Novita Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Novita Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical startup developing target-specific small molecule drugs to treat cancer metastasis. The company is currently focusing on patients with metastatic breast cancer.
GrokStyle, Inc.
GrokStyle is a Cornell startup founded on home owners’ and consumers’ interest in visualizing ideas for interior design. By using a distance metrics for visual search, GrokStyle aims to provide interior design enthusiasts with an automated tool for design suggestions and ideas. GrokStyle was acquired by Facebook, Inc. in 2019.
Bactana Animal Health
Bactana Animal Health is a global development stage animal health company. Its product development platform (FPS-4) is initially being developed for food animals and has demonstrated increases in yield efficiency, weight gain, and improved gut health through enhancement to an animal’s microbiome.
VitaMe Technologies, Inc.
VitaMe Technologies (DBA VitaScan™) has developed a smartphone based diagnostic platform enabling accurate, fast, convenient, and low cost testing of vitamins and micronutrients in the home and at local pharmacies and clinics. The company received $1.15 million of grant funding from the United States Department of Defense in 2020.
Adepa Biosciences
Adepa Biosciences (formerly Vernx Biotechnology) is developing a range of nutrition products using branched fatty acids (BCFA) for multiple uses: to improve gastrointestinal health in pre-mature and non-premature infants, as a nutritional supplement for adults, and for eventual therapeutic use.
Airy3D, Inc.
Airy3D is a consumer electronic company developing a suite of passive depth recovery technologies to bring 3D machine vision to any camera. The company raised $10 million of Series A venture funding in 2018. The funding was used to advance its licensing roadmap for the first commercial adoptions of its DepthIQTM 3D sensor platform with top-tier mobile OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). Airy3D has raised $14M in venture capital funding to date.
Computational Textiles
Computational Textiles, Inc is a small employee-owned company founded to create textile visualization and manufacturing software. The company’s first product, Weft, is a web application and manufacturing process that enables anyone to transform design ideas into intricately patterned woven cloth.
Fitzroy Salute, LLC
Fitzroy Salute, LLC offers an affordable and comprehensive environmental health and safety information management solution to streamline and improve EHS operations. The cloud-based IMS provides environmental health and safety staff with integrated modules for hazard assessment, safety and compliance, metric tracking, and more. Fitzroy Salute, LLC provides academic and healthcare institutions the tools they need to foster a true culture of safety, rather than just compliance.
Ecolectro, Inc.
Ecolectro develops structurally robust and highly conductive polymer membranes for a range of applications, including electrolysis and fuel cell systems that not only improve performance but also dramatically decrease costs.
Fesarius Therapeutics, Inc.
Fesarius Therapeutics is developing engineered tissue scaffold products for the skin and dermal layers. The products are based off the patent-pending microstructure-containing gel scaffold technology developed at Cornell. The acellular skin replacement will aim to benefit those with wounds resulting from burns, plastic surgery, tumor removal, and other forms of trauma. The company joined the National Institutes of Health as part of its I-Corps @ NIH Winter 2020 Program in February 2020.
