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Allosense joins TechStars Industries of the Future Accelerator

4Apr

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Allosense joins TechStars Industries of the Future Accelerator

Allosense, a San Antonio advanced technology startup producing advanced sensors and measurement solutions, announced Tuesday it would join the Techstars Industries of the Future program. This TechStars accelerator program supports world-class startups working on emerging technologies across industries, including artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, quantum information science, 5G/advanced wireless technology, biotechnology, and clean energy technology.Allosense is one of 10 startups selected for the second class of the Techstars Industries of the Future Program. Only 1% of applicants are chosen to be invited to the Techstars program.“I’m looking for breakthrough technologies that have the potential to change the world,” said Tricia Martinez, managing director of Techsta...

Allosense debuts new data fabric tech at SXSW

14Mar

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Allosense debuts new data fabric tech at SXSW

Allosense, a technology startup specializing in advanced sensors and measurement solutions, debuted a new product at SXSW this year. Allosense’s new data fabric technology called Dash has the potential to revolutionize how data is collected, analyzed, and shared in industries ranging from aerospace to healthcare.Data fabric technology is a way of managing data that combines different types of information from various sources, such as cloud, on-premises, and edge devices, into one centralized location. This technology enables data integration in real-time and at a large scale for analytical and operational purposes.Data fabric also helps to standardize data management practices, making it easier to access and analyze data consistently across different endpoints. With data fabric, b...

Allosense joins National Security Innovation Network Propel Program

14Jul

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Allosense joins National Security Innovation Network Propel Program

Allosense, a technology startup specializing in advanced sensors and measurement solutions, is one of 16 startups chosen for the highly selective National Security Innovation Network (NSIN) Propel Program. The accelerator program supports startups developing emerging technologies the U.S. federal government urgently needs for national defense and space exploration.NSIN Propel is run in partnership with the National Security Innovation Network, Decisive Point, an investment and advisory firm investing in emerging technologies for security, health, energy, and critical infrastructure, and Newlab, a technology accelerator for defense-focused startups located in New York City’s Brooklyn Navy yard.The four-month accelerator program will provide Allosense product development resources, ...

Uber, Virgin Galactic Founders Invest in Advanced Tech Startup Allosense

19Jul

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Uber, Virgin Galactic Founders Invest in Advanced Tech Startup Allosense

Uber co-founder Garrett Camp and Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson have invested an undisclosed pre-seed funding amount in the advanced technology startup Allosense."Their investment put us as oversubscribed on our pre-seed round," said founder and CEO Roman Sandoval. "The backing from world-class investors via Garrett Camp’s Expa Ventures sets us up for aggressive growth.”As part of the investment, the San Antonio-based company also joined the Expa Accelerator, a pre-seed program created by Camp to support startups during the earliest stages of company building. With a program acceptance rate of less than 1%, Allosense was one of three companies selected globally this year.“We understand what it takes to build a scalable company and we’re taking a hands-on approach to t...

Food Startup Grain 4 Grain Wins $50,000 at Tech Fuel Pitch Competition

28Oct

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Food Startup Grain 4 Grain Wins $50,000 at Tech Fuel Pitch Competition

As craft beer brewing grows in popularity, so does the staggering amount of leftover spent barley grains — over 6 billion pounds annually. That opportunity for food innovation is what drove Yoni Medhin and Matt Metchly to launch their low-carb spent barley flour company.Grain4Grain won the top prize of $50,000 Wednesday evening at Tech Fuel, San Antonio's largest, an equity-free cash-prize pitch competition for early-stage tech startups. Launched by Tech Bloc, a San Antonio technology industry advocacy nonprofit, the three-tiered $100,000 competition is funded by Bexar County’s Innovation Fund to help emerging tech entrepreneurs launch innovative companies. Five judges with venture funding expertise questioned, then selected the $50,000 grand prize and $20,000 second-place winners...

10Feb

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San Antonio Startups to Watch in 2020

San Antonio startups had a good year in 2019.If you looked over the list of San Antonio startups to watch in 2019, you'd see how many of these were in the news over the past 12 months. Some received significant investments, such as Cyberfortress's $3 million or Plus One Robotics' $11.5 million. Others experienced significant growth such as FunnelAI and Chargify, two software as a service (SaaS) companies that landed on San Antonio's list of fastest-growing companies in Texas as part of the first-ever Growjo Industry Awards last May.We recommend you keep watching these startups for news of more promising developments.Changes in our ecosystem since last year include an increase in the number of co-working spaces, more student entrepreneurial programs, more investor interest ...

Geekdom Startup Allosense Wins Air Force Funding for Asset Trackers

15Jan

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Geekdom Startup Allosense Wins Air Force Funding for Asset Trackers

Winning an Air Force contract estimated at a potential total value of up to $5 million has been game-changing for one Geekdom startup company producing internet-of-things or IoT tracking devices. Allosense founder Roman Sandoval applied to the competitive awards-based Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and won a Phase 1 SBIR award for $50,000 in December 2019.Allosense provides an easy way for companies or organizations looking to integrate the use of smart sensors for tracking assets. The asset trackers are cellphone-sized devices that are always in communication, either on-demand or via a data stream.“We make always-connected sensors that can be used as asset trackers in logistics,” Sandoval said. “Our ‘Sensing-as-a-Service’ can be used in many different ...