What new companies have recently spun out of the University of Illinois?
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Tekion (formerly Renew Power) is focused on the development and commercialization of fuel cells for the portable and micro electronics market. The company has developed a simple micro fuel cell using an innovative approach to the architecture and using formic acid as the fuel source. Tekion’s fuel cell is superior in power to current Li-Ion battery technology and to direct methanol fuel cells as the use of formic acid substantially reduces crossover and allows for novel fuel cell architectures. The primary markets are mobile phones and military application/devices.
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SmartSpark is an energy middleware provider and developer. Our power electronics technologies and products support electricity conversion and control between almost any energy source and load. Fuel cells, batteries, solar panels, wind systems, and even grid-based energy sources require processing to provide the electricity needed by the energy customer. We are agnostic about alternative energy resources -- all of them require power electronics and most of our technology development is not source-specific. Whether the load is a computer, cell phone, hybrid car, battery pack, electronically-controlled motor, appliance, security system, or home theater product, power electronics is the energy middleware to do the job. Our areas of specialty address battery management, fuel cell power conditioning, and solar panel power conditioning, but SmartSpark's expertise covers a wide range of power electronic systems. The corporation has licensed a suite of power conversion patents from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the world's premier academic institution in electric power engineering. In addition, SmartSpark engages in contract research and development in advanced power electronics.
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RiverGlass software is a data analytics framework that correlates and merges multiple, varied data streams and then applies sophisticated real-time data analysis and modeling techniques to that merged stream. The software classifies, clusters, and queries streams of data so that customers can manage risks, solve critical problems, and make informed decisions.
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Semprius is developing unique, patented technology that allows transfer printing of high performance semiconductors onto virtually any surface, including glass, flexible or rigid plastic, metal or other semiconductors. Semprius technology offers an unparalleled ability to create novel devices and systems by liberating the semiconductor from its traditional rigid substrate. Very tiny circuits are efficiently and cost effectively transferred by the hundreds, and even thousands at a time.
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Kim Laboratories, Inc., a privately held biotech company, began operations in May 2003 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and is initially focusing on the food safety market. The company has developed ValidCheck™, an ultra-fast, accurate, inexpensive food testing system that greatly reduces detection time to prevent food poisoning. The company produces its detection instruments and test kits and sells them globally to school cafeterias, restaurant suppliers, food processors, water testing companies, and government agencies. Here in the United States, Kim Laboratories' products have the potential to aid in homeland security by protecting food products and water sources.
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ChemSensing was founded in 2001 to commercialize sensor array technology invented at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The company's arrays are manufactured consistent with ISO standards using a modular manufacturing system. Application-specific sensor arrays are easily developed and manufactured.
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NanoSi utilizes commercially available silicon wafer material in a new highly catalyzed electrochemical etching procedure to produce fluorescent silicon nanoparticles (FSP), of great interest for biomedical, optoelectronic and low power electronics applications. The procedure is scalable to commercial applications, making the U.S. the premier global supplier for nano-sized (one billionth of a meter) silicon material for these critical technologies.
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Network Geographics' first tool in this area is InfoSecter, a static analysis tool that operates on firewall configuration files. InfoSecter reads the file and then creates an internal model of firewall behavior which can be filtered and queried based on packet properties and / or firewall actions.
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Caviton is an OEM developer of next generation micro-sensors and analytical equipment. The company is currently designing sensing systems for environmental monitoring, mercury and other toxic metals detection, engine performance and emissions monitoring, and chemical warfare agent (CWA) and toxic industrial chemical (TIC) detection. These systems employ rugged, low-cost, real-time continuous sensor systems. Caviton is also designing microdischarge detectors for gas chromatography systems capable of molecular identification of a wide range of compounds. These analytical instruments are robust, and portable, while providing the sensitivity and selectivity of high-cost laboratory scale instruments.
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Obiter Research provides innovative chemistry services from discovery to process. The company's core business consists of process development, custom synthesis, lead development, contract synthesis services, and a product line that includes rare and exotic fine chemicals. The products manufactured at Obiter Research are used for intermediates in the pharmaceutical industry, for basic research, in academic, and for other specialty uses such as genomics and proteomics.
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Chromatin is unlocking the potential of plants to produce greater value and meaningful products for consumers, growers, seed producers, and processors. At the same time, the company’s technology can benefit the environment through decreased use of pesticides and fertilizers.
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Bytemobile is a tier-one provider of mobile internet solutions which optimize the delivery of data, web, multimedia, and advertising services to consumers on feature phones, smartphones and laptops. Today, Bytemobile® solutions are installed in the wireless networks of 87 carriers, which serve over one billion mobile subscribers in 53 countries. The company’s customers include leading operators such as AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, KDDI, KPN, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile, Telecom Italia Mobile, Telefónica O2, Vodafone, and WILLCOM. Bytemobile is a privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, California. The company has regional sales and support offices in Bracknell, U.K.; Dubai, U.A.E.; Tokyo, Japan; Beijing, China; Singapore; and Sydney, Australia; and research and development centers in Patras, Greece and Champaign, Illinois.
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The purpose of the The HDF Group (THG) is to ensure the sustainable development of HDF technologies and the ongoing accessibility of HDF-stored data. This is important because of the government and public organizations that have mission-critical systems relying on HDF technologies. As illustrated in the following narrative, academe and a variety of other industry sectors also depend heavily on HDF technologies; however, the vast majority of HDF's core users and financial support come from the government sector.
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InstaRecon, Inc., is a supplier of technology and services to imaging scanner equipment makers and supply chain partners. InstaRecon’s patented algorithms increase the computational efficiency of image reconstruction in CT, PET, SPECT, and MRI by a factor of 20-100. Only InstaRecon’s technology can simultaneously improve image quality, increase reconstruction speed, and reduce reconstruction engine cost.
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Cazoodle Inc., established in August 2006, as a startup company from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), provides software and internet services for Web search, integration, and mining, with a central objective to "deepen" search on the Web-- to access the vast amount of data beyond the reach of current search engines. The company is co-founded by Prof. Kevin C. Chang and his research team, with the support of the University and technology transfer from the MetaQuerier research at UIUC.
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