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Caltech Startups
Caltech has been extremely active in the formation of technology
start-up companies wholly or partly based on technology
developed at Caltech and JPL. Caltech has received equity
in more than 80 companies since OTT was founded in 1995.
Below is a partial list of Caltech startups.
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | Michael Harris |
Year Formed | 2005 |
Industry | Paid Web Search Marketing |
Target Market | Companies using Internet PPC (Pay-Per-Click) Marketing |
Website | www.adapt.com |
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Arithmos - acquired by STMicroelectronics |
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Arithmos Inc., founded in Santa Clara, California in 1993, is a specialty semiconductor company that creates advanced silicon solutions for the flat-panel display industry and its markets. The company's innovative technology and products are sold and licensed to leading PC manufacturers, flat panel display manufacturers, LCD panel makers, and graphic controller IC manufacturers. Arithmos was acquired by ST Microelectronics in 1999.
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Location | Irvine, CA |
C.E.O. | Brett Butler |
Year Formed | 2002 |
Industry | RF CMOS Semiconductors |
Target Market | Wireless Telecom |
Website | www.axiom-micro.com |
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Corporate Overview Founded in 2002 with patented breakthrough technology developed at the California Institute of Technology, Axiom Microdevices is the first company to use commodity complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes to produce fully integrated power amplifiers for the cellular telephone market. This technology creates breakthroughs in cost reduction and integration. Axiom has assembled a diverse team of recognized leaders who focus on providing the best product with the highest quality and support to its worldwide customer base.
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | John Petrovich |
Year Formed | 2005 |
Industry | Biopharmaceuticals |
Website | www.calandopharma.com |
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Calando Pharmaceuticals is focused on designing, developing and commercializing new RNAi (RiboNucleic acid Interference) therapeutics to treat and cure diseases and other medical conditions by combining effective RNAi therapeutics with our patented and proprietary delivery technologies. We intend to develop our own RNAi therapeutics, and will also partner with selected pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to commercialize this biological breakthrough.
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | Daniel M. Schwartz |
Year Formed | 2000 |
Industry | Ophthalmology |
Target Market | Cataract Patients |
Website | www.calhounvision.com |
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Clinical MicroSensors - acquired by Motorola, Inc. |
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Clinical Microsensors (CMS), a high technology spin-off of the California Institute of Technology, is developing DNA detection units and disposable chip cartridges, combining open platform design and advanced molecular electronic technology in convenient benchtop and hand-held formats. The CMS eSensorTM technology is poised to set new standards for rapid, cost-effective genetic analysis in health care, agriculture, food safety, animal health and breeding, and environmental monitoring.
In June of 2000, CMS was acquired with its eSensor™ DNA Detection System, by the Life Sciences Division of Motorola.
Coelacanth, acquired by Lexicon Pharmaceuticals |
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Coelacanth was founded to use proprietary chemistry technologies to rapidly discover new chemical entities for drug development. It was acquired by Lexicon Pharmeceuticals to form the core for a new division to combine Lexicon's novel, functionally defined targets from the human genome with Coelacanth Corporation's high performance chemistry technologies to discover new drugs.
Cyrano Sciences, Inc., acquired by Smiths Group, PLC |
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Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Corp. (DMFC) |
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | Carl Kukkonen |
Year Formed | 2006 |
Industry | Fuel Cells |
Target Market | Portable electronics, sutch as laptops and cell phones |
Website | www.dmfcc.com |
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Eviews Safety Systems, Inc. |
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Location | Agoura Hills, CA |
C.E.O. | Jim Davidson |
Year Formed | 2002 |
Industry | Transportation/Emergency Response |
Target Market | Municipalities |
Website | www.eviewsinc.com/ |
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Location | Monrovia, CA |
C.E.O. | Steven Low |
Year Formed | 2006 |
Industry | High Speed Internet |
Target Market | Companies that use heavily use data transfer |
Website | www.fastsoft.com |
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Fluidigm (previously Mycometrix) |
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Location | San Francisco, California |
C.E.O. | Stephen Quake |
Year Formed | 2000 |
Industry | Microfluidics |
Website | www.fluidigm.com/ |
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Fulcrum Microsystems, Inc. (ADD, Inc.) |
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Location | Calabasas, CA |
C.E.O. | Bob Nunn |
Year Formed | 2001 |
Industry | Datacom |
Target Market | Ethernet hardware developers |
Website | www.fulcrummicro.com/ |
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GeneOhm Sciences, Inc. - acquired by BD Diagnostics |
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | Mathew Peters |
Year Formed | 2005 |
Website | www.gevo.com |
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High Tower Software, Inc. |
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Location | Aliso Viejo, CA |
C.E.O. | Cleve Adams |
Year Formed | 1997 |
Industry | Network Security |
Target Market | Business IT Departments |
Website | www.high-tower.com/ |
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Location | Monrovia, CA |
Year Formed | 2001 |
Industry | CCD & CMOS Image Sensors |
Website | www.imagerlabs.com/ |
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Location | Seattle, WA |
C.E.O. | William Colleran |
Year Formed | 2000 |
Industry | RFID, Semiconductor Cores |
Target Market | RFID Tag & System Manufacturers, Chip Manufacturers |
Website | www.impinj.com |
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Insert Therapeutics, Inc. |
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | John Petrovich |
Year Formed | 2000 |
Industry | Drug Delivery |
Target Market | Pharmaceutical manufacturers/Drug discovery |
Website | www.insertt.com |
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Location | Zurich, Switzerland |
C.E.O. | Didier Cowling |
Year Formed | 2002 |
Industry | Biomedical |
Target Market | Hospitals and other medical care providers |
Website | www.kuros.ch/ |
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Kuros Therapeutics - acquired by Straumann AG |
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Location | Zurich, Switzerland |
C.E.O. | Dr. Didier Cowling |
Industry | Biomedical |
Target Market | Hospitals and other medical care providers |
Website | www.kuros.ch/ |
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Liquidmetal Technologies (formerly Amorphous Tech.) |
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Luxtera Inc. (was Simulant, Inc.) |
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Location | Carlsbad, CA |
C.E.O. | Alex Dickinson |
Year Formed | 2001 |
Industry | Fiber Optics, Data Networking |
Website | www.luxtera.com/ |
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Medical Technologies International, Inc. |
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Location | Palm Desert, CA |
C.E.O. | Gary F. Thompson |
Year Formed | 2001 |
Industry | Heart Diagnostics |
Website | www.i-mti.com/ |
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MTI centers around a product designed to image patients arteries. This technology, the CIMT (carotid intima-media thickness) test gives clinicians an image of a patients carotid artery, allowing the clinician to detect plaque buildup, which could lead to heart attack or stroke. This test is designed to detect atherosclerosis, the leading cause of death in the United States.
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Location | Arcadia, CA |
C.E.O. | Chuck Seitzw |
Year Formed | 2005 |
Industry | High Performance Networking |
Website | www.myri.com/ |
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Location | Palo Alto, CA |
C.E.O. | Calvin Chow |
Year Formed | 2001 |
Industry | Nanotechnology |
Website | www.nanosysinc.com/ |
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Neurion Pharmaceuticals, Inc |
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | William Robbins |
Year Formed | 2003 |
Industry | Drug Discovery |
Website | www.neurionpharma.com |
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Next Dimension Technologies |
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Oak Grove Systems, Inc. - acquired by Seagull Software |
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | Lute Maleki |
Year Formed | 2000 |
Industry | Signal Testing Devices |
Website | www.oewaves.com/ |
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Omnicorder Technologies, Inc., acquired by Advanced BioPhotonics |
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Location | Monrovia, CA |
C.E.O. | Christophe Moser |
Year Formed | 2000 |
Industry | Optical Filter Technology |
Website | www.ondax.com/ |
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Pacific NanoTechnologies (was Pacific Scanning Corporation) |
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Location | Newport Beach, CA |
C.E.O. | Gordon Wanlass |
Year Formed | 2005 |
Industry | Acoustic and Power Amplifiers |
Target Market | Speaker System Developers |
Website | www.powerphysics.com |
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Location | South San Francisco, CA |
C.E.O. | Susan M. Molineaux |
Year Formed | 2003 |
Industry | Biopharmaceutics |
Website | www.proteolix.com/ |
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QWIP Technologies LLC - acquired by Cantronic |
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RAINfinity, acquired by EMC |
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Location | Pasadena, CA |
C.E.O. | Thomas Jahn |
Year Formed | 2006 |
Industry | Fuel Cells |
Target Market | Automotive, small stationary/residential, and portable electronics power markets |
Website | www.superprotonic.com |
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Vasgene Therapeutics, Inc. (was VBI-Vascular Biology Institute) |
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Vestar, acquired by Nexstar |
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Volcano Therapeutics - IPO |
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Wavestream Wireless Technologies |
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Xponent (was cQuint/Aleph Lightgate) |
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