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SRI Ventures

Business Week dubbed SRI "Spin-Off City"—an innovation engine that creates new ventures and licenses, capitalizing on technology developed at SRI. Working with top-tier investment and venture capital firms, SRI has launched more than 40 new ventures to date. Through "nVention", our innovative model for engaging VCs at the earliest stages of the venture creation process, we nurture technology and business concepts to create funding opportunities.

SRI Ventures

SRI also provides R&D resources to portfolio companies, helping startups minimize risk and the cost of building an R&D infrastructure and team. We can also serve as an independent technology expert during the due diligence process.

Contact SRI Ventures to explore new opportunities.

Some of our ventures and spin-offs:

Artificial Muscle Inc., acquired by Bayer MaterialScience, is the leading developer, designer, and manufacturer of actuator and sensing components based on electroactive polymers (EAP). In 2011, AMI announced ViviTouch™, bringing sensory vibration to the mobile gaming experience.

Averatek Averatek, formed by SRI and CSL LLC, offers products manufactured by an innovative proprietary metal "print and plate" process used to make flexible circuit materials and components.
CIC Communications Intelligence Corporation (OTC BB: CICI) is a leading supplier of electronic signature solutions for the financial industry and is a recognized leader in biometric signature verification.

[Discern Communications]

Discern Communications, acquired by its strategic investor Spanlink Communications, automates question-answering for customer service centers.

e-Vue, Inc. logo

e-Vue, Inc. offered MPEG-4 compliant encoding and authoring tools, server technology, and multimedia players.

[intuitive surgical, inc.]

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq: ISRG) is the global leader in the rapidly emerging field of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery.

Intuity Medical logo

Intuity Medical, Inc. was founded with the mission of simplifying diabetes management for persons living with diabetes. They are developing a blood glucose monitoring system designed to make testing easy, convenient and discreet.

Lamina Ceramics

Lamina Ceramics is now a subsidiary of Lighting Science Group Corporation, the world’s leading maker of advanced lighting products.

Lightscape Materials logo Lightscape Materials, Inc. is developing and supplying high-quality novel phosphor solutions engineered specifically for the LED lighting industry.  

Locus

Locus Pharmaceuticals applies its innovative computational technology to accelerate discovery and development of novel, small molecule drug therapies.

Nuance

Nuance Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: NUAN) is the leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for customer service and healthcare.

Orchid Cellmark logo

Orchid CellMark, Inc. is meeting medical needs through proprietary pharmacogenetics and microfluidics platform technologies.

PacketHop logo PacketHop offers a mobile mesh networking solution that enables instant broadband connectivity—anytime, anywhere, and to any device.
Power Survey Company logo

Power Survey Company provides mobile contact voltage detection services to utilities and municipalities worldwide.

Princeton Lightwave, Inc. makes high-performance optical components for advanced network applications.

PVI PVI offers virtual advertising and imaging solutions for television.
Pyramid Vision logo Pyramid Vision, now part of SRI Sarnoff, offers advanced vision and visualization technology that enhance the ability of security operators, public safety authorities and military forces to understand and respond to physical security threats.
Sarcon Microsystems logo

Sarcon Microsystems, Inc. developed infrared (IR) detector products based on its proprietary microcantilever technology to offer higher-performance, lower-cost IR detectors.

Secure Products develops anti-counterfeiting and anti-diversion systems based on material marking and recognition technology.

Siri Siri, acquired by Apple in 2010 and included in the new iPhone 4S, is a virtual personal assistant—a new way to interact with your mobile phone.
Social Kinetics

Social Kinetics, acquired by RedBrick Health in 2010, provides leading-edge methods and technology for driving the success of enterprise social media.

Songbird Hearing logo

Songbird Hearing, Inc. created the world's first disposable hearing aid.

SRIC logo SRI Consulting (SRIC), a division of IHS, Inc., is the world's leading business research service for the global chemical industry.

SBI

Strategic Business Insights (SBI), formerly SRI Consulting-Business Intelligence, combines ongoing research with consulting services to create insights that affect customers, business, and technology.

Tout Logo

Tout is a web application that captures life's defining moments via real-time video streaming and sharing.

Trapit Trapit offers a virtual personal assistant that uses artificial intelligence to understand your interests and personalize the web for you.

 

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