IllinoisVENTURES is committed to helping entrepreneurs and technical founders to build world-changing businesses with the potential to create new market opportunities or significantly expand existing ones. During the course of the past six years we have led or collaborated on the initial funding of over 40 new ventures spanning a broad spectrum of scientific and technological innovation across multiple domains.
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Advanced Diamond Technologies is a leader in developing and applying diamond films for industrial, electronic, and medical applications. -
Formerly DyzmeTech, ANDalyze offers products for testing water contamination using catalytic DNA technologies. -
Autonomic Materials is focused on developing and commercializing breakthrough low-cost, self-healing polymer systems. -
Cbana Laboratories is becoming a leading supplier of microfluidic and microanalytical devices for both government and private entities -
Chromatin is unlocking the potential of plants to produce greater value and high-value crop products in multiple sectors -
Diagnostic Photonics, Inc. (DxP) is developing an ultra-high resolution, in vivo, microscopic imaging platform for intra-operative use. -
EdenPark Illumination is focused on developing and commercializing a unique, low-cost, low-energy, flexible lighting technology involving "microplasmas" (nanoliter pockets of ionized gas) in large, flexible arrays. -
Fluensee develops RFID-enabled asset tracking and supply chain management solutions to improve the visibility, accuracy, security and utilization of a company's mobile and fixed assets. -
iCyt is a profitable and innovative company that develops advanced biological cell analysis equipment. -
INI Power Systems is focused on commercializing direct methanol Laminar Flow Fuel Cells. -
The Nanodisc proprietary delivery system allows the convenient solubilization and naturalistic presentation of membrane proteins to the body in their active form, resulting in an entirely unique class of pharmaceutical products. -
One Llama Media is a leader in audio analysis, search and discovery systems. -
Phoenix Coal(tsx:phc) is one of the largest surface mining operators in the Midwest. The company is engaged in the acquisition, development, production, and sale of high sulfur, bituminous coal reserves. -
Riverglass is a leading provider of advanced, intelligent web information collection and analysis solutions. -
Semprius is developing unique, patented technology that allows transfer printing of high performance semiconductors onto virtually any surface. -
Sharethis is a company that makes online sharing easy. Their technology allows media to become truly social immediately, with the click of just one button. -
Formally SmartSpark Energy Systems, SolarBridge Technologies is a leading developer of solutions that reduce the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) in solar installations. -
Solidware Technologies, Inc. (acquired by Coverity) has identified a market defining opportunity in automated software quality engineering. -
SteadySleepRx is developing a drug candidate for the treatment of sleep apnea, a serious and common sleep-related breathing disorder. -
Tekion is developing a micro fuel cell that will be used to power cell phones, laptop computers and other mobile devices. -
Tetravitae Biosciences is developing next-generation production platforms for renewable bio-based chemicals and biofuels based on conventional and cellulosic feedstocks. -
Yottaclick uses robust highly scalable technologies to track this information, classify these users, and provide advertisers and publishers the opportunity the target users based on real time preferences.