Media Mentions

Agrible and Granular were recently recognized on THRIVE 50, an annual list created by SVG Partners that ranks the best AgTech companies in the United States. Agrible is a homegrown organization that first started at the EnterpriseWorks incubator. They focus on providing farmers with the tools and science to improve production with cloud-based delivery systems. The company has since moved to a different building, but are still located at Research Park. Agrible received praise in the “Big Data and Analytics” category of the THRIVE 50 list. Granular is a San Francisco based company that opened a second office at Research Park. The organization specializes in agriculture software and analytics to better manage business decisions on large farms. Granular was commended in the “Cloud Services/SAAS” catagory. Both companies will be recognized on February 1st at the THRIVE Innovation Forum. Read the full article here.

Amber Agriculture, a University of Illinois student startup with ties to EnterpriseWorks, has been named the top startup of the 2017 Consumer Electronic Show (CES). Amber Agriculture’s agtech product helps farmers manage their stored product, and is part of the connected farm movement. “Plenty of startups promise solutions to problems that are either overblown or don’t really exist, but we can’t say the same about Amber Agriculture. With Amber’s array of sensors, farmers can more easily check the quality of their stored grain and get their wares to the companies that make our food at the right time. Beyond ensuring these farmers get the biggest return on their crop yields, the ability to monitor for the conditions that lead to spoilage could eventually help whole countries deal with food supply issues. Long story short: Amber’s is a savvy approach to a pressing problem most people don’t even know about,” wrote Endgadget editor Chris Velazco. Engadget wrote a longer piece on Amber Agriculture: “What’s more, Amber’s approach falls in line with other big trends at the show. You’ve heard of the smart home. Now the Amber team is trying to help build the smart farm. Amber Agriculture won the 2016 Cozad New Venture Competition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and subsequently participated in the iVenture Accelerator student program over the summer, housed at Research Park. After a short stint at EnteprieseWorks, the team spent the past semester at Hax Accelerator in China. They have received grant money from EnterpriseWorks and plan to resume tenancy there in 2017. Interested in learning more about Amber Agriculture? Visit the link to hear more from co-founder, Lucas Frye.

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