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Photo: Alexa Schmitz, Ph.D. ’18, (right) co-founder and CEO of REEgen, talks with Brooke Pian, lab director at REEgen, at the Center for Life Science Ventures in Weill Hall.

September 14, 2023

REEgen Awarded $275K SBIR Grant for Rare-Earth Tech

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This August, I-Corps alumni company REEgen won a $275,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award from the NSF to further refine its technology to more sustainably extract rare-earth elements.

Cornell computer science professor Hakim Weatherspoon helping students.

September 5, 2023

Through I-Corps, Cornell Research Impacts Beyond the Lab

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For Cornell researchers developing innovative, problem-solving technologies, the work doesn’t end in the lab. Discoveries that reach the market can improve society and stimulate economic growth, and Cornell’s robust entrepreneurial ecosystem is there to support innovators who want to make an impact with their research.

Photo: teams in the 2023 BIO Regional Course

August 17, 2023

BioTech Innovators Engage with Customers at BIO

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This June, a group of researchers developing biotechnology innovations conducted customer discovery interviews at the 2023 BIO International Convention (BIO) in Boston through a tailored I-Corps regional course hosted by the Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub (IN I-Corps).

June 20, 2023

AvantGuard Closes $2.85 Million Seed Funding Round

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I-Corps alumni company AvantGuard (formerly Halomine) recently closed a $2.85 million seed funding round with investments from Blue Ledge Capital, SOSV, LaunchNY, and Red Bear Angels.

May 23, 2023

Energy Researchers Perform Customer Discovery at ARPA-E Summit

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The Interior Northeast I-Corps Hub (IN I-Corps) led a specialized regional course for energy researchers in March 2023 that involved tailored virtual entrepreneurship training, followed by sponsored travel to Washington, D.C. for the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit.

February 10, 2023

Exotanium Secures $12 Million in Series A Funding

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Exotanium, an I-Corps alumni startup offering a cloud resource optimization and management platform, announced that it secured $12 million in a Series A funding round.

February 6, 2023

Innovators Explore Product-Market Fit of Tech in Ag-Corps

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Ag-Corps teams connected with potential customers at the 2023 American Farm Bureau Federation Convention to explore the product-market fit of their ag tech innovations.

Doctoral student Shikhar Prakash, right, and Madhur Srivastava, assistant research professor in chemistry and chemical biology, work at a white board in the Physical Sciences Building.

January 27, 2023

I-Corps Alumni Give Consumers More Control Over Energy Use

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What if consumers had more control over their energy consumption and utility costs? A new app and subscription-based payment plan piloted by I-Corps alumni is designed to provide electricity users with information about – and incentives to reduce – their usage.

The GEM Fellows cohort poses in front of a large picture window.

November 4, 2022

GEM Fellows I-Corps Course Celebrates Diversity and Inclusion in Entrepreneurship

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The National GEM Consortium teamed up with I-Corps to provide an exclusive entrepreneurial course for deep-tech innovators from underrepresented groups.

October 14, 2022

I-Corps Alum Engineers Bacteria to Make Green Energy Tech Cleaner

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Alexa Schmitz and Sean Medin, co-founders of I-Corps alumni startup REEgen, are using biological engineering to make the extraction and purification of rare earth elements more environmentally friendly.