Deep Tech Startups

Infinite Cooling develops patented technology to capture airborne water droplets and improve the efficiency of evaporative cooling systems such as cooling towers, aiming to reduce water use and energy consumption for industrial customers like power plants. Spun out of an MIT lab in 2019, the company builds and tests its products at its manufacturing facility in Massachusetts.

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Infinitesima develops atomic precision 3D metrology technology for the semiconductor industry, including the Rapid Probe Microscope (RPM) that uses thermal-optical actuation and an interferometric measurement system to achieve picometer-precision surface measurement faster than conventional atomic force microscopes. Based near Oxford, UK, it serves semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.

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Infinity Bio provides immune system analysis through its proprietary MIPSA antibody reactome profiling platform, which identifies the targets of individual immune responses against human viruses, human proteins (autoimmunity), and allergen proteins. The technology, developed at Johns Hopkins University's Laboratory of Precision Immunology, is used for immunology and diagnostics research.

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Inhance Technologies develops specialty chemicals, gases, and material technologies for customers across agriculture, healthcare, automotive, and electronics industries. The company provides customized solutions ranging from lab-scale samples to large-volume manufacturing across four continents.

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Inherent is an AI research lab, incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation, developing general-purpose inventive AI systems and "AI Scientist" agents intended to accelerate research and power autonomous labs. It targets R&D teams across scientific domains with tools for generative design and human-machine collaboration.

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Inheritance develops deep learning systems that convert raw video into structured behavioral data for training robots and world models. The company enables robotics to scale by making video machine-readable so that robots can learn from visual data at scale, similar to how language models learn from text.

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Ink & Switch is an independent research lab exploring software architecture, local-first collaboration, and dynamic tools for creative work, with a focus on returning data ownership to users. Its research has produced actively used tools such as Patchwork, PlayBook, and Automerge, a library for building collaborative, offline-capable applications using CRDTs.

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Wellbore Tech develops imaging technology for the oil and gas sector, drawing on expertise in both energy and medical device development.

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Innosphere Ventures is a venture capital and economic development organization that operates incubators and venture capital funds focused on technology sectors including climate resilience, life sciences, and smart cities. The organization serves early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators across the Mountain Plains region.

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Innoup Farma is a pharmaceutical company developing oral immunotherapies and novel drug formulations, including mRNA-based vaccines and treatments for allergies, cancer, and rare diseases. The company is based in Spain and works on translating innovative biotech solutions into clinical applications.

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This is a venture capital firm focused on deep technology investments, not a portfolio company. Innovation Industries is a deep tech VC fund with €1 billion in assets under management that provides capital to early-stage technology companies.

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Innovation Works is a Pittsburgh-based startup investor whose portfolio page presents companies across software, robotics, healthcare, and hardware in Southwestern Pennsylvania. The page profiles portfolio companies rather than a single product.

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Innoviz builds LiDAR technology that provides real-time 3D mapping and object detection for industrial safety applications, including hazard detection in warehouses, construction sites, ports, and around heavy machinery. Its systems are used by industrial and heavy machinery operators to monitor environments, prevent collisions, and improve situational awareness.

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Inpria, a JSR company, designs and manufactures metal oxide EUV photoresists based on organometallic tin-oxide clusters for improved patterning resolution in chip production. It supplies semiconductor manufacturers that have adopted EUV lithography, producing its materials at a facility in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Inscopix develops advanced microscopy and neural circuit analysis technologies to understand brain function and disease mechanisms for neuroscience research. The company works with academic institutions, biopharmaceutical companies, and government agencies to translate research into therapies for neurological and psychiatric disorders including depression, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and PTSD.

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InSpek develops integrated photonic sensing technologies for chemical detection applications, translating chip-scale spectroscopic techniques from research into commercial deployment.

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Instapath operates an automated digital pathology lab, providing automated tissue imaging and processing for the medical diagnostics field. The company builds medical devices for pathology workflows.

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Instinct Environmental makes the ASU (Automated Surveying Unit), an automated acoustic monitoring device that listens for over 6,500 target species, identifies them on-device and reports detections over satellite within 30 minutes — replacing the manual site visits and after-the-fact audio review that wildlife surveying normally requires. The company assembles and tests its hardware in Oregon.

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IntDevice manufactures customizable modular charging systems that can be tailored to specific requirements. The company serves customers needing adaptable power delivery solutions.

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A company developing computing solutions to solve NP-complete problems, focusing on reducing computational intractability for practical applications across domains.

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International Geoscience Services provides specialized geodata collection, compilation, and interpretation services to support mineral exploration for governments, development agencies, and industry. The company assists national governments with geological mapping programs, mineral resource assessments, and capacity building in the geosciences sector.

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Intology is a research lab focused on automating the process of scientific discovery. It operates in the AI research space.

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Intrinsic Power develops AI-optimized power management hardware and software for data centers, unlocking 40% additional capacity by coordinating power flows across servers, cooling, backup systems, and renewable generation. The solution integrates AI optimization with a high-voltage power system (HV53) to enable real-time response to data center power demands without requiring infrastructure replacement.

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Inverted AI develops cloud APIs for autonomous vehicle and ADAS development, offering simulation tools that generate realistic, reactive scenarios for testing and validation.

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