START.nano is MIT.nano's hard-tech startup accelerator program. The following are companies that are participating in START.nano.
Acorn Genetics
Acorn Genetics is developing the smartphone of sequencing, launching the power of genetic analysis out of slow, centralized labs and into the hands of consumers for fast, portable, and affordable sequencing.
Active Surfaces
Active Surfaces is redefining solar with its flexible solar modules, offering a critical opportunity for domestic energy security and supply chain resilience.
Addis Energy
Addis Energy leverages oil, gas, and geothermal drilling technologies to unlock the chemical potential of iron-rich rocks. By injecting engineered fluids, we harness the earth’s natural energy to produce ammonia that is both abundant and cost-effective.
Analog Photonics
Analog Photonics is advancing the future with LiDAR and Optical Communications technology through our proprietary silicon photonics platform.
AugMend Health
A behavioral health companion that enables better patient flow, data and care for your clinic.
Axoft
Axoft is developing brain implants made from soft, flexible materials that reduce injury and could treat disorders such as cerebral palsy.
BioSens8
BioSens8 is engineering a live data stream of our health state. Sensing a multitude of biomarkers continuously and in real-time with novel wearables will open the door to health ownership, personalized medicine, and proactive, data-driven decisions.
Brightlight Photonics
The goal of Brightlight is to bring transformative change to photonics technologies via integrated Titanium:Sapphire lasers.
Cahira Technologies
Autonomous, non-surgical neural implants creating the new paradigm of brain computer symbiosis for treating intractable diseases and human augmentation.
Casimir, Inc.
Casimir is on a mission to transform the energy landscape though the innovative application of power generating nanotechnology interacting with quantum fields.
Central Spiral
Central Spiral enables the compression of any type of data, including already compressed data, creating a new paradigm in storage and data transfer efficiency across all industries.
Copernic Catalysts
Copernic Catalysts is leveraging computational modeling to develop and commercialize transformational catalysts for low-cost production of sustainable chemicals and e-fuels.
Daqus Energy
Daqus Energy is pioneering next-generation lithium-ion batteries with high-performance, metal-free organic cathodes made from earth-abundant elements.
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.
FabuBlox
FabuBlox is a design and data management platform connecting the nanofabrication world.
Guardion
Guardion is making analytical instruments, chemical detectors, and radiation detectors more sensitive, portable, and easier to scale with nanomaterial-based ion detectors.
Mantel Capture
Our carbon capture materials are designed to operate at the high temperatures found inside boilers, kilns, and furnaces – enabling highly efficient carbon capture that has not been possible until now.
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.
Metal Fuels
Metal Fuels is making it possible for industrial waste aluminum to become onsite energy and high value aluminum/aluminum-oxide powders.
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.
nOhm Devices
nOhm Devices is developing highly-efficient cryogenic electronics for quantum computers and sensors.
PolyJoule
PolyJoule, Inc. is an energy storage startup pioneering conductive polymer battery technology, providing a cost-effective, safer path to 21st-century electrification: at urban load centers, remote outposts, and anywhere in-between.
Rheyo (formerly T33 Dental)
We’re MIT engineers with a sweet tooth—developing new ways to make dental care more effective, efficient, and easy through advanced materials and technology.
Quantum Formatics
Speeding discovery of the world’s next superconductors using proprietary AI.
Quantum Networking Technologies (Qunett)
Qunett is developing scalable hardware solutions for quantum device connectivity that seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure to enable deployable quantum networks.
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
RAR, or Random Anti-Reflection, is a novel nanotechnology solution for reducing external reflections, providing many unique benefits compared to industry standard alternatives.
Vertical Semiconductor
Commercializing high-voltage, high-density vertical GaN to power the next era of compute.
VioNano Innovations
VioNano is enabling tomorrow's AI by redefining precision and efficiency in semiconductor manufacturing. We provide specialty material solutions that allow chipmakers to build smaller, faster, and more cost-effective chips.
Startup companies that have graduated from START.nano:
3D Architech
3D Architech is a metal 3D printing technology company developing a gel-to-metal conversion technology.
Advanced Silicon Group
Advanced Silicon Group’s biosensors promise to revolutionize testing and measurement in the life sciences. ASG’s biosensors offer 15x cost and time reduction over existing approaches and the ability to measure many protein concentrations simultaneously.
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 (acquired by Google Quantum AI)
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.
Ememe
Building an expressive gaming platform in which AI, motion capture, and large-language models to automatically generate expressive, realistic non-player characters and storylines.
Finwave Semiconductor
Finwave Semiconductor is shaping the future through a new breakthrough transistor designed to optimize the potential of Gallium Nitride.
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.
Micromize
Micromize, Inc is developing novel miniaturized, environment-friendly, and energy-efficient electronics for mobile and wearable devices.
Rectify Pharmaceuticals
Rectify is developing small molecule disease-modifying therapeutics for patients with serious ABC transporter mediated diseases.
SiPhox
SiPhox is merging biochemistry and photonic chip technology to enable ubiquitous point-of-need and at-home diagnostics.
Transaera
Transaera is developing a new class of affordable, energy-efficient, environmentally-friendly cooling systems.