Thousands of new startups are founded every year – emerging companies with the potential to disrupt the nanotechnology industry. To give you a head-start on emerging technologies and startups that will impact the nanotechnology sector in 2022, we analyzed a total of 625 global nanotechnology startups & scaleups. Meet 5 of the most promising startups to watch!
Global Startup Heat Map highlights 5 Nanotechnology Startups to Watch in 2022
Out of 625, the 5 nanotechnology startups to watch are chosen through the Big Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered StartUs Insights Discovery Platform, covering over 2 093 000+ startups & scaleups globally. As the world’s largest resource for data on emerging companies, the SaaS platform enables you to identify relevant startups, emerging technologies & future industry trends quickly & exhaustively.
The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights the 5 nanotechnology startups you should watch in 2022 as well as the geo-distribution of the other 620 startups & scaleups we analyzed for this research. We hand-picked the 5 highlighted nanotechnology startups based on our data-driven startup scouting approach, taking into account factors such as location, founding year, the relevance of technology, and funding, among others.
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Hummink advances 3D Nanoprinting
Founding Year: 2020
Location: Paris, France
Funding: USD 838 000
Partner for: Nanofabrication, Direct Printing
Industries: Semiconductors, Molecular Diagnosis, Display Panels
Hummink is a French startup that develops a 3D nanoprinting solution. The startup combines a nanometric pen and an oscillating macroresonator to perform capillary depositions of various liquids. Moreover, it uses an electronic control unit to compensate for the errors due to ink or substrate properties. Challenges in nanomanufacturing include high cost, precision, and quality control. Hummink mitigates these issues using direct printing technology, enabling manufacturers to design multi-material patterns as well as achieve higher resolution and printing speed.
CDotBio facilitates Crop Gene Editing
Founding Year: 2021
Location: Haywards Heath, UK
Funding: USD 4,2 M
Partner for: Low-Cost Genetic Engineering
Industries: Agriculture, Food
CDotBio is a British startup that provides Carbon Dots, its carbon nanoparticles for crop gene editing. Carbon Dots carry genome editing molecules into plant cells despite their walls and membranes impeding the uptake. Unlike expensive Agrobacterium-mediated and biolistic-mediated transformations, the startup’s solution is low-cost, supports a range of crop varieties, and is highly biocompatible. Cost-effective genetic engineering is crucial to address the increasing food demand and achieve sustainable food production. The startup’s solution enables this transition without lowering profits.
NanoStruct develops Contamination Sensors
Founding Year: 2021
Location: Würzburg, Germany
Partner for: Contamination Detection
Industries: Food, Pharma, BioTech
German startup NanoStruct makes highly-sensitive sensors to detect contaminants in the food, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. The startup’s ultraprecise gold nanostructures enhance surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), providing high-sensitivity analysis. Besides, its proprietary manufacturing process and the atomically flat mono-crystalline gold film starting material enable high precision and numerous geometrical variations. Conventional processes render nanostructures that are challenging to reproduce, whereas the startup provides reproducible nanostructure. This allows manufacturers to identify, verify, and standardize surface contamination.
BrightComSol makes a Quantum Dot (QD) Resin Formulation
Founding Year: 2020
Location: Vienna, Austria
Funding: EUR 400 000
Partner for: High-Performance Quantum Dots
Industries: Electronics, Materials
BrightComSol is an Austrian startup that provides BrightSplash, a resin formulation for quantum dots. The startup’s proprietary technology grows a molecular coating around perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) to stabilize them and make them compatible with the polymer resin. This prevents aggregation while mixing QDs and achieves uniform distribution of PQDs, improving QD performance. Moreover, the startup’s technology allows manufacturers to tailor the quantum dots based on photon-conversion applications like mixed nanomaterial composites and scintillators.
Nanocan Therapeutics advances Drug Delivery
Founding Year: 2020
Location: Princeton, USA
Funding: USD 1,12 M
Partner for: Precision Radiotherapy
Industries: Pharma, Healthcare
US-based startup Nanocan Therapeutics facilitates drug delivery using its patented Immunogenic Smart Radiotherapy Biomaterial (iSRB) technology. The startup’s nanoparticle drones provide enhanced bioavailability, sustained drug delivery, and improved biodegradation. Moreover, they support image-guided monitoring of distribution and treatment response through computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This enables high-precision targeting of tumor cells for radiotherapy, thus reducing dosing frequency and enhancing patient convenience.
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