Here's 6 cool startups from Alchemy, StartX demo days (Video)
Here are three cool pitches from the latest class of
startups at Stanford-affiliated StartX. (Video starts after the
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- Cromwell Schubarth
- Senior Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley Business Journal
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The first featured Alchemist Accelerator, founded by Stanford entrepreneurship lecturer Ravi Belani, is a for profit accelerator backed by the likes of Cisco Systems, SAP Ventures, Khosla Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Seven Alchemist graduates offered pitches at Citrix in Santa Clara that were flashy, sporting clever graphics and plenty of polish.
In contrast, a few hours later the pitches given by the latest class of nonprofit incubator StartX were no-frills.
But don’t let the lack of polish fool you. StartX has mentored 125 startups that have raised $150 million in funding since it launched in the summer of 2009. Seven have been acquired.
Check out the accompanying video to see three new StartX graduates I particularly liked. They are:
— SoniTrack Systems, which is based on technology developed by CEO Jeff Schlosser while he was a grad student in mechanical engineering and bioengineering at Stanford. SoniTrack uses robotics and ultrasound imaging to improve radiation therapy.
One of Schlosser’s co-founders is Stanford computer science and surgery professor Kenneth Salisbury, who created a robot that Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci system is based. The other is Dmitre Hristov, an assistant professor of oncology at Stanford who is the co-inventor of Resonant Medical’s Clarity ultrasound positioning system.
— Flame Stower, pitched by co-founder Andrew Byrnes. This startup has created a device that recharges mobile phones from heat generated from any open flame.
Cromwell Schubarth is the Senior Technology Reporter at the Business Journal. His phone number is 408.299.1823.
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