Startup Village to showcase 31 spinout companies
Startup Village will showcase 31 of the most promising spinout companies from UC Santa Barbara, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and California Lutheran University. They will be interacting with sponsors and guests from 3:30-5:30 p.m. March 24 at the Bacara Resort & Spa in Santa Barbara, prior to the inaugural Central Coast Innovation Awards.
Startup Village companies
Acelot is a life science based R&D company focusing on advanced technology for drug discovery. This technology is made available both as an easy-to-use, web-based drug discovery platform, as well as employed in-house for a number of drug-discovery projects in the central nervous system area. www.acelot.com
ActiveLife is a Santa Barbara-based company that invents and delivers technology to enable active living. Customers and collaborators include world leaders working to transform the way injuries and diseases are prevented, diagnosed and treated. OsteoProbe Reference Point Indenter, its flagship product, is the first and only measure of bone material strength. The OsteoProbe solution is positioned to become the frontline decision-making tool for human and equine bone health assessment. www.activelifescientific.com
Apeel Sciences creates products from natural plant extracts that allow growers to reduce reliance on pesticides, increase produce quality and extend shelf life even when optimal temperature control is not possible. Apeel’s products work by fortifying the surfaces of fresh produce with an ultra-thin barrier, which protects against water loss and oxidation. www.apeelsciences.com
App Scrolls is dedicated to creating engaging and entertaining web communities for individual mobile games by connecting users, nurturing influencers and educating users on the best game play tactics. It partners with top game companies and their games so that it has the largest audience and opportunity for monetization. www.gameofwarrealtips.com
Aptitude Medical Systems is a product engine that is developing a new range of therapeutics and diagnostics through breakthrough aptamer technology. Aptitude’s products will enable more effective detection and treatment of critical disorders, including cancer, autoimmune disease, heart disease and eye disease. www.aptitudemedical.com
Boost Acquisition is an actionable data analytics company. Its proprietary technology captures known in-market consumer prospects and provides insights at a national and hyper-local level for the auto industry. www.boostacquisition.com
The Bottlefly has created a patent-pending method for tracking consumer preferences in sensory-based products. The technology is powered by flavor chemistry, machine learning and a comprehensive dual-taste preference system which allows it to provide recommendations with incredible accuracy. www.thebottlefly.com
Caugnate develops mobile augmented reality software to help people collaborate remotely on physical tasks. Using 3D modeling and shared annotations, Caugnate makes the remote interaction more natural and efficient, leading to faster, more effective problem solving, reduced travel and service costs, and happy customers. www.caugnate.com
Cayuga Biotech is a startup company developing a commercially viable nanotherapeutic drug to treat both internal and external hemorrhages. It envisions the product as a universal hemostat able to generate clots in all bleeding cases — compressible, non-compressible and internal injuries — while minimizing the risk of side effects. www.cayugabiotech.com
Click2Jet provides charter users with access to real pricing for specific aircraft flying specific routes from an exclusive network of contracted charter operators. www.click2jet.com
Edufii’s goal is to create the best digital coaching tool in the world. The company has tackled the struggle of juggling different applications from data tracking to progress measurement to feedback. Edufii TrainingSpaces brings all of it together into a single place, which helps create a bigger picture for coaches and athletes. www.edufii.com
FarmSolutions is an agricultural technology company providing leading-edge solutions for irrigation, task management and image analysis. Its expertise in precision agriculture coupled with proven success in technology development has enabled it to create advanced solutions and deliver superior service. www.farmsolutions.com
Fluency Lighting Technologies is an early-stage startup creating next-generation bright, compact and narrow beam light sources for highly efficient and flexible design illumination. Its goal is to provide ultra-efficient light sources, surpassing the limitations of current lighting technologies and ultimately leading to new functionalities from the traditional light bulb. www.fluencylighting.com
Flume‘s connected home device provides intelligent leak detection and water management to homeowners, enabling them to prevent damage, conserve water and save money. www.flumetech.com
Higea‘s mission is to provide affordable and sustainable tools that help eliminate the detrimental effects of oceanic oil spills on the environment. Higea has developed a revolutionary technology to remediate oil spills in the most cost effective and efficient way possible. www.higeatech.com
IndieU offers a unique and valuable music platform that connects independent artists to college students. It provides students with a dynamic way to discover, share and create their own local music scene while introducing artists to a demographic that will promote and share their music. www.IndieU.com
InnoBright‘s “Altus” denoiser software saves millions of dollars in rendering costs for animation studios, commercial visual effects (VFX) studios, gaming companies, CAD/CAM, scientific visualization and architectural/engineering (A/E) firms. Its patent-protected filtering algorithm plugs into existing Monte Carlo rendering systems, allows customers to render less and produce high quality output 200 percent to 1200 percent faster. www.innobright.com
LiveWire Innovation is a technology company that uses a patented technique called SSTDR to monitor, detect and locate electrical faults in live systems. This enables system operators and equipment manufacturers to see into their electrical systems while in use and provides the benefits of increased revenues, reduced maintenance costs and safer, more reliable operating environments. www.livewireinnovation.com
Milo is the world’s first wearable blood alcohol sensor that pairs with your smartphone. Its revolutionary technology monitors blood alcohol in real-time and lets you know when you’ll be back to sober. www.milosensor.com
NEXT’s mission is to transform windows and glass facades into producers of low-cost, on-site, renewable energy for buildings. NEXT windows can help dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, which are responsible for almost half of global greenhouse gas emissions. www.nextenergytech.com
ParentSquare is a simple and secure platform for school-to-home communication. The two-way messaging, online participation and simple user interface keeps everyone connected and engaged, creating a vibrant school community. www.parentsquare.com
PiMEMS leads the world in using titanium and other metal to make Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) devices. PiMEMS utilizes the power of titanium strength to construct MEMS devices that offer thin, light and reliable technologies to aerospace, environment, microelectronics and bio-medical applications. It owns eight patents on micro/nano machining of bulk titanium substrate and Ti-MEMS packaging. www.PiMEMS.com
Reduce. Reuse. Grow. produces 100 percent compostable packaging products for coffee shops and cafes. Through its trademarked RestorationTM product line, it plants a plant at a local restoration site with each product sold. Reduce. Reuse. Grow. is bringing the “one for one” concept of consuming into the packaging realm to ultimately reconnect consumers back to the products they throw away daily while reducing waste and restoring communities’ local native landscapes. www.planttrash.com
Rollocam has set out to create unique, smart, attractive portable camera accessories that empower people of any skill level to create cinematic videos. Its mission is to design and build professional quality film making equipment that is highly portable. www.rollocam.com
Salty Girl Seafood offers a line of sustainable seafood products traceable back to the fishermen or fishing community where it was caught. Its seafood is portioned and pre-marinated with healthy recipes to make choosing and preparing seafood simple. Salty Girl believes that everyone has the right to accurate information about their seafood and supports the fishermen and communities that promote sustainable practices around the world. www.saltygirlseafood.com
SeatSurf allows users to find affordable rides to music festivals and events and backpack across the USA. www.seatsurf.co
ShadowMaps offers cloud services related to the localization of mobile devices. Its approach applies cutting edge machine learning algorithms to GPS satellite signal data to create a real-time solution for high accuracy urban positioning. www.shadowmaps.com
SoraaLaser is commercializing a new generation of visible laser sources for display, automotive and specialty applications. As an independent spin-off from Soraa Inc. (LED lighting), SoraaLaser was founded by several leading global pioneers in solid-state lighting, including Shuji Nakamura, the 2014 Nobel Laureate in Physics. www.soraalaser.com
Spectradyne designs, manufactures, and sells revolutionary scientific instrumentation that measures the size and concentration of nanoparticles in liquids quickly and with higher resolution than existing instruments. While Spectradyne’s nanoparticle analysis platform is applicable to any industry that utilizes nanotechnology, initial target markets are in biopharmaceuticals, nanomedicine and vaccine delivery. www.SpectradyneLLC.com
ViQi is a cloud solutions provider for big image data analysis, management and visualization for life sciences, agriculture, construction, and other industries with massive and complex analysis needs. ViQi makes it easy to create secure and scalable workflows based on multi-dimensional images and metadata that require advanced visualization, machine learning and multi-modal datasets. www.viqi.org.
Wild Coast Spirits are hand-crafted with the fruits and herbs that define west coast life and can stand up to any California adventure. www.wildcoastspirits.com
