Roadwarez: An IOT start up developing safety solutions for bike riders.
The discount start-up, developed under the code name Project Lauren, plans to begin service in May, flying a Boeing 757 configured mostly with premium-class seats between a European city (Paris and Brussels are the leading candidates) and New York (either Kennedy International Airport or Newark Liberty International Airport).
Marco Camisani Calzolari, a Milanese professor who divides his time between Milan, where he is a professor of corporate communications at the IULM university, and the UK, where he founded several web start-ups, developed an algorithm he believes can distinguish human users from fake robot ones, known as "bots".
You may also find opportunities when looking at things the other way round: through identifying high-tech firms that wish to start up or develop new research capacity.
Venture-capital firms are piling in to back start-ups developing robots.
(I am an adviser to some early stage start-ups developing technologies like these).
Investors expect the cost to fall quickly as LED start-ups develop greater economies of scale and the technology advances.
In 2008, Brian Connolly, an engineer with years of experience writing software for medical devices, joined a start-up developing diagnostic technology to identify biohazards, First Light Biosciences.
But at a diabetes conference, Dr. Eng met people from Amylin Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology start-up developing another drug for diabetes.
A consortium of VCs recently invested over $90m in Skybox, a start-up developing the same kind of imaging microsatellites as Planetary Resources.
InVitae, a start-up developing a single test for all rare inherited diseases, filed a brief arguing against gene patents for this reason.
