Adepa Biosciences
Category: Therapeutics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
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.
Location: New South Wales, Australia
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2016
Airy3D, Inc.
Category: Virtual Reality
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
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.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2017
Androvia LifeSciences LLC
Category: Diagnostics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Androvia LifeSciences is a NY-based, privately held company focused on developing new diagnostics that provide a higher level of patient management of male fertility for use by clinicians to counsel couples. The company’s objective is to understand male fertility at its most fundamental level – how it occurs, how it’s measured, and how it can be applied to improve outcomes.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2015
Ava Labs Inc.
Category: FinTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Ava Labs makes it simple to launch finance applications using blockchain technology.
Location: New York, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2020
Bactana Animal Health
Category: Veterinary
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
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.
Location: Lewes, DE
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2016
bloXroute Labs, Inc.
Category: FinTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
bloXroute is a blockchain scalability solution that allows all cryptocurrencies and blockchains to scale to thousands of transactions per second (TPS) on-chain, without any protocol changes. bloXroute solves the scalability bottleneck by addressing the substantial time required for all nodes to synchronize when handling large volumes of TPS. Most importantly, bloXroute does this in a provably neutral way.
Location: Evanston, IL
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2019
Bodi Energy (formerly known as Axium Nano, LLC)
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Bodi Energy is focused on the next generation of lithium-ion batteries. By incorporating a novel electrospray process to create a scalable film and adding a 2-D sheet of conductive graphene, Bodi Energy is advancing the use of silicon-based materials for efficient energy storage in batteries.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2010
Carbon to Stone, Inc
Category: Cleantech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Carbon mineralization is a natural process. Carbon to Stone perfected a reactive crystallization process that matches the scale and speed of climate crisis demands.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2023
Computational Textiles
Category: Manufacturing
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
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.
Location: Providence, RI
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2017
Conamix, Inc.
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
Conamix is commercializing high performance battery materials based on proprietary Cornell technology. The company’s unique battery materials allow higher energy density in existing lithium ion architectures and are manufactured using low cost and highly commercial methods.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2015
CycloPure, Inc.
Category: Cleantech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
CycloPure is engaged in the design, development, and commercialization of a new class of highly adsorbent materials for use in the separation and removal of pollutants, VOCs, and other organic compounds from water and air. The technology was partly developed by the Helbling Research Group at The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. CycloPure has raised $8.81M in funding to date.
Location: Encinitas, CA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2016
DASH Materials, Inc.
Category: Biotech Research & Production Tools
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
DASH Materials, Inc. develops point-of-care DNA/RNA detection kits for infectious diseases, from healthcare to agriculture. The platform aims to realize the sensitivity and specificity of nucleic acid testing like PCR with the ease, speed, and portability of qualitative antigen tests.
Location: Japan
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2023
Dryfiber, LLC
Category: Manufacturing
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
DRYFIBER is commercializing Cornell’s fluorine-free, durable water and oil repellent (DWOR). Once applied in a standard manufacturing method, a thin polymeric coating forms on the substrate and imparts a microscopically rough texture that can repel water and motor oils.
Location: Beverly Hills, CA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
Ecolectro, Inc.
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
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.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2015
Elucida Oncology, Inc.
Category: Diagnostics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Elucida Oncology, Inc. is developing technology for the treatment and diagnostic imaging of oncological diseases.
Location: New York, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2015
Embark Veterinary, Inc.
Category: Veterinary
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
Embark is a veterinary science-focused company specializing in canine genetics. Through the use of cutting-edge genetic testing and analysis, Embark offers 21st century pet wellness advice coupled with comprehensive ancestry, morphological trait, and genetic disease information for dog owners.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2015
Esper BioSciences, Inc.
Category: Diagnostics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
Esper Biosciences aims to develop a low-cost, high-speed DNA sequencer, for use in point-of-care medical diagnostics and scientific research.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2017
Exostellar, Inc.
Category: Software
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Exostellar, Inc. (formerly Exotanium) is a cloud resource optimization and management platform that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to help enterprises reduce spending in the cloud by up to 90% while enhancing both operational security and performance.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2019
EzraBio, Inc.
Category: Biotech Research & Production Tools
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
EzraBio is a company providing researchers with the ability to perform ribosome profiling from a wide range of biological samples with ease. By looking into global translation with superior resolution, it is now possible to uncover hidden coding potential, dissect translational response, identify tumor-associated antigens, and guide mRNA therapeutics.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2022
Farther Farms, Inc.
Category: FoodTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Farther Farms is a food processing technology company that has developed a new method to preserve fresh-cut fruits and vegetables for months at room temperature, without preservatives or chemicals.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
Fera Diagnostics and Biologicals Corp.
Category: Veterinary
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
FERA Diagnostics and Biologicals combines innovation and science to bring practical products to the animal health field that will enhance the health, productivity and welfare of pets and production animals.
Location:
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2016
FloraPulse, Co.
Category: AgTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
FloraPulse has developed real-time sensors to measure how thirsty a plant is. By knowing how much to irrigate, growers can increase crop yield and product quality, while reducing water use. The company received $224,766 of grant funding from the National Science Foundation in 2018.
Location: Davis, CA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
Forte Protein Inc.
Category: FoodTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
Forte Protein uses a plant-based technology to produce a broad spectrum of meat, fish, and dairy proteins without the need for animals eliminating the carbon footprint involved in animal agriculture.
Location: Trumansburg, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2022
Geegah, LLC
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Geegah is developing advanced sensors to offer the most secure and convenient biometric sensors. Based on gigahertz ultrasonics Geegah’s technology employs single-chip biometric solutions with an emphasis on fingerprint sensing.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
Graphenode, Inc.
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Leveraging the latest in nanotechnology, Graphenode’s patent-pending SiGraph™ anode additive encases silicon in a graphene nanoweb to harness silicon’s superior energy density.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: Ithaca, NY
Halomine Inc. DBA AvantGuard
Category: Chemicals
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Halomine Inc. DBA AvantGuard is creating innovative solutions that manage surfaces and provide long-term protection against viruses, bacteria, and fungi/mold in a variety of applications. The company’s proprietary combinations of specialty molecules and polymers are customized to provide prolonged antimicrobial efficacy to a wide range of surfaces and materials.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2019
INLAN, Inc.
Category: Software
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
INLAN is leveraging the most recent advancements in RFID technology to provide item-level monitoring and tracking solutions for manufacturing, supply chain, and retail. INLAN is committed to bringing RFID tags as an affordable, scalable, and extremely precise solution for indoor tracking and automatic navigation systems.
Location: Montreal, Canada
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2023
Inso Biosciences
Category: Biotech Research & Production Tools
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
Inso Biosciences is developing a cell sample preparation platform designed to perform cellular sample processing. The company’s platform separates and isolates cellular components, enabling users to perform long-read DNA sequencing and multi-omic analysis.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2020
Intermix Performance Materials, Inc.
Category: Manufacturing
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Intermix Performance Materials’ multi-block compatibilizer additive technology increases the efficient and cost-effective recycling of post-consumer mixed plastic waste and produces higher quality resultant resins.
Location: SE Washington, DC
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2021
KanduPay, Inc.
Category: FinTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
KanduPay, Inc. is a dynamic cryptocurrency exchange, e-Wallet, and remittance solution that facilitates and eases the exchange of fiat & digital currencies, financial transactions, and wallet services across market channels for its platform users supporting major currencies across the globe (KanduPay.com).
Location: Beverly Hills, California
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2022
Kanvas Bioscience, Inc.
Category: Diagnostics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
Kanvas Biosciences, Inc. has developed an approach to identify dense microbial organisms at a single-microbe resolution through spatially resolved metagenomics and a combination of multi-spectral imaging and innovative software. This technology circumvents metagenomic sequencing and can be applied as a diagnostic to identify microbial communities or study tumor-microbiome relationships.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2021
Lo Bio Life Sciences LLC
Category: Diagnostics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Lo Bio has developed a rapid and low-cost approach to separate red blood cells from plasma using magnetic beads and a portable separator. This approach yields highly pure plasma from small volumes, takes less than two minutes, and can be applied for diagnostic tests for COVID-19, HIV 1 / 2, and HCV.
Location: Rockville, Maryland
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2021
MiTeGen, LLC
Category: Biotech Research & Production Tools
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
MiTeGen, LLC, designs and manufactures products for X-ray diffraction and crystallography of proteins and small molecule/inorganic compounds, and for manipulation and measurement of small samples in cell biology, histology, clinical diagnostics, entomology, archaeology, and geology.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2004
NFHS Inc.
Category: Personal Products / Cosmetics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Currently operating in stealth mode.
Location: Delray Beach, FL
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2020
NYAG, LLC (Crunch Time Apple Growers)
Category: Horticulture
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
NYAG (New York Apple Growers), LLC, was formed around an exclusive license agreement for two new apple varieties, ‘New York 1’ and ‘New York 2’. This member owned company is open to all New York growers to help promote agricultural market growth within New York state.
Location: Albion, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2010
Organic Robotics Corporation
Category: Robotics and Drones
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Organic Robotics Corporation is building smart fabrics to deliver accurate motion capture and fast pressure sensing. The company has worked with accelerators/incubators Luminate NY Accelerator, RevIthaca StartupWorks, and Capital Factory.
Location: Rochester, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2019
Orthogonal, Inc.
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Orthogonal, Inc., is developing environmentally safe, high-performance fluorinated photoresists to make “organic,” or carbon-based electronics on the same machinery manufacturers use to make silicon-based electronics.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2009
OWiC Technologies, Inc.
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
OWiC Technologies is the developer of microscopic optical smart ID tags. Technology. The company was named the winner of the annual BenDaniel Venture Challenge in April 2020. OWiC Technologies joined the NSF I-Corps Summer 2020 Cohort in June 2020.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2020
PhytoTech, LLC
Category: AgTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
PhytoTech, LLC is a New York-based biotech-company developing novel antiviral treatments to treat viral infections, particularly targeting members of the Flaviviridae virus family, including flaviviruses, pestiviruses (including BVDV), and hepaciviruses. The company is currently focusing on developing novel therapies specifically tailored for the treatment of cancers and other deadly diseases caused by viral infections. The company was founded based on intellectual property generated from Cornell University.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2020
REEgen Inc.
Category: Cleantech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
REEgen is reimagining the global rare earth supply by replacing the most harmful production steps with clean microbial processes, securing these critical elements for a future of unbounded, widespread renewable energy. Other applications include screens of smartphones, computers, flat-panel televisions, the motors of computer drives, batteries of hybrid and electric cars, and new generation light bulbs.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2022
SafetyStratus, Inc.
Category: Software
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
SafetyStratus offers the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise EH&S software platform with software, technology, and content to reduce risks and achieve operational excellence. Teams in academia, construction, healthcare, and general industry use the SafetyStratus platform to conduct inspections, perform behavior-based observations, collaborate on JSAs and JHAs, prepare incident reports, track institutional protocols, radioactive isotope inventory, and stay compliant with federal or regional regulations in any part of the world using a desktop or a mobile device in real-time.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2011
Sedec Therapeutics, Inc.
Category: Therapeutics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Sedec is a therapeutics company that aims to inhibit key factors in a subset of CD4+ T cells to decrease inflammation. This approach can be used to treat T cell-mediated autoimmune disorders, such as inflammatory bowel disease.
Location: Boston, MA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2021
Soctera, Inc.
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Praxis Center for Venture Development
Soctera is developing the world’s first aluminum nitride-based power amplifier. These amplifiers will allow higher power operation than other material platforms, such as gallium nitride or silicon. Higher power translates to an increase in the distance a wireless signal can travel. This is of value in markets such as base stations and military radar systems. Soctera plans to expand from this initial product and develop the aluminum nitride platform as the future of high-frequency, high-power electronics.
Soctera spun out of an engineering lab at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2021
TeraPore Technologies, Inc.
Category: Biotech Research & Production Tools
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
TeraPore Technologies, Inc. develops membrane technologies for high-permeability, high-resolution separations including purification of biological fluids.
Location: San Francisco, CA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2014
Tethered Enzyme Technologies, Inc.
Category:
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Tethered Enzyme Technologies, Inc. is a clinical-stage platform nanomedicine company focused on enabling actionable insights for high-consequence disease decision-making.
Location: New Jersey
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2022
UbiquiTx, Inc.
Category: Therapeutics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
UbiquiTx, a spin-out from Cornell University and MIT, is focused on leveraging machine learning and protein engineering to develop programmable protein-modulating therapies. The company’s computational platform allows the designing of motif, mutant and PTM-specific peptides to pathogenic proteins from sequence alone based on known interactions found in nature.
Location: Cambridge, MA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2022
Ukko Agro
Category: AgTech
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Ukko Agro is building a smart agriculture ecosystem that uses prescriptive disease/pest management models and integrates with external on-farm machinery and equipment via IoT to help farmers optimize crop inputs to achieve higher yields. Ukko Agro ecosystem aims to offer a solution to critical questions about improving yields sustainably and cost-effectively for farmers, meeting sustainability standards for CPGs and in the end benefit consumers.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
Uni Creative, Inc.
Category: Software
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Uni actualizes inclusion by radically transforming how companies make smart decisions.
From figuring out quarterly objectives to planning weekly sprints, or just figuring out how to deal with a pesky bug, Uni let’s mannagers ask their teams impactful questions, stay true to their timelines, and have a set of ideas for when it is time to decide what to do.
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2019
Versatope Therapeutics, Inc.
Category: Therapeutics
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Versatope Therapeutics is using exosomes (extracellular vesicles) derived from genetically engineered probiotics as a technology platform for the targeted delivery of large molecules used in vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics. The company has worked with accelerators/incubators MassCONNECT, MassChallenge, and JLABS.
Location: Boston, MA
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2018
VitaMe Technologies, Inc.
Category: Digital Health
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
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.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2016
Widetronix, Inc.
Category: Material (Semiconductor, Energy Conversion & Storage, etc.)
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
Widetronix, Inc., designs and builds small, long-life ultra low power sensor platforms for defense and medical applications.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2009
WOTN, LLC
Category: Software
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator:
WOTN is a risk software company that provides an independent, real-time, simulation-based risk management platform for the $1T commercial mortgage backed securities market. The patent pending technology provides risk measurements on demand for loans and bonds in the derivative structure compliant with Basel in a comprehensive portfolio management system.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2004
ZYMtronix, Inc.
Category: Biotech Research & Production Tools
Campus: Ithaca
Incubator: Center for Life Science Ventures
ZYMtronix is a biotechnology startup that services enzyme and pharmaceutical manufacturers. ZYMtronix immobilizes and optimizes biocatalysts for continuous manufacturing using green chemistry principles to lower the costs and increase the yields of drug manufacturing.
Location: Ithaca, NY
Foundation Cornell Technology Licensed: 2014
