Launch HN: FirstIgnite (YC S21) – Matching scientists with relevant businesses
Hi, HN! I’m Cody Pawlowski and my co-founder is Chase Bonhag and we’re FirstIgnite ( https://firstignite.com/ ). We help researchers at universities connect with companies interested in funding or licensing their research. Currently, a vast majority of all research goes uncommercialized. This includes everything from new cancer therapies to energy storage improvements and other solutions to universal problems. By connecting research to relevant companies, we increase the probability that research will be commercialized. We met while I was running a natural language processing startup at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chase was working at Illinois Ventures, the venture capital arm of the university. U of I conducted over $900M a year worth of research, much of which was going uncommercialized. Because university research portfolios are massive, diverse, and
Why it failed
Hi, HN! I’m Cody Pawlowski and my co-founder is Chase Bonhag and we’re FirstIgnite ( https://firstignite.com/ ). We help researchers at universities connect with companies interested in funding or licensing their research. Currently, a vast majority of all research
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- codypilot
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews