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Health/Medical companies snapshot Powered by the F6S community

We’re tracking  Skyphos Technologies, CytoRecovery and more Health/Medical companies in Blacksburg from the F6S community. Health/Medical is the 2nd most popular industry and market group. If you’re interested in the Health/Medical market, also check out the top HealthcareHealthWellnessFitness or Healthcare IT companies.

Skyphos Technologies

Skyphos brings 3d printing to the new arena of direct POC diagnostics

Skyphos is a 3D printing service for rapid-prototyping and mass-fabrication for micro-devices used in several sciences – typically referred to as Lab-on-a-Chip or Point of Care (POC) diagnostics, microfluidics and biochips. For the last 30 years, all products were mold-based, from prototype through production. Each design revision requires a new mold, and each mold-cycle intrinsically has 90% wait time, (this cannot be removed). In a typical 5 year development cycle, 2+ years is spent just waiting for the molds to arrive, so that a lab can then begin the fabrication and experiment process.This…more

Blacksburg, United States

Founded 2017

$20k raised fromBig Launch Challenge 2018 and 3 moreSee all investors

CytoRecovery

Supporting life science research

We are bringing to market advanced microfluidic technology to enable cell biologists and other life science researchers to rapidly sort, enrich, and recover rare, homogeneous, viable cell subpopulations from tissue, blood and other biological samples. We are working to empower your laboratory with new cell separation capabilities for cell biology research. Our technology is unique in its ability to recover populations of specific cells based upon their biophysical properties in a sterile environment and without impacting the cells, enabling their maintenance and viability for further analysis …more

Blacksburg, United States

Founded 2016

$256k raised fromNational Science Foundation and 1 moreSee all investors

Cell-Free Bioinnovations, Inc.

Using enzymes to produce food and energy products from renewable feedstocks

Cell-Free Bioinnovations, Inc. (CFB) is an early-stage, university spin-out company. CFB is developing products such as energy-dense sugar batteries, low-cost bio-hydrogen, and nutraceuticals from carbohydrates (not hydrocarbons) using proprietary networks of enzymes (not whole-cell organisms).

In nutraceuticals, CFB has a proprietary process for producing pure, low-cost inositol from corn starch for only one-tenth the cost of the current standard process. We also are developing low-cost arabinose and tagatose, two functional alternative sweeteners.

As discussed in our business plan, CFB’s …more

Blacksburg, United States

Founded 2012

Athela,LLC

Startup: GermZAPP, most affordable education/tracking tool for hand washing

We make GermZAPP , a hand wash education and reward system apparatus that detects the user through temperature, wireless ID , or anonymous proximity to handwashing stations. It encourages participation through proper approved alcohol based hand sanitizer use, track success rates, and provide incentive through rewards. This system is for building habits and ownership of essential safety skills as the world returns to a new normal with heightened awareness of what is now necessary to assist in prevention and mitigation of the next pandemic. The apparatus is meant to reward, and foster health…more

Blacksburg, United States

Founded 2021

Qentoros Inc

Harnessing the power of platelets to treat orthopedic injuries

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a progressive disease characterized by chronic inflammation and cartilage destruction leading to pain, stiffness, and functional disability. In the United States, about 58 million or 22.7% people have OA.

Horses are also afflicted by OA. As in humans, the equine industry estimates that OA costs horse owners over $1 billion and is the leading cause of financial loss in racehorses. Like humans, horses suffer from naturally occurring OA and their use as athletes requires OA treatment for return of joint function.

The treatment for OA is pain management with associ…more

Blacksburg, United States

Founded 2022

$730k raised fromNational Institute of Health and 2 moreSee all investors

FluxTeq

Manufacturer of low-cost heat flux sensor and thermal measurement solutions

We manufacture low-cost heat flux sensors and thermal measurement systems for use in a variety of applications. Our systems can be used to evaluate the performance of building insulation or monitor energy loss through materials.
Another application is for fitness in that the sensors can directly measure calorie burn at a point on an athlete’s body.

Blacksburg, United States

Founded 2015

As originally posted by F6S HERE