Startups
CURF works closely with faculty, students, and outside entrepreneurs to develop university intellectual property.
Forming companies to license and commercialize university intellectual property.
Launch Successful Startups
How CURF Can Help
From the pre-licensing discussions through licensing and strategic implementation of the company’s business plan, CURF helps startups navigate university policy, connects them to statewide support systems, and provides the necessary support letters for grants and investment submissions.
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Resources for New Companies
For Clemson students who are seeking to form companies around their proprietary intellectual property or novel idea there are other Clemson University Resources available to support you.
Our Community Partners
Key organizations within our community that are assisting local entrepreneurs.
From Idea to Impact
Below are several startups that we have assisted in the proccess of launching their business.
KIYATEC, Inc.
KIYATEC, Inc. performs standard and custom in vitro cell based assays through contract service offerings for the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. The company creates and utilizes live phenotypic 3D cell-based models for drug response profiling and applies them to generate information relevant to preclinical testing, clinical trials and clinical cancer diagnostics applications.
VRM Labs
VRM Labs owns a technology for production of new natural antioxidant, called Prot-X, that is a cost-effective substitute for synthetic preservatives used in pet food. The natural antioxidant has been proven to safely increase the shelf life of pet and animal feed. VRM Labs is a spin-off from Clemson University and has received several grants for their research.
Aptus Bioreactors
Aptus will provide sophisticated yet easy to use laboratory equipment for developing and testing tissue-engineered and regenerative-medicine products. We will work with our customers using these products to help bring their research to clinical applications. Future expansion will offer clinical grade bioreactors for these tissues engineered products.
Medical Beam Laboratories
Medical Beam Laboratories, LLC is a Clemson University spin-off company that was founded by a small group of medical physicists, engineers and entrepreneurs. They are dedicated to fighting health disparities worldwide by applying the results of their research towards the development of innovative technologies and strategies for stereo-tactic radiosurgery (SRS). They are developing a dedicated SRS device for the veterinary market that will ameliorate the lives of pet cancer patients. Medical Beam Laboratories, Inc. was awarded an Academic Start-up Assistance Program grant valued up to $25,000 to support their efforts in testing, design, patent filing and federal compliance.
Purilogics
Purilogics makes the Puri™, a disposable membrane chromatography column that increases purification speed and productivity during drug discovery and early stage research and development efforts. The end result helps scientists get biologics to market faster. The line of columns come pre-packed and are compatible with chromatography systems.
Recovr
Recovr researches, develops, and distributes engaging, virtual therapy solutions to improve the daily lives of people with disabilities.
Elastrin Therapeutics
Elastrin Therapeutics Inc. is a biotech startup company that uses a proprietary platform to restore hardened and damaged arteries and tissue by targeting the elastic fibers that make them work.
Nectro Medical
Nectero Medical is an early-stage medical device company that focuses on producing a treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms. The treatment uses a patented compound that stabilizes elastin and improves tissue strength.
Nubad, LLC
NUBAD, LLC focuses on targeting RNA and DNA structures that are a factor in causing human disease. The company uses technologies developed in the chemistry department at Clemson University to produce novel probes, assays and small molecule therapeutic agents that target nucleic acids.