mercury Alert is powered by cutting-edge computer vision algorithms, modified to keep your loved one safe. With a simple, sleek, device mounted in front of a bed, we can detect what a person is doing, including, lying in bed, sitting, standing, away from the room, or falling on the ground, providing safety monitoring and alerting.
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Elder Care in a "Post-Pandemic" Age
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NSF I-Corps
IGE MedTech Accelerator BootCamp
IGE MedTech Accelerator Stage 2
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Mesa Verde Venture Partners is an early-stage life sciences venture capital firm focused on creating partnerships with entrepreneurs to build successful companies. Based in San Diego, CA, Mesa Verde aims to invest in a diversified portfolio of early-stage biomedical companies with a focus in Southern California, the Southwest, and other traditionally underrepresented areas in life sciences venture capital. Areas of interest include pharmaceuticals, medicals devices, diagnostics, life science enabling tools, and digital health.
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A yerba mate, a real one like they drink in Paraguay - unsweetened, cold-brewed, with simple, natural infusions like chamomile, mint, and lemon. In every bottle of Mi Mate, we hope to bring to you some of what we experienced sharing tererè with Paraguayans in the bustling streets of Asunción, communities of the transchaco, or farms of the Alto Parana - the conviviality, the joy, the intimacy. Mi Mate is our portrait of tererè and all it represents.
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Mushroom Networks devices are smart, adaptive and blazingly fast. They come with advanced features that will set your WAN network on autopilot and put your mind at ease. Our SD-WAN features include Broadband Bonding, Unified Threat Management, Advanced Layer-7 Routing, Monitoring Portal, Dynamic Quality of Service, Deep Packet Inspection and Application Performance Optimization for various flow types including live video, VoIP, cloud apps and others.
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Nanome allows teams to collaboratively solve problems in real time by enabling them to analyze, visualize, and design solutions in an immersive lab for new rates of productivity and discovery.
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Takuya Miyazaki
miyazaki.bsr@tmd.ac.jp
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NanoMed Therapeutics is creating nanomedicine-based combination therapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors.
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Global Innovation Program - Japan
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For the 116 million chronic pain sufferers in the US, NavegaPN7 is a sophisticated gene therapy for pain relief. Unlike conventional painkillers, the Navega therapy is highly specific to the pain source, it is non-addictive, and provides months of relief.
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Navega Therapeutics was featured in a special issue of Phramafile which dedicated this edition to pain management.
Navega received two SBIR Phase I Grants from the NIH under NINDS, as part of the NIH HEAL Initiative, and under the NCI, totaling in $1.1 million in funding.
Co-Founder, Ana Moreno, was recognized at the national TechConnect Defense Conference.
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IGE Technology Accelerator
NSF I-Corps
Technology Management and Entrepreneurism Certificate Program
Funds: $50,000
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Neubo develops fun and engaging inflatable soft robotic construction kits for kids. Kids can assemble smart pneumatic circuits to control their own reconfigurable soft robots. Instead of kids designing one object, our kits will allow kids to stay continuously engaged by being provided the tools to build multiple robots. This building toy promotes creativity and enhances critical thinking. Soft robots made from soft materials ensure safe handling by young builders. In addition, soft companion robots have an emotional and social impact due to their creature-like movements. Imagine kids building and playing with robotic dogs that can walk, lay down, wiggle their ears, wag their tails, and tilt their heads at a price that is affordable to parents.
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NSF I-Corps
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Axon Therapy by NeuraLace Medical is the first non-invasive, clinically-demonstrated application of magnetic therapy for chronic peripheral neuropathic pain. As a non-opioid alternative, Axon Therapy provides immediate and sustained pain relief for patients who are refractory to current treatment options.
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Neuretix is a medical device company whose mission is to improve patient sensorimotor function and quality of life through graft-free solutions for peripheral nerve injury.
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause life-threatening, elevated IntraCranial Pressure (ICP). NeuroNordic’s portable Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP) device reduces ICP, while improving blood flow. For field emergencies, patient transport, and in the ER. Other targets include chronic intracranial hypertension.
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IGE MedTech Stage Two Accelerator
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Operation Basura Camino is an initiative in my non-profit one habitat foundation. It's a Cloud based Waste Management System. Consumers can have their waste picked up through an app.
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Pareto Tree is developing continuous and non-invasive wearable monitoring systems to enable early detection and prediction of inpatient health deterioration with a specific focus on predicting cardiac and respiratory fatal events.
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Partners in Life uses a mobile geolocation based tech platform to help coordinate on demand healthcare. We will be utilizing the shared economy so that there is a greater chance that patients will have more immediate access to a healthcare professional 24/7 to address their their sudden needs.
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Pensievision delivers novel point of care medical imaging solutions. We created the first portable three-dimensional (3D) visual assessment device for early-stage detection and analysis of pre-cancer cervical lesions with detection capabilities using Artificial intelligence (AI) and technologies used in NASA’s space telescopes.
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Pensievision presented on their device at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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PetDx is a molecular diagnostics company which is harnessing the power of genomics to develop a first-of-its-kind test for the detection, characterization, and management of canine cancer, based on a simple blood draw. Our cutting-edge approach to the science will radically change how we manage cancer in dogs, so they can enjoy longer, healthier lives with their humans.
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PodiVive aims to drastically decrease ulcer formation and infection by creating a novel solution for both diabetic and DFU patients. We are prototyping a personalized insole-sock combo that can properly offload a patient’s feet, offer easy compliance, assess a patient’s foot condition, and add a bacterial barrier for additive protection. These features can potentially preserve a diabetic patient’s limbs, increase their quality of life, and reduce the damaging effects of DFUs to both human health and the economy.
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PodiVive presented on its insole-sock technology at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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IGE MedTech Accelerator Bootcamp
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Portfolium partners with colleges and universities to help students connect learning with opportunity. Our full stack student success network helps millions of students from over 3,600 academic institutions prove their skills and launch their careers, while providing educators and employers with the tools they need to assess learning outcomes, build pathways, issue badges, and recruit talent.
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Rebirthel provides a new treatment method, "allogeneic immune cell therapy," for advanced and recurrent cancers that are difficult to cure with current standard treatments. Critical technologies in each step have been patented in Japan and overseas.
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Beyond Japan 2023
Japan Innovation Accelerator 2024
Japan Innovation Luncheon and Keynote
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ReBlood Rx offers a safe, effective, and reliable oxygen delivery system through a new approach of hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier (HBOC)
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IGE MedTech Accelerator
NSF I-Corps
Technology Management Program
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Gun-Ho Kim
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RECENS Medical is a clinical-stage medical device company developing innovative cooling technologies for multiple applications across medicine. Its lead product is a proprietary handheld precision cooling device which allows for instantaneous onset of ocular anesthesia for intravitreal injection intended to improve physician workflow and optimize patient comfort. This device has demonstrated safety and efficacy in multiple clinical trials and its technology is covered by a broad intellectual portfolio encompassing multiple patents.
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RECENS Medical exhibited its cooling device at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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Global Innovation Program- Korea
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Remora is developing a multi-agent USV approach to aquatic debris cleanup and sensing using hotspot-based path optimization. This system of trash-eating aquadrones will skim marine debris for waterfront organizations while collecting spatiotemporal environmental data.
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SB Solutions produces a non-invasive glucose monitoring medical device.
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SB Solutions presented on its glucose monitoring device at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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Global Innovation Program
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SciCrunch is home for platforms such as the Resource Identification Initiative, the Antibody Registry and SciScore. We know the “ingredients” that go into your scientific paper and we work closely with the research community. We provide platforms, tools, and muscle to enable scientists, resource providers, and companies to track research reagents and to check rigor and transparency in methods.
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NSF I-Corps Phase I
NSF I-Corps Phase II
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SeedMeLab is a web based platform data management platform which implements a virtual file system and ancillary modules to manage, share and present data in a compelling manner.
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Chen Zhang
Preston Landon
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Online platform, automatically identifies the molecular structures of organic compounds for drug discovery and pharmaceutical testing. Proprietary AI, more precise and affordable than current, labor intensive methods. Other market applications: forensics, environmental monitoring, and food safety.
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Smart NMR's technology was published in Nature's Scientific Reports section.
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Spring 2021 MedTech Accelerator Stage One Bootcamp
Fall 2019 SIO Innovation Bootcamp
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Sai Kiran Komatineni
skomatin@ucsd.edu
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SoleInTech aims to improve the quality of life of Parkinson’s Disease patients through building a shoe insole that can monitor user’s GAIT and provide tactile feedback to correct it, improving their balance. Physical therapists can recommend the insole to their patients and use it to monitor the progression of the disease. As a result, patients do not have to visit their therapists as frequently reducing their costs and alleviating current inconveniences.
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SoleInTech exhibited its shoe insole technology at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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NSF I-Corps
Funds: $1,000
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SoleMate Solutions optimizes lower extremity rehabilitation by providing a smart shoe insole that interfaces patients with physicians to give real-time feedback and to correct for form.
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South 8 Technologies, Inc. has developed a breakthrough new Liquefied Gas Electrolyte chemistry for electrochemical energy storage devices including lithium batteries and electrochemical capacitors. Our patented technology allows for a substantial increased energy, improved safety, and an exceptionally wide operating temperature to record low temperatures.
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Nearly 50% of Americans have periodontitis resulting in dental pain and tooth loss. Periodontal evaluation requires manual probing and subjective visual inspection. StyloSonic has developed non-invasive, soft tissue imaging to automate evaluation and serve as predictive diagnostic and therapy monitor.
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StyloSonic was selected as a finalist in the Pre-Seed Stage Healthcare division in the 2021 SPIE Startup Challenge.
StyloSonic Co-Founders, Reza Nezhad and Ali Hariri, will be presenting their technology at the First Look SoCal Innovation Showcase 2021.
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Spring 2021 MedTech Accelerator
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SynBioEnergy has made a low cost bioreactor with a suite of environmental applications. The bioreactor uses microbes to degrade either cellulose from agricultural waste or PET from plastic waste while also converting carbon dioxide into a useful biogas. The system is also configurable to desalinate water from the central compartment of the reactor.
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TearLab has developed an objective and quantitative point-of-care diagnostic test that provides precise and predictive information.
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ThoughtSTEM started as tutoring business with 5 students and has now swiftly grown into a county-wide service that has brought students starting at age 6 together throughout San Diego to explore, learn, and have fun!
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Tortuga Logic provides solutions to identify hardware security issues and patch them before they turn into real exploits.
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Investing early in founder-led companies with disruptive innovations in AI, cybersecurity, healthcare, and biotech that can deliver dramatically better solutions to our toughest problems.
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TyFast has developed a novel anode that is easy to process without the need for complicated nano-sizing. The electrode could deliver its capacity at less than 6 minutes charge time and the anode material maintains stable structure over long term cycling. As a result, this anode could enable a fast charge battery without sacrifice of energy density.
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Dr. Haodong Liu was invited to introduce TyFast at the 2019 Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) Summit.
Dr. Haodong Liu, co-founder of TyFast, was awarded with the Battery Division Postdoctoral Associate Research Award at the AiMES Conference.
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IGE Technology Accelerator
Funds: $50,000
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UNIGRID presents state-of-the-art electrochemical grid storage solutions through the use of All Solid-State Batteries. Our patented technology enables low cost, safe and robust energy storage capable of operating under all climates.
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Hengyu Zhao
Nitish Nagesh
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VeniSTAT is Implementing novel venipuncture stabilization technologies to improve patient and worker safety and satisfaction.
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Veocor pioneers cloud-based AI technologies to reduce cost and improve quality of care by diagnosing patients at risk of stroke who benefit from anticoagulation.
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Veocor Diagnostics was selected as one of top 12 Finalists for the UC Entrepreneur Pitch Competition. Veocor received one-on-one coaching from a corporate VC and went on to present their final pitch at the Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit.
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IGE Technology Accelerator
IGE Business Accererator
Medical Device Workshop
Funds: $50,000
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VigoScope has designed and prototyped a functioning detachable bronchoscope device leveraging a novel design and advanced additive manufacturing techniques. The gear drive, attachment mechanism, and transmission mechanism each play a unique role in making the device possible.
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VigoScope received funds of $5,000 through the Shah Family Fellowship.
VigoScope presented on its detachable bronchoscope device at the IGE Virtual MedTech Showcase 2020 on May 20th. Check out their team highlights here!
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IGE Technology Management Certificate Program
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Visicell Medical enables safe, reliable, real-time tracking of implanted cell therapy products using standard imaging techniques available in most clinics.
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Visionful has developed and artificial intelligent vision-based parking monitoring and management system.
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Waitz has developed a system which computes foot traffic through cellphone signals present.
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The Zerigo Health Solution has taken a very well-established treatment and synced it with the technology of a smartphone to treat psoriasis, vitiligo and eczema. With home-based phototherapy, the dosage and intensity supplied are similar to what can be expected from phototherapy from a doctor’s office and is more cost effective.
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Zingle is a web-based text messaging software transforming the way businesses communicate with customers.
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Zuzor's sensor-driven technology lets you create immersive, vibrant and visually stunning content that moves as you do. Create shareable moments that take branding to the next level.
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