MOLG specializes in developing digital tools and automation solutions for businesses in the manufacturing sector. The company employs artificial intelligence and robotics to create autonomous micro-factories, promoting a circular economy by enhancing product sustainability and cost-effectiveness.
NASA Stennis Space Center
Grant in 2024
NASA Stennis is emerging as an industry leader in designing, testing, and deploying autonomous and advanced systems needed for future deep space missions.
Gritt Robotics
Grant in 2024
Gritt Robotics specializes in automating the construction of renewable energy infrastructure, primarily solar farms. The company develops robots capable of performing various construction tasks, including excavation, foundation laying, and component assembly. This automation reduces the need for manual labor, enhancing efficiency and safety in the renewable energy sector.
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Grant in 2024
Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD), established in 1974 as a business unit of Dynasil Corporation of America, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative medical instruments for cancer treatment. Their primary product line consists of radiation imaging and detection systems designed to locate radio-labeled cancerous tissue during surgery, enabling safer and more precise patient care.
Climate Robotics
Grant in 2024
Climate Robotics is a company focused on developing advanced robotics and artificial intelligence aimed at addressing climate change and improving soil health. Founded in 2020 and based in the United States, the company creates technology designed to sequester carbon effectively. One of its key innovations, the pyrobot, identifies degraded or blighted land in urban and peri-urban areas and transforms biomass waste on-site into biochar. This process not only aids in carbon capture but also enhances soil quality, contributing to the company's goal of promoting environmental sustainability.
Resonant Link
Grant in 2024
Founded in 2017, Resonant Link specializes in developing and manufacturing advanced wireless charging solutions. Utilizing coil technology, their products offer highly efficient power transfer for a wide range of applications, from electric vehicles to medical devices.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Grant in 2024
Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD), established in 1974 as a business unit of Dynasil Corporation of America, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative medical instruments for cancer treatment. Their primary product line consists of radiation imaging and detection systems designed to locate radio-labeled cancerous tissue during surgery, enabling safer and more precise patient care.
MetroLaser specializes in the development of optical diagnostic solutions, offering a range of advanced products including holo4d software, schlieren instruments, and custom schlieren systems. The company focuses on laser-based measurement techniques to assess flow velocity, temperature, chemical composition, and surface temperature, particularly in gas turbine engines. Additionally, MetroLaser provides non-destructive inspection services for composites and other materials. Its innovative technologies serve diverse sectors such as defense, aerospace, structural mechanics, and noise and vibration analysis. Through these applications, MetroLaser contributes to enhancing the performance and safety of various engineering and industrial processes.
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Grant in 2024
Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD), established in 1974 as a business unit of Dynasil Corporation of America, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative medical instruments for cancer treatment. Their primary product line consists of radiation imaging and detection systems designed to locate radio-labeled cancerous tissue during surgery, enabling safer and more precise patient care.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
Michigan Aerospace
Grant in 2023
Michigan Aerospace Corporation (MAC) is an advanced engineering and products company specializing in the development of remote sensing intelligent systems for space, air, and earth-bound applications. They focus on creating laser-based, optical, and optomechanical systems that excel in low signal-to-noise conditions and harsh environments, offering responsive and cost-effective aerospace solutions to their clients.
EPIR Technologies
Grant in 2023
EPIR Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures optoelectronic materials and sensors for defense and civilian sectors in the United States. The company provides infrared detectors and sensors, including single-element detectors with cooler packages on cadmium zinc telluride and silicon substrates, high operating temperature detectors, and HgCdTe detector structures on CdZnTe and Si substrates. It also offers biosensors and detection nanosensors for biological warfare agents in buildings and HVAC systems, and solar cells for space, commercial, and residential applications. In addition, EPIR provides wafer polishing services such as epi-ready polished substrates, crystal polishing systems, and polishing slurries for soft semiconductor materials; research and development services for government and industrial customers; and epitaxial products and services, including fabrication of semiconductor epitaxial layers on silicon, gallium arsenide, and bulk cadmium zinc telluride substrates, device-quality silicon-based composite substrates for HgCdTe deposition, and HgCdTe/Si and HgCdTe/CdZnTe epitaxial products.
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Grant in 2023
Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD), established in 1974 as a business unit of Dynasil Corporation of America, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative medical instruments for cancer treatment. Their primary product line consists of radiation imaging and detection systems designed to locate radio-labeled cancerous tissue during surgery, enabling safer and more precise patient care.
Orbital Composites
Grant in 2023
Orbital Composites specializes in the fields of 3D printing, Composites, robotics automation, and carbon fiber. Their Robotic automation offers tremendous advantages at the fraction of the cost of traditional manufacturing systems, including scalability, and complex 3D printing on curves.
Reliable Autonomy
Grant in 2023
Reliable Autonomy develops autonomous driving technology for mobile robots and vehicles. Its platform integrates sensors, perception algorithms, and decision-making systems to ensure reliable and safe navigation across diverse environments, benefiting industries like logistics, manufacturing, and agriculture by automating tasks and enhancing efficiency.
Planted Solar
Venture Round in 2023
Planted Solar develops and deploys solar power plants using a rapid deployment platform that increases energy output per acre and accelerates project delivery. It combines development software, terrain-adaptive high-density racking, and automated construction to build flexible, all-terrain power plants. Through advanced site planning and logistics, the company aims to maximize land use and streamline solar development, enabling faster, scalable deployment of clean energy.
Climate Robotics
Grant in 2023
Climate Robotics is a company focused on developing advanced robotics and artificial intelligence aimed at addressing climate change and improving soil health. Founded in 2020 and based in the United States, the company creates technology designed to sequester carbon effectively. One of its key innovations, the pyrobot, identifies degraded or blighted land in urban and peri-urban areas and transforms biomass waste on-site into biochar. This process not only aids in carbon capture but also enhances soil quality, contributing to the company's goal of promoting environmental sustainability.
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Grant in 2023
Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD), established in 1974 as a business unit of Dynasil Corporation of America, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative medical instruments for cancer treatment. Their primary product line consists of radiation imaging and detection systems designed to locate radio-labeled cancerous tissue during surgery, enabling safer and more precise patient care.
Jetcool Technologies Inc., established in 2019 and headquartered in Littleton, Massachusetts, specializes in the research and development of advanced chip cooling solutions. The company offers a range of cooling products, from bare die to system level, and provides customized solutions. Jetcool's innovative microjet cooling modules, developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, are designed to efficiently cool high-power electronics in industries such as defense and aerospace, advanced semiconductors, data centers, and electric vehicle power systems. The company's technology, published in several academic papers, uses small jets of fluid to cool components at the chip or device scale, enabling manufacturers to create more durable, energy-efficient products.
MetroLaser specializes in the development of optical diagnostic solutions, offering a range of advanced products including holo4d software, schlieren instruments, and custom schlieren systems. The company focuses on laser-based measurement techniques to assess flow velocity, temperature, chemical composition, and surface temperature, particularly in gas turbine engines. Additionally, MetroLaser provides non-destructive inspection services for composites and other materials. Its innovative technologies serve diverse sectors such as defense, aerospace, structural mechanics, and noise and vibration analysis. Through these applications, MetroLaser contributes to enhancing the performance and safety of various engineering and industrial processes.
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Grant in 2023
Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD), established in 1974 as a business unit of Dynasil Corporation of America, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative medical instruments for cancer treatment. Their primary product line consists of radiation imaging and detection systems designed to locate radio-labeled cancerous tissue during surgery, enabling safer and more precise patient care.
EPIR Technologies
Grant in 2023
EPIR Technologies, Inc. develops and manufactures optoelectronic materials and sensors for defense and civilian sectors in the United States. The company provides infrared detectors and sensors, including single-element detectors with cooler packages on cadmium zinc telluride and silicon substrates, high operating temperature detectors, and HgCdTe detector structures on CdZnTe and Si substrates. It also offers biosensors and detection nanosensors for biological warfare agents in buildings and HVAC systems, and solar cells for space, commercial, and residential applications. In addition, EPIR provides wafer polishing services such as epi-ready polished substrates, crystal polishing systems, and polishing slurries for soft semiconductor materials; research and development services for government and industrial customers; and epitaxial products and services, including fabrication of semiconductor epitaxial layers on silicon, gallium arsenide, and bulk cadmium zinc telluride substrates, device-quality silicon-based composite substrates for HgCdTe deposition, and HgCdTe/Si and HgCdTe/CdZnTe epitaxial products.
Leiden Measurement Technology
Grant in 2023
Leiden Measurement Technology is a research and development company that specializes in creating high-end scientific instruments. It employs advanced techniques such as microfluidics, optics, spectroscopy, and chemical extraction to design devices for diverse scientific applications. These include space exploration, water analysis, environmental monitoring, and biomedical research, enabling precise data collection in challenging and remote conditions.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
mHUB
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
mHUB is an independent innovation center located in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in hardtech and manufacturing. Incorporated in 2013, mHUB focuses on the development and manufacturing of physical products, including robotics, connected devices, sensors, energy technologies, medical devices, smart buildings, and unmanned vehicles. It serves as a collaborative space for startups and small businesses, fostering a community of over 428 active members, including product designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Since its launch in 2017, mHUB has facilitated the creation of more than 1,256 products, generated over $1.1 billion in revenue, and supported the hiring of more than 4,153 employees. The center provides essential resources such as funding, co-working space, and industry expertise, enabling innovators to transform their ideas into sustainable businesses and advance the manufacturing sector.
V-Glass is a materials technology company that develops vacuum-insulated glass for residential and commercial windows. Its product is a transparent glass with high thermal efficiency that significantly reduces heating and cooling losses, enabling customers to conserve energy resources and cut greenhouse gas emissions, contributing to net-zero building initiatives. The company claims its vacuum-insulated glass delivers three times the thermal performance of conventional dual-pane windows and twice the service life, with no extra manufacturing cost, and has broad patent protection through 2041. Since 2022, V-Glass has produced high-efficiency panels in its lab and has shipped samples to multiple potential strategic partners for evaluation, with plans to move to a pilot production plant and automate manufacturing to scale to commercial units at target price efficiency.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
Robot Nose is dedicated to rethinking sensors and detectors from the ground up. Laboratory instruments excel at measuring what is in the air, but are bulky and hard to use. Portable instruments typically are just badly compromised versions of laboratory instruments. Our approach is to use a newly developed additive manufacturing approach to create very sensitive and selective detectors of toxic gasses. This additive approach has an unparalleled combination of speed and resolution, making it interesting for many other applications as well.
mHUB
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
mHUB is an independent innovation center located in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in hardtech and manufacturing. Incorporated in 2013, mHUB focuses on the development and manufacturing of physical products, including robotics, connected devices, sensors, energy technologies, medical devices, smart buildings, and unmanned vehicles. It serves as a collaborative space for startups and small businesses, fostering a community of over 428 active members, including product designers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Since its launch in 2017, mHUB has facilitated the creation of more than 1,256 products, generated over $1.1 billion in revenue, and supported the hiring of more than 4,153 employees. The center provides essential resources such as funding, co-working space, and industry expertise, enabling innovators to transform their ideas into sustainable businesses and advance the manufacturing sector.
Founded in 2009, Hydronalix has become recognized as a leader and international symbol in robotics innovation for beach and flood rescue with Their successful patented EMILY product line. Their Mission is to provide enhanced value added capabilities to first responders, earth scientists, military, and safety to the maritime industry. Their focus is on development of small expendable maritime robotic technologies to support missions ranging from search and rescue, bathymetric mapping and underwater ISR, to meteorological station keeping and data gathering, in challenging open ocean and littoral marine environments. They have 11,000 square feet of Engineering, Office, and manufacturing space in Sahuarita, AZ. Water testing is performed at Silver-Bell, Patagonia, and Sahuarita Lakes in Arizona. Ocean and surf zone testing is performed in San Diego, Venice Beach, and Malibu, CA. Company sales are both domestic and overseas with export distribution through out Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The company maintains a growing staff of skilled engineers and technicians performing advanced development services and products for the Navy, NOAA, DARPA, and DHS. In addition to EMILY, the company produces a complete product line of advanced Autonomous Mobile Buoys (AMB). The company’s executive leadership team has collective experience of over 200 years in Ocean and Marine Engineering, Robotic systems, advanced sensors, manufacturing, and materials science.
Radiation Monitoring Devices
Grant in 2012
Radiation Monitoring Devices (RMD), established in 1974 as a business unit of Dynasil Corporation of America, specializes in the development and manufacture of innovative medical instruments for cancer treatment. Their primary product line consists of radiation imaging and detection systems designed to locate radio-labeled cancerous tissue during surgery, enabling safer and more precise patient care.
Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company based in Morristown, New Jersey, founded in 1906. It specializes in providing a wide range of products and services across various sectors, including aerospace, industrial automation, energy and sustainability solutions, and building automation. Honeywell's offerings encompass aerospace products, control technologies for buildings and homes, automotive solutions, turbochargers, and advanced materials. The company is committed to addressing global challenges in safety, security, and energy efficiency, with solutions that benefit transportation, commercial buildings, industrial applications, and residential needs. Honeywell employs approximately 129,000 people globally, including a significant number of engineers and scientists, and is recognized for its focus on quality and technological innovation. Its diverse portfolio reflects a strategic alignment with key growth trends, enabling Honeywell to maintain a strong market presence.
Aptiv
Venture Round in 2008
Aptiv is a global technology company specializing in safer, greener, and more connected mobility solutions. It integrates software capabilities, advanced computing platforms, and networking architecture to enable the future of mobility. Headquartered in Gillingham, England, Aptiv operates in over 45 countries with a focus on becoming the leading integrator of mobility's software and systems technologies.