"mit's food tech startups," trond undheim, ph.d., lead, mit startup exchange, mit ilp...
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Connecting Industry to Startups
Food Tech Innovation workshop:
MIT's Food Tech Startups MIT, 22 April 2015
Trond Undheim, PhD Lead, MIT Startup Exchange [email protected]
MIT Startup Exchange
An innovation community run by MIT Industrial Liaison program, with the aim of connecting industry to startups. At the heart of the initiative: !• 220+ “Global 1000” member companies. !• 172 MIT Faculty who are serial co-founders of startups. !• 1000+ MIT-connected startups (including founded by alums). !• MIT innovation players (Deshpande, Innovation initiative, VMS, etc.)!!Ingredients:!• Cluster workshops & Conference exhibitions w/lightning talks!• Startup profiles & database!• Opportunity matching (f2f & online)!• Newsletter & Analytics!
172 MIT Faculty are serial entrepreneurs! For example:!
• Prof. Bob Langer, Koch Institute, MIT (26 companies)!
• Prof. Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab (16 companies)!
• Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos, ChemE (7 companies)!
• Prof. Michael Stonebraker, CSAIL (5 companies) !
Serial entrepreneurs at MIT
Source: MIT STEX Database (2015).
Seven startup clusters
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64!!132!!!27!!64!!
n=844 Source: MIT STEX Database (2015).
How to engage with STEX?
An enhanced service of the ILP – available to members. !1. Browse the database. Find startups. Ask us to connect you. !2. Engage with your Liaison Officer or myself to post opportunities.
Startups will ask to connect with you. Their ideas might surprise you. !
3. Keynote at our cluster workshops. Meet startups after your talk. !4. Attend MIT ILP’s conference startup exhibits (MIT ICT conference,
MIT R&D Conference, regional events in Austria, Brazil, China). !
• As a non-member you can attend our open workshops. !
[Mul,na,onal] seeks MIT startups
• [Multinational] seeks long-term partnerships with MIT-connected startups for mutual benefit.!
• We have a particular interest in breakthrough/disruptive tech in X. !• We are looking for startups/companies with [these specific
characteristics in terms of stage of development etc.]!• Facts, MIT track record, startup track record, and website.!
Empowers you with the knowledge to discover and enjoy over 200 varieties of fresh fruits and vegetables.!
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Founded in 2013.
• Microfluidic device capable of high throughput, robust intracellular delivery of a range of materials for applications from immunotherapy and drug discovery. Founded 2013.!
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• Innovative nanomaterial coatings and vapor-based coating processes to boost efficiencies of a wide range of thermal fluid systems. !
• Founded in 2014.!
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• Biowatch that measures the impact of stress on brain performance. !
• Founded in 2010.!
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StarSng at $599
• An expressive robot that can interact naturally with humans. Jibo can see, hear, speak, help, and relate (through social and emotive cues). !
• Founded in 2012.!
The first designer bracelet that heats and cools you.!“Thermal is personal”!Founded in 2014.!
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WRISTIFY
High quality, low cost 3D printer that enables designers and engineers to create 3D forms with the touch of a button.!Founded in 2011.!
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An (almost entirely) 3D printed speaker.
Gives computers the ability to understand people the way people understand each other.!Founded in 2011.!
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Big data text analytics dashboard
Food tech innovaSon (4/22/15)
• How we eat, how we are being served food, what we feed animals, and what we know about nutrition is undergoing radical change.!
• Where are these breakthroughs coming from? Farms? Universities? Technologies? Labs? Corporates? Consumers? Elsewhere? !
• What’s hype and what’s real? !
Agenda
• 08:30 AM !Breakfast and registration.!• 08:50 AM !Welcome: "MIT's Food tech startups," Trond Undheim,
Ph.D., Lead, MIT Startup Exchange, MIT ILP (host).!• 09:00 AM !Introductory remarks: "Connecting industry to research,
innovation, and startups", Karl Koster, Executive Director, MIT ILP.!
• 09:10 AM "Future opportunities for food tech product innovation from a research perspective", Omer Yilmaz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT, gastrointestinal pathologist, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.!
• 09:25 AM "The Future of Food", Manoj Fenelon, Director of Foresight, PepsiCo. !
Coffee break (10 min)!• 09:35 AM "Food, sensors, startups - the road ahead from a MIT
perspective", Timothy M. Swager, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at MIT and the Faculty Director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. !
• 09:45 AM "Innovation in Agricultural Productivity", Larry Gilbertson, Ph.D., Cambridge Site Lead, Biotechnology, Monsanto Company.!
• 09:55 AM "Computational food", Caleb Harper, Research Scientist, Project Manager, City Science, MIT Media Lab. !
• 10:05 AM Lightning talks (MIT-connected startups - apply online on STEX or when signing up to the event). !
Coffee break (10 min)!
• 10:30 AM: Panel discussion: What's next in food tech innovation?!– What are important trends in food tech startups from MIT (and elsewhere)? – What does the new food tech innova;on ecosystem look like (infrastructure,
interoperability, technology, use cases, stakeholders, success stories)? – What are corporate priori;es in food tech? – What is the smart money focused on?
• Panelists !– Larry Gilbertson, Ph.D., Cambridge Site Lead, Biotechnology, Monsanto Company. – Caleb Harper, Research ScienSst, Project Manager, City Science, MIT Media Lab. – Omer Yilmaz, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT, gastrointesSnal pathologist,
Massachuse`s General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. – MIT connected startup execuSves (Fredric Abramson, Ph.D., Founder, Digital NutriSon,
LLC, Dr. Alain C. Briançon, Co-‐Founder/CEO, Kitchology Inc., Jan Schnorr, Chief Technology Officer, C2Sense)
– Manoj Fenelon, Director of Foresight, PepsiCo.
Connecting Industry to Startups