SolidEnergy, yet another company born out of MIT, is making amazing strides in the battery industry that will drastically reduce the cost of electric vehicles (EVs). The company is clearly on the brink of revolutionizing the battery industry, and the awards and honors are beginning to pile up.
PathoGenetix has developed an automated system for rapid bacteria identification, which is currently used primarily for food safety testing. Owing to the quality of their product, PathoGenetix began collaborating with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April of 2013, and then with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service in September of 2013. ] On the heels of this collaboration, PathoGenetix announced, on Oct. 30, the closing of a $10M Series C round.
There are visible signs of industry-wide disruption all around us. Uber has replaced the taxi, Redbox has replaced Blockbuster, Netflix, Hulu and others have replaced cable, Amazon has replaced the mall, and a whole host of other examples come to mind. However, some of the greatest advancements and innovations are going wholly unnoticed. Consider the case of Harvest Automation, and the $300B agriculture industry as a whole
