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Jonathan Gartner has joined the CNSI team as Mentor-in-Residence

By Sonia Fernandez - December 5, 2023

Attention, UC Santa Barbara researchers and current or would-be entrepreneurs: Mystified by market application? Stumped over strategy? Not sure how to attract industry excitement for your innovation? Are you flummoxed by funding? Then a chat with Jonathan Gartner may be just what you need. The California NanoSystems Institute’s (CNSI) first-ever mentor-in-residence is here to offer guidance in navigating that gap between academia and business, backed by a wealth of experience and a deep network.

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Featured Post

Jonathan Gartner has joined the CNSI team as Mentor-in-Residence

By Sonia Fernandez - December 5, 2023

Attention, UC Santa Barbara researchers and current or would-be entrepreneurs: Mystified by market application? Stumped over strategy? Not sure how to attract industry excitement for your innovation? Are you flummoxed by funding? Then a chat with Jonathan Gartner may be just what you need. The California NanoSystems Institute’s (CNSI) first-ever mentor-in-residence is here to offer guidance in navigating that gap between academia and business, backed by a wealth of experience and a deep network.

Read moreJonathan Gartner has joined the CNSI team as Mentor-in-Residence

Cadense's adaptive shoes featured on QVC

By Staff Writer - November 17, 2023

UCSB spinout Cadense, founded by Dr. Tyler Susko, has launched its first product line. Cadense’s adaptive shoe features a patented variable friction technology that allows those with walking disabilities to more easily slide over obstacles and develop a more normal gait.

Initial prototyping for the shoe was funded in part through a CNSI SEED-Tech proof of concept grant.

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The Hurd Co. awarded “Golden California” Favorite Startup at Born in California

By Staff Writer - November 17, 2023

Born in California demo days hosted at UC Irvine feature the University of California’s best and most investment-worthy startups seeking Seed and Series A investors. The Hurd Co. makes agrilose®, a 100% agriwaste-based feedstock pulp used by apparel brands to make fabrics like viscose/rayon and lyocell, which are normally made from trees. Today, over 200 million trees are logged every year to produce pulp for the apparel industry.

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Sivers receives $375,000 award under DARPA NGMM program in collaboration with PseudolithIC

By From: Semiconductor Today - August 10, 2023

Chip and integrated module supplier Sivers Semiconductors AB of Kista, Sweden says that its US subsidiary Sivers Semiconductors Inc has received an award worth $375,000 (about 4MSEK) under the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program in collaboration with PseudolithIC Inc of Santa Barbara, CA, USA. The program aims to develop three-dimensional heterogeneously integrated (3DHI) technologies.

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Aptitude Receives up to $54 Million from BARDA to Develop Diagnostics for Point-of-Care and At-Home Use

By Staff Writer - April 21, 2023
Aptitude Medical Systems announced that it has received an award up to $53.7 million from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop and validate at-home COVID and COVID/Flu tests as well as options for additional multiplex tests for other infectious disease threats.

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