Adding to its legion of sustainability doers and solvers, TomKat awarded 11 Innovation Transfer Grants over the last year.
The TomKat Center’s Innovation Transfer Program awarded grants to 11 enterprising Stanford teams developing technologies and services with enduring sustainability impacts. These grants provide resources to help them deploy their innovations and truth-test their product’s market opportunity.
Upshots abound
The Innovation Transfer Program helps teams explore the commercialization potential of Stanford innovations that can positively impact sustainability challenges. The program supports entrepreneurial teams from across the university with funding, mentorship, and a growing community. Grants are awarded to develop and iterate prototypes, refine business plans, conduct customer trials and market research, and establish commercial viability.
Amplifying yields
The new awardees join a supportive ecosystem of founders from whom they can find inspiration and leverage past learnings. Since its inception in the fall of 2013, the Innovation Transfer Program has granted $8 million to 144 Stanford teams. With nearly 70 revenue-generating spinouts, TomKat awardees have secured over $7.25 billion in external follow-on funding and have a combined enterprise value exceeding $18 billion.
2025-26 grantees
Anton Health is a preventive sexual health platform. The company combines at-home STI testing, and telehealth into a single, eco-friendly, seamless experience. By focusing on sustainable testing equipment and eliminating the need for clinic visits, Anton reduces the CO₂ emissions profile of CDC-recommended care. Gleb Vizitiv (MBA, GSB)
BloomBox Design Labs takes a design-thinking approach to making solar-powered, technology-equipped educational spaces and curriculum accessible to students in some of the most austere rural and off-grid settings in the world. Sofie Roux (BS, CEE)
Cetera Energy is developing an electrochemical process to recover battery-grade lithium from industrial effluent waste streams and other low-concentration domestic brines, expanding access to new sources of critical minerals. Francis Appiah (MS, ChemE), Solomon Oyakhire (PhD, ChemE)
Eigen Exchange is a market-based software layer that helps organizations allocate shared GPU compute more efficiently, improving infrastructure utilization while reducing wasted energy and optimizing capacity. Jason Sun (MBA, GSB)
Euterria is a collaborative platform where climate organizations unlock new partnerships, share resources and expertise, and multiply their impact. Brydie Sigg (MS, SoE & BS, SDSS), Henry Lai (MS, SDSS), Tom Shahar (BA, SoE), JD Pruett (MS, SoE)
Good Avenue is an on-demand, nutrient-fortified, barista-grade oat-milk platform designed to improve metabolic health while reducing food-system emissions. Lelina Chang (MBA, GSB)
Lumane Health is a software platform that helps skilled nursing facilities achieve safer and faster discharges for their patients and reduce the need for duplicative, resource-intensive diagnostic scans and testing. Justin Jasper (MS, CS), Zouberou Sayibou (BS, CS)
Recovered Potential removes and recovers nitrogen from wastewater to help waste handlers meet regulations, prevent environmental pollution, and circularize the nitrogen economy. Kindle Williams (Postdoc, ChemE), Jinyu Guo (PhD & Postdoc, ChemE), PI: Prof. Will Tarpeh (ChemE)
Seaquence coordinates container terminals and trucking carriers in real time, accelerating cargo flow and reducing diesel emissions in the port communities that bear their cost. Spencer Joseph Adams-Rand (MBA, GSB), Blake Palyo Jones (MBA, GSB)
Telluscope is building AI for environmental risk intelligence across real estate and infrastructure. Kathryn Bacher (MBA, GSB; MS, EIPER)
Terra Compliance is an environmental compliance infrastructure that enables cities to meet ambitious climate regulations without overwhelming public-sector staff or sacrificing real-world impact. Emily Lee (MBA, GSB), Ethan Holtzclaw, Peter Holtzclaw
This article is part of the TomKat Center Spotlight series designed to highlight the impact and trajectory of the work of faculty and students who received funding through our Innovation Transfer Program, TomKat Solutions, and Graduate Fellowships. Stanford University does not endorse any non-Stanford entities, programs, products, or services listed in the article.
