Ohio State Startups - Software & Information Technology

Colorado Crytpogpraphy, Inc. (DBA Verilock)

License fiscal year: 2021
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Daniel Gauthier
College: Arts and Sciences
Department: Physics
Leadership: James Northup
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Estes Park, CO
Description: Verilock was founded to commercialize pioneering work in the field of dynamical chaotic networks. Verilock’s Entropy Extraction Device technology (EED) enables breakthroughs in device and network security. A logic circuit is designed into silicon that utilizes inherent manufacturing variations in chip manufacturing to feed a chaotic network. In nanoseconds, each chip generates unique and repeatable 256bit responses to random input challenges. Unlike other approaches that generate a single digital fingerprint, the EED can generate a near infinite number of keys, effectively thwarting the most advanced adversary

Columbus Technology LLC (DBA Delphic DB)

License fiscal year: 2015
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Arnab Nandi
College: Engineering
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Leadership: Victor Thorne
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: New Albany, OH
Description: Columbus Technology has licensed technology and software that enables very fast, large dataset querying that is needed for big data analytics applications. The company is testing the software’s data capture, processing and analytics capability with government and defense-based use cases to achieve proof of concept. Target markets include customers in the insurance, banking, utilities and retail industries.

DAtAnchor Inc.

License fiscal year: 2019
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Emre Koksal
College: Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leadership: Emre Koksal
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: DAtAnchor is a novel crypto-technology that provides seamless and easy to use encryption, automated data governance, and dynamic access control and revocation capabilities. These features enable businesses to protect their sensitive data, even if exfiltrated. DAtAnchor is a universal solution, protecting all data types, along with any application used to secure it. It is very easy to set up and DAtAnchor seamlessly integrates with existing cloud-based security solutions and distributed storage systems. DAtAnchor substantially reduces the overhead associated with data security compliance requirements.

Grad Central LLC

License fiscal year: 2018
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Michael Hardesty
College: Arts and Sciences
Department: Arts and Sciences Technology
Leadership: David Dorr
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Cincinnati, OH
Description: GradCentral is commercializing software technology designed to manage graduate education programs, evaluations, student data and communications in a paper-free environment. By providing single-source access to data, as well as a customizable user experience, GradCentral provides a unique platform that will improve the management of graduate student education.

inmobly Inc.

License fiscal year: 2013
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Hesham El Gamal
College: Engineering
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Leadership: Mauricio Lozano
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Inmobly, Inc. is an AI-based end-to-end video delivery platform that allows mid-sized media companies, educational institutions and enterprises to deliver highly targeted and cost-effective video streaming services directly to consumers. Inmobly’s over-the-top (OTT) technology profiles the interests of viewers and smartly caches content of interest to provide targeted video content with reduced distribution and storage costs. Inmobly’s technology also improves the user experience through optimized content delivery with network dynamics to allow for immediate playback without buffering, while reducing churn and increasing user engagement.

Innovate IP Inc.

License fiscal year: 2018
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Michael Coutinho
College: Enterprise for Innovation, Research and Knowledge
Department: Office of Innovation and Economic Development
Leadership: Jim Bratton
Ownership status: Acquired/merged
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Innovate IP provides a web-based platform for managing intellectual property assets. Innovate IP’s software enables research institutions (universities, hospitals, federal labs and corporations) to manage the creation, protection and disposition of intellectual property assets. The multi-tenant platform serves as a work- flow manager and transaction tracking repository moving innovation from lab to market. The software allows inventors, administrators, licensees, law firms and others to collaborate in a unified system to generate, monitor and report outcomes for impact. Innovate IP was acquired by Cayuse, LLC in 2021.

MIPAR Software LLC

License fiscal year: 2017
Ohio State primary inventor(s): John Sosa; Hamish Fraser
College: Engineering
Department: Materials Science and Engineering
Leadership: John Sosa
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Worthington, OH
Description: MIPAR is a comprehensive image analysis software capable of identifying and accurately measuring features from nearly any image. MIPAR’s user-friendly interface allows for the creation of customizable and non- destructive “recipes” to enable users to create application-specific and efficient image processing workflows. The software has widespread applications including materials science, life science, particle analysis, earth science, face detection and aerial photography.

Mobikit Inc.

License fiscal year: 2019
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Arnab Nandi
College: Engineering
Department: Computer Science and Engineering
Leadership: Arnab Nandi
Ownership status: Acquired/merged
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Mobikit provides data infrastructure for connected vehicle management systems. The adoption of fully autonomous vehicles will dramatically shift the mobility experience and is projected to create 22 billion hours of additional in-vehicle daily media consumption. As enterprises begin to take advantage of the immense value of vehicle data, there is a need for faster and more streamlined ways to build transportation-based apps. Mobikit’s technology enables developers to rapidly build and assemble desktop, mobile and vehicle-dashboard applications that consume spatiotemporal vehicle data. Mobikit was acquired by Azuga in 2021.

Point Pro, Inc.

License fiscal year: 2022
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Mrinal Kumar
College: Engineering
Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Leadership: Matthew Bell
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: PointPro is a prescriptive analytics platform that creates high-fidelity condition forecasts. These forecasts help operators reduce the risk of equipment failure during operation, as well as downtime, and allows operators to optimize asset utilization and maintenance planning of high-value equipment.

RedBud SoftWare Inc.

License fiscal year: 2019
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Joan Leonard
College: Arts and Sciences
Department: Biological Sciences Greenhouse
Leadership: Bob Wiggins
Ownership status: Acquired/merged
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: RedBud SoftWare delivers modern agriculture software for greenhouse growers. RedBud is a cloud- based SaaS that provides a centralized platform for greenhouse operators to streamline task management with actionable insights and dynamic record-keeping. RedBud helps growers reduce costs, while maximizing crop consistency and repeatable results. RedBud SoftWare was acquired by Big Kitty Labs in 2021.

ResCon Technologies LLC

License fiscal year: 2021
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Daniel Canaday
College: Arts and Sciences
Department: Physics
Leadership: Brian Gyovai
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: ResCon Technologies, LLC is a veteran-owned small business specializing in hardware, firmware and software for advanced unmanned aerial system flight control. Its patent-pending platform combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and physical unclonable function technologies in a single package that can operate on low-power, commercial, off-the-shelf processors. ResCon’s solutions will fundamentally change the landscape of basic controllers, bringing AI/ML augmentation and high-level encryption to a new range of devices.

STEMcoding Education Ohio

License fiscal year: 2021
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Christopher Orban
College: Arts and Sciences
Department: Physics
Leadership: Christopher Orban
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: STEMCoding was formed to help students and teachers understand how computer science and data science relate to the traditional STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and math through the development of training materials, camps, videos and web resources.

Storm Impact, Inc.

License fiscal year: 2023
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Steven Quiring
College: Arts and Sciences
Department: Geography
Leadership: Jamie McKee
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: Using powerful cloud computing hardware and custom models developed by global experts, StormImpact’s tools inform global utility providers of predicted outages and damage threats to their infrastructure. The company’s products give management teams the confidence to deploy their resources accurately and efficiently through the use of data-driven dashboards and secure, accessible API endpoints.

Trip C LLC (DBA UNITE)

License fiscal year: 2021
Ohio State primary inventor(s): Christy Bertolo; Chris Svec
College: Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge
Department: Office of Innovation and Economic Development
Leadership: Christy Bertolo
Ownership status: Privately held
Headquarters: Columbus, OH
Description: UNITE is a consulting, training and technology company developed to help “unite” universities and industry partners. It was built by two higher education professionals to solve the fundamental and systemic problems they experienced and overcame as practitioners. UNITE has a three-ring offering and when implemented it accelerates the university/industry partnerships.