Utah Innovation Fund — Full Portfolio

Authentiface provides facial authentication technology that replaces passwords, keycards, and credentials with a "Facial Motion Password" combining facial recognition and movement for liveness detection.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityHardware

BIOS develops a Universal Neural Interface, a brain-computer interface that connects directly to the peripheral nervous system to enable communication between the brain and robotic limbs or digital devices.

Deep TechMedical DevicesRobotics

Bloom Surgical develops an origami-inspired, single-use laparoscope cleaning attachment that cleans the scope lens inside the abdomen without removing it, using a wiper and irrigation to remove fog, blood, and cautery debris.

HardwareHealthtechMedical Devices

A workflow automation platform that enables teams to build specialized agents and automations using coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Rebel Medicine develops non-opioid therapies for acute pain, including a long-acting local anesthetic for postoperative pain management.

BiotechHealthtech

Corventum is a biopharmaceutical company developing therapies that protect the heart from the toxic effects of cancer treatment, allowing patients to continue first-line oncology therapy.

BiotechMedical Devices

Eden Tech develops a patented Reverse Osmosis Centrifuge (ROC), a modular desalination system that produces higher freshwater recovery from high-salinity and complex brines with reduced waste.

CleantechDeep TechHardware

Inherent Biosciences uses AI to analyze epigenetic patterns in sperm to diagnose and predict fertility outcomes such as male infertility, sperm age, embryo quality, and azoospermia.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthSalt Lake City, US

Andrew Olson(Executive Officer)

Intactis Bio develops a rack-mountable AI accelerator, the Biohybrid Processing Unit (BPU), that combines silicon processors with lab-grown living neurons and a brain-machine interface to run energy-efficient AI/ML data processing.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech

Lucidity Sciences develops Lumawarp, a machine learning platform built on GPU-parallelizable geometric manifold regularization to train compact, low-latency models at lower cost.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechEnterprise Software

MVT develops patented microbubble and nanobubble formulations used as ultrasound contrast agents and for ultrasound-mediated therapies, with a lead product (MVT-100) for echocardiography that has completed Phase II trials.

BiotechHealthtechMedical Devices

Paterna Biosciences develops in vitro spermatogenesis (IVS) technology that drives adult testicular stem cells to develop into optimized sperm, aiming to treat male infertility and improve IVF success rates.

BiotechDigital HealthFemTech

HealthtechSouth Jordan, US

DUSTIN WILLIAMS(CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER)MICHAEL BENJAMIN(CHAIRMAN AND CEO)

BoardSTEPHANIE MORLEY(Director)

Stratus is an AI-powered platform that automates dental insurance verification by contacting insurers, generating benefit breakdowns, and writing the results back into a practice management system.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechSaaS

Tellus Sensors builds air quality monitoring hardware, including customizable and single-pollutant PM2.5 monitors, along with the CoreDI data modeling platform and AirView dashboards, APIs, and alerts.

Climate TechHardwareIoT