Runway Startup Postdoc Assaf Glazer Has Reinvented the Baby Monitor
A member of the inaugural class of Runway Startup Postdocs at the Jacobs Institute has raised $6.6 million to launch a smart baby monitor.
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The Runway Startup Postdoc Program is part business school, part research institution, part startup incubator. Based at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Runway ushers recent PhDs in digital technology fields through a paradigm shift—from an academic mindset to an entrepreneurial outlook. Postdocs come to the Institute with ideas for unproven products and markets and receive significant support as well as mentorship from academic and business experts in connective media, health technology, security & privacy and computer vision, among a number of other fields.
11 patents filed by Startup Postdocs since 2014.
Over $6 million raised in venture capital funding.
60 employees at Runway companies globally.
The Runway mentors transformed my academic mentality into a business-oriented one that balances technical depth with speed, agility and practicality. After a few months, I had truly evolved into an entrepreneur.
Rimas Gulbinas, Startup Postdoc and Founder, Maalka, a SaaS platform that enables cities, corporations, utilities and building owners to launch and manager successful sustainability initiatives
A member of the inaugural class of Runway Startup Postdocs at the Jacobs Institute has raised $6.6 million to launch a smart baby monitor.
Runway Startup Postdoc company Nanit launched their computer vision supported baby monitor camera.
Should inventors control the fate of their own inventions? Emmanuel Dumont, a postdoc in the Runway Startup program at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, posed the question in Nature Nanotechnology. Dumont thinks it's time that academia embrace the marketplace's approach to intellectual property.