von Liebig Entrepreneurism Center
Entrepreneurial Successes
The von Liebig Center has supported 37 startup companies since 2001.
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App2you | Software that enables the creation of custom, hosted, interactive web applications, simply by outlining the pages of your application |
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Biological Dynamics | A device company that develops sample enrichment instrumentation for academic and clinical research |
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CarCode | License plate recognition system |
| Cardero Therapeutics | 4 |
Cardero Therapeutics | Develops cocoa-based compounds for treatment of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome |
| HIPerWerx | 5 |
HIPerWerx | Parallel computing, imaging and visualization consulting and services company |
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InflammaGen | Technologies for the treatment of shock and acute inflammatory diseases |
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InhibeX | Inflammation blocking technology |
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InsilicoMED | Predictive modeling tools for medical device design, diagnostic imaging, surgical procedures and drug discovery |
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MicroStem | Development of a product of lines for cancer stem cell and degenerative disease research |
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Mushroom Networks | Products and services focused on a range of networking solutions for Internet access and networking solutions for the digital living room |
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Herd It | Software that uses social gaming and machine learning to describe, categorize, and search for music using natural language |
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Netsift | Content-processing technology focused on high-speed networking and security – Acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. in 2005 |
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Onivo | Video analysis/recognition technology for the Internet |
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Ortiva Wireless | Software platform that enables efficient and cost effective delivery of high-quality web, streaming video and other data content to mobile devices – Acquired by Allot Communications in 2012 |
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Otosound | Customized Sound Therapy (CST) to treat tinnitus |
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TAAZ | 16 |
A playful destination website where people explore, change, and improve their appearance in digital photos using one-click photorealistic enhancements |
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Rhevision | Revolutionary technologies on smart optics for mobile and miniature imaging |
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U-P Laboratories | Uncoupling peptides for a cosmoceutical topical alternative to Botulinum Toxin (BoTox®) |
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Uzima | Biopharmaceutical application of designed regulatory proteins (DRPs) for the treatment of moderate to severe anemia |
| Tritonics | 20 |
Tritonics | Platform technology can be used to address the clogging problem of implanted shunts and tubings in different medical applications |
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Cognionics | Wireles cardiac sensor |
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Fluid Synchrony | Wireless Electronic Drug Infusion Pumps for Telemedicine |
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Farus | Focused on the development of novel imaging and sensing systems for a wide-variety of settings, from industry uses to hospitals to austere military environments |
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Nanovision Biosciences | Prosthetic retina for macular degeneration |
| Raft Therapeutics | 25 |
Raft Therapeutics | |
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Quanlight | Yellow-amber-red (YAR) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that target the signage, traffic signaling, automotive and cell phone backlighting markets |
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Holomic | Mobile microscopy |
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Agile Nano | Nanotechnology-based compressible energy absorbing liquids; potential for both military and commercial applications such as liquid armors and liquid shoes |
| Lila Technologies | 29 |
Lila Technologies | |
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EarthRisk Technologies | Uses historic weather patterns to understand the likelihood of sever weather events at longer lead times |
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Mando Group | Program for eating disorders, overweight and obesity |
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Scoperta | Advanced materials company |
| Sonrgy | 33 |
Sonrgy | |
| Pulsar Diagnostics | 34 |
Pulsar Diagnostics | Technologies that enable high sensitivity genotyping, gene expression, and infectious agent detection – Acquired by OcuSense, Inc. in 2003 |
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Uroboros Technologies | Design, develop, and manufacture micro controller development boards and programmers |
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Electrozyme | Develop disposable, printed chemical sensors |
| Lyxia | 37 |
Lyxia | Making gasoline from Algae |
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1 | Aequoreus Pharma Innovation | Transforms academic drug discoveries into high value potential new medicines by combining access to sustainable sources of unique biologically active compounds with proven computer-aided drug discovery expertise |
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| Video Processing Technologies (VPTI) | 1 | Video Processing Technologies (VPTI) | Software program that enhances viewing experience of online video by generating additional frames in case of frame skipping/dropout due to inefficient bandwidth or noisy channel. Licensed to Broadcast International in 2006 |







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