Midwest Moxie founders from academia
Faculty founders: Buddy Clark & CJ Handron (Diamond Kinetics, Pennsylvania); Graham Colditz & Joy Jiang (Prognosia Health, Missouri); Brian Cunningham (Atzeyo Biosensors, Illinois); Aaron DiAntonio (Disarm Therapeutics, Missouri); Gary Eden (Eden Park Illumination and others, Illinois); Omar Farha (NuMat, Illinois); Shane Farritor (Virtual Incision; Nebraska); Tom Gajewski (Jounce, Pyxis; Illinois); Marlan Hansen & Mike Lobinsky (IotaMotion, Minnesota, Iowa); Nina Jenkins & Andrew Read (Conidio Tec, Pennsylvania); Linda Kinkel & Keri Carstens (Jord Bioscience, Minnesota); Yang Lui & Douglas Carroll (Unify Medical, Ohio); Arnab Nandi (Mobikit, Ohio); Steven Quiring (StormImpact, Ohio); Norman Sadeh (Wombat Security Technologies; Pennsylvania); Mike Schultz & Fran Johnson (Perspective Therapeutics, Iowa); Jennifer & Jon Silva (SentiAR, Missouri); Jian-Ping Wang (Niron Magnetics, Minnesota); Jay Whitacre (Stratus Materials, Pennsylvania); Zhen Xu & Jim Adox (HistoSonics, Michigan, Minnesota); Lan Yang (DeepSight Technology, Missouri, California)
Grad students and other university-affiliated founders: Ramses Alcaide (Neurable, Michigan, Massachusetts); Sankalp Arora (Gather AI; Pennsylvania); Jacob Babcock (NuCurrent, Illinois); Michelle Bellanca (Claros Technologies, Minnesota); Maria Bennett (SPR Therapeutics, Ohio); David Bromberg (Pearl Street Technologies, Pennsylvania); Garry Cooper (Rheaply, Illinois); Mark DeSantis (Bloomfield Robotics, Pennsylvania); Danny Ellis (Skyspecs; Michigan); Mo Faisal (Movellus; Michigan); Kieran Furlong (Realta Fusion, Wisconsin) Ann Holder (Marani, Minnesota); Zach Halmstad (Jamf; Wisconsin/Minnesota); Kevin Honaker (BiomeSense, Illinois); Mike Klein (Genomenon, Michigan); Nick Kuhn (Setex Technologies, Pennsylvania); Craig Markovitz (Blue Belt Technologies; Pennsylvania); Bryce Nelson (Gentel Biosciences, Wisconsin); Johnny Park (Wabash Heartland Innovation Network, Spensa, Indiana); Greg Piefer (Shine Technologies; Wisconsin); Ben Schmidt (Roadbotics, Pennsylvania); Vishal Singh (Quantified Ag, Nebraska); Katie Thompson (Elemental Enzymes; Missouri); Steve Thorne (KaliVir Immunotherapeutics); Francis Wang (NanoGraf Technologies; Illinois)
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