Fundraising FoxNational Science Foundation — 2016 Investments
292 investments dated 2016 · page 2 of 2 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all
PhotoniCare develops OtoSight, an FDA-cleared optical coherence tomography device for non-invasive assessment and monitoring of middle ear infections in healthcare facilities.
Deep TechDigital HealthHealthtechMedical DevicesDurham, US
Ryan Shelton(CEO)inStephen Boppart(CMO)Cary Vance(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardPatrick Zeller(Director)Dale Grogan(Director)inDr. Zishan Haroon(Director)
Co-investorsFirst Leaf CapitalHealthtech CapitalIllinois VenturesMichigan Capital NetworkMichigan RiseOSF Ventures+2 more
PlayPosit, now part of WeVideo, provides interactive video learning tools.
EdTechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Berkeley, US
Raymond Weitekamp(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardBrandon Simmons(Director)Rakesh Jain(Director)
Co-investorsBaruch Future VenturesCongruent VenturesFREEFLOWHarmonix FundISVPangaea Ventures Us Inc.+4 more
Co-investorsOssian Capital
La Jolla, US
James DiSanto(Executive Officer, Director)Olivier Coenen(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBantam GroupTexas HALO Fund
Brooklyn, US
Marshall Cox(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
BoardDavid Yeskel(Director)Shaun Abrahamson(Director)inIoannis Kymissis(Director)
Co-investorsDorm RoomThird Sphere
ReadAskChat develops literature-based language arts software for children's literacy education.
ConsumerEdTech
Alice Letvin, PhDCarolyn Saper, MSTMatthew Rubin, MBA
BiotechChapel Hill, US
Richard Superfine(Director)inRichard C. Spero(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardKenneth P West(Director)
Co-investorsNC IDEAVentureSouth
Redshred's COACH platform converts technical procedures, manuals, and training videos into intelligent, AI-guided workflows that technicians can execute with real-time assistance.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Chicago, US
Prashant G. Mehta(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)inAdam K. Tilton(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)in
Co-investorsFox VenturesHyde Park Venture PartnersIllinois VenturesSerra Ventures
RUTE manufactures precast, post-tensioned wind turbine foundations under the brand name BXG Box Girder, engineered to reduce concrete volume, installation time, and lifecycle carbon emissions.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechClimate TechEnergyHardwareImpact & Social GoodGranite Falls, US
SAFI-Tech develops supercooled solder pastes for electronics manufacturing and assembly.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
Dr. Ian Tevis(Co-Founder, President, CTO)Dr. Martin Thuo(Co-Founder, CSO)
Co-investorsRhapsody Venture Partners
Serotiny designs cell therapies using custom software and lab techniques that allow it to design and test up to 10,000 therapeutic genes at once, aiming to speed up the discovery of treatments for cancers such as multiple myeloma, prostate cancer and lung cancer.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechHealthtechSan Francisco, US
Justin Farlow(Co-founder)inColin Farlow(Co-founder)Eric Moessinger(Director)in
Co-investors+ND Capital8VC
SkyCool develops radiative cooling products using passive materials science that dissipate heat to outer space without electricity, helping buildings and facilities reduce cooling energy demand while removing heat from the planet rather than transferring it to the ambient air.
CleantechClimate TechEnergyNew MaterialsStanford, US
Aaswath Raman
Co-investorsStartX
Silas is an education platform offering interactive learning tools, customizable curricula, and animation/movie-making features to build social-emotional skills, executive functioning, and vocational readiness.
EdTechHealthtechSaaS
Smart Walls develops permanently installed, deployable flood-protection walls that use telescopic "boxes inside boxes" technology and advanced thin materials to form temporary structural barriers only when flooding occurs.
CleantechConstruction TechHardwareAmherst, US
Sunnyvale, US
John Bannon(Director)Gordon Hunter(Director)Shvetank Jain(Director)Ryan Morris(Executive Officer, Director)Mark Johnston(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBMW i VenturesFifth WallJLL Spark
Somerville, US
Roger Diebold(Executive Officer, Director)Samuel Shian(Director)
BoardJohn Ho(Director)inDavid Seldin(Director)
Co-investorsAnzu Partners
SolePower embeds low-power sensors such as GPS, RFID, and IMUs into OSHA-approved work boots to monitor real-time location, status, and environmental conditions, sending the data to a cloud dashboard for situational awareness.
Defense TechHardwareIoT
Solution Spray Technologies develops thermal spray coating technologies, specifically solution plasma spray processes for high-temperature materials applications in industrial sectors such as gas turbines.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechEnergyNew MaterialsStorrs, US
Eric Jordan(COO)
Spherical Block develops advanced masonry and ceramic building blocks that are fire-resistant, weather-resistant, cost-effective, and offer design flexibility.
Construction TechHardwareNew MaterialsAlfred Station, US
Peter Roberts(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Brian Kern(Business Development)Robert Ferry(Architect)
SRT Labs integrates robotics and smart technologies to create software solutions that connect disparate systems across warehouses, classrooms, and other environments.
Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareIoTRoboticsSaaSWashington, D.C., US
Gregory Scott(Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsDragonX
Enterprise SoftwareGovTechSaaSSeattle, US
Co-investorsGeekdomTappan Hill VenturesTechstarsTFX Capital
Stryd makes a wearable power meter and adaptive training software for runners.
AI & Machine LearningE-commerceHardwareSports TechBoulder, US
LI SHANG(Founder)Robert Dick(Founder)Kun Li(Founder)inGus Pernetz(Founder)inJamie Williamson(Founder)inWyatt Mohrman(Founder)in
Co-investorsMatchstick VenturesTechstarsZMT Capital
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Summit Tech Lab is a deeptech company specializing in projection-based display systems and computer vision algorithms, founded by a UCI professor with extensive research in projection technology.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareSaaSIrvine, US
Dr. Aditi Majumder(Founder and CEO)Prof. Gopi Meenakshisundaram(Co-founder and Chief Technical Advisor)
Surftec Engineering develops and manufactures specialized surface coatings including low-friction, anti-corrosion, anti-icing, anti-fouling, and mold release formulations.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechNew Materials
Co-investorsThe Innovation Space
Boulder, US
Evan Thomas(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Dexter Gauntlett(Executive Officer)
BoardRonald Garan(Director)Kenneth Pope(Director)
Co-investorsSuperorganism
Revr (SynVitro Bio) designs functional proteins by combining AI models with large-scale biophysical data generated from an automated wet lab platform, using a closed-loop process to speed up protein refinement.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep TechHealthtechSan Leandro, US
Zachary Sun(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Nemzek(Executive Officer, Director)Corinna Chen(CEO)
BoardFrancisco Dopazo(Director)in
Co-investorsHumboldt
T3S Technologies provides recombinant protein expression services, using genetics, biochemistry, and proprietary technologies to enable and optimize production of difficult-to-express proteins in bacteria.
Biotech
Daniel Wee(Founder & CEO)Kelly T. Hughes(Cofounder & CSO)Fabienne Chevance(Cofounder & Lead Scientist)Will Cheng(Chief Operating Officer)
Shasqi is a biotech company developing pre-targeted cancer therapeutics using click chemistry to direct cancer drugs to tumors, aiming to improve efficacy while reducing dose-limiting toxicities.
BiotechHealthtechSan Francisco, US
José M. Mejía Oneto(CEO & Founder)
TEGA Therapeutics develops glycoscience-based therapies for life-threatening diseases, focusing on complex carbohydrates (glycans) as pharmaceutical targets.
Biotech
Temblor is a catastrophe modeling company specializing in seismic hazard and risk assessment for insurance, reinsurance, and mortgage lending markets.
Climate TechDeep TechInsurTechMedia & Entertainment
Ross S. Stein(Cofounder and CEO)Volkan Sevilgen(Cofounder and CTO)
TERA-print develops desktop nanofabrication tools that enable researchers and organizations to create nanostructures and bioprinted systems for applications in bioengineering, sensing, microelectronics, and microrobotics.
BiotechDeep TechHardwareNew Materials
Chad Mirkin(Founder)Andrey Ivankin(Co-Founder)
Montalvo manufactures web tension control equipment including brakes, clutches, load cells, and tension controllers for industrial manufacturing operations.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew MaterialsGorham, US
Edwin J. Montalvo Sr.Ed MontalvoMidge Montalvo
A companion website for the children's science book "The Stardust Mystery" that lets readers interactively ask questions of the story's characters and featured scientists such as Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, and Georges Lemaître.
EdTechMedia & Entertainment
Twelve transforms CO2 into chemicals, fuels, and materials through carbon transformation technology.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechClimate TechHealthtechNew MaterialsMoses Lake, US
Nicholas Flanders(Founder)inEtosha Cave(Founder)inKendra Kuhl(Founder)inAndrew Cleeland(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardMarc-Henri Galletti(Director)Nimesh Shah(Director)
Co-investorsBreakout VenturesDCVC (Data Collective)Dolby Family VenturesFifth WallAdvantage Partners Inc.Aera VC+37 more
UbiQD develops and manufactures quantum dot materials and products for controlled-environment agriculture, clean energy, and security applications.
AgTechDeep TechNew MaterialsLos Alamos, US
Hunter McDaniel(Founder and CEO)inMatthew Bergren(Executive Officer, Director)inTony Beams(Executive Officer)Mike Burrows(Executive Officer)
BoardBradley Harrison(Director)inColin Cumming(Director)
Co-investorsClimate Impact CapitalDellin InvestmentsE8 AngelsEPIC VENTURESKeiretsu ForumPhoenix Venture Partners+6 more
onsemi supplies semiconductor components and solutions for automotive, industrial, and other applications, offering design tools, technical documentation, and sales support to help customers integrate their products.
HardwareIoTSemiconductorsMonmouth Junction, US
Mari-Anne Gagliardi(Executive Officer)Betsy Cotton(Executive Officer)inAnup Bhalla(Executive Officer)J. Christopher Dries(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardGreg Olsen(Director)Derek Lidow(Director)
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EdTechPhiladelphia, US
Co-investorsBeyond CapitalCRV (Charles River Ventures)Planet N Group of Companies
Varizymes Diagnostics develops multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification (mLAMP) diagnostic kits for point-of-care pathogen detection in human, animal, and aquaculture health applications.
AgTechBiotechDeep TechHealthtechMedical Devices
David Mead(Chief Executive Officer)
Vibronix develops medical diagnostic and treatment technology that combines vibrational spectroscopic imaging, optical and acoustic sensing, and machine learning for precision healthcare applications.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesWest Lafayette, US
Pu Wang(Executive Officer, Promoter)inJi-Xin Cheng(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Co-investorsElevate Ventures
CesiumAstro develops AI-enhanced, software-defined communications systems for space, air, and ground domain applications.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechDefense TechSpace TechNew York City, US
Daniel Morozoff(Executive Officer, Director)Joseph Ellis(Executive Officer, Director)in
Co-investorsCapital InnovatorsDorm RoomPrefix CapitalR/GA VenturesSamsung NextSocial Starts+2 more
Mattek develops human-relevant in vitro research products, including lab-grown 3D human epithelial tissue models, banks of primary human cells, and cell culture dishes and plates optimized for cell growth and imaging.
BiotechHealthtechNew Materials
Michael Johnson(Cofounder)
Co-investorsFoundation Venture Capital Group, LLC
Inglewood, US
Eric M.V. Hoek(Executive Officer, Director)Subir Bhattacharjee(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardRod Lake(Director)Eric Chenneveau(Director)
Provides growers with granular, real-time, low-cost sensing systems to improve crop quality.
Co-investorsInnolinks Ventures
San Antonio, US
Gerald J. Wilmink(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Edward Leahey(Executive Officer, Director)Brian Anderson(Executive Officer)
BoardLisa Corless(Director)
Workit Health is a 100% online addiction treatment program that prescribes FDA-approved medications like Suboxone and naltrexone for opioid, alcohol, and kratom use disorders via licensed clinicians through video consultations.
Digital HealthHealthtechAnn Arbor, US
Lisa McLaughlin(Executive Officer, Director)inRobin McIntosh(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardTodd Kimmel(Director)in
Co-investorsCVS Health VenturesID VenturesLux CapitalRRE VenturesWakestream Ventures3L Capital+6 more
X-Therma develops a proprietary peptoid-based technology that inhibits ice crystal formation to enable long-term sub-zero preservation and transport of cells, tissues, organs, and other biologics.
BiotechDeep TechMedical DevicesNew MaterialsRichmond, US
Xiaoxi Wei(Founder & CEO)inMark Kline(Executive Officer, Director)inJohannes Weggemann(Director)
Co-investorsAurum Venture PartnersDellin InvestmentsLIFTTMethuselah FoundationMethuselah FundsPortfolia+2 more
Xerion develops DirectPlate, an electroplating and electrolyte technology that combines metal refinement, battery material synthesis, and electrode deposition into a single-step process.
Advanced ManufacturingEnergyNew MaterialsLongmont, US
John Busbee(Executive Officer, Director)Paul Braun(Director)Christopher Kolb(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardMerion B Reynolds(Director)
Xpeed Turbine Technology manufactures deflectors that enhance wind turbine efficiency to reduce the levelized cost of energy for wind farms and original equipment manufacturers.
CleantechEnergyHardwareNewark, US
Arturo Villegas Vaquero(Co-Founder & CEO)Javier Diez-Garias(Co-Founder & CTO)Carl Shoemaker(Chief Operating Officer)
Yobe Inc. develops voice intelligence software that extracts and analyzes biometric and acoustic data from voice signals for speaker identification and personalization, particularly in noisy environments with background noise and overlapping speech.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSBoston, US
Hamid Nawab(Executive Officer, Director)inKen Sutton(President & CEO (Co-Founder))inS. Hamid Nawab(Chief Scientist/Technology Advisor (Co-Founder))in
BoardMarlon Nichols(Director)inDaren Gill(Director)
Co-investorsMaC Venture CapitalCommonwealth Venture Management Corp.
Zettar develops data movement hardware and software that transfers massive datasets at high speed and throughput for data-intensive scientific infrastructure and AI workloads.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep TechEnterprise Software
Dr. Chin Fang(CEO)
AI chip, IoT and semiconductor
Palo Alto, US
Jawad Nasrullah(President, CFO, CTO)Ming Zhang(CEO)
BoardYang Meng(Director)
Co-investorsSkywood CapitalAlabaster
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