AgZen is an MIT Varanasi Group spinout pioneering feedback-optimized agriculture – a new approach that allows farmers to use 30-90% less pesticides and fertilizers while achieving 1-10% more yield. Since the advent of large-scale chemical usage in agriculture, farmers have been forced to apply pesticides and fertilizers with a blindfold on. Despite relying on droplets or granules to deliver chemistry to a target – no one has ever measured how many droplets end up on the plants or how many granules make it to a particular patch of soil. After more than a decade of research, AgZen is finally taking the blindfold off with patented products that measure and optimize every drop of pesticide and every granule of fertilizer. In doing so, AgZen creates a data layer that allows growers to improve returns in real-time and brings value to the entire direct ag-input industry – from OEMs and chemical companies to regulators and crop insurance providers. In 2024, growers across the US leased and bought AgZen’s first commercial product – RealCoverage, which helped them save 30-50% on their fungicide, insecticide, and herbicide costs on over 65,000 acres of row crops. RealCoverage’s launch was covered extensively by news outlets such as MIT News, The Economist, Fortune, Forbes, and TechCrunch.
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CoFlo Medical reimagines biologic injections. We are changing what’s possible for patients, doctors, and drug developers!
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Alsym™ Energy has developed an innovative, low-cost, high-performance rechargeable energy storage technology that’s free of lithium and cobalt and ideal for a range of stationary storage use cases, including utility grids, home storage, microgrids, industrial applications, and more. This will be followed by future products for marine applications and EVs including two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and passenger vehicles. Alsym batteries are non-flammable and non-toxic by design, and are built using readily available materials with robust, uncomplicated supply chains.
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Infinite Cooling is an award-winning startup and our mission is simple: to mitigate water scarcity around the world. It helps power plants and other industrial processes dramatically reduce their water consumption and water treatment costs by recovering water from their cooling tower exhausts.
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LiquiGlide is the first company to create permanently wet slippery surfaces. There is no other durable solution that makes viscous liquids slide easily. From oil and gas, to better packaging for consumer goods, to high tech medical equipment, LiquiGlide custom develops slippery surfaces for any viscous liquid. Because each coating is unique, LiquiGlide can be applied safely across consumer and industrial sectors.
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DropWise is developing innovative vapor-based coating processes for durable hydrophobic nanocoatings that eliminate the buildup of condensate on heat exchangers, boosting efficiencies of a wide range of thermal fluid systems including power generation, desalination, chemical refining, and HVAC/R. Through retrofit in-place application of extremely durable ultra-thin films with tunable properties, DropWise coatings can significantly reduce capital and operating costs of thermal fluidic systems.
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