SEA6ENERGY Location: Bengaluru Year of Establishment: 2010 Founders: Sayash Kumar, Nelson Vadassery, Sowmya Balendiran, Sailaja Nori, Shrikumar Suryanarayan Key Products: Jingo
PANDORUM TECHNOLOGIES
MAPMYGENOME
ACHIRA LABS
LEADINVENT
FIVE PROMISING STARTUPS
SEA6ENERGY Location: Bengaluru Year of Establishment: 2010 Founders: Sayash Kumar, Nelson Vadassery, Sowmya Balendiran, Sailaja Nori, Shrikumar Suryanarayan Key Products: Jingo
Details: The company is working on the development of biofuels derived from the seaweed. The company is deriving ethanol fuel from seaweed especially red seaweed. These days when the microalgae present in fresh waters are being considered as a good renewable source of biofuels, Sea6 Energy is exploring macroalgae as an eco-friendly source of fuels. In 2012, Sea6 Energy collaborated with the Danish biotech company, Novozymes to get support for the ethanol fuel production. Tata Capital Limited’ s venture capital funding arm Tata Capital Innovations Fund( TCIF) has invested in Sea6 Energy.
PANDORUM TECHNOLOGIES
Founders: Tuhin Bhowmick, Arun Chandru
MAPMYGENOME
Location: Hyderabad Year of Establishment: 2013
Founders: Anuradha Acharya Key Products: Genomepatri™, SlimGene™, SugarGene™, SpoligoTB™, BabyMap™
Details: Mapmygenome is a personal genomics and a molecular diagnostic company which tells all about the genetic predisposition of a person to check the risk of brain and cardiac diseases or DNA-based test to assess the risk of developing genetic cancers or molecular tests for tuberculosis or to assess the lifestyle diseases.
ACHIRA LABS
Location: Bengaluru Year of Establishment: 2009 Founders: Suri Venkatachalam, Dhananjaya Dendukuri Key Products: ACIX-100 – portable next-gen microfluidic technology driven platform to test blood serum samples.
Details: Achira is an innovative medical diagnostics startup which developed indigenous microfluidic, labon-chip platform to serve the clinical areas of thyroid disorders, fertility, diabetes and infectious disease. It is a big technological advancement in the Indian healthcare facilities. It launched India’ s first microfluidics point-of-care medical diagnostics platforms and generates fast and accurate results at affordable prices.
LEADINVENT
Location: Bengaluru Year of Establishment: 2011
Details: A unique biotechnology startup who is trying to take tissue engineering to its next level in India. The company’ s proprietary technology platform is being utilized to design and manufacture functional, 3D living human tissues for medical research and various other applications. It made India’ s first 3D printed artificial human liver tissue.
Location: New Delhi Year of Establishment: 2006 Founders: Pankaj Sharma, Surojit Bose
Details: LeadInvent has developed a unique molecule simulation technology known as LIDiscover Engine which enables scientists to discover and develop novel patentable compounds for various therapeutic areas. LIDiscover Engine has been successfully utilized in over five drug discovery programs comprising oncology, infective diseases like tuberculosis and neural indications. The company provides in-silico research services in chemoinformatics and bioinformatics.
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