The Iowa State University Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship has announced the participants selected for the 15th ISU Startup Factory Cohort. The cohort includes 17 members from across Iowa running 10 business ventures, either individually or in teams. The 10 ventures participating are:
- Signup Casa (Nick Miller): An app that enables volunteer organizers to simplify their sign-up process and increase engagement.
- Alethi (Deni Bjelica): A mobile app that allows the user to scan a barcode and understand a company’s legal and environmental history.
- SmartGridAI (Ravikumar Gelli and Sai Chandana Vallam Kondu): A pioneering cloud-based software platform that enables power utilities to seamlessly balance fluctuating power from renewables; ensuring enhanced grid reliability, resilience and security.
- Work Truck (Jacob Bruggeman): Work Truck makes modular racks with removable panels to maximize the use of truck beds for any adventure.
- Wave Energy Technology (Ossama Abdelkhalik, Paul Mario Koola, and Andrea Boord): Providing efficient and optimized controls for ocean wave energy companies to produce power economically.
- imPETEus (Dhananjay Dileep and Aadhi Subbiah): imPETEus offers a true solution for PETE (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic waste, making it infinitely recyclable.
- HARMONI (Micah Mundy): An app that helps music producers create richer, more organic vocal harmonies by tuning voice recordings to non-standard intervals.
- Conformal Electronics Solutions (Jeremy Rurup and Ethan Secor): Providing the aerospace industry with hardware and software to additively pattern electronics onto 3D surfaces, enabling users to meet weight and volume reduction targets.
- Reality-to-Virtual Reality (Andrew Lawson, Nir Keren, and Ashwin Jacob): For time-constrained law enforcement agencies, Reality-to-Virtual Reality offers innovative VR solutions with customizable modules and an interactive web review portal, providing an efficient and cost-effective way to enhance officer readiness through adaptive training anytime, anywhere.
- CornGro Limited (Wilson Kimani): Revolutionizing agriculture in Africa by commercializing biotech seeds to empower farmers with resilient and high-yielding sorghum varieties.