START.nano is MIT's hard-tech accelerator program. Following are companies invited to participate since 2021:
3D Architech
3D Architech is a metal 3D printing technology company developing a gel-to-metal conversion technology.
Active Surfaces
Active Surfaces solves revolutionizes solar power with ultra-light, thin modules.
Advanced Silicon Group
ASG’s LightSense™ biosensor can simultaneously measure the concentration of many proteins and is fast, simple, inexpensive to use, lowering the barriers for protein sensing. This innovation has numerous potential applications that can help enable broad access to better health care for everyone.
Atantares
Transform medicine with smart chips. Digital chips provide precise program control and provide high-throughput, long-fragment, low-cost, and high-fidelity DNA sequences for synthesis technology.
Atlantic Quantum
Atlantic Quantum is eliminating the barriers to quantum computing by putting quality first—focusing on excellent engineering, making advances in superconducting qubit technology, and deploying scalable hardware architecture.
Axoft
Axoft is developing brain implants made from soft, flexible materials that reduce injury and could treat disorders such as cerebral palsy.
Azztek One
Azztek One is an MIT deep-tech startup focused on developing novel chemical sensor technology by combining in-house R&D with strategically licensed intellectual property assets.
Cambridge Electronics
As specialists in connectors and everything related to them, Cambridge Electronic Industries designs and manufactures its own connectors and acts as distributor for the world’s best-known connector manufacturers.
Electrified Thermal
Electrified Thermal Solutions is re-inventing the firebrick to electrify industrial heat.
Eva Technology
Eva is developing 100X performance analog AI training solutions to replace energy-hungry graphic processing units (GPUs) and enable sustainable large-scale training model development.
Impact Photonics
Impact Photonics engineers open-source and cost-effective scientific instrumentation that makes the best out of photons.
Intellia Therapeutics
Intellia’s researchers work to harness CRISPR-based genome editing technologies for human therapeutic use.
Izentis
Izentis is a research and development firm with a broad range of products and services. Izentis does custom engineering in aerospace and other disciplines, diffraction grating fabrication, custom micro and nanofabrication services and equipment, and technical and strategy consulting.
Lydian Labs
Lydian Labs applies scalable additive manufacturing techniques to build thermally-driven reactor systems that use high-efficiency electric heat as the main source of process energy to accelerate the decarbonization of the chemical industry.
Mesodyne
Mesodyne is building a new kind of power generator—the Light Cell—to enable reliable efficient, silent, and portable power generation anywhere, anytime, and from any fuel for applications ranging from unmanned drones and vehicles to sensors in remote locations, dismounted warfighters, and emergency response.
Micromize
Micromize, Inc is developing novel miniaturized, environment-friendly, and energy-efficient electronics for mobile & wearable devices.
Nanopath
Nanopath is a molecular diagnostics company disrupting traditional testing methodologies. We aim to improve the health of women by providing granular and clinically actionable information within a single office visit.
NeuroBionics
NeuroBionics has developed a new kind of neural interface using microscale, flexible, bioelectronic fibers that seamlessly integrate with the body. Each fiber integrates a range of functions, such as electrical, chemical, and optical capabilities to sense and modulate the biological environment.
NeuroNexus
NeuroNexus is a neurotechnology company that develops and commercializes neural interface technologies, instrumentation systems, and analytics and visualization software for neuroscience and clinical applications.
Rectify Pharmaceuticals
Rectify is developing small molecule disease-modifying therapeutics for patients with serious ABC transporter mediated diseases.
Sangtera
Sangtera is a startup building advanced motion systems and we're on a mission to power an AI-Powered future.
SiPhox
SiPhox is merging biochemistry and photonic chip technology to enable ubiquitous point-of-need and at-home diagnostics.
SiTration
SiTration is developing ultra-durable filtration membranes that cut energy use in challenging industrial separations by combining the low cost, extreme durability, and filtration performance of various state-of-the-art commercial membrane solutions.
TelAztec
TelAztec was founded on developing application specific microstructure designs and processes and subsequently licensing and transferring the processes to larger manufacturing companies.
Tiba Biotech
Tiba BioTech is advancing the RNA medicine field with an improved approach to nucleic acid delivery.
Transaera
Transaera is developing a new class of affordable, energy-efficient, environmentally friendly cooling systems.
WKDSMRT
WKD.SMRT was intially focused on developing a more intelligent and user-friendly “smart home.” Conversations with innovators in pharma catalyzed a refocus on harnessing these technologies to evaluate changes in function in real-life, with rich contextual understanding, as the basis for de-risking and accelerating clinical trials.