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Rony Abovitz Rony Abovitz (born 1971) is an American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of augmented reality startup Magic Leap. In October 2014, the startup raised over $540 million of venture funding from Google and other investors. In 2016, Forbes estimated that Magic Leap was worth $4.5 billion.
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Magic Leap Magic Leap is a U.S. startup company that is working on a head-mounted virtual retinal display which superimposes 3D computer-generated imagery over real world objects, by projecting a digital light field into the user's eye, involving technologies potentially suited to applications in augmented reality and computer vision. It is attempting to construct a light-field chip using silicon photonics.
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Raydiance Inc. Raydiance Inc., headquartered in Petaluma, California, was the maker of the world’s first software-controlled ultrashort pulse (USP) laser. The company was established in 2003 by Jeff Bullington and Peter Delfyett in Orlando Florida as Ablation Industries, Inc. In 2004 Ablation Industries changed its corporate name to Raydiance, Inc. and recruited Barry Schuler, former CEO of America Online (AOL), as its new CEO and Chairman of the Board. Raydiance, Inc. commercialized a fiber-based USP technology first developed in the laboratories at the University of Central Florida's College of Optics. This effort was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Raydiance introduced its first product, a desktop-sized picosecond pulse laser, in 2007. Ultrashort pulse lasers, which generate pulses in the picosecond to femtosecond range, are being used for applications in the life sciences, micromachining, imaging and diagnostics, and defense sectors. The company ceased operations in July 2015.
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Jonathan Rothberg Jonathan Marc Rothberg (born 1963) is an American scientist and entrepreneur.
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Impinj Impinj, Inc. is a manufacturer of radio-frequency identification (RFID) devices and software. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company was started based on the research done at the California Institute of Technology by Carver Mead and Chris Diorio. Impinj currently produces EPC Class 1, Gen 2 passive UHF RFID chips, RFID readers, RFID reader chips, and RFID antennas, and software applications for encoding chips, and gathering business intelligence on RFID systems.
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Ze'ev Drori Ze'ev Drori (Hebrew: זאב דרורי‎ ‎ ; born in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli-born American technology entrepreneur currently residing in California. Mr. Drori was the founder and Chief Executive of Monolithic Memories, before the company merged with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). An avid car enthusiast, he is most well known recently for having helped engineer the turnaround of struggling electric carmaker Tesla Motors as President and CEO from 2007 to 2008.
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Made In Space, Inc. Made In Space, Inc. is an American-based company, specializing in the engineering and manufacturing of three-dimensional printers for use in microgravity. Headquartered in Mountain View, California on Moffett Field, Made In Space's 3D printer (Zero-G Printer) was the first manufacturing device in space.
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Sookbox Sookbox LLC is an American, privately held, consumer electronics company that develops and sells distributed media servers. The company is based in Cambridge, MA, in proximity of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was founded in 2011 by Dave Sukoff and a group of MIT undergraduates.
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Lytro Lytro, Inc. is an American company founded in 2006 by Ren Ng which develops light-field cameras. Lytro began shipping its first generation pocket-sized camera, capable of refocusing images after being taken, in 8 GB and 16 GB versions on February 29, 2012. In April 2014, the company announced Lytro ILLUM, its second generation camera for commercial and experimental photographers. The Lytro ILLUM was released at $1,600. The ILLUM has a permanently attached 30–250mm (35mm equivalent) f/ 2.0 lens and an articulated rear screen. In the fall of 2015, Lytro changed direction, announcing Immerge, a very-high-end VR video capture camera with companion custom compute server. Immerge is expected to ship in 2016, and be useful to studios trying to combine CGI-based VR with video VR.
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Apple A4 The Apple A4 is a 32-bit package on package (PoP) system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed by Apple Inc. and manufactured by Samsung. It combines an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU with a PowerVR GPU, and emphasizes power efficiency. The chip commercially debuted with the release of Apple's iPad tablet; followed shortly by the iPhone 4 smartphone, the iPod Touch (4th generation), and the Apple TV (2nd generation). It was superseded by the Apple A5 processor used in the iPad 2 released the following year, which was then subsequently replaced by the Apple A5X processor in the iPad (3rd generation).
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Lab-on-a-chip A lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a device that integrates one or several laboratory functions on a single integrated circuit (commonly called a "chip") of only millimeters to a few square centimeters to achieve automation and high-throughput screening. LOCs can handle extremely small fluid volumes down to less than pico liters. Lab-on-a-chip devices are a subset of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) devices and sometimes called "micro total analysis systems" (µTAS). LOCs may use microfluidics, the physics, manipulation and study of minute amounts of fluids. However, strictly regarded "lab-on-a-chip" indicates generally the scaling of single or multiple lab processes down to chip-format, whereas "µTAS" is dedicated to the integration of the total sequence of lab processes to perform chemical analysis. The term "lab-on-a-chip" was introduced when it turned out that µTAS technologies were applicable for more than only analysis purposes.
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Nufront Nufront Co., Ltd. is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2004 that provides system-on-chip solutions for tablets and smartphones.
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Mike Cassidy (entrepreneur) Mike Cassidy is an American entrepreneur, and was CEO and co-founder of four previous Internet start-ups including Stylus Innovation, Direct Hit, Xfire, and Ruba.com. In January 2012, he became director of product management at Google and led Project Loon with Google[x]. In April 2017 it was reported he is working on a clean energy startup, Apollo Fusion, using a hybrid reactor technology based on fusion power.
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Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) is an American technology company that designs and manufactures semiconductors, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globally. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, United States, TI is one of the top ten semiconductor companies worldwide, based on sales volume. Texas Instruments's focus is on developing analog chips and embedded processors, which accounts for more than 85% of their revenue. TI also produces TI digital light processing (DLP) technology and education technology products including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors. To date, TI has more than 43,000 patents worldwide.
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Geoffrey Barrows Geoffrey Barrows is an American inventor and the founder of Centeye, a company that specializes in the development of insect vision for robotics. He holds a BS in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. In 2003 he was recognized as a "young innovator" by being included in the MIT Technology Review's TR100 list.
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Tavtech TAVtech Ventures Global (commonly referred to as "TAVtech"), is a global nonprofit educational and entrepreneurship organization with a presence in Israel, India, and the United States. TAVtech was founded in 2015 by several college students from NYU Stern and Harvard. One of the donors to TAVtech is Onward Israel. While offering a technical education, it provides a unique platform for cross-cultural collaboration for creating social impact start-ups.
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NovoEd NovoEd is a for-profit educational technology company, founded by Stanford University professor Amin Saberi and PhD student Farnaz Ronaghi, that partners with universities, foundations, and corporations to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) as well as small private online courses (SPOCS). Launched originally as Venture Lab, it rebranded to its present name in 2013. Like many other online learning platforms, students view lecture videos online as individuals, but NovoEd's unique selling point is that students can collaborate in small teams and submit assignments with classmates around the world. The company claims to have found success and higher completion rate with this focus on collaboration.
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Pultronics Pultronics inc. is a Canadian fabless semiconductor and software design house founded in 1994. It develops stand-alone electronic circuits, RFID tags (and readers), sensors and monitoring solutions. In addition it offers design services in several realms, ranging from microelectronics to custom IP solutions.
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Ubiquitous Energy Ubiquitous Energy, Inc. is an American solar energy startup company headquartered in Redwood City, California that designs transparent solar technology to absorb ultraviolet and near infrared light (NIR) (wavelength span of λ= 650– 850 nm) while transmitting visible light through its medium called ClearView Power . Ubiquitous Energy is a privately funded company founded in 2011 by Miles Barr, Vladimir Bulović, and Richard Lunt. Current solar power is created in solar plants that take up lots of surface area far away from where the energy is consumed. It is estimated 15% of the energy is lost during distribution. Ubiquitous Energy's technology allows large cities to be solar plants themselves by converting the windows on buildings into solar energy generators. Ubiquitous Energy is implementing its ClearView Power technology into a wide range of products as an invisible, onboard source of electricity. Some examples of these implementations include mobile devices, windows, an digital signage.
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Lit Motors Lit Motors Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that designed conceptual two-wheeled vehicles, including a fully electric, gyroscopically stabilized vehicle.
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FEI Company FEI Company (FEI) is an American company that designs, manufactures, and supports microscope technology. Headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon, FEI has over 2,800 employees and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world. Formerly listed on the NASDAQ, it is a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific.
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SatoshiPay SatoshiPay is a company that processes nanopayment transactions usually in the form of bitcoins (or smaller Bitcoin units called, "satoshis"). The company is currently developing a two-way payment platform that will allow content providers to charge consumers a small fee (as low as one satoshi or a fraction of a cent) to read, watch, or listen to content. In September 2015, the company received seed funding from British entrepreneur Jim Mellon's investment firm, Kuala Innovations.