Current UNM Engineering-Related Startup Companies
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Alpine Biosciences, LLC: New Mexico-based company focused on targeted drug delivery for cancer therapy. | alpinebio.com |
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Attochron, LLC: California based company focused on advanced free space optical communications. Principal Inventor(s): Jean-Claude Diels (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for High Technology Materials) |
www.attochron.com |
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Batterade, LLC: Albuquerque, NM-based start-up company focused on providing a solution to developing nations’ cell phone charging issues. Principal Inventor: Santigo Rojas Carbonell (Department of Chemical Engineering, Center for Emerging Energy Technologies) |
www.batterade.com |
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Comet Solutions, Inc.: Albuquerque, NM based start-up company focused on computational modeling toolkit, an object-oriented framework for engineering products. Principal Inventor(s): Malcolm Panthaki (High Performance Computing Center) and Walter Gerstle (Department of Civil Engineering) |
www.cometsolutions.com |
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Dynamic Photonics: Albuquerque, NM based company developing ultra-fast optical receivers made from off-the-shelf components that substantially reduce costs. Principal Inventors: Majeed Hayat (Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for High Technology Materials) and Payman Zarkesh-Ha (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
www.dynamic-photonics.com |
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GLO USA: Swedish company (with location in California) focused on nanoscale semiconductor manufacturing. Principal Inventor: Stephen Hersee (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for High Technology Materials) |
www.glo.se |
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Eta Diagnostics, Inc. (formerly Sandia Elecrto-Optic Corporation): Albuquerque, NM-based company focused on the development, manufacturing, and sales of optically-enabled instrumentation for the life science and environmental sensing markets. Principal Inventors: Steven Graves and Andrew Shreve (Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, Center for Biomedical Engineering) |
www.se-oc.com |
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Lotus Leaf Coatings, Inc.: Albuquerque, NM Based start-up company developing superhydrophilic and superhydrophobic coatings for optics, micro-electronics, fluid dynamics, anti-fogging, sanitation, solar, HVAC, health and beauty, consumer products and other applications. Principal Inventor: Jeff Brinker (Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering) |
www.lotusleafcoatings.com |
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Magic Dragon Technologies, LLC: California based company focused on next- generation hardware security. Principal Inventor: James Plusquellic (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) |
www.magicdragontech.com |
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Nanocrystal International: Albuquerque, NM based company developing defect-free, gallium-nitride nanowire semiconductors. Principal Inventor: Stephen Hersee (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for High Technology Materials) |
www.nanocrystal.com |
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Oligocide, Inc.: Albuquerque, NM based company focused on development of robust, expansive, and novel antimicrobial materials platform. Principal Inventors: David Whitten (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) |
www.oligocide.com |
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Pajarito Powder, LLC: Albuquerque, NM-based company focused fuel cell catalysts. Principal Inventor: Plamen Atanassov (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) |
www.pajaritopowder.com |
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Protomex Life Sciences (formerly P.D. Laboratories): Albuquerque, NM based medical device company focused on technology to detect protein biomarkers developing low-cost biosensor. Principal Inventor: Sang Han (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) |
www.protomexlifesciences.com |
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SK Infrared LLC: Albuquerque, NM based company focused on development of non-invasive diagnostic and detection system for skin cancer, based on portable infrared imaging. Principal Inventor: Sanjay Krishna (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Center for High Technology Materials) |
www.skinfrared.com |
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Synfolia, Inc.: Albuquerque, NM based company developing tissue-scaffolding engineering solutions. Principal Inventor: Elizabeth Dirk (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering) |
www.synfolia.com |