Assembo

We are using multiple SaaS tools in our daily work, information in these tool are often not synced well, so we are building a working hub that channels information flow from multiple well used SaaS apps to boost productivity.

Team Members:
Lan Li, Entrepreneurial Lead, co-Founder 
Yuhao Liu, Technical Lead, MS Technology Ventures and ECE
Yumo Chi , Lead Developer, MS Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
I-Corps Mentor, Dawn Rucker

Biombyx

Our ultrasound-sensitive biomaterial will allow degradation to be tuned to match a patient's regenerative speed through exposure to ultrasound waves. The silk biomaterial will be an off the shelf product that can be used to repair soft tissue defects.

Team Members:
Megan DeBari, Entrepreneurial Lead, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BME/CIT
Rosalyn Abbott, Academic Lead, Faculty, BME/MSE/CIT
I-Corps Mentor, Jeannine Siviy

Chapr

Chapr provides a digital co-pilot system that helps auto insurers reduce the $2-billion annual claim loss due to inattentive driving. Its advanced AI system produces accurate data on driver behavior while protecting privacy, coaches young drivers to build good habits, and is 1/10 the total cost of existing driver monitor systems.

Team Members:
Mike Chiang, Entrepreneurial Lead, MS Software Management
Su Jin, Technical Lead, MS Software Management
Madhusmita Borah, Business Lead, MS Software Management
Anu Rao Kavoor, Product Lead, MS Software Management
Sam Mao, Team Member, MS Software Management
Bilel Buraway, Team Member, MS Software Management
Sheng-Yu Tsai, Team Member, MS Computer Software Engineering
I-Corps Mentor, Dawn Rucker

Crypto Colleague

Crypto Colleague aims to streamline recruitment in the blockchain industry by introducing the concept of outsourcing (dedicated team model) skilled blockchain professionals from India to crypto companies in the United States. The idea is to narrow the wide gap in the demand (high) and supply (low) of HR in the blockchain industry by providing robustly vetted blockchain experts at low costs.

Team Members:
Ishgun Singh Arora, Entrepreneurial Lead, BS, Business Administration and Statistics and Machine Learning, Tepper and Dietrich
I-Corps Mentor, Dawn Rucker

deepology.ai

deepology.ai provides computing infrastructure as a service to enable companies to understand how their AI will perform in consumer markets. Companies provide their model prototype for us to test and validate performance on a variety of consumer hardware configurations.

Team Members:
Joseph Konan, Entrepreneurial Lead, Ph.D student, ECE/CIT
I-Corps Mentor, Stephan Mueller

E-Carebetics

Combining mobile application with a deep learning model and a low-cost DIY ophthalmoscopic lens for the self-screening of diabetic retinopathy in underdeveloped countries.

Team Members: 

Bingda Li, Entrepreneurial Lead, Dual MS Student in BME and ETIM
Devansh Parikh, Technical Lead
Mukunthan Tharmakulasingam, Team Member, PhD Student at University of Surrey
David Elmets, Team Member
Bala Gangadhar Thilak Adiboina, Team Member
I-Corps Mentor, Jeannine Siviy

Fort Alto, Inc.

Design tool for IoT systems

Team Members:
Anthony Tomasic, Entrepreneurial Lead, Consultant, RI/SCS
Dana Florescu, Technical Lead
I-Corps Mentor, Stephan Mueller

Incepts

The venture aims to be the leading solution provider for electric vehicle infrastructure. The team has developed patent-pending software that can create high-fidelity trip estimates for electric vehicle performance utilizing local conditions, seamlessly expand this analysis to fleets of vehicles and use this information to intelligently develop charger infrastructure.

Team Members:
Matt Guttenberg, Entrepreneurial Lead, Ph.D Student, MechE/CIT
Venkat Viswanathan, Technical Lead, Faculty, CIT
I-Corps Mentor, Dawn Rucker

Mint Stack (formerly CryptoTag)

We help brands and creators sell physical asset backed NFT collectibles enabling their customers to verify ownership and authenticity information and enhance liquidity.

Team Members:
Sankalp Garg, Entrepreneurial Lead, MS Machine Learning, SCS
Harshit Jain, Technical Lead 
Srishti Singh, Team Member, Integrated Innovation Institute
I-Corps Mentor, Dawn Rucker

Shepherdme.ai (formerly Abuse Flagger)

We want to bridge the gender digital divide by making the digital landscape a safer space to navigate for females by creating a daemon application on mobile flags abusive/offensive text/images on the screen and provides the option to take action against it depending on the digital platform. This will be a safety mechanism that works towards bridging the gender digital divide.

Team Members:
Rishabh Banga, Entrepreneurial Lead, MS, Software Management
Pranathi Alla, Technical Lead, MS, Software Management
Meesha Chauhan, Project Lead, MS, Software Management
Shivangee Sabharwal, Product Lead, MS Software Management
Catherine Fang, Academic Advisor, Adjunct Faculty, Integrated Innovation Institute
I-Corps Mentor, Jeannine Siviy

Studio Learning

A gamified platform that integrates with middle and high schools' learning management systems to prompt students to routinely set academic and personal goals, self-assess, reflect, and self-affirm, fostering enduring academic achievement and growth mindset for students, with the greatest benefits incurred by underserved students.  We will employ theoretically derived, evidence-based methods to help students form and maintain the habit of setting academic goals, setting personal goals, reflecting, and engaging in self-affirmation.

Team Members:
James King, Entrepreneurial Lead, MS in Education Tech & Applied Learning Sciences, HCII/SCS
Boon Hong (Donovan) So, Technical Lead, MS in Education Tech & Applied Learning Sciences, HCII/SCS
Gabriel Clark, User Researcher, CMU METALS student
Shang-Yuan (Sean) Wang, UX Designer, CMU METALS student
Dr. Geoff Kaufman, Academic Lead, Faculty, SCS
I-Corps Mentor, Stephan Mueller

uberSpark Inc.

The uberSpark Modular Provable Security (MPS) technology provides the ability for system integrators and developers to introduce provable security in a modular and incremental fashion into existing Commodity Heterogenous Interconnected Computing (CHIC) platforms. Our approach provides mathematically verified security for CHIC-centric Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) software implementations (e.g., ARM/x86/RISC-V/Linux) while also being cost- effective and preserving existing functionality.

Team Members:
Dr. Amit Vasudevan, Entrepreneurial Lead, Computer Scientist at Software Engineering Institute
Dr. Jeff Boleng, Technical Adviser
I-Corps Mentor, Stephan Mueller