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2007 Presenters:


ACKNet Technologies

Los Alamos

Software that allows a company's existing security solutions and personnel to reduce the high cost of recovering from security incidents by reducing the time it takes for analysts to detect an intrusion, eliminating the need to bring in expensive forensic experts.

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www.acknettech.com

Acoustic Cytometry Systems, Inc.

Los Alamos

Next-generation flow cytometry technology—a method for measuring the physical and chemical characteristics of cells or particles as they travel in suspension through a tightly focused beam of light—for life science research and blood testing.

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www.acousticyte.com

Agricultural Waste Solutions, Inc.

Westlake Village, California

Economically converts polluting animal wastes to clean, renewable energy, eliminating significant air and water pollution and provides a solution to the EPA’s proclaimed No. 1 water pollution problem.

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www.agwastesolutions.com

Caldera Parmaceutical Instruments, Inc.

Los Alamos

Instrumentation to provide accurate drug-protein reactivity measurements early in the development process, thus helping to identify promising drugs, screen out unpromising ones and greatly reduce overall drug development costs.

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C.I.V.A.

Santa Fe

Epidemiological modeling and simulation software that provides accurate predictions of the behavior and spread of epidemic outbreaks on the human population.

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www.civaglobal.com

Gamma Solar Corp.

Weston, Florida

Technology that will produce bifacial photovoltaic cells and modules generating up to 180 percent more electricity, yielding lower-per-watt cost using 40 percent less silicon.

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www.gammasolar.com


Holochip Corp.

Albuquerque

A line of rugged zoom lenses that meet the stringent requirements of camera module manufacturers while providing a 4x reduction in cost and size.

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www.holochip.com


Inovium

Las Vegas, Nevada

Systems that enable and simplify user’s transition from paper processing of Accounts Receivable to electronic invoicing, presentment and payment.

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www.inovium.com

JSA Photonics Inc.

Corrales

Sensor provides accurate, real time diagnostic information resulting in extended battery life, reduced maintenance cost and real time performance monitoring that can be easily retrofitted to most existing lead acid batteries.

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www.jsaphotonics.com


LaLuz Technologies

Albuquerque

Proprietary, self-referencing Doppler laser to accurately and affordably measure and report wind speed and direction along the last 2,000 feet of an aircraft’s final approach, thereby helping to prevent aviation disasters caused by clear air turbulence.

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www.laluztechnologies.com

Motivity

Santa Fe

Software designed to support executives in making critical decisions to develop the right people in the right roles to execute on strategic growth initiatives.

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www.motivity.com


Optomec

Albuquerque

Proprietary additive manufacturing technologies to deliver cost-effective solutions for functional prototype development, full production, and repair of a wide range of end-products for the electronics, biomedical, aerospace and defense markets.

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www.optomec.com

Pay Lynxs™

Albuquerque

A fully compliant system integrated into a bank’s existing infrastructure to enable it to securely transfer funds globally for its retail customers; allows banks to market to the varied and growing international money transfer customer segments.

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www.paylynxs.com

RediRipe

Albuquerque

Disposable sensor stickers for fruits that eliminate subjective estimates of ripeness; thumbnail size device self-adheres to the individual fruit, replacing expensive and cumbersome detection systems.

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Sage Sciences, Inc.

Albuquerque

Sampling automation with data analysis and informatics software that is capable of being used with a variety of commercially available flow cytometers; provides data on cell-based and biochemical assays at rates and cost savings not previously obtainable.

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www.sagesciences.com


Satyrne Biotechnologies

Albuquerque

Computer modeling software and minimally invasive implants for the repair of skull and facial fractures.

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2006 Presenters:

                                                                                    

Altela, Inc.            

Altela, Inc. is a new high-technology company that has licensed and co-developed unique water desalination technology and products that are far different from current desalination methods.  The patented AltelaRain™ products and related services provide a novel and complete management solution to the extraction industry’s biggest waste stream liability:  the brackish water co-produced with oil, gas and mining production called Produced Water (PW). PW is a highly contaminated mixture of brackish water, residual oils and inorganic compounds that must be disposed of at great cost to the oil, gas and mining industries.

more info in PDF format

www.altelainc.com

Bio-Tec Environmental, LLC                                                            

Bio-Tec Environmental sells an additive for plastics that makes them biodegradable without affecting the plastic’s shelf life or other physical properties.  The additive, marketed under the name Bio-Batch, enables anaerobic microorganisms to metabolize plastics into an inert humus-like form that is harmless to the environment.  This transformational technology effectively addresses the emerging regulatory and environmental concerns within the multi-trillion dollar plastics manufacturing industry.

Bio-Tec Environmental seeks funding to strengthen its intellectual property position, expand its marketing efforts, and increase the production capacity of Bio-Batch ahead of the long-term supply contracts that it is currently negotiating with several major plastics companies.

more info in PDF format

www.bio-tec.biz

Claro Scientific, LLC                                         

Claro Scientific (Tampa, FL) offers breakthrough biophotonics technology for fast, accurate, inexpensive diagnostics of infectious diseases. Based on more than 20 years of peer-reviewed research, portable working prototype analyzers and software (with a database of 70 pathogens) take less than 5 minutes to test for infectious diseases from a single drop of blood. The device is sensitive to very small quantities of pathogen and features high specificity. In the shift away from labor-intensive, time-consuming techniques (including cell-culture, reagents, microscopy and molecular diagnostics), Claro proposes a unique suite of products based on disruptive technology for the $30 billion in-vitro diagnostic market.

more info in PDF format

www.clarosci.com

Deep Web Technologies (DWT)                                         

Deep Web Technologies (DWT) is revolutionizing the multi-billion dollar Internet search market with ResearchAssistant™, a highly scalable, distributed and modular federated search engine with sophisticated relevance-ranking capabilities. It allows researchers to search, aggregate and analyze content from web databases, blogs, and other aggregated content sites not accessible to surface web (Google-type) search engines. Its target markets include biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas, and finance, where researchers must find the information hidden in the ever-growing Internet haystack. ResearchAssistant is currently deployed by Science.gov, and by a Fortune 100 company corporate-wide.

more info in PDF format

www.deepwebtech.com

Defiant Technologies, Inc.

Defiant Technologies produces superior, application-specific, hand-held chemical analysis systems for the Homeland Security and Defense markets. The CIVITAS Group has identified sensor technology as one of the top sectors for investment within the domestic Homeland Security market with a value of $421.5M.  Foreign markets are of a similar size. In addition, Defiant's unique products will bring needed solutions for point of care medical diagnostics and robotic vehicles.  The Homeland Security, defense and environmental monitoring markets will be accessed using established contacts within existing solution providers. Defiant is seeking $3 million to scale manufacturing and sales.  Lucrative exit opportunities are expected through compelling strategic interest from a number of large, well capitalized industry players.  Chemical analysis is used by almost all industries and Defiant is changing the way it is done, placing autonomous systems in the hands of the layman to save lives, time and money.

www.defiant-tech.com

 

Definitive Bone, LLC                                                                      

As the human population ages the demand for bone grafts is increasing at an astronomical rate due to trauma and disease; the US market alone is currently over $1 billion. Ninety percent of the surgeries still utilize archaic procedures requiring autograft or allograft bone. The procedures are expensive, painful and have high rates of post-surgical complications. An acceptable synthetic scaffold material with widespread utility is not currently available. Definitive Bone LLC is a manufacturer of state-of-the-art synthetic bone grafts, which supersede autografts and allografts. The Sandia-patented automated technology is used to produce scaffolds that have characteristics similar to natural bone. They are osteoinductive, load bearing, capable of localized drug delivery and can be customized. An initial animal study showed complete bone regeneration in eight weeks.

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Elemetric Instruments, Inc.                                                           

Elemetric Instruments, Inc. manufactures state-of-the-art automatic field portable detection instruments for commercial and government applications. Elemetrics is using sophisticated technologies developed by its founder, Dr. Yixiang Duan, at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Its first product will provide previously unattainable sensitivities for the real time detection of 49 hazardous elements in airborne and liquid streams including beryllium, manganese, zinc, sodium, silica and others. Subsequent products will be used for detection of chemical vapors and chemical warfare agents. The markets being targeted for Elemetric’s first product exceed $600 million/year. All the technologies are covered by granted patents and licensed from LANL.

more info in PDF format

www.elemetricinstruments.com

Enerpulse, Inc.                                                                               

Enerpulse, Inc. is an Albuquerque, New Mexico business involved in the development of pulse-power technologies for automotive applications. Daniel W. Parker, CEO will present Enerpulse’s latest development, Pulstar™. Pulstar™ is a pulse plug that looks and fits like a spark plug, but is exponentially more powerful and significantly improves fuel economy and torque over spark plugs. In 2007, Pulstar™ will be launched to the automotive aftermarket and automotive OEMs in North America, a 365 million-unit market valued at $1 billion.

more info in PDF format

www.pulstarplug.com

Flexible Liner Underground Technologies (aka FLUTe™)

Flexible Liner Underground Technologies (FLUTe) has developed a family of underground measurement systems that it currently sells to Fortune 500 companies including ExxonMobil, Motorola and Boeing.  Started by physicist Carl Keller, FLUTe's family of flexible liner products revolve around underground measurement and monitoring devices.  These devices are critical to the fast growing environmental remediation industry as a means of testing and measuring for contamination.  Future growth lies in the continued exploitation of FLUTe's 12 existing patents within the environmental remediation, oil field and piping rehabilitation market. The company seeks an investment to develop infrastructure and reach full market potential.

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Focus Energy Corporation                                                              

Focus Energy utilizes a state-of-the-art 3D earth science computational modeling technology to pinpoint billions of barrels of bypassed oil and gas in existing, complex producing fields in New Mexico, Texas, Alaska, the North Sea and the Arabian Platform.  Focus leverages a well-developed 3,500 customer base to demonstrate results that create a competitive advantage.   Oil and gas companies can now see what has not been seen before in the subsurface, an advantage over other 3D competition. Focus technology derives from internal development resources and from well-developed, ongoing relationships with Sandia National Labs earth imaging scientists.  The business plan demonstrates a milestone-driven ability to return an $81 million book value proforma within the 5-year execution period.  Exits include merger, acquisition or public offering.

more info in PDF format

www.focusenergy.com

Interactive Technologies of Nevada (ITN)                                

Established in 1995, Interactive Technologies of Nevada (ITN) specializes in development and marketing Internet-based, integrated assessment and remediation software (the Succeed in: series) for the K-12 and post-secondary markets. ITN’s initial product, Succeed in: Math!™ is a mathematics program based on each state’s K-12 mathematics standards. The development platform’s patent-pending methodology unravels content standards providing students with self-paced learning modules, automatically adapting to a user’s demonstrated skill level. Each customized tutorial guides students through a progression of content modules until grade level proficiency is achieved. A Spanish language version of the program is under development for Fall 2006 implementation.

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Interfasys                                                                                     

Founded in 2004, Interfasys is a software company that created Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), a system used to manage laboratory data. Interfasys’ LIMS software is designed to automate the workflow in clinical/diagnostic laboratory environment.  This system is designed for use in a variety of industries that are reliant on laboratory data, including life sciences research, chemical and public health. According to a 2005 Frost and Sullivan report, the total LIMS market revenue in the United States for 2004 was $203.5 million and is expected to reach $356.8 million in 2011 at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.6 percent.

more info in PDF format

www.interfasys.biz

PaceIgnitions, Inc.

PaceIgnitions, Inc. creates and sells patented products that improve the driving safety of teenaged motorists by allowing parents to set parameters on the home computer about speed and distance from home.  In the United States alone automobiles are the number one killer of teens at 8,000 each year, with injuries to another 325,000.  These tragic costs have been proven to be the result of poor decision-making by young drivers in their early driving years.  PaceIgnitions’ unique product is unrivaled in the market today and promotes the effective teaming of parents and teens in the establishment of safe driving habits.  Because of unique GPS-based features, the product can be installed aftermarket on any automobile.  Additionally, the product can be easily included as an OEM device on new automobiles.  After establishing a dominant position in the teen driver market, PaceIgnitions plans to expand its product offerings into fleet management and driving offender programs.

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Peletex, Inc.

Peletex offers a new method of air filtration for world filter markets exceeding  $1 billion annually. The patented Aqueous-Froth Air (AFA) filter is a versatile new platform technology and will use the Sandia National Laboratories decontamination foam to destroy most known chemical and biological hazards. The AFA filter solves problems such as cleaning chemical or biological hazards from the air or other gases that cannot be met with current products on the market.  Peletex expects to generate revenues in excess of $160 million in 2013 and seeks funding to begin commercial operations and marketing.

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Prism Solar Technologies, Inc.                                                    

Prism Solar Technologies, Inc., manufactures a new type of solar module that uses holograms to reduce the amount of silicon used to generate electricity.  The company replaces dollar-per-watt silicon with pennies-per-watt holograms, reducing the cost of modules dramatically. The global photovoltaic market, a robust $7.5 billion per year, has experienced annual growth rates of 30 percent, with last year’s rate even higher at 54 percent. Global sales of modules exploded in 2004 exceeding 1 GW.   Prism Solar will operate a functioning 1 MW specialty manufacturing plant by year three with expansion capacity of 10 MW and a projected sales pipeline of $47 million by year five.

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Quiescent Implants, Inc.                                                                 

Quiescent Implants, Inc., offers innovative solutions for vision correction based on hybrid polymer-tissue corneal implants that function as implantable contact lenses.  The Quiescent technology utilizes a proprietary polymer-tissue platform material developed specifically as a substrate for corneal tissue engineering to provide a less invasive, more natural and repeatable solution in surgical vision correction.  The combination of polymer nanotechnology and design criteria drawn from the latest university research in tissue engineering provides key advantages over existing options in surgical vision correction.  Quiescent Implants is currently seeking funding to complete animal trials of proprietary devices for the treatment of hyperopia (near-sightedness), presbyopia (accommodation loss due to age), and their combination.

more info in PDF format

www.advanced-optical.com

Symphony Acoustics                                                                     

Symphony Acoustics, Inc., an Albuquerque-based company, was established in mid-January 2006 to commercialize disruptive optical sensing technology, which addresses the $2.5 billion global microphone market.  Symphony is creating a new standard for microphones by delivering profound improvements in sound quality, noise floor and cost within a smaller footprint than attained by current approaches.  Currently, “reduced to hearing aid size” and “symphonic quality” are not used to describe the same microphone product, despite market demand and manufacturers’ desire for differentiation via marketing hyperbole.  Symphony Acoustics’ microphones will change this, in fact – with dramatic and disruptive implications across the breadth of current and future applications.

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TPL Micropower Technologies  

The µPowerChip™ manufactured by TPL Micropower Technologies will provide endless power for wireless sensors. By combining energy harvesting, energy storage and power management, TPL Micropower provides power to wireless sensors where it is too difficult, too costly or impractical to change batteries.  Networks of thousands of wireless sensors are being introduced in industrial processes, building automation and critical structural monitoring for aircraft, bridges, and buildings. Together, these systems constitute a $6.8 billion global market.  Customers include system integrators, sensor network companies, and component manufacturers that will provide a broad customer base and potential for rapid, sustained growth.

more info in PDF format

www.tplmicropower.com

Transformational Space Corp.

Transformational Space Corp. will provide commercial passenger service from the New Mexico Spaceport to earth orbit in 2010 at a breakthrough price. Customers will include NASA, international space agencies, companies seeking to exploit orbital business opportunities, and wealthy individuals. Revenues of $329 million and earnings of $112 million are projected in 2011. Almost all development costs prior to profitable operations will be paid by NASA through an innovative entrepreneur-friendly contract to be awarded in May of 2006. The remainder of the development costs will be funded through private equity funding.

more info in PDF format

www.transformspace.com

 

2005 Presenters

The companies who presented in 2005:

 

Arcxis Biotechnologies

Portable Biological Diagnostics

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www.arcxis.com

Peak Sensor Systems

Early Detection of Process Faults

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www.peaksensor.com

Aspen Avionics

Electronic Flight Displays

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www.aspenavionics.com

RLP Dosimetry, Inc.

Radiation Dosimetry Firm

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Barbedwire Technologies

Network Security Management

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www.barbedwiretech.com

SpillGuard Technologies

Spill Prevention Appliances

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www.sgtinc.com

Bioreason

Pharmaceutical Software

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www.bioreason.com

TCI Medical

Breast Cancer Detection

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Caldera Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Technique for Screening of Clinical Drugs

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Triage Wireless

Cardiac-Monitoring Device

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www.triagewireless.com

CuerVex

Solar Power Generation System

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(cuervex.com)

TruTouch Technologies, Inc.

Noninvasive Alcohol Testing Systems

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www.trutouchtechnologies.com

Environmental Information Systems Corp.

Scientific Software Company

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www.eisc.net

Vector CoGen, Inc.

Micro-Cogeneration Systems

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www.vectorcogen.com

EM Optomechanical, Inc.

Microsystems Metrology

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www.emopto.com

Volius

HIgh-Power Fiber Lasers

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www.volius.com

K&A Wireless, LLC

Thermal Imaging Systems

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www.ka-wireless.com

Wellkeeper, Inc.

Remote Well Monitoring Servies

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www.wellkeeper.com

KeyOn Communications

Fixed Wireless Data and Telecom Services

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www.keyon.com

Zia Power, Inc.

Advanced Patented Solar Cells

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www.ziapowerinc.com

 








 

 

 

   
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