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Besenval: Natrion's components eliminate fire risk, enabling 450-mile range and 15-minute charges
“The suite of patented battery components that we make eliminate fire risk and they can make an electric car drive as far as 450 miles on a single charge. We can charge in as little as 15 minutes.”
Young: Fabric shower liners are coated with toxic PFAS forever chemicals
“The material you're talking about it isn't, it's not cloth. It's a polyester. It's covered in what's called a DWR, durable water resistant, which is made of a PFA, which is a highly carcinogenic forever chemical. And when you stand next to it in the shower, th…”
Forenza: EEG measures mental stress much more accurately than HRV-based wearables
“Exactly, because it's a measure of HRV. We tap into the central nervous system, which is where everything originates, and so we can have much, much higher accuracy, The real time component of EEG is phenomenal. We give you a sample of your emotion every second…”
Muccio: Investor Jillian Manus convinced a portfolio company to return PPP money
“But if you listen to investor Jillian Maness, she says that the government should not be giving any help to some startups. And she even convinced one of her companies to give their PPP money back.”
Metapixel's embedded metadata survives screenshots and image cropping
“It locks in the important metadata into the image itself, so it cannot be destroyed through cropping, screenshots, anything like that.”
McGarrity: Metapixel's Watermarking Survives Screenshots, Cropping, and Compression
“And we do so by applying a proactive, survivable metamark, as we're calling it, into media. And you can think of the metamark as like an invisible fingerprint, protecting it with Permanent metadata, and it survives everything from screenshots, cropping, and co…”
Skisov: KickSense reduces karate tournament judges from five to one
“And for karate tournament organizers who want their tournaments to run smoothly and without tears, KickSense has automated competition scoring system that needs just one judge per ring instead of five that are needed today.”
Gonzalez: FitGuard's mouth placement provides highly correlated cranial impact data
“Being inside of the skull means we're physically closer. We have a better retention and coupling to the skull. So our data is just highly correlated to what the brain actually felt.”
CavSports raised $2.4M and opened Buffalo facility post-pitch
“Since the pitch, Cav launched their top secret helmet you saw on the show at the Sea Otter Classic. They also opened their new manufacturing facility in Buffalo, New York. The facility is so small, it could fit inside a Chipotle. And they ended up raising 2.4 …”
Burton: Lockstop's chain takes 65 seconds to cut through
“So it'll take us a 65 seconds to cut through the lock, or the chain, rather.”
Muccio: Over $900,000 was committed to five startups at Chicago event
“We had over 900,000 dollars committed to five startups over the course of three days.”
Galoi: Rex identified disease-resistance genes in deer and cows
“We do our own primary fundamental research in our labs so that we can find genes that correlate with disease resistance. And I'm proud to say we've actually found some genes after completing a few genomes in the white-tailed deer and looking at the cow, and so…”
Rex Animal Health identifies disease-resistance genes in deer and cows
“We've actually found some genes after completing a few genomes in the white-tailed deer and looking at the cow, and so we're in the midst of publishing that in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.”
Dopl tested remote robotic system between Houston and Seattle over 5G
“We actually did a test from Houston to Seattle over T-Mobile's, five G network.”
Ghai: UCSB deployed Nectar to 26,000 students for $60,000 annually
“A year later, we got all 26,000 students at UCSB using Nectar in almost every single class, with the instructors being the champion of it. And we got UCSB to pay us 60,000 dollars a year for it, so we got our tuition back.”