CHF 40,000 for microwave passive devices and a new way to play videogames
29.06.2022
MinWave Technologies and School Rebound win Venture Kick's second stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. Their projects offer microwave passive devices 10 times smaller and 10 times lighter, and compute biosignals from wearable devices and deliver real-time emotional data for interaction in videogames.
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 MinWave: CTO and co-founder Maliheh Khatibi, CEO and co-founder Mostafa Khosrow, and Advisor and co-founder Romain Fleury
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 SchoolRebound, from left to right: Laurent Boatto CTO, Anthony Peguet COO, Thibault Asselborn CEO, Sven Viquerat Designer and Pierre Dillenbourg Full professor EPFL
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MinWave Technologies: Microwave passive devices 10x smaller, 10x lighter
Passive RF devices are parts of communication systems that lie in between the antenna and the electronics part. They exist in any communication system, such as satellite communication systems and 5g and 6g infrastructure. Given the recent demand increase in communication quality and coverage and emerging trends such as commercialized space and 5g, there is a need for more potent and cost-effective infrastructure. However, due to technical barriers, so far, the passive RF section remained bulky and massive, which increases the manufacturing and commissioning costs of communication infrastructures such as satellites. As an example in a GEO satellite, the RF payload consists of 100s to 1000s of filters that weights 10s of Kgs while the mission cost is 100s of thousands of dollars per Kg. Existing size reduction technologies come at a huge cost of energy efficiency which simply makes them unusable or costly to use in many applications.
MinWave core competency is an innovative design framework for at least 10 times smaller and lighter micro/millimeter-wave all metallic waveguide devices and fabrication of these components using additive manufacturing methods. MinWave solution can reduce the communication payload weight of a satellite by 90% while reducing the manufacturing cost. The market potential for MinWave products is estimated above 3.3 B$ which grows at a rate of 7% annually. Co-founders are CTO Dr. Khatibi, inventor of the technique, CEO Dr. Mostafa Khosrownejad, an EPFL mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate, and scientific advisor Prof. Romain Fleury.
Receiving Venture Kick funds at this stage will help MinWave expand marketing and business development activities. minwave.ch
School Rebound: iPad app for children's handwriting difficulties
Today 25% of kids, not even 7 years old, are already condemned to a painful school life due to their poor handwriting skills. Even worse, close to 9% of them suffer from severe difficulties, labeled ‘dysgraphia’. This impacts many other areas of school ranging from a lack of confidence, low self-esteem, difficulties in learning other skills, higher level of fatigue and stress to behavior problems in class and or at home. We miss early detection and remediation of these difficulties in order to ensure that these children follow their educational path like any other children.
To tackle this issue, School Rebound was created as a spin-off from the CHILI laboratory at EPFL. Co-founders are CEO Thibault Asselborn, Pierre Dillenbourg, CTO Laurent Boatto Project Manager Anthony Peguet. Together with Mediamaticien Sven Viquerat, they have created the Dynamilis iPad application. Firstly, this app integrates a tool to analyze children's handwriting on many distinct aspects and extract the specific areas the child needs to focus on to improve his/her handwriting. Secondly, Dynamilis proposes different activities, in the form of games and co-created with more than 40 handwriting specialists, allowing the child to work on their specific difficulties in a fun way whether at home, with a therapist, or at school. The activities are recommended for each child according to their handwriting profile extracted during the analysis. Dynamilis comes with a monthly or annual subscription for three different segments: parents, therapists, and schools and is and is currently available in France, Switzerland, and Italy.
They will use the Venture Kick funds to optimize the product to fit the market, but also to validate the pricing part of our business model and the marketing channels to be used. We will also extend the app to other countries with the UK, USA, and Germany. dynamilis.com
Passive RF devices are parts of communication systems that lie in between the antenna and the electronics part. They exist in any communication system, such as satellite communication systems and 5g and 6g infrastructure. Given the recent demand increase in communication quality and coverage and emerging trends such as commercialized space and 5g, there is a need for more potent and cost-effective infrastructure. However, due to technical barriers, so far, the passive RF section remained bulky and massive, which increases the manufacturing and commissioning costs of communication infrastructures such as satellites. As an example in a GEO satellite, the RF payload consists of 100s to 1000s of filters that weights 10s of Kgs while the mission cost is 100s of thousands of dollars per Kg. Existing size reduction technologies come at a huge cost of energy efficiency which simply makes them unusable or costly to use in many applications.
MinWave core competency is an innovative design framework for at least 10 times smaller and lighter micro/millimeter-wave all metallic waveguide devices and fabrication of these components using additive manufacturing methods. MinWave solution can reduce the communication payload weight of a satellite by 90% while reducing the manufacturing cost. The market potential for MinWave products is estimated above 3.3 B$ which grows at a rate of 7% annually. Co-founders are CTO Dr. Khatibi, inventor of the technique, CEO Dr. Mostafa Khosrownejad, an EPFL mechanical engineering Ph.D. graduate, and scientific advisor Prof. Romain Fleury.
Receiving Venture Kick funds at this stage will help MinWave expand marketing and business development activities. minwave.ch
School Rebound: iPad app for children's handwriting difficulties
Today 25% of kids, not even 7 years old, are already condemned to a painful school life due to their poor handwriting skills. Even worse, close to 9% of them suffer from severe difficulties, labeled ‘dysgraphia’. This impacts many other areas of school ranging from a lack of confidence, low self-esteem, difficulties in learning other skills, higher level of fatigue and stress to behavior problems in class and or at home. We miss early detection and remediation of these difficulties in order to ensure that these children follow their educational path like any other children.
To tackle this issue, School Rebound was created as a spin-off from the CHILI laboratory at EPFL. Co-founders are CEO Thibault Asselborn, Pierre Dillenbourg, CTO Laurent Boatto Project Manager Anthony Peguet. Together with Mediamaticien Sven Viquerat, they have created the Dynamilis iPad application. Firstly, this app integrates a tool to analyze children's handwriting on many distinct aspects and extract the specific areas the child needs to focus on to improve his/her handwriting. Secondly, Dynamilis proposes different activities, in the form of games and co-created with more than 40 handwriting specialists, allowing the child to work on their specific difficulties in a fun way whether at home, with a therapist, or at school. The activities are recommended for each child according to their handwriting profile extracted during the analysis. Dynamilis comes with a monthly or annual subscription for three different segments: parents, therapists, and schools and is and is currently available in France, Switzerland, and Italy.
They will use the Venture Kick funds to optimize the product to fit the market, but also to validate the pricing part of our business model and the marketing channels to be used. We will also extend the app to other countries with the UK, USA, and Germany. dynamilis.com