Pictured from left to right, top row: Ce Yang, Lang Qiao, Ian Roback, Sandipan Pati, Vishal Kancharla. Bottom row: Gayathri Balaji, Abhishek Chaudhari, David Aviles Hinostroza, Swapnil Puranik, Krishna Ravat, and Himanshu Laiker.
The Technology Commercialization Office is excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 Software Startup Development (SSD) Program:
- Ce Yang and Lang Qiao for “Gender and Fertility Detection of Chicken Eggs Prior-to-Incubation Using AI-based Hyperspectral Imaging”
- Ian Roback for “Foundthat Academic Research Tool”
- Sandipan Pati, Vishal Kancharla, and Gayathri Balaji for “PolyScribe AI – A multilingual AI Scribe for Diverse Healthcare Settings”
- Ce Yang, Abhishek Chaudhari, David Aviles Hinostroza, and Swapnil Puranik for “Omniagrobot: A Quadruped Robot for Crop Phenotyping and Agricultural Automation”
- Krishna Ravat and Himanshu Laiker for “@RevLoop: AI-Powered Sales and Marketing Assistant for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs)”
The Software Startup Development (SSD) program is a competitive two-phase funding program to support the creation and development of University of Minnesota (UMN) startups in the software space.
In Phase 1, the program provides up to $10,000 per project to advance early-stage innovations that include a software component. Upon completion of Phase 1 and selection to Phase 2, recipients receive a UMN investment of up to $35,000 in the startup company and are eligible to apply for matching funds up to $35,000 with the Launch MN Innovation Grants program from the State of Minnesota.