Company type | Private |
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Industry | Nanotechnology |
Founded | 2010 [1] |
Founders | Matthew Putman, John Putman |
Headquarters | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio [2] |
Key people | Matthew Putman, CEO |
Website |
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Nanotronics Imaging is a nanotechnology startup in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. It has an office in Brooklyn, New York at New Lab and manufactures its devices in California. [2]
Nanotronics was founded by Matthew Putman, a materials science professor at Columbia University, [3] and his father John Putman. [2] [3] Nanotronics has received $7 million in venture capital funding from Founders Fund and PayPal founder Peter Thiel, [1] who sits on the company's board of directors. [4]
In 2015, Nanotronics acquired Franklin Mechanical & Control, a manufacturer of optical equipment based in Hollister, California. [5]
Nanotronics builds hardware and software that can be used to see features down to the nanometer scale. It integrates off-the-shelf high resolution microscopes with custom software, including machine learning and artificial intelligence. [2] Nanotronics technology has a number of medical applications, such as screening for cervical cancer. [6]
In April 2015, Nanotronics announced a new virtual reality system, called nVisible, that allows anyone to "walk through" a 3D model of objects at the microscopic scale. [7]
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