Connecting Industry to Startups

The Next Big Thing in Mobile: Big Data Wearables, Really Smart Phones and a Whole New Experience

Trond Undheim, PhDLead, MIT Startup Exchangeundheim@ilp.mit.edu

172 MIT Faculty are serial entrepreneurs!

•Prof. Bob Langer, Koch Institute, MIT (26 companies)

•Prof. Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab (16 companies)

•Noubar Afeyan, MIT Sloan (10 companies)

•Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos, ChemE (7 companies)

•Prof. Michael Stonebraker, CSAIL (5 companies)

172 MIT Faculty are serial entrepreneurs!

•Prof. Bob Langer, Koch Institute, MIT (26 companies)

•Prof. Alex Pentland, MIT Media Lab (16 companies)

•Noubar Afeyan, MIT Sloan (10 companies)

•Prof. Gregory Stephanopoulos, ChemE (7 companies)

•Prof. Michael Stonebraker, CSAIL (5 companies)

Serial entrepreneurs at MIT

Source: MIT STEX Database (2015).

MIT Startup Exchange

• Connecting industry to startups.• 1000 startups founded by MIT Faculty, Staff, and Alumni or with

Board of Directors who are MIT Faculty.• An innovation community run by MIT Industrial Liaison program.• 7 technology clusters with events and corporate opportunities

(partnering, lead client generation, exhibitions/demos, face-to-face with industry, etc.).

• Searchable database where startups are sliced and diced (size, founding year, cluster, technology, etc.)—available to MIT Industrial Liaison members as well as for startups who are in the database.

Seven startup clusters

312

52

71

63

151

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n=978 Source: MIT STEX Database (2015).

• 66 startups. Several in mobile tech

2014 Startups

ICT cluster312 Startups.

21 founded in 2014.

6 at prototype stage.

18 at beta/MVP stage.

18 have a product.

23 have a first customer.

54 are in the growth stage.

Agenda

• 09:05 am: Welcome: "Showcase of new MIT Startups in 2014" by Trond Undheim, Ph.D., Lead, Startup Initiative, MIT Industrial Liaison Program.

• 09:10 am: Introductory remarks: "Why ILP is working with MIT startups", by Karl Koster, Executive Director, MIT Industrial Liaison Program.

• 09:15 am:  Keynote: "In search of the next big thing in Mobile, a Samsung perspective", Raymond Liao, Managing Director, Strategic Investment, Open Innovation Center, Samsung. 

• 09:27 am: Virtual mini-keynote: "Telecom Italia Big Data contest and the search for M2M startups", Raffaele de Peppe, Business Innovation Manager, Telecom Italia (via Webex). See STEX opportunities, Telecom Italia Big data Challenge 2015 and Telco looking for M2M technology.

• Coffee break (5 min).

• 09:30 am: "The next frontier in mobile computing: Your skin, biology, and the brain in the body", Rob Goldberg, CEO & co-founder, Neumitra.

• 09:45 am: "The greatest platform for innovation ever: trends in VC and MIT mobile innovation", Scott Johnson, Founder & Managing Partner, New Atlantic Ventures. 

• 10:00 am: "Smarter Drivers --> Safer Roads: Making Roads Safer with Mobile Sensing, Big Data, and Behavioral Incentives", Prof. Sam Madden, Lead, BigData@CSAIL. 

• 10:15 am: "The future of the mobile experience", Assoc. Prof. Federico Casalegno, Director, MIT Mobile Experience Lab. 

• 10:30 am: Panel discussion: the Next Big Thing in Mobile – What are important trends in mobile tech startups from MIT (and elsewhere)?– What does the new mobile business platform look like (infrastructure,

interoperability, proven technology, industrial needs/use cases, success stories)?

– What are corporate priorities in mobile technology?

panelists

• Raymond Liao,  Managing Director, Strategic Investment, Open Innovation Center, Samsung. 

• Scott Johnson, Founder & Managing Partner, New Atlantic Ventures. 

• Prof. Sam Madden, Lead, BigData@CSAIL. • Assoc. Prof. Federico Casalegno, Director, MIT Mobile Experience

Lab. • MIT startup execs (Shahid Azim, CEO, Quanttus, Rob Goldberg,

CEO & co-founder, Neumitra, Sanjay Manandhar, CEO, Aerva). 

The panel debate will be moderated by Michael A. M. Davies, Senior Lecturer MIT Engineering System Division (ESD) & Chairman, Endeavor Partners. 

Connecting Industry to Startups