Two startup companies with strong connections to À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering won financial backing at a recent .
The big winner of a $100,000 investment through the Velocity Fund and Velocity Health Tech Fund portfolios was , which is developing technology to identify viral structures through their waveform characteristics.
The company has partnered with engineering professors Safieddin Safavi-Naeini and George Shaker, along with their team at the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, on work to detect viruses like the one that causes COVID-19 using wireless signals.
, which was co-founded by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ doctoral student Jeremy Wang, was one of three companies to win $50,000 investments.
It is working to tackle food scarcity in northern communities by retrofitting small planes with hardware and software to enable more frequent flights to underserviced areas.