Cocktails + Conversation: the NYC Edition

Renee Shenton
Breakout Ventures
Published in
4 min readApr 17, 2019

Last week, we held our Breakout Labs Cocktails and Conversation in New York City.

We gathered our community of investors, corporate partners and entrepreneurs in New York City for our annual East Coast Cocktails and Conversation.

Executive Director Lindy Fishburne welcomed everyone to the event and 12 Breakout Labs Portfolio Companies took the stage to introduce themselves and their technology.

Through an innovative sensor that can detect arterial movements, Blumio measures blood pressure non-invasively and continuously.

In response to the FDA’s aggressive bans on classes of chemicals (such as antimicrobials), Curie Co couples recycled marine biomaterials and engineered proteins to deliver safer, sustainable antimicrobials for your favorite personal care products at a competitive price point.

Envisagenics identifies novel therapeutic targets in cancer and genetic disorders, using an in silico platform that combines transcriptomics data with machine learning.

EpiBone uses proprietary bioreactor technology to grow living implantable bone and cartilage grafts from patient-derived stem cells.

Gel4Med CEO, Manav Mehta

Gel4Med focuses on engineering smart materials to solve challenging problems in regenerative medicine.

Inhalon is developing inhalable biotherapeutics for treatment and prevention of pulmonary diseases.

Longevity Biotech is developing metabolically stable, synthetic peptides (Hybridites™) for disease modifying clinical impact.

Nuclease Probe Technologies is redefining sepsis diagnosis by harnessing the power of bacterial proteins to enable the rapid treatment of bloodstream infections with appropriate antimicrobial therapy.

Orion BioScience is focused on advancing a Soluble Antigen Array (SAgA) platform into the clinic to intercept autoimmune disease by mimicking peripheral tolerance and restoring health.

Pelitex offers a new generation of diagnostic magnetic beads designed to enable liquid biopsy for early cancer detection, and improve the performance of many other critical IVD diagnostic assays, such as lyme disease, cardiovascular disease, NIPT, genomics, and RUGD.

Peroxygen Systems is a clean chemistry company that makes highly efficient modular electrochemical systems to safely produce low-cost chemical oxidizers on-site.

Ras Labs creates electroactive polymer-based materials and actuators (Synthetic Muscle™) that contract and expand, attenuate impact, and sense pressure for robotic linkages and grippers.

After Ras Labs’ presentation, everyone went back to having meaningful conversations and tasty cocktails.

We thank everyone for joining us for a night of building a future powered by science.

Breakout Labs: Staff, Ambassadors and Portfolio Companies.

To learn more about Breakout Labs, visit www.breakoutlabs.org.

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