Prior Tenants

DefineQA, Inc. uses low-powered, acoustic microfluidics for portable diagnostics. With roots in information technology including web development and cloud computing, the company introduces an advanced level of diagnostic monitoring.

More than two million survivors of stroke are living in the U.S. with substantial upper extremity impairment but with little appropriate technology to exercise their arms and hands at home. Hundreds of thousands of other people with high-level spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, muscular dystrophies, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and cerebral palsy are in a similar situation. Flint has developed prototypes of devices for exercising the arm and hand that show great promise for providing engaging, intense, effective home-based therapy.

Garblecloud Inc. is a small, fairly new computer software & application development company started in Riverside, California. It opened in 2013 and now has an estimated $78,000 in yearly revenue and 1 employee.

GK Materials is commercializing a biomimetic approach to new dynamic self-healing nanocomposite materials that can spontaneously repair themselves after mechanical damage. The modular synthesis from off-the-shelf components and programmable emergent multifunctionality inherent to the design makes GK’s system highly promising for the development of commercial self-healing materials with dramatically improved safety, lifetime, energy efficiency, and environmental impact, for a wide range of applications, including aerospace.
Background
The ability to spontaneously heal injury is a key biomaterial feature that increases the survivability and lifetime of most plants and animals. In sharp contrast, synthetic materials usually fail after damage or fracture. In pursuit of self-healing synthetic materials, research groups have employed additive, healing agent, and external triggering strategies, each resulting in price/performance compromises that prevent commercial viability.
Technology Description
In our new dynamic nanocomposite self-healing material design, we program extensive dynamic supramolecular connections (hydrogen bonds) into the soft phase of a hard-soft nanocomposite microstructure. In contrast to conventional nanocomposites, in which static connectivity in the soft matrix prevents self-healing after damage, the dynamic polyvalent hydrogen bonds in our design can rupture and re-form quantitatively after damage without healing agents or external stimuli, affording spontaneous, multi-cycle self-healing properties. Crucially, superior nanocomposite mechanical properties (stiffness AND toughness) are combined with dynamic self-healing properties of robust H-bonding networks.

Neptune Diagnostics launch product B&F Alert is a PCR based diagnostic that provides advance warning of “on-coming” bulking and foaming events in Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs). B&F Alert allows WWTP to take preventative action, to avoid extra economic costs, maximize energy recovery, save headaches and management time. B&F Alert, if widely accepted has the potential to end bulking and foaming which has plagued the industry since its inception, as well as help building more sustainable wastewater facilities.

Praxis BioSciences, LLC was founded June 2010. The startup company currently includes Otolayngology-Head & Neck surgeons and research scientists who have close ties to UCI medicine.

Shoelace Wireless develops cooperative networking technologies that allow a mobile user to aggregate and utilize all available wireless connections, including those on mobile phones as well as those of other nearby phones, to download content fast, reliably and at low cost. The company’s approach is software-based and requires no changes to the current infrastructure.

SRCH2 is the first tenant to move into TechPortal originally as BiMaple. It’s technology is based on UCI research led by Chen Li, professor in the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. The company was incorporated in 2008. SRCH2 produces a proprietary search engine, which uses in-memory algorithms to support ultra-fast instant search on large amounts of data.

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (Shrink), with its subsidiaries, is commercializing biotechnology and other know-how and related products, from universities and medium to commercial businesses. The Company has also undertaken a program to seek to acquire small companies with developed and ready-to-go-to-market products, intellectual property portfolios, management and operational infrastructure. The Company’s business consists of four operating units: cell culturing products, microfluidic systems and kits, special substrates, and internal development and acquisitions.

Tear Diagno LLC develops and markets innovative ophthalmic diagnostics and cataract surgical devices. TearDiagno aims to protect ophthalmological health through two innovative technologies: FASIC tear film thickness measurements, and SLIC blood flow measurements.

Our IC 3D® platform has been engineered to deliver enrichment-free analytical results in minutes for testing of pathogenic agents, such as bacteria, viruses, genes and cancer biomarkers. In addition to the high-sensitivity our system has been designed to process crude samples eliminating the laborious steps involved in traditional biochemical analysis such as centrifugation, pipetting and filtration. Our technology has the potential to improve patient outcomes by providing healthcare professionals the most relevant and accurate information quickly and reduce healthcare costs by lowering patient re-visits.

ZeroWatt Technologies has developed a disruptive technology which promises to significantly reduce the power consumption of one of the most challenging and power-hungry building blocks of many electronic systems: the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). ZeroWatt’s proprietary technology can reduce the power of ADCs by a factor of up to 10 compared to existing ADC solutions, reduce form factor by ½, while lowering the product cost by as much as 2 times. The technology is based on research led by Payam Heydari, an electrical engineering and computer science professor at UCI.