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Chinova uses the power of mushrooms to protect food and beverage products from spoilage. Chinova’s natural, clean-label, FDA approved formulation reduces the reliance on artificial ingredients and improves quality, freshness and shelf-life. Consumer food products using Chinova can be found in supermarkets across North America.

Rhapsody co-led a pre-seed round in 2018 with DSM. Other investors include SOSV and AgFunder.

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Professor Ryan Harne had been working at the frontier of vibration and shock damping for 15 years when he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall that led to permanent hearing loss and nerve damage.

“Waking up in the hospital, one of my first thoughts was that if I had landed on a floor damped with HyperDamping materials, this could have been prevented,” Dr. Harne realized. HyperDamping was formed in short order.

The company uses innovative methods in mechanical design paired with advanced materials science to create lightweight, durable damping materials and solutions with effective and long-lasting performance.

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Originating from Professor Xin Li’s lab at Harvard, Adden is developing a stable, lithium-metal, solid-state battery that charges much faster and is safer than current lithium-metal batteries.

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Hazel Technologies extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables. About 40% of produce is wasted, creating a huge economic loss and ecological waste. Hazel’s products extend the shelf life of countless produce products by weeks.

Founded in 2016, Rhapsody led the seed round in 2017. Hazel has since treated billions of pounds of produce. Hazel’s Series C included investments from Temasek, Aliment Capital, Grantham Foundation, S2G, Pangea, Rhapsody and others.

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Founded at Caltech in 2017, Fluid Efficiency is revolutionizing efficiency, safety, and sustainability in the fluid transport and lubrication industries.

Their MSM-based Single Injection Flow Improver dramatically transforms liquid pipeline operations, delivering exceptional operational simplicity and cost efficiency. Existing pipeline flow improvers are ultra high molecular weight polymers that break in pumps, and must be re-injected after each pump to continue working. MSMs™ are self-repairing high molecular weight supramolecules, and thus only need to be added once. Using MSMs™ as flow enhancers reduces costs by enabling pipelines to operate with far fewer re-injection points and significantly lower cumulative volumes of material without any compromise in flow rates. MSMs™ allow pipelines to drastically reduce operating cost without affecting operations.

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Holiferm develops holistically improved fermentation processes to deliver massive economic improvements for renewable chemicals. Their first product line of biosurfactants is used in consumer cleaning products in the UK, and their first global scale plant is under construction now.

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As a US Marine, Reamonn Soto saw firsthand how measurement limitations affect aircraft engine performance and maintenance. He founded Sensatek to commercialize inventions from UCF that can measure temperature, pressure and strain in harsh environments.

Today, Sensatek develops and manufactures wireless, high-temperature, gas turbine sensors for customers in several industries including Energy, Aviation, and Aerospace.

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Novel liquid crystals that enable the highest speed, most energy efficient integrated photonic devices unblocking data transfer bottlenecks.

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Tendo Technologies has developed a novel class of flow sensors based on elastic filament velocimetry. Tendo’s unique combination of low price, excellent performance and small form factor enables the use of flow meters in applications which aren’t feasible today.

Tendo Technologies spun out of Professor Marcus Hultmark’s research group at Princeton University in 2017.

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NODAR is re-envisioning safety for autonomous transportation by leveraging untethered cameras to provide high-definition 3D depth maps at long range. This novel approach to perception is making safe autonomy available to the mass market.

Dr. Leaf Jiang founded NODAR in 2018 based on his 20+ years of experience building optoelectronic systems at MIT and MIT Lincoln Lab.

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Spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute in 2020, Tender Food is making alternative meat taste and feel like farmed meat using novel plant-based fiber production technology.

Rhapsody led the pre-seed round in 2020. Lower Carbon Capital led the Seed round with participation from actress and renown vegan and animal rights activist Natalie Portman, as well as Rhapsody.

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Manus Bio was founded in 2011 with the mission of developing an economical and sustainable biomanufacturing platform, particularly for accessing rare and complex natural ingredients. Using a patented technology platform originally developed at MIT, Manus Bio produces high-value ingredients for the flavor, fragrance and sweetener industries, among others.

Through its 2018 acquisition of Nutrasweet assets, Manus Bio produces its products at scale in Augusta, Georgia.

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GPR’s (formerly WaveSense) ultra-wide band Ground Positioning Radar™ uses reflections of the underground to generate high definition maps. When a vehicle is in motion, GPR tracks and matches a real-time radar scan with the subsurface map. This enables precise vehicle positioning regardless of poor weather or visibility, faint road markings, or other common challenges facing advanced driver-assistance systems.

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Wavelogix is on a mission to transform safety and quality assurance for the construction industry. A spinout of Dr. Luna Lu’s research group at Purdue University, Wavelogix has developed a patented IoT sensor and data analytics platform for infrastructure quality testing. Their award-winning REBEL™ sensing technology is the only sensor that provides real-time measurements of in-place concrete strength, allowing construction engineers to make accurate, data-driven decisions about materials selection, scheduling, budgets, and resource allocation.

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Cnergreen’s patent-pending ArmorFoam™ technology, developed at the University of Calgary, enables underground foams to remain stable for months at high pressures, temperatures, and salinities. The first application is improving CO2 enhanced oil recovery (CO2 EOR) in the oil and gas industry. For years, oilfield operators have seen an opportunity to use CO2 injection as a way to enhance oil recovery in active wells, while also permanently sequestering CO2 in geologic reservoirs. Because of the large volumes of CO2 required, CO2-EOR provides a near-term pathway for scaled carbon sequestration, while lowering the carbon footprint of produced oil. However, injected gas often channels through fractures and highly permeable zones and results in early gas production and inefficient sweep. With ArmorFoam™, these channels are blocked, forcing CO2 to permeate all available space in reservoirs.

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Sourced from green waste, Treekind™ by Biophilica is plastic-free leather (free of PU, PVC and any other petrochemicals) making it recyclable as green waste and home compostable. It is also non-toxic and estimated carbon neutral.

Leather is one of the most environmentally harmful textiles with its carbon footprint, water usage and waste. Treekind™ offers a sustainable, circular alternative to leather and its synthetic competitors to support the transition to manufacturing and consumption that is local, carbon zero, and sustainable.

Rhapsody led the seed round in 2022.

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SpinDrive is selling advanced active magnetic bearing (AMBs) control systems. AMBs are frictionless bearings that create energy and opex savings. SpinDrive’s systems improve existing products and, being smaller and cheaper, enable completely new use cases for AMBs.