2008 Presenters:
Congratulations to the 18 companies chosen to present at TVC’s 15th annual New Mexico Equity Capital Symposium.
Alternative Energy:
Envara™, LLC
Albuquerque
ENVARA™, LLC has proven a patent-pending hydrothermal process to convert a variety of crop oils into jet fuel (JP-8), achieving U.S. Air Force specifications and having significantly less environmental impact than traditional petroleum-based JP-8. ENVARA is responding to mandates to relieve dependence on foreign sources by providing the best alternative to the most purchased fuel type for the U.S. military. The USAF alone buys 3 billion gallons annually; DoD has set a goal that 50 percent of this amount will come from alternative fuel sources. ENVARA is determined to build the first conversion plant for bio JP-8 by 2010, achieving the same performance qualities as petroleum-based product, yet releasing a small fraction of the traditional CO2 emissions. ENVARA seeks funding to demonstrate the technology and build a prototype commercial test facility.
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eQsolaris, Inc. Los Alamos
eQsolaris has developed a solar technology disruptive in its simplicity, flexibility and potential to break $500/kW, a cost barrier that until now has prevented photovoltaic arrays from becoming competitive with conventional power sources. Modeled after a leaf, nature’s most efficient solar energy collector, patent-protected eQarrays will use trace amounts of silicon to deliver solar electricity at one-fourth the cost of conventional solar arrays. The technology and business synergism comes from merging Kyosemi Corporation’s free-fall droplet photodiode Sphelar® cells with an optical and electrical connection innovation from Energy Related Devices. eQsolaris has built proof-of-concept prototypes of this novel method of solar cells that demonstrate dramatically better semiconductor utilization. Estimates for the sustainable market potential of just the Western U.S. are $1.26 billion per year. The world market is estimated to be in excess of $195 billion per year. eQsolaris is seeking capital for a pilot production plant to be located in New Mexico.
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www.eqsolaris.com
HPG, Inc.
Santa Fe
Hyperion Power Generation, Inc. (HPG) is commercializing a unique new small modular reactor (SMR) invented at Los Alamos National Laboratory that provides power for communities and industrial applications that are too far removed from conventional power companies to be practically and cost-efficiently served. Each module (aka battery) produces 70 MWt and 25MWe – enough to power 20,000 average U.S. homes or the industrial equivalent. Initially designed to dramatically improve the cost of extracting fossil fuels from oil sands and shale, the Hyperion reactor is small enough to be transported via truck, is buried underground out of harm’s way, and requires little monitoring. Hyperion’s inability to go supercritical due to the natural regulating properties of its uranium hydride fuel, add to the reactor’s attractiveness for many applications.
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www.hyperionpowergeneration.com
ThermaSun
Santa Fe
ThermaSun manufactures high-quality solar thermal systems that supply domestic hot water and heating for commercial, corporate and residential applications. ThermaSun systems provide 6 times more output per square foot of collector area than Solar PV at half the price using standardized, repeatable, scalable and low-cost solutions. ThermaSun products utilize proprietary technology to ensure successful installation, cost-effective renewable energy generation and reduced maintenance costs over the system’s life. ThermaSun’s products are “designed by installers for installers” differentiating both the product and its representatives in a rapidly growing and competitive solar environment. Larry Mapes, interim CEO and founder of ThermaSun started the company in Taos, NM in 2006.
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Electronics/Instrumentation:
Cogent Wireless Solutions
Malpitas
Cogent was founded in 2007, and is dedicated to enhancing cellular coverage through innovation. Cogent will apply eight patent-pending techniques to products for the home, office and automobile. The first product, the Personal Desktop Repeater, is a technological breakthrough, enclosing a complete repeater within a single housing. The product dramatically improves cellular service for both voice and data applications in North America and Europe. The market opportunity is huge with 1 billion wireless broadband subscribers and 4.2 billion voice and data subscribers by 2010. The management team has extensive expertise in the market with a track record of developing and exiting successful entities. Cogent is seeking equity capital to support the development of new products and rapid expansion of sales globally.
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Perma Tools, LLC
Albuquerque
Perma Tools has platform solutions for the energy sectors of gas, oil and geothermal, specifically in the high-temperature electronics and seals based on Sandia National Laboratories technology. Devices will be built for use in well logging and drilling tools that requiring minimal servicing. The tools will improve data availability for a broad range of well applications. This allows well owners to significantly reduce costs. The technology is also a foundation technology for new control systems of aircraft, hybrid and electric cars and a host of industrial applications.
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www.permatools.com
TransEL Corporation
Albuquerque
TransEL Corporation is leveraging proprietary, high reliability techniques into commercially proven Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) intellectual property to address the 500- to 1000-fold storage disparity that exists between commercial grade and high-reliability semiconductor memory products. Existing solutions are costly, power hungry, in limited production and of less density, thus impeding advances in aerospace, defense, industrial and telecommunications applications. This $200 million market is expected to be a $500 million market by 2012 and will grow further as commercial products continue their march along Moore’s Law. TransEL has assembled an industry- and technology-experienced team, exclusive IP and a fab-less approach to exploit this market as an attractive investment opportunity. Funds will be used to produce sample products and for the completion of the space-qualified versions.
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Energy Efficiency:
Arrakis Corporation
Santa Fe
Arrakis Corporation is commercializing MDWater, a highly energy-efficient system to treat water and concentrate wastewater. Unlike current water treatment technologies that require large amounts of thermal or electrical energy, the MDWater takes advantage of existing low-grade heat from renewable sources or from heat generated from industrial sources. Arrakis Corp. is working with Sandia National Laboratories to test and validate the MDWater treatment system as a way to recycle water from a variety of wastewater sources found throughout the southwest U.S. In the first tests, the MDWater system will be used on produced water from oil and gas production. Considered one of the more contaminated wastewaters, successfully treated water can be recycled to support secondary oil recovery and oil shale extraction. The recycled water may also be reused for agriculture, ranching and ranchland rehabilitation.
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www.arrakiscorp.com
Enerpulse, Inc.
Albuquerque
Enerpulse, Inc. has launched a revolutionary pulse-power automotive product, Pulstar™. Pulstar™ is a pulse plug that looks and fits like a spark plug, but is exponentially more powerful, resulting in significant improvement in fuel economy and torque. In 2008, Pulstar™ will be marketed heavily to the North American automotive aftermarket, beginning in Los Angeles and Albuquerque. Enerpulse has established distribution channels with three of the largest aftermarket automotive retail chains and has manufacturing capacity secured. Initial sales have validated targeted customer response. Funding is sought to accelerate the automotive aftermarket rollout and continue the pursuit of automotive OEMs in North America, a 365 million-unit market valued at $1 billion.
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www.pulstar.com
Green Polymer Technologies, Inc.
Albuquerque
Green Polymer Technologies, Inc. (GPT) has developed a proprietary process that creates a value added, low cost plastic feedstock from mixed plastic scrap. The patent-pending technology is both chemical and mechanical, involving specific formulations, additives, heat and mechanical processing. It addresses the soaring costs and supply limitations of virgin plastic feedstock and the challenge of recycling waste plastic of mixed resin composition. Legislative and regulatory actions, in addition to corporate stewardship programs, are significantly increasing plastics recycling in all industries from electronics, computer and automotive to consumables. GPT’s target customers are composite and plastic lumber manufacturers and companies desiring to develop closed-loop recycle and reuse programs. GPT is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Presenting on behalf of GPT is Chief Executive Officer, Kelly S. Ward.
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www.greenpolymer.com
PFNC, LLC
Corrales
PFNC (Por Fin, Nuestra Casa) will raise the standard of living and create systemic social change by producing affordable and secure housing to working-class employees along the US/ Mexico border. By using recycled materials and converting surplus shipping containers into individual residences, this new approach to housing will open up a new, high-volume market segment that is more affordable than the current offerings in the marketplace. This is a scalable, simple, convenient, profitable and cost-effective solution to a serious industrial and employee crisis.
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www.pfnc.net
Information Technology/Software:
Global Haptics
Albuquerque
Global Haptics Inc. (GH) is a computer peripheral device design and manufacturing company that markets a family of revolutionary new three dimensional (3D) computer input products that have the potential to supplant the mouse and other competing technologies as the control device of choice, because 3D has become the expected norm of computer graphic interaction. The development and beta testing of the initial Orb product is completed and the company is embarking on its initial marketing, sales and manufacturing strategy. GH has begun to generate sales revenues from both national and international markets.
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www.globalhaptics.com
Knowledge Reef
Santa Fe
Integrating patent-pending technology licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Knowledge Reef System’s innovative kReef™ software platform is designed for hosting online, information-intensive communities that exist wherever knowledge workers are found—businesses, government, academia, professional societies and even consumer-oriented groups where learning and sharing information is paramount. Its unique information recommendation system uses the power of social behavior to automatically discover and intelligently route information to community members based on their interests and needs. The kReef platform simplifies the discovery and delivery of knowledge in online communities of shared interest. Knowledge communities hosted on the kReef platform offer well-targeted audiences that will accept relevant, data-rich advertising from the kReef’s integrated product data delivery system. Founded by Gary Ebersole, an experienced serial entrepreneur, Knowledge Reef Systems seeks Series A funding.
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www.knowledgereefsystems.com
MKey Technologies
Las Cruces
MKey Technologies will provide financial institutions with a new high-security system add on for high-consequence transactions. The system is made up of a precision Data Capture Recorder device, which captures and records keyboard keystrokes from any desktop/mobile computer in a secure and precise manner. The DCR is equipped with a wireless transmitter that sends the captured information from the computers to a Central Base Unit, where computer software analyzes and filters it to produce reports used for security and auditing purposes at high security facilities. This product will help a company like Société Générale capture someone like Mr. Kerviel much sooner and save the bank from the $7 billion in losses sustained from repeated fraudulent trading over a period of years.
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Quid Interactive Inc.
Albuquerque
Quid Interactive, Inc. is an instructional design software company founded in 2007 to commercialize its patent pending software, Quid Pro™, which has potential to revolutionize delivery of electronic learning by dramatically reducing development costs. Quid Pro™ provides pre-programmed architecture to guide novices (trainers/educators) in creating multimedia, electronic learning programs rooted in adult learning theory for various uses, such as corporate training, continuing medical education and professional certification. The software simplifies integration of user-content, with virtual “drag and drop” construction and gives step-by-step instructions and format specifications for each piece of audio, video and text. Quid Interactive seeks investment for rapid entry into the small to medium sized business portion of the overall $10 billion electronic learning market, which is predicted to grow 31 percent over the next five years.
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Micro/Nanotechnology:
Bio-Detector, LLC
Albuquerque
Bio-Detector technology is a marked improvement over existing immunoassay techniques for rapid, highly sensitive, automated and quantitative detection of food-borne micro-organisms. Current analysis methods are slow and generally require a complex series of tests before specific identification can be confirmed. The marketplace is demanding a more reliable detection application. The Microbe Sensor provides the capacity to detect food-borne pathogens during processing and at distribution points assuring quality control at the potential source and ensuring a high national priority of food safety. The contamination of beef, pork, chicken and raw-milk food-stock by bacterial pathogens such as E. Coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter and Listeria account for widespread severe illnesses, and sometimes death, to the consumer. The hand-held Microbe Sensor is simple to use, inexpensive and presents no risk to human health. Future applications will include medical, environmental and homeland security.
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E M Optomechanical
Albuquerque
E M Optomechanical, Inc. (EMOM), sells a metrology instrument, mainly
the EMOM's OPTOProTM Model 622A Long Working Distance Optical Profiler,
together with its MEMScriptTM software, to the rapidly growing,
billion-dollar microsystems and nanotechnology "nano-tools" market.
This instrument is unparalleled in its ability to meet the needs of
microsystems researchers and manufacturers. The technology, developed by
Sandia National Laboratories and licensed to EMOM, is used for measuring
and characterizing the micro- and nano-scale motions of microsystems and
nanotechnology devices. EMOM has an experienced management team with a
proven track record in commercializing Sandia technology. Several sales
to high-profile customers have been completed to date.
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www.emopto.com
Incitor, LLC
Albuquerque
Incitor, LLC has developed patent-pending nanotechnology that enables the production of ethanol for less than $1 per gallon; Single Strand Template Manufacturing (SSTM™) uses a completely synthetic process to produce enzymes to convert cellulose into ethanol, butanol or even jet fuel. As cellulose is a family of sugars that exists in waste, wood and non-food plants, Incitor resolves the food versus fuel concern. SSTM™ uses single strand DNA affixed to templates as a production platform to reduce enzyme manufacturing costs and rapidly generate new enzymes. Incitor enzymes reduce the energy needed to produce biofuels, operate longer and faster and are more cost-effective than alternatives. Incitor is releasing its first synthetic enzymes into the $300 million per year market in the first half of 2008, a market expected to grow to $3 billion by 2017. Incitor seeks funding to accelerate entry into this emerging market.
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www.incitor.com
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