National 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)Stephen Boppart(CMO)Cary Vance(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardPatrick Zeller(Director)Dale Grogan(Director)inDr. Zishan Haroon(Director)
Co-investorsFirst Leaf CapitalHealthtech CapitalIllinois VenturesMichigan Capital NetworkMichigan RiseOSF Ventures+2 more
Physics Front builds web-based learning analytics tools that generate real-time and cumulative learning reports for digital environments such as educational "serious games." Its analytics, informed by physics principles, are aimed at teachers, parents, self-learners, and game designers to measure and improve learning.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechGaming
Berkeley, US
Raymond Weitekamp(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardBrandon Simmons(Director)Rakesh Jain(Director)
Co-investorsBaruch Future VenturesFREEFLOWISVPangaea Ventures Us Inc.10x FoundersCongruent Ventures+2 more
La Jolla, US
James DiSanto(Executive Officer, Director)Olivier Coenen(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBantam GroupTexas HALO Fund
Vista, US
Dennis Duncan Earl(Executive Officer, Director)Stanley Ellis(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
Brooklyn, US
Marshall Cox(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
BoardDavid Yeskel(Director)Shaun Abrahamson(Director)Ioannis Kymissis(Director)
Co-investorsDorm Room
BiotechChapel Hill, US
Richard Superfine(Director)Richard C. Spero(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardKenneth P West(Director)
Co-investorsIDEA NC
Redshred is a document AI platform that converts technical documents such as service manuals, maintenance orders, and parts catalogs into structured, queryable databases with extracted content and metadata.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechEnterprise Software
ICE Climate provides climate risk data and analytics—including Climate Value-at-Risk, physical and transition risk metrics, emissions data, and stress testing—for public and private companies, sovereigns, municipalities, and real estate portfolios.
Climate TechData & InfrastructureFintech
Chicago, US
Prashant G. Mehta(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)Adam K. Tilton(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
SAFI-Tech offers a patented low-temperature soldering platform that lets SAC305 and other standard high-temperature alloys be processed at dramatically lower temperatures for electronics manufacturing.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
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)Colin Farlow(Co-founder)
Co-investors+ND Capital
SkyCool develops radiative cooling products, including roof coatings and panels, that passively send waste heat to space without compressors, fans, or refrigerants, reducing HVAC and refrigeration energy use.
CleantechEnergyNew Materials
Aaswath Raman
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-investorsFifth Wall
Somerville, US
Roger Diebold(Executive Officer, Director)Samuel Shian(Director)
BoardJohn Ho(Director)inDavid Seldin(Director)
Co-investorsAnzu Partners
Albion, US
Steve Heckeroth(Executive Officer, Director)Nishi Deokule(Executive Officer, Director)Cristiane Heckeroth(Executive Officer)Heather Paulsen(Director)Willard MacDonald(Director)Keith Byers(Director)
Designs and manufactures interlocking masonry concrete block systems, including roofing systems that create a full masonry building envelope for fire, hurricane, and tornado resistance.
Construction TechHardwareNew MaterialsAlfred Station, US
Peter Roberts(Executive Officer, Director, Promoter)
SRT Labs offers monitoring, analytics, and automation software built on its M1 Platform, which unifies hardware and software data across manufacturers to track equipment and environmental conditions and trigger automated responses.
Enterprise SoftwareIoTSaaS
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)
BoardBEPPO HILFIKER(Director)NOAH PENE(Director)
Co-investorsMatchstick VenturesTechstarsZMT Capital
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
HealthtechSan Leandro, US
Zachary Sun(Executive Officer, Director)Michael Nemzek(Executive Officer, Director)Corinna Chen(Director)
BoardFrancisco Dopazo(Director)in
Co-investorsHumboldt
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)
TERA-print develops nanofabrication instruments based on beam pen lithography (BPL), including its TERA-Fab E series tool that patterns features from 250 nm to over 100 µm using tens of thousands of independently controlled probes.
Deep TechHardwareNew Materials
Montalvo manufactures web tension control products, including load cells and pneumatic brakes, for manufacturing operations across industries such as batteries, composites, converting, printing, nonwovens, and wire and cable.
Advanced ManufacturingHardwareNew Materials
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 & CEO)inEtosha Cave(Founder)inKendra Kuhl(Founder)inAndrew Cleeland(Executive Officer, Director)Hanson Gifford(Executive Officer, Director)Henry A. Plain(Director)
Co-investorsBreakout VenturesDCVC (Data Collective)Dolby Family VenturesFifth WallAdvantage Partners Inc.Aera VC+16 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)
Co-investorsClimate Impact CapitalDellin InvestmentsEPIC VENTURESKeiretsu ForumPhoenix Venture PartnersScout Ventures+4 more
Monmouth Junction, US
Mari-Anne Gagliardi(Executive Officer)Betsy Cotton(Executive Officer)Anup 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 discovers enzymes from microorganisms in extreme environments and engineers them into reagents for molecular biology applications such as next-generation sequencing, PCR, and isothermal amplification.
BiotechDeep TechMedical Devices
HealthtechWest Lafayette, US
Pu Wang(Executive Officer, Promoter)Ji-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)
Co-investorsCapital InnovatorsDorm RoomPrefix CapitalR/GA VenturesSamsung NextSocial Starts+1 more
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)
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)Robin McIntosh(Executive Officer, Director)
BoardTodd Kimmel(Director)
Co-investorsCVS Health VenturesID VenturesWakestream VenturesGingerbread CapitalImpact EngineMontage Ventures+1 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)Johannes Weggemann(Director)Mark Kline(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAurum Venture PartnersDellin InvestmentsVU Venture PartnersZen11 Holding
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
Merion B Reynolds(Director)John Busbee(Executive Officer, Director)Christopher Kolb(Executive Officer, Director)Paul Braun(Director)
XPEED Turbine Technology (XTT) develops patented aerodynamic flow deflectors (AFD) that retrofit existing wind turbine blades and integrate into new blade designs to increase annual energy production by 2-4% and reduce the cost of energy.
CleantechEnergyHardware
Yobe provides a bioacoustic intelligence layer for enterprise voice AI, extracting who is speaking, how they are speaking, and where they are speaking in noisy real-world acoustic environments.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software
Co-investorsMaC Venture CapitalCommonwealth Venture Management Corp.
Zettar builds the zx Appliance, a turnkey data-movement appliance that transfers petabyte-scale datasets at line rate across networks, running on enterprise hardware such as HPE ProLiant servers and NVIDIA BlueField DPUs.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeep Tech
AI chip, IoT and semiconductor
Palo Alto, US
Jawad Nasrullah(President, CFO, CTO)Ming Zhang(CEO)
BoardYang Meng(Director)
Co-investorsSkywood Capital
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