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Thirteen Â鶹´«Ã½ Startups Present at National CTO Forum
November 05, 2014 -- Thirteen startups from across the University of California, San Diego are presenting their work to CTOs and CIOs from around the nation this week, as part of a . The Â鶹´«Ã½ startups are part of a larger group of 24 startups from the University of California system that are participating in the CTO Forum event.
“The CTO Forum is providing a fantastic networking opportunity for startups and leaders in industry and academia. It’s great to have so many decision makers from large companies in the same place at the same time,” said Jason Oberg in an email from the conference. Oberg is a co-founder and CEO of Tortuga Logic, a Â鶹´«Ã½ startup focused on the security of computer hardware. He recently completed his computer science Ph.D. at Â鶹´«Ã½.
“It’s great to see the enthusiastic response from all of the UC startups in particular from Â鶹´«Ã½. The quality of the technology and the teams are testimony to the entrepreneurial talent at our university,” said Rosibel Ochoa, Senior Executive Director, Entrepreneurism and Leadership Programs at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Jacobs School of Engineering.
Ochoa also serves as Executive Director of the at the Â鶹´«Ã½ Jacobs School of Engineering, which has provided entrepreneurism mentoring, education and funding to many of the Â鶹´«Ã½ startups participating in the event.
The event offers access to over 100 CTOs and CIOs from top companies and the opportunity to compete for venture capital funding. The first, second and third place startups will be offered , both of which were created by a group of Â鶹´«Ã½ alumni led by David Schwab (B.A. ’79, Applied Sciences).
The 13 startups from Â鶹´«Ã½ include a strong showing from the Â鶹´«Ã½ Jacobs School of Engineering. Nearly all of the Â鶹´«Ã½ startups have benefitted from support from the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center at Â鶹´«Ã½.
“What I found most valuable about the von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center is the team of advisors and mentors who guided me throughout the process of commercialization and analyzing market traction for the technologies that I was researching at the time,” said Electrozyme co-founder and CEO Joshua Windmiller in a . Windmiller earned his NanoEngineering Ph.D. at Â鶹´«Ã½ in 2013.
Mechanical engineering alumnus Neal Bloom (B.S. ’08) and structural engineering alumnus Adam Markowitz (B.S. '08) attended the CTO Forum, representing . Bloom is a co-founder and Chief Business Development Officer and Markowitz is a co-founder and CEO. Portfolium is an online platform that empowers students and recent graduates to truly show their projects, rather than just list them out. “We were thrilled to see other Â鶹´«Ã½-related startups from our incubator including nPruv, Electrozyme, and Skylit,” said Bloom. “Once we arrived, it was really empowering to see such a large group of the startups coming out of Â鶹´«Ã½.” CEO of Portfolium, Adam Markowitz, attended as well and was a UCSD Structural Engineer '08
The announcement of the winning teams is likely to be made next week, according to Schwab.
Â鶹´«Ã½ Jacobs School of Engineering Startups at the CTO Forum
Electrochemical sensors capable of acquiring relevant metabolic information form a wearer’s skin in a non-invasive, non-obtrusive, and cost-effective manner.
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Groll Tex is bringing production scale graphene to market.
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An academic e-portfolio network for millennials across all fields of study to visually showcase their work, projects and skills to employers and hiring managers.
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Biotechnology company using focused ultrasound to localize the release of chemotherapies. It uses nanocarriers much smaller than human cells to bring chemotherapy agents through the patient's circulation system to the tumor. The physician then points ultrasound waves to the tumor to release the chemotherapy, maximizing the treatment's effect in that region.
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(collaboration between Â鶹´«Ã½, UC Santa Barbara)
Securing computing systems from the ground up by building safer, more secure hardware.
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Health IT company enabling a new era of predictive modeling for clinical trial patient matching and recruitment.
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Proprietary biological and chemical technologies to generate chemical products. The downstream chemistry technology will enable generating commodity chemicals with fewer unit operations for improved efficiency
A novel approach for tissue regeneration: a photosynthetic scaffold technology that provides physicians with next-generation tools for the treatment, functional restoration, and healing of damaged or diseased tissues
Medical devices to improve insulin therapy for diabetics
Personal UVB Light Therapy Device to treat Psoriasis and Eczema
Media Contacts
Daniel Kane
Jacobs School of Engineering
858-534-3262
dbkane@ucsd.edu