• OVPR

    The Office of the Vice President for Research facilitates collaborative research opportunities, streamlines related policies and procedures, and acts as a unified voice for U of I research.

  • UIUC OTM

    The Office of Technology Management at Urbana-Champaign is responsible for managing the intellectual property generated by research and educational activities at the University.

  • UIC Research Center

    Supplies a fully-equipped infrastructure and access to University resources, internship programs, world-class talent, and custom-designed business development services.

  • UI Research Park

    Provides an ideal environment for starting a high-growth technology venture, with wet-chemistry labs, office space, an array of shared equipment, server co-location facilities, and conference rooms.

  • IllinoisVENTURES

    IllinoisVENTURES is a seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences and life sciences, with a particular emphasis on those deriving from research conducted at the University of Illinois and other regional research institutions and federal laboratories.

Office of Technology Management, Chicago

Start-ups

Sugar Rides Inc.

Sugar Rides provides efficient, low cost electric commuter transportation. Mike Philpott is an advisor.
EnterpriseWorks
http://sugarrides.com/
EnterpriseWorks: Champaign, IL
Physical Science, Urbana-Champaign
Strata Decision Technology

Develops new models and decision-making tools for the healthcare industry. Founded by a UI Finance professor.
N/A
http://www.strata-decision.com/
Research Park: Champaign, IL
Information Technologies, Urbana-Champaign
Starfire Industries

Develops advanced plasma technologies with application to space propulsion, nuclear fusion, and industrial processing.
EnterpriseWorks
http://www.starfireindustries.com/
Research Park: Champaign, IL
Physical Science, Urbana-Champaign
Runtime Verification

Runtime Verification develops runtime verification techniques that will vastly improve the software engineering experience.
EnterpriseWorks
EnterpriseWorks: Champaign, IL
Information Technologies, Urbana-Champaign
R-Systems Inc.

Provides high end HPC resources and cycle time on demand for industry and researchers
EnterpriseWorks
http://www.rsystemsinc.com/
Research Park: Champaign, IL
Information Technologies, Urbana-Champaign
Vision Technology

Vision Technology provides several hardware and software technologies for imaging professionals. These include advanced imaging products and image manipulation software for capturing and viewing panoramic and hemispherical images with clarity and precision.
Technology Commercialization Lab
http://www.focused-mosaics.com/
EnterpriseWorks: Champaign, IL
Information Technologies, Urbana-Champaign
Iguana Robotics, Inc.

advanced robotics technology inspired by information processing in biological system
EnterpriseWorks
http://www.iguana-robotics.com
Tucson
Physical Science, Urbana-Champaign
Simplified Data Tracking

Simplified Data Tracking offers data management solutions for scientists. Their programs will allow scientists to store, track, and analyze information for transgenic and knockout mouse colonies, cell and bacterial storage freezers, plasmid constructs and PCR primers. Their first database solution will be Mouse Colony, a program for the management of transgenic animal colonies.
http://simplifieddatatracking.com
Chicago, IL
Chicago, Information Technologies
INI Power Systems

INI Power Systems(INI) founded to fill an urgent need in the portable electronics market for a light-weight, high-performance, environmentally friendly mobile power source.
EnterpriseWorks
http://www.inipower.com/
Morrisville, NC
Physical Science, Urbana-Champaign
InstaRecon, Inc.

InstaRecon develops both software and hardware-based methods of quickly reconstructing images from 2D and 3D tomographic data 20 to 100 times faster than conventional methods.
EnterpriseWorks
http://www.instarecon.com/
EnterpriseWorks: Champaign, IL
Life Science, Urbana-Champaign
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