AIMM — Advanced & Innovative Multifunctional Materials

Clear Skies Hydrogen / CSH2 Corp

Clear Skies Hydrogen / CSH2 Corp is building modular hydrogen refueling infrastructure for medium- and heavy-duty fuel-cell vehicles, using cryopump-based, containerized station systems designed to reduce fueling cost, boil-off losses, CapEx and deployment time.

Concerto Biosciences

Concerto Biosciences is a biotechnology company using its kChip high-throughput microbial screening platform and kAI model to design microbe-based therapeutics and products across skin health, women’s health and food science. Its lead program, ENS-002, is a live biotherapeutic for atopic dermatitis, and its known commercial partner includes Sacco System for next-generation microbial ingredient discovery.

CPTI / California Perovskite Technology Inc.

CPTI builds ultra-thin, flexible perovskite photovoltaic systems that turn any surface into a power source – for IoT sensors, wearables, robotics, devices, and buildings. We offer standard panels for customer evaluation today and can co-design custom dimensions and output voltages for specific form factors.

Deep Anchor Solutions

Deep Anchor Solutions develops scalable, cost-effective anchoring systems for floating offshore infrastructure. Its flagship technology, the Deeply Embedded Ring Anchor (DERA), uses a compact, steel pipe-based architecture designed to reduce fabrication, transportation, and installation costs. The company also provides project-specific engineering services to support offshore deployment.

HidrogeniCs

Hidrogenics is an Advanced Materials and Energy startup building high-value carbon products (e.g., synthetic graphite (a critical material), graphene, carbon nanotubes, and carbon black) for commercial and defense applications. Our target partners include battery manufacturers, the electronic & semiconductor sectors, prime contractors (aviation & space), and the oil and gas industries.

Kenyi Technologies

Kenyi Technologies is building a next-generation edge infrastructure platform for telecom, cloud-native edge computing and AI inferencing. Founded by ex-Qualcomm engineers, the company uses chiplet technology to combine an ARM server-grade CPU with Kenyi’s Edge Server DPU acceleration, targeting use cases such as vRAN, 5G/6G edge networks, video analytics and proximal AI inferencing. Kenyi has announced a strategic partnership with ADTechnology to co-develop a 2nm edge server processor.

Lift Biolabs

Lift Biolabs is a biomanufacturing tools company developing affinity purification products designed to make biologics easier and less expensive to produce. Our tools are genetically encodable protein-shell nanobubbles produced by fermentation. They capture high-value biologics and separate them in bulk by flotation. Lift Biolabs is starting with viral vector purification and developing separation products for emerging biologics that are difficult to purify using existing technologies.

Manifest Technologies

Manifest Technologies is an advanced manufacturing company enabling the production of smart lenses and other complex, high-value products. Its patented Parallax Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, or P-VAM, platform uniquely helps manufacturers overcome the slow, expensive assembly steps required by traditional production methods, enabling faster manufacturing, greater design freedom, and a path to thinner, fully integrated next-generation devices. Manifest is commercializing technology developed at the University of Colorado Boulder, with an initial focus on optics and future applications across other advanced industrial sectors.

Prolific Machines

Prolific Machines is a biotechnology company developing a Photomolecular™ biomanufacturing platform that uses light, optogenetics and AI-driven process optimization to control cell behavior and improve production of biotherapeutics, antibodies, biosimilars and other biologics. The company works with biotech, pharmaceutical and CDMO partners.

Sepion Technologies

Sepion Technologies develops advanced polymer coatings and membrane technologies for next-generation battery separators, helping improve battery safety, fast-charging performance, energy density and cost without requiring major changes to existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines. Its products are used across EV, energy storage and consumer electronics applications, with customer qualification programs underway with global battery manufacturers and a partnership with Shenzhen Senior Technology Material.

SHARP Diagnostics

SHARP Diagnostics is a Johns Hopkins–born biotechnology startup developing rapid, portable and scalable nucleic-acid detection technology using isothermal amplification. Its SHARP platform uses engineered helicase molecular motors to amplify DNA/RNA at a constant temperature, eliminating the need for a thermocycler while aiming to preserve PCR-like sensitivity, specificity and workflow compatibility. The company sells a research-use-only SHARP Isothermal DNA Amplification Kit and is targeting applications across point-of-care molecular diagnostics, infectious disease testing, HIV, HCV, TB, COVID-19, influenza, agricultural diagnostics and biothreat detection. Known early customers/users include research customers in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, New York, California and Maryland.

Sustainable Chemicals

Sustainable Chemicals, Inc. is a startup developing patent-protected, AI-enabled, plant-based bioplastics that match petrochemical plastics in cost and performance, reduce CO₂ emissions by 45%, fully biodegrade in soil without persistent microplastics, and enable low-temperature chemical recycling.

Our shared chemistry platform includes Flexoxa™, a biobased plasticizer targeting the $17 billion biobased additives market, and Replose™, a low-modulus bioplastic targeting the $90 billion flexible films market. Our non-fermentation process uses commercially available equipment and is designed for petrochemical-comparable cost and scalability.

Tyfast Energy Corp.

Tyfast Energy is developing lithium vanadium oxide anode materials for fast-charging, long-life lithium-ion batteries targeting heavy-duty applications including trucking, mining, construction and defense. Known partners and strategic collaborators include GUS Technology, US Vanadium, Strategic Resources, Bradda Head Lithium, NSF, DOE/ARPA-E, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, California Energy Commission, CalSEED and Activate/Cyclotron Road.

Vellex Computing

Vellex Computing is a Stanford spin-out analog semiconductor company developing ultra-low-power chips for AI training. Powered by a decade of research and backed by the U.S. National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, Vellex’s technology delivers AI training at a fraction of the energy cost of GPU-based solutions. The company holds multiple patents and has active pilots across energy, data center, and edge AI applications. Vellex is raising $1.25M in a pre-seed round to cross the commercial threshold and accelerate commercialization, and is looking to partner with OEMs and chipmakers.

Bilix

FS2

FS2 builds monolithic 3D (M3D) integration technology that stacks SRAM memory directly on logic, placing cache roughly 1,000 times closer and up to 125 times cheaper than today’s alternatives. An MIT spin-off, it grows single-crystal 2D material at low temperatures compatible with existing fabs, letting AI chipmakers add on-die memory in the vertical dimension instead of consuming die area.

GoLe Robotics

GoLe Robotics develops autonomous material-handling robots for construction, delivered as an overnight “Night Lifting” service that stages materials so crews arrive to a fully supplied worksite. Priced as a service against the labor it replaces, its robots operate on unstructured, network-free sites where warehouse robots can’t. The company won three CES 2026 Innovation Awards and is developing shipyard robots with Samsung Heavy Industries.

L&D (Layer & Device)

Layer & Device (L&D) develops GaN epitaxy wafers built on its proprietary AlN-buffer technology, delivering better electrical performance than commercially available material. Targeting the global shortage of GaN epi-wafers, the company aims to become the first dedicated epi-house for AlN-based GaN wafers used in power and RF semiconductors.

MangoBoost

MangoBoost builds full-stack AI infrastructure for the agentic-AI era, co-designing its own BoostX data-processing unit with MLPerf-validated inference software to cut the total cost of running AI data centers. By optimizing hardware and software together on open Ethernet, it raises inference throughput on customers’ existing accelerators. The company holds top MLPerf benchmark records and partners closely with AMD.

MMII Laboratory

MMII Laboratory designs custom RF, microwave, and mmWave ICs and front-end modules for defense, satellite, mobile, and next-generation wireless systems. By selecting the best-fit process, whether GaAs, GaN, SOI CMOS, or SiGe, it delivers tailored power amplifiers, low-noise amplifiers, switches, and beamforming chips far faster than catalog vendors. It already supplies a Tier-1 global RF supplier and Korean defense programs.

MONA

MONA develops AI-powered battery diagnostics that grade the health of cells, modules, and packs in seconds, without opening them. Combining electrochemical impedance spectroscopy with physics-based AI, its inline systems inspect 100% of batteries at production speed to catch early defects across EV, energy-storage, second-life, and hydrogen fuel-cell applications. Over 3 million cells have been tested on production lines for partners including Hyundai.

Perseus

Perseus develops hypervisor and security software for software-defined vehicles. Its flagship PEGASUS is the world’s first ASIL-D-certified hypervisor spanning both CPU and MCU processors, letting automakers run safety-critical, real-time, and infotainment systems on a single chip while cutting SoC usage by about 75%. The technology is in series production with Hyundai and Kia, with pilots underway beyond automotive.

Prevenotics

Prevenotics develops AI-powered endoscopy software that detects gastrointestinal cancer and precancerous lesions in real time. Its Class III device, Venotics-G Pro, flags gastric cancer, adenoma, and intestinal metaplasia with over 90% sensitivity and specificity, and adds patient tracking for high-risk follow-up. Deployed at Seoul National University Hospital and other centers, the company partners with NVIDIA, LG Electronics, and Google.

Riibotics

Riibotics builds autonomous forklift robots that work in existing, imperfect warehouses as they are, deployed in a single day with no markers, QR codes, or infrastructure changes. Its full-stack Spatial AI fuses 3D LiDAR and cameras for SLAM, 4D mapping, and pallet-pose estimation accurate to plus or minus 3.3 mm, about three times better than the industry benchmark. It placed second worldwide in the Hilti SLAM Challenge at ICRA 2026.

VITAL IC

VITAL IC designs high-resolution, low-power analog front-end chips and TinyML software for digital-health and point-of-care devices. Its bio-signal processing solves the poor accuracy and short battery life that limit wearable and portable diagnostics, paired with customization support most global chip vendors don’t offer. Customers span capsule endoscopy in Korea, sleep-monitoring devices in the U.S., and continuous glucose monitoring in Taiwan.

Vueron Technology

Vueron Technology develops hardware-agnostic LiDAR perception software that turns raw point clouds into automotive-grade 3D perception for vehicles, smart infrastructure, ports, and shipyards. Its sensor-agnostic engine works across major LiDAR makers and earned the world’s first autonomous-driving permits using a single LiDAR sensor in Korea, California, and Nevada. It ranks first globally on the Waymo Open Dataset for 3D detection.

WiPowerOne

WiPowerOne builds high-power wireless charging systems that keep autonomous fleets running without manual plug-in. Its patented multi-phase, multi-layer technology delivers up to 100 kW to robotaxis and lets mobile robots and humanoids charge while they work, cutting downtime. Built for the Physical AI era, the company is running commercial pilots with Mercedes-Benz Korea, LG Electronics, and Hyundai E&C.

Xenoscube

Xenoscube is building the XPU (eXtreme Processing Unit), a memory-centric, energy-aware processor designed for AGI-era AI workloads that overwhelm today’s GPUs. Unifying compute, memory, and a neuro-symbolic reasoning engine, it targets major gains in energy efficiency for reasoning and continuous-learning models. Its founding team built Korea’s first data-center AI-semiconductor business and delivered more than ten processor IPs for commercial tape-outs.

Zeta Mobility

Zeta Mobility develops an AI-powered radar perception system that detects falls, posture, and anomalies using radio waves instead of cameras, protecting privacy in sensitive spaces such as elderly-care facilities and public restrooms. Built on more than a decade of KAIST radar research, it identifies emergencies in real time with full anonymity. The company has completed a proof-of-concept through Samsung Electronics’ C-Lab.