Innovation Transfer
Innovation Spotlight
Innovation Transfer Grants
| Funding Year | Name | Description | Team Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Spr | Renewell Energy | Renewell's technology will deploy gravity-based energy storage at a very low cost. |
Kemp Gregory (MS, CEE), Stefan Streckfus (MS, CEE), Yuval Tamir (MSx, GSB), Berk Manav (MS, CEE), Walker Colt (Rice, MBA), and PI: Prof. Sally Benson (ERE) |
| 2020 Spr | FarmRaise | FarmRaise unlocks funding for sustainable agriculture, helping farmers access grants and loans to support on-farm conservation, CO2 mitigation practices, and operational improvements that make farms and ranches more sustainable and profitable. |
Jayce Hafner (MBA, MS E-IPER), Sami Tellatin (MBA, MS E-IPER), and PI: Prof. Rebecca Lester (GSB) |
| 2020 Spr | Greency | Greency is a gamified social impact app with an automatic carbon footprint tracker and educational components for a sustainable lifestyle. |
Ilmir Nasretdinov (MSx, GSB), Hanna Shuvalova (MSx, GSB), and PI: Prof. Saumitra Jha (GSB) |
| 2020 Spr | Carbon Down | Carbon Down is a mobile climate action platform empowering users to have a scalable impact on climate change. |
Leif Gonzales-Kramer (M.S. Earth Systems), Ian Arko (B.S. Electrical Engineering), PI: Prof. Marshall Burke (Earth System Science) |
| 2020 Spr | Archive | Archive is developing a circular economy marketplace that will bring clothing buyers, sellers, and fashion brands together on one platform. |
Emily Gittins (MBA, GSB; MS Environment and Resources), Harry Emeric (MS, Statistics), Arafat Mohammed (BS, Computer Science and Global studies), Zoe Mhungu (BS, Biomedical Engineering and Management) and Prof. Stefan Reichelstein (GSB) |
| 2020 Spr | Federato | Federato aims to help insurance underwriters distribute future risks and identify investments critical in achieving a sustainable future. |
Will Ross (MBA, GSB), William Steenbergen (MS, ICME), and PI: Prof. Seungjin Whang (GSB) |
| 2019 Fall | AgAi | AgAi enables anyone in the field to collect information by using computer vision and a smartphone based camera. |
Edward Silva (MBA/MS, GSB E-IPER) and PI: Prof. Stefan Reichelstein (GSB) |
| 2019 Fall | Yocto | An all-optical, label-free platform to detect contaminants in food, water, and soil. |
Amr Saleh (Postdoc, MSE) and PI: Prof. Jen Dionne (MSE) |
| 2019 Spr | PeroPure | PeroPure has developed a portable, electrochemical hydrogen peroxide generating water purification device with the goal of deploying it in the developing world as a reliable and scalable solution for low-cost, clean energy water purification. |
Zhihua Chen (PhD Chemistry), Shucheng Chen (PhD Chem E), Fan Yang (PhD AA, University of Illinois), and PI: Prof. Tom Jaramillo (ChemE) |
| 2019 Spr | ReSource | ReSource’s goal is to produce economically competitive commodity plastics using CO2 as the carbon source. The team has invented a chemical technology to produce FDCA from waste biomass and CO2 that enables drastic cost and GHG reduction. |
Aanindeeta Banerjee (PhD, Post doc, Chem), Amy Frankhouser (PhD, Chem), and PI: Prof. Matthew Kanan (Chem) |
| 2019 Spr | Suryodaya | Suryodaya developed and are deploying a new high-performance and affordable solar drying system for chili farmers in India. Their goal is to pilot a drying-as-a-service busines |
Michael Machala (PhD MSE, Post Doc ERE), Andrey Poletayev (PhD MSE), Frederick Tan (BS ME), Rushil Prakash (MBA GSB, MS E-IPER), and PI: Prof. Sally Benson (ERE) |
| 2019 Spr | LaderaTech | LaderaTech's goal is to adapt, optimize and deploy biomimetic and environmentally-benign fire retardant mobilization agent(s), enabling preventative treatments on landscapes at high risk fire areas. |
Anthony C. Yu (PhD MSE). Jesse Acosta, and PI: Prof. Eric Appel (MSE) |
| 2019 Spr | Nitricity | Nitricity is developing a device that produces carbon-free, low-cost ammonia using a novel metal-cycling process. |
Joshua McEnaney (Post Doc, Chem E), Nico Pinkowski (PhD, ME), Brian Rohr (PhD Chem E), and PI: Prof. Thomas Jaramillo (ChemE) |
| 2019 Spr | WindBorne Systems | WindBorne is developing balloons which fly 60 times longer than usual and fill gaps underserved by existing atmospheric data tech. |
Paige Brown (BS MSE), Kai Marshland (MS MS&E) John Dean (MS EE), Andrey Sushko, and PI: Prof. John Pauly (EE) |
| 2019 Spr | 12 Tides | 12 Tides aim to develop high-value consumer product applications for seaweed that will help drive the industry forward. |
Team: Pat Schnettler (MBA), and PI: Prof. Harikesh Nair (GSB) |
| 2019 Spr | HighTide | HighTide quantifies the financial and socioeconomic impacts of climate-driven natural disasters to generate actionable information on asset climate risk. |
Arnav Mariwala, (BS Phys, MS GeoPhys) Ian Bick (MS CEE), and Adrian Santiago Tate (PhD GeoPhys), Professor Jenny Suckale (GeoPhys) |
| 2019 Spr | ReGen Partners | ReGen proposes to collect seed from the remaining wild groves of the Moringa peregrina tree, start a domestication program in Baja, Mexico, and be the first to produce it at commercial scale in 1400 years. |
Neal Spackman(MSx) and PI: Prof. Hau Lee (GSB) |
| 2018 Fall | Frost.d | The Frost.d unit provides ice sellers with a reliable, energy efficient way to store ice. |
Maya Ambady (BA Hum Bio), Kaitlyn Olah, (BS Product Design, MS ME), Quint Underwood (MS EE), Ganesh Ramakrishnan (MBA GSB), and PI: Prof. Jim Patell, (GSB) |
| 2017 Fall | ScrapWorks | ScrapWorks is a service that can dramatically reduce the food waste from industrial kitchens caused by faulty or non-existent demand forecasting. |
Sonia Baltodano (PhD, ME), Prof. David Beach, ME (PI) |
| 2017 Fall | FullMoon | FullMoon has built a chemical sensor that is selective to chemicals of interest (especially methane), capable of detecting different gases, while simultaneously being inexpensive and not requiring a lot of energy to power. |
Dr. Pierre-Alexandre Gross (postdoc, BioE), Dr. Ehsan Sadeghipour (postdoc, BioE), Prof. Tom Kenny, ME (PI) and Prof. Tom Jaramillo, ChemE (co-PI) |
| 2017 Fall | Kukua Labs | Kukua is an at-home chicken egg incubator that is energy-efficient enough to run on solar power and is designed to interface directly with Off-Grid Electric’s existing home-solar systems in Tanzania. |
Amy King (BS Earth Systems, MS CEE ), Nick Azpiroz (BS Science, Technology, and Society, MS ME), Eric Reynolds Brubaker (MS/PhD ME), Prof. Jim Patell, GSB (PI) |
| 2017 Spr | SalCell | SalCell proposes a scale-up and commercialization of the mixing entropy battery (MEB) to be used as an electrical generator run by saltwater. |
Jianqiao Xu (Eng, CEE), Kristian Dubrawski (PostDoc, CEE), Prof. Yi Cui (MSE), Prof. Craig Criddle (CEE) |
| 2016 Fall | Indrio Technologies | Laser sensor for monitoring chemicals at high temperatures and pressures in order to enhance engine performance and reduce emissions |
Ritobrata Sur (PostDoc, PhD, ME), Shengkai Wang (PhD, ME), Prof. Ronald K. Hanson (ME) |
| 2016 Fall | Airity Technologies | Airity Technologies develop novel and proprietary circuit topologies that allow for extremely small and power dense high voltage sources. |
Luke Raymond (PhD EE), Wei Liang (PhD EE), Johan Andreasson (Post Doc BioTechnology, PhD Physics) and Prof. Juan Rivas-Davila (EE) |
| 2016 Fall | Mendo | A pocket-sized, battery-powered device used in the detection of microorganisms causing food spoilage |
Nate Cira (PhD, Bioengineering), Morgan Paull (PhD, Bioengineering), Jason Khoo (BS, Human Biology), Dr. Adam White, Prof. Steve Quake (Bioengineering) |
