BR Ventures

• Meghan Cross, Amplifyher Ventures
• Chip Meakem, Tribeca Venture Partners
• Andrew Schoen, New Enterprise Associates Pelex is a clinical solutions provider for pelvic health, currently developing a medical device platform for treatment of disorders of the pelvic floor These conditions, which include urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse, affect up to 1 and 4 adult American every year Current treatments are either invasive, time consuming or both Our non-invasive, home-based platform offers two therapies – active EMG-based pelvic floor physical therapy, and passive neurostimulation – and is connected to a cloud platform that allows results tracking

Light Lace™ is a soft and stretchable sensor that can bend and twist with the human form for motion capture, muscle activity and respiration measurements on the field Based on fiber-optic technology, Light Lace™ offers sensibility, elasticity, washability and high speed measurements in real time and at a fraction of the cost ORC’s first product is a smart shirt that uses Light Lace™ to predict muscle fatigue to enhance performance and prevent injuries for high performance individuals such as athletes and warfighters

Inso Bio is an early-stage biotechnology startup from Cornell developing automatable platforms to streamline cell sample preparation workflows Currently, biological sample preparation is a major bottleneck to genomic analysis and requires extreme user skill, lengthy time-consuming protocols, involves high sample loss, significant sample quality variability, and completely lacks approaches capable of handling smaller sample volumes By addressing these issues, Inso Bio can enable the next steps in the democratization of genomics for critical applications in both precision medicine and science

Heat Inverse’s vision is to revolutionize cooling technologies and reduce greenhouse gas emission by using a mid-infrared window in Earth’s atmosphere to passively emit heat Heat Inverse has a photonic metamaterial in a thin- film format Refrigeration units on refrigerated truck are powered by 50-gallon diesel tanks and consume In 2016, U S regulations were established that mandated a 25% decrease in emissions by 2026 This has motivated the industry to invest in technologies that reduce emissions and increase fuel efficiency of trucking fleets

2020 BenDaniel Venture Challenge

• Christopher Hemmeter, Thayer Ventures
• Del Johnson, Backstage Capital
• Deb Kemper, Golden Seed Ventures For those that can’t breastfeed for a variety of reasons, SimpliFed helps bridge the gap between infant formula and breast milk with our combined infant formula and companion mobile health tool to give parents increased transparency into their infant’s health Through our telehealth platform with on-call nurse practitioners and lactation consultants, this technology will help parents more effectively troubleshoot with their pediatrician and contribute to supporting an optimal nutritional balance for the infant from their own homes SimpliFed’s technology is also supported by an algorithm that is being developed while we are collecting and analyzing the properties of thousands of infant stools with our scientific partners in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University Based on our learnings from the biobank, we will leverage these insights to fuel the development of an evidence-based infant formula with traceable and transparent ingredients If we do this right, millions of babies will receive proper nutrition, parents will stress less about their child’s health and transition back to work, and the field of infant nutrition will move significantly forward

mPOD is in-vitro POC medical device designed for rapid detection of species-specific pathogens in biofluids Our focus is improving sepsis outcomes – providing ER physicians and nurses, who see 95% of sepsis cases, actionable insights from a un-processed sample in under 15 mins

Re-Nuble, an agtech company transforming the global fertilizer supply chain, has a patent-pending nutrient delivery system producing fertilizers that are 2X more cost-effective than the dominant soilless fertilizers, and enables soilless farms to produce certified-organic food

OWiC Technologies’ mission is to better connect physical objects to the digital world, both to solve existing problems and to create new opportunities Pressing problems like counterfeiting and fraud persist due to the lack of tools for uniquely identifying, tracking, and authenticating physical objects Similarly, exciting new opportunities would be enabled by greater connectivity of physical objects to digital records More transparent supply chains, traceability of goods, more effective marketing, and information dissemination are just some of the applications with immense, untapped potential for positive impact

Infertility remains an unremitting reproductive issue that affects about 186 million people worldwide, and in the U S , ~8% of women of child-bearing age In vitro fertilization helps with fertilization, embryo development, and implantation We are STORK ai, the next-generation fertility company We developed a unique software using an artificial intelligence approach, STORK, to reliably assess embryo quality and detect aneuploidies STORK was trained on larger and better characterized datasets than other similar software and ultimately achieved an embryo grading performance of 98% accuracy Our team and advisory board consists of experts across computational biology and reproductive medicine from Weill Cornell Medicine

2019 BenDaniel Venture Challenge

• Thatcher Bell, Gotham Ventures
• Randy Brandoff, TIA Ventures
• Ryoko Nozawa, Cayuga Venture Fund

2016 Cornell Venture Challenge

• Meghan Cross, Red Bear Angels
• Leonard Sanders, Kalmar Investments 17% of 2015 US e-commerce was in apparel and accessory retail ($60B) The number of creators launching small to medium size e-commerce businesses is growing by 10% year over year To get their apparel inventory made, creators still have to go to trade shows, talk to agents, and fly around the world to visit factories The manufacturing industry is a completely new frontier for technology – no one has integrated pricing, sampling, and production into a single platform At MachineMade io, creators can sample from multiple factory sources and produce with the best supplier for their needs, all from their browser

Flora Pulse has developed the only sensors that can measure how thirsty a plant is, automatically and real-time These sensors will help vineyards, and growers in general, increase yields and product quality, while reducing water use Our vineyard users can expect 12% higher revenues and >20% water savings because of never-before-possible field maps of water stress, delivered digitally Our turnkey solution only requires a yearly per-acre fee and we do the rest! RoboTC is a universal brain for robots Our plug- and-play hardware and simple software modules instantly give any robot the ability to do incredible things We neutralize the two largest problems facing anyone building a robot: writing code to give it intelligence, and integrating that code with it’s hardware RoboTC is accelerating the robotics revolution by democratizing state-of-the-art robotics development

Twiage is an award-winning prehospital communication platform that enables hospitals to triage incoming ambulances Twiage reduces the need for antiquated radio communication and delivers real-time patient data from ambulances directly to hospitals Powered by a proprietary algorithm and GPS-tracked ETA, Twiage provides hospitals and Emergency Departments with complete situational awareness about incoming ambulance traffic, so hospitals can more efficiently manage Emergency Department’s throughput and prehospital coordination, while improving performance measures, patient outcomes, referral relationships, and reducing costs

Hypertension (high blood pressure) affects 1 in 3 (78 million) Americans and exceeds $51 billion in yearly costs to the US healthcare system Importantly, high blood pressure is the #1 cause of preventable death worldwide and sodium is one of the leading causes of high blood pressure Sodium Analyte Level Test (S A L T ) is the first smartphone-based device on the market capable of measuring daily salt intake at home The device, consisting of a disposable stick and mobile app, utilizes computer vision processing and a patented algorithm to provide a physiological measurement of daily salt intake from one urine sample

2013 Cornell Venture Challenge