Media Mentions

ChicagoInno put together a list of the Top 17 Chicago Startups to watch in 2017 based on the companies’ growth in 2016 and potential for 2017. Ocient, an EnterpriseWorks affiliate member, was featured as number 3 on the list. Ocient develops supercomputer scale data platforms for high velocity analytics and machine learning on the world’s largest data sets. Read the ChicagoInno article here.

CHAMPAIGN, IL, Nov 18, 2014 — MulticoreWare, founded by University of Illinois professor Wen-mei Hwu, has recently been ranked by Inc.com as one of the 110 fastest-growing private companies. This distinction comes in light of MulticoreWare’s recent and rapid growth and skyrocketing revenue. “MulticoreWare saw a three-year growth of 3,322 percent, with revenue increasing from $224,601 in 2010 to $7.7 million in 2013. ‘It’s really about how we make the best use of parallel hardware and increase the application capabilities and efficiency for customers,’ said Hwu, about the company’s growth.” MulticoreWare will graduate from EnterpriseWorks by the end of 2014. Read the full article here. MulticoreWare Inc is a Software and Systems Integration solutions company which provides heterogeneous multicore (h-multicore solutions) for high performance computing applications using multicore and many core processors. We are currently working with applications in the Defense and Aerospace, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, Imaging, Scientific Computing and Financial Services industries. MulticoreWare embraces heterogeneous computing and its h-multicore solutions benefit customers who require a higher order of magnitude performance with power and space constraints. MulticoreWare Inc., has recently launched a new product called Mcore Platform Analyzer. Mcore Platform Analyzer is a powerful and versatile tool that allows a developer to easily instrument, visualize, and interpret the way different parts of the application interact with one another, as well as with the CPU and GPU. – See more at: https://researchpark5.wpenginepowered.com/news/multicoreware-inc-opens-enterpriseworks#sthash.3XKz0DSW.dpufMulticoreWare Inc is a Software and Systems Integration solutions company which provides heterogeneous multicore (h-multicore solutions) for high performance computing applications using multicore and many core processors. We are currently working with applications in the Defense and Aerospace, Bioinformatics, Life Sciences, Imaging, Scientific Computing and Financial Services industries. MulticoreWare embraces heterogeneous computing and its h-multicore solutions benefit customers who require a higher order of magnitude performance with power and space constraints. MulticoreWare Inc., has recently launched a new product called Mcore Platform Analyzer. Mcore Platform Analyzer is a powerful and versatile tool that allows a developer to easily instrument, visualize, and interpret the way different parts of the application interact with one another, as well as with the CPU and GPU. – See more at: https://researchpark5.wpenginepowered.com/news/multicoreware-inc-opens-enterpriseworks#sthash.3XKz0DSW.dpuf

Crain’s Chicago Business profiled the success of startup Chromatin, a graduate from the EnterpriseWorks incubator who currently has a 6,000-square foot footprint in the University of Illinois Research Park. Research Park is very proud of Chromatin’s team and their persistent diligence and hard work. Read the full featured article in Crain’s Chicago Business online. Today, Chromatin’s teams in Champaign and Texas, working with eight nurseries around the world, develop thousands of new varieties of sorghum each year from traditional cross-breeding; varieties containing the company’s patented mini-chromosomes are under development. The company, based in downtown Chicago, has 200 employees and tens of millions of dollars of annual revenue, though Ms. Preuss won’t disclose more exact numbers. In January, Chromatin raised $36 million in series E financing, with Wood Creek Capital Management of New Haven, Connecticut, leading the effort, raising its fetch to $70 million. John Banta, CEO of IllinoisVentures LLC, a Chicago early-stage investment firm that has invested in Chromatin, says Ms. Preuss is a rarity. “The cultural divide between the two settings”—a university research lab and a startup business—“can be great, which is why it is so unusual for later-stage CEOs to derive from the lab/classroom,” he says. Ms. Preuss, who holds a 1990 doctorate in biology from MIT, grew up in eastern Colorado. She saw herself becoming an inventor like her hero Thomas Edison, “deploying science to improve people’s lives.” As a teen, she worked in her family’s hardware distribution business, sweeping floors and making sales calls. She says her parents’ comeback from a fire that destroyed their warehouse helped inspire her own “rising from the ashes” story at Chromatin.