UChicago Deep Tech Demo Day

Presenting Startups

Quantum and Hardtech

Etat’H Solide // Etat’H Solide is developing a retrofit lightweighting platform for existing injection molding lines, helping manufacturers use less plastic, lower costs, and reduce carbon emissions without replacing factory infrastructure.

K1 Semiconductor // K1 Semiconductor is unlocking advanced semiconductor materials.

Phinorm // Phinorm’s Featherlight algorithm extends drone classification range and accuracy on radar OEMs’ existing hardware, sold as an integration layer to C-UAS primes and radar manufacturers.

QDIR // QDIR develops thermal cameras for drones.

QodeX Quantum // QodeX Quantum is an agentic AI platform to design, develop, optimize, and execute quantum workflows on real hardware.

Rare Earth Rescue // Rare Earth Rescue is the first marketplace for domestically recycled rare earth elements, connecting scrap suppliers with U.S. recyclers.

SQK // SQK QMEDIC is a physics-constrained medical imaging AI platform for high-fidelity CT reconstruction, subtle lesion preservation, and uncertainty-aware diagnostic reliability.

Healthcare

BRAIV // BRAIV is a precision medicine platform that uses machine learning to match patients to the right medication the first time, reducing trial-and-error in prescribing, starting with mental health.

CareLumi // CareLumi is the regulated AI engine built for healthcare, a continuous credentialing and compliance engine that automates verification, licensing, payer enrollment, and privileging to help providers become credentialed and billable faster.

Meridian Neuro // Meridian Neuro digitizes brains at the nanoscale to transform AI and medicine.

Nestera Health // Nestera Health is the enablement layer for distributed care, offering health systems software that enables safe and efficient transitions of care, starting with Hospital at Home.

Parasol Med Tech // Parasol Med Tech is developing a next-generation transcatheter left atrial appendage closure technology that combines a conformable scaffold with a bioresorbable hydrogel to improve and personalize stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

PersonaDx // PersonaDx is a precision oncology company using AI and molecular profiling to personalize cancer treatment. Its first test, PersonaCRC, helps identify which metastatic colorectal cancer patients are most likely to benefit from curative local therapies.

Theta Neurotech // Theta Neurotech is developing a near-invisible EEG patch that predicts and alerts patients of epileptic seizures before they occur.

Data and AI

Lighthouse Solutions // Lighthouse Solutions builds next-generation AI public safety technology for law enforcement, deploying autonomous AI agents that operate undercover 24/7 to proactively identify and help prosecute criminals across digital platforms.

Luce Labs // Luce Labs is enabling the programmable expression of high-value plant compounds.

Morton Labs // Morton Labs specializes in computational science for fusion energy research, building digital infrastructure that connects legacy and next-generation physics codes into usable, well-validated multiphysics workflows.

PeraWatt // PeraWatt is solving the energy efficiency bottleneck for AI data centers and electrification through advanced magnetics.

Pradivya Software Pvt Ltd // Pradivya builds patented AI inspection systems using multi-sensor fusion, video, voice, and vibration, for real-time defect detection and predictive maintenance of moving industrial assets.

SAI Labs // SAI builds the quality layer for scientific and financial knowledge work.

Slideflow Labs // Slideflow Labs provides hospitals with a single platform to discover, develop, and deploy pathology AI biomarkers in-house, replacing slow, expensive send-out testing and turning pathology labs into revenue centers.