Fano Labs was started in 2015 by Wen, a PhD graduate from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and Professor Victor OK Li, Chair of Information Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at HKU.
Kima Labs was started by a team of ex-Amazon employees, including CEO Blake Scholl, who did Amazon's first AdWords purchase way back when and later headed Amazon's global search engine marketing.
After about a year and a half, she feels that the lab is "starting having the critical mass of people, and doing the experiments that we want to do".
With the validation of optimal levels of gene expression of enzymes in toxin metabolism, Griffith's lab is starting to employ the liver bioreactor to profile effects of toxins on liver metabolism.
AR startups like Magic Leap and Thalmic Labs are starting to release their first headsets and glasses.
Untitled Labs is starting off with $2.8 million in seed funding from early Gigster investors and other angels including Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, Caffeinated Capital, Joe Montana's Liquid Ventures, Ashton Kutcher, Nikita Bier of TBH (acquired by Facebook), and Zynga co-founder Justin Waldron.
The Hello Santa app is the first product from a company called "Make Believe Labs," which was started by a team that's worked together for years at Deesea, a consulting firm they founded which has done work for Universal Music, Public Storage, Booz Digital and others.
While significant novel R&D is not taking place within firms in Uganda, it is the goal of a private biomedical research institution, Med Biotech Labs, which was started in 1995 by Dr Tom Egwang, a Ugandan microbiologist.
But a garage lab could be started with a few hundred thousand dollars, he said.
