Soybean Innovation Lab, LLC pgoldsmi@illinois.edu EnterpriseWorks Clients all along the value chain from seed through processing and manufacturing employ SIL’s proprietary suite of technologies and technical services to diversify into, and succeed with, soybean. https://soybeaninnovationlab.illinois.edu/
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EPL Power Electronics, Inc. sjinpark@eplpower.com EnterpriseWorks We design and develop a series of compact, energy-efficient, programmable high-voltage power drivers specifically designed for plasma and other applications in academic and industrial settings. https://eplpower.com/
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Synergy Research Labs brandon.howe@crystalsynergyrl.com 60 Hazelwood Drive Champaign, IL We are a deep-tech, clean-tech semiconductor startup specializing in producing materials for next generation power electronics. Our CEO coupled the work he studied during his PhD at Illinois (MatSE 2011) with his real-world experience as an AFRL Program Manager, to launch SRL with a vision to become the #1 international provider of the ‘electronic materials of the future’. crystalsynergyrl.com
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SolarMantle sanjeev@solarmantle.com 60 Hazelwood Drive Champaign, IL SolarMantle a climate-tech company pioneering passive daytime radiative cooling (PDRC) materials. Our flagship product is engineered to reflect sunlight and omit heat to the sky, allowing surfaces to stay cooler than the surrounding air without using electricity. solarmantle.com
KeaneTech kriven@keanetech.com 60 Hazelwood Dr. Champaign, IL KeaneTech works with ceramic powder synthesis for the design and fabrication of geopolymers and geopolymer composites. keanetech.com
Ion Grove phillip.rowell@willowgroveint.com 60 Hazelwood Dr. Champaign, IL A highway rest stop re-imagined for the EV age. Ion is the first purpose built network of Nation Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) compliant stations established along the Alternative Fuel Corridors that traverse our Interstate Highway System. iongrove.com
GigaCrop ceiben@gigacrop.com 60 Hazelwood Dr. Champaign, IL GigaCrop’s mission is to make more food with less land by increasing crop yields. GigaCrop’s technical approach is making photosynthesis faster by avoiding the current slow step, rubisco, entirely. This is achieved by GigaCrop’s novel carbon fixation pathway that has a higher maximum flux than the native Calvin Benson cycle plants use today. Faster photosynthesis enables crops to convert more CO2 into sugars and seeds per year. By unlocking yield inaccessible by conventional breeding, GigaCrop will disrupt the $24B per year transgenic seed market. gigacrop.com
Arist AI jjing3@illinois.edu EnterpriseWorks We are developing an AI Teaching Assistant that enhances university teaching by providing immediate and accurate responses to student queries using course materials, seamlessly integrated with major learning platforms. aristai.io
PowerBox Technology contact@powerboxtech.com (202)599-4782 60 Hazelwood Dr. PowerBox Technology specializes in addressing critical challenges faced by manufacturing plants, especially in regions with aging energy infrastructure and fluctuating energy demands. The company’s solutions improve reliability and efficiency and promote sustainability by integrating renewable energy sources and enhancing energy efficiency. From advanced software solutions for power and energy modeling to strategic cost and revenue monitoring, Powerbox’s suite of services is designed to propel energy systems to new heights. powerboxtech.com PowerBox Technology at Research Park PowerBox Awarded Grid-Scale Power Electronics Bonus Prize by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) at EnergyTech University Prize 2025 National Pitch Event PowerBox founder Oscar Azofeifa featured on Rising Eagles podcast TechRise competition at Research Park Founders Week features finalist PowerBox Technology PowerBox Technology joins POETS at Research Park
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Photon Queue nathan@photonqueue.com 60 Hazelwood Dr, Champaign, IL Photon Queue is a hardware company developing quantum memories and the first quantum startup from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The company aims to become the premier supplier of photonic quantum memories for the emerging quantum communication, networking, and computing sectors. Quantum memories comprise many of the required components for these sectors and will command a significant fraction of this market size, but the currently available quantum memory technologies lack many performance metrics. The quantum memory technology at Photon Queue has been pioneered by the research group of Prof. Paul Kwiat over the past two decades. It outperforms all competing technologies in head-to-head comparisons for several critical quantum applications. The company aims to accelerate the realization of important quantum applications by providing high-performance quantum memories. photonqueue.com Photon Queue at Research Park Photon Queue Meets with Venture Investors in Silicon Valley Photon Queue Pitches Bay Area Startups at San Francisco’s Deep Tech Week
