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
BunkerLink conover@bunkerlink.org EnterpriseWorks BunkerLink is a firefighter-founded safety technology company pioneering the future of health monitoring on the fireground. Our core innovation is an AI-powered IoT sensor system seamlessly integrated into bunker gear; it tracks real-time vitals including heart rate, cardiac rhythm, carbon monoxide exposure, and heat stress indicators; without adding steps to donning PPE, or requiring any firefighter training or handling. This data is instantly transmitted to the fire chief’s mobile data computer (MDC), enabling command to receive not only live alerts for signs of cardiac distress, toxic exposure, and heat stroke, but also predictive trends that will anticipate serious life threats before they even occur. This ability poises BunkerLink to be a first-of-its-kind industry standard. BunkerLink not only protects lives in real time; it also compiles anonymized health and exposure data straight from the fireground into a national research database, fueling the next generation of firefighter health studies. Cardiac events account for 45% of firefighter line-of-duty deaths; BunkerLink exists to change that. We are redefining the standard for operational safety, transforming bunker gear into intelligent protection systems that predict danger before it strikes.
Provenance Security akulagoyal@gmail.com (925) 413-5010 60 Hazelwood Dr. Provenance Security revolutionizes computer security by transforming how security metadata is represented, capturing the causal relationships between system events and providing a deeper understanding of threats. Utilizing advanced graph analytics, Provenance Security can dramatically reduce costs by eliminating the many false alarms plaguing legacy malware detection systems. Moreover, the company’s data representation automates fine-grained alert correlation and response and offers clear and concise explanations of attacker’s movements. As a result, threat analysts can focus on real threats – enhancing the organization’s overall security posture. Provenance Security at Research Park Provenance Security receives Catapult Award and Student Startup Tenancy
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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
AmnioAlert amnioalert@gmail.com 1800 S. Oak St. Champaign, IL Led by Carle Illinois College of Medicine student, Tessabella Magliochetti, AmnioAlert is an at-home amniotic fluid detection system built into a disposable underwear liner which provides a reliable test ensuring timely and accurate identification of labor onset. amnioalert.com AmnioAlert at Research Park AmnioAlert CEO Tessabella Magliochetti named Illinois Innovation Award finalist
ShotHawk was founded to develop an active shooter response system. The company is advancing its project through in-house prototyping and machine learning development. CEO Brandon Johnson’s experience during a devastating tornado inspired ShotHawk’s mission: “Reduce the impact left by disasters, starting with one that is man-made and plaguing society, active shootings.“ ShotHawk has developed a comprehensive security system designed to address the rising frequency of active shooter incidents, particularly at vulnerable targets. Its system not only alerts authorities but also takes proactive measures to engage the shooter, thereby providing critical additional time for safety officials to respond. Additionally, it offers real-time updates on the shooter’s location and can be deactivated by officials as they arrive. shothawkai.com
MicroMGX j-kloeber@micromgx.com 2109 S. Oak St MicroMGx’s goal is to create the most extensive library of natural products using a robust discovery platform. This library will aid in advancing new chemical compounds into early-stage pharmaceutical testing. The company’s mission is to accelerate the discovery of new chemistry from nature that can enrich and extend human life. micromgx.com MicroMGx at Research Park MicroMGx Grand Opening Media Gallery iFAB Tech Hub catalyzes ‘agricultural biologicals’ innovations through growing partnerships
ForgeBee arhamilton@forgebee.buzz60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL ForgeBee develops automated systems for producing honey bees at scale, using robotics and biological research to manufacture single-use pollination units as a more cost-effective and resource-efficient alternative to traditional full-sized colonies, which are typically reused until failure.
Eleuthra Photonics kayvan.tehrani@eleuthra.co 60 Hazelwood Dr. Champaign, IL Eleuthra Photonics specializes in developing and producing rapid image-based diagnostic tools for analyzing tissue and cell samples, with a primary focus on cancer and other disease diagnoses. www.eleuthraphotonics.com Eleuthra Photonics at Research Park Eleuthra Photonics provides expertise to MarginDx project
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