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Venture Partners has helped faculty and researchers build 155 new ventures spun out of university technology and innovation. Explore our startups:

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AmideBio, LLC

AmideBio discovers and develops novel peptides for the treatment of metabolic diseases. In addition, AmideBio leverages its proprietary BioPure™ peptide manufacturing technology to supply ultrapure peptides for research purposes.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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Arpeggio Biosciences

Arpeggio makes better drugs by discovering mechanism of action sooner.

Industry: Genomics, Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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Artimus Robotics, Inc.

Artimus Robotics is changing the way the world moves by enabling life like motion solutions in robotics and automation.

Industry: Robotics, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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Aspero

Aspero Medical, Inc.

Aspero Medical focuses on improving gastrointestinal endoscopy for the patient and physician. Our technology enhances device performance, saving time and money, while improving patient outcomes.

Industry: Medical Devices
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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ASTRA LiTe

ASTRA LiTe develops LiDAR imaging systems for underwater mapping.

Industry: Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed

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Ayar Labs, Inc.

Ayar Labs solves the I/O bandwidth and power bottlenecks in computing systems by moving data using light.

Industry: AI & Big Data, Optics
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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Bactria Pharmaceuticals, LLC

Bactria's mission is combating bacterial antibiotic resistance. The company's initial focus is on the discovery and development of small molecule therapeutics that reverse existing and emergent resistance to antibiotics in the most problematic and severe bacterial Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs).*   

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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BCell Solutions, Inc.

BCell Solutioions is commercializing proprietary immunotherapies computationally designed to treat newly discovered causes of unwanted inflammation.

Industry: Therapeutics
​Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Big Blue Technologies

Big Blue Technologies aims to demonstrate the world‘s most energy and material efficient process for primary magnesium metal production to proliferate light-weight components in vehicles, aircraft and portable electronics.

Industry: Sustainability
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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BioLoomics

BioLoomics utilizes sythetic biology and cell imaging to discover and develop protein drugs.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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BREK Electronics

BREK Electronics utilizes silicon carbide for power electronics in the renewable energy and electric vehicle industries.

Industry: Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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Cascade Biocatalysts

Cascade Biocatalysts is creating more productive enzymes for economically biomanufacturing sustainable chemicals.

Industry: Chemicals, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Chembotix

Chembotix is developing a robotic automation platform to dramatically speed up chemistry research.

Industry: Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed

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ColdQuanta, Inc.

ColdQuanta is a quantum atomic company developing quantum computing, sensing and signal processing hardware.

Industry: Quantum, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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Darwin Biosciences

Darwin Biosciences is developing saliva-based diagnostics for the early detection of infectious diseases that will change the way the world identifies and manages outbreaks. 

Industry: Diagnostics
Funding Stage: Seed Round, Series A Round

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Double Helix Optics

Double Helix Optics designs and manufactures sensors and imaging instruments for precision 3D imaging for use in scientific R&D, drug development, industrial inspection and machine vision utilizing our patented phase mask technology and optimization imaging algorithms.

Industry: Optics, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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ExoPower

ExoPower uses novel wireless power transfer technologies to keep electric vehicles in the materials handling industry charged. They focus on vehicles in warehouses, airports and seaports to eliminate excessive downtime currenly experienced while batteries are recharged or swapped.

Industry: Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Pre-Seed

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Forge Nano

Forge Nano provides Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) coating services and equipment.

Industry: Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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HiveTech Solutions, LLC

HiveTech's modular, climate-controlled apiary system dramatically improves honeybee survival rates.

Industry: Sustainability, AI & Big Data
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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HYPRSKN, Inc.

HYPRSKN develops microscopic skin implants with adaptive, color-changing in-skin pigments for UV protection and tattoos.
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Industry: 
Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Inscripta

Inscripta is a digital genome engineering company providing tools based on CRISPR gene editing technology.

Industry: Genomics, Hardware and Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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LongPath Technologies, Inc.

LongPath Technologies continuously monitors methane for oil & gas infrastructure.

Industry: Optics, Sustainability
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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LumenAstra

LumenAstra™ is commercializing a patent for a non-invasive, wearable core body temperature sensor.

Industry: Medical Devices
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Mallinda, Inc.

Mallinda is an industry-leading developer of malleable thermoset and composite technologies that enable materials’ moldability, rehealability and recyclability.

Industry: Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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Meati Foods

Meati Foods is focused on using proprietary, clean technologies to provide nutritious, fungi-based protein that everyone can enjoy and feel good about eating every day. 

Industry: Sustainability
Funding Stage: Series B and beyond

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MedShape

MedShape developed innovative, commercial-stage medical devices for fracture fixation, joint fusion and soft tissue injury repair. They were acquired by Enovis in 2021.

Industry: Medical Devices
Funding Stage: Exit

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Minus Materials

Minus Materials uses microalgae to produce CO2-storing biominerals for the cement and concrete industry.

Industry: Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Mosaic

Mosaic Biosciences

Mosaic is a biopharmaceutical company that provides experienced biopharma leadership and cross-functional teams that can participate at almost any stage of protein therapeutic research and development.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series B Round or Beyond

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Mycobacteria Therapeutics Corporation

Mycobacteria Therapeutics is innovating development of novel strains of mycobacteria as nutritional supplements and pharmaceuticals.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Myogen

Myogen developed a series of FDA approved medicines treating cardiovascular disease. The company was acquired by Gilead for $2.6 billion.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Exit

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Nanoly Bioscience, Inc.

Nanoly Bioscience has developed a low cost polymer that stabilizes temperature-sensitive molecules so they don't need refrigeration and can concentrate molecules so that more can be injected at once without loss of activity.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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New Iridium, Inc.

New Iridum's patent-pending next-gen photocatalysis platform provides unprecedented efficiencies in pharma and chemical manufacturing.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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Nucleic Designs

Nucleic Designs are commercializing a proprietary method of gene assembly that uses uniquely modified DNA oligonucleotides.

Industry: Genomics
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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OnKure, Inc.

OnKure discovers and developes next generation Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors for the treatment of various cancers and neuropathies.

Industry: Therapeutics
​Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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OPX Biotechnologies

OPX Bio processed biofuels and green chemistry products from renewable feedstocks.They were acquired by Cargill in 2015. 

Industry: Chemicals
Funding Stage: Exit

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Orbital Micro Systems

Orbital Micro Systems is empowering humanity by managing environmental risk with real-time global weather intelligence.

Industry: Aerospace, AI & Big Data
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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OTORO Energy Inc.

OTORO Energy provides a proprietary flow battery technology for grid-scale stationary energy storage.

Industry: Hardware & Instrumentation, Sustainability
​Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Point Designs

Point Designs develops innovative and robust prosthetic devices for people with partial hand amputation.

Industry: Medical Devices
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Polaris Electro-Optics

Polaris Electro-Optics provides ferroelectric menatic liquid crystals and device reference desgins for CMOs foundries for enhanced electro-optic modulators.

Industry: Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Recreo Pharmaceuticals

Recreo Pharmaceuticals is developing next-gen antibiotics to overcome resistance.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round, Seed Round

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Resilient Analytics

Resilient Analytics helps organizations and communities protect against the impacts of climate change with their proven climate, engineering and economic models.

Industry: Software
Funding Stage: Exit

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Respirogen, Inc.

Respirogen™ Micro-Oxygen (RMO) technology provides systemic oxygen delivery to the body without using the lungs, treating systemic hypoxia in lung injury COVID and ARDS patients by creating novel breakthrough therapy.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Rigid Biotech

RIGID Enzyme Immobilization reduces the time to integrate engineered enzymes within pharmaceutical manufacturing processes, reducing cost and environmental impact while increasing the search space for candidate compounds.

Industry: Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Robotic Materials, Inc.

Robotic Materials increases manufacturing efficiency and throughput using robotics and AI.

Industry: AI & Big Data
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Sachi Bioworks, Inc.

Sachi Bioworks is a high-precision, accelerated, cloning-free gene targeting and SARS-CoV2 therapeutics.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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SilLion

SiILion, Inc.

SilLion, Inc. developed high energy, non-flammable Li-ion systems for solid state batteries. They were acquired by Tesla in 2021.

Industry: Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Exit

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Sionic Energy

Sionic Energy unlocks the performance of low cost silicon for the next generation Li-ion batteries.

Industry: Advanced Materials, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Sirna

Sirna pioneered platform RNA interference technology and was acquired by Merck for $1.1 billion.

Industry: Therapeutics, Genomics
Funding Stage: Exit

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socialcontext.ai

socialcontext.ai provides an AI-powered brand safety floor that protects and enables the monetization of diversity, equality and inclusion news and social media content.

Industry: AI & Big Data
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Solid Power

Solid Power is an industry-leading producer of all-solid-state rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles and mobile power markets. Solid Power went public in 2021 via Special Purpose Acquisition Company.

Industry: Sustainability
Funding Stage: Exit

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SomaLogic

SomaLogic seeks to improve the well-being and quality of life of every individual by transforming how diseases were detected and diagnosed. Somalogic went public in 2021 via Special Purpose Acquisition Company.

Industry: Genomics, Diagnostics
Funding Stage: Exit

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Soya Biosystems, Inc.

Soya Biosystems is developing novel methods for the production of cannabinoids and other small molecules.

Industry: Therapeutics, Chemicals
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Stateless

Stateless' software platform enables enterprises and service providers (cloud MSP, colocation and network providers) to easily define and build a portfolio of elegant multi-hybrid cloud connectivity solutions.

Industry: Information Technology, Security
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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Suvica

Suvica, Inc.

Suvica is focused on the discovery and development of small molecule cancer therapeutics targeting a unique mechanism of action. 

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series A Round, Seed Round

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Think Bioscience

Think Bioscience programs microbial systems to discover, build, and evolve small-molecule drugs.

Industry: Therapeutics, Genomics
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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TissueForm

TissueForm is developing and producing tissue-based, bio-inspired and regenerative biomaterials for regenerative medicine and 3D-bioprinting applications.

Industry: Medical Devices, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Seed Round
 
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Tusaar Corp.

Tusaar Corp. transformed generic coconut carbon from a basic water treatment media to one for criticial appliications like removing lead, mercury, uranium and other toxic metals from water and the environment.

Industry: Advanced Materials, Sustainability
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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Tynt Technology

Tynt Technology make inexpensive windows with adjustable tinting that prevent glare while maintaining views and save energy.

Industry: Sustainability, Advanced Materials
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Vesicle Therapeutics, Inc

Vesicle Therapeutics is developing programmable extracellular vesicles to deliver macromolecule drugs to the intracellular space.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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VitriVax, Inc.

VitriVax, Inc. is a biotechnology company working to eliminate barriers to global vaccination, and has developed a novel stabilization and delivery platform for vaccines and therapeutics, ALTA™.

Industry: Vaccines
Funding Stage: Series A Round

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Vitro3D

Vitro3D is bringing dental aligner manufacturing to the patient point of care using a brand new volumetric 3D printing method.

Industry: Advanced Materials, Hardware & Instrumentation
Funding Stage: Seed Round

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Xalud Therapeutics

Xalud Therapeutics is developing a non-viral gene therapy targeting immune modulation, harnessing the power of interleukin-10.

Industry: Therapeutics
Funding Stage: Series B Round or beyond

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