Now more than ever, championing innovation and research is essential to driving industrial progress. This commitment to continual discovery enables organizations to adapt, compete, and lead in a dynamic, evolving world.
The 800+ MIT-connected startups in the MIT Startup Exchange (STEX) portfolio continue to demonstrate what’s possible when bold ideas meet rigorous execution. Their achievements reflect a steady stream of progress, and each partnership forged, recognition earned, or technology developed contributes to a broader momentum that is reshaping entire sectors.
Below are several standout achievements from the MIT STEX community. Together, they reveal how this community is accelerating change across industries and setting the pace for what comes next. We invite you to dive in and see the impact firsthand.
Advanced Silicon Group publishes in the prestigious Journal of Applied Physics, introducing the field to a novel label-free modality for detecting molecules of interest on silicon, ushering in a new age of biosensing.
Allonnia and Eagle Mine announced a partnership to deploy Allonnia’s innovative D-Solve™ technology at Eagle Mine’s site in Michigan. The mobile pilot unit will selectively remove impurities in nickel concentrates, enabling greater nickel recovery and supporting Eagle Mine’s sustainability and innovation goals.
Breylon’s Ultra Reality Extend has been honored with the Display Application of the Year award by the Society for Information Display (SID). Fully backwards compatible with existing content, operating systems, and software, Ultra Reality Extend is a multifocal virtual display that has multiple use cases, including simulation training, augmented data-critical data visualizations in security operations centers, and personalized upskilling and reskilling frameworks.
CubicPV and partner NREL obtained a World Record in perovskite technology. The certified result marks the first time a U.S. company has found its way onto the record charts for a serial module. The data and learnings from the record device accelerates the transition from lab success to scalable, commercially viable products, with durability and yield at the center.
Ema Unlimited partnered with giant Hitachi to leverage Ema's platform to significantly boost HR operational efficiency. Furthering its reach, Ema is now featured on the Microsoft Marketplace, bringing its powerful agentic AI to a massive global audience.
Epicore Biosystems partnered with Reus Cares to deploy its Connected Hydration™ wearable among agricultural workers across palm, sugarcane, and banana field operations — industries where extreme heat and humidity pose daily risks in Central America. Together, Epicore and Reus Cares are improving worker safety, promoting productivity, and advancing the use of wearable biosensors to strengthen occupational health outcomes.
Kapitale was recognized in the Innovative Product of the Year category at the Global SME Finance Awards 2025, an annual award from the SME Finance Forum. The award was for the "Pague com Kapi" solution, which provides small and medium-sized businesses with interest-free receivables advances.
RISE Robotics received its first commercial Beltdraulic Cylinder order for a demonstration project in the oil and gas industry. This milestone is a key step toward broader adoption of RISE technology and highlights the growing confidence from early adopters in industries under pressure to increase throughput and reduce maintenance expenses.
Sesame Sustainability contributed to the groundbreaking report, Integrated Product- and Entity-Level Carbon Accounting: Putting Concepts into Practice by the EFI Foundation, which proposes a ledger-based system that applies engineering fundamentals and financial accounting principles to carbon emissions accounting. This model allows for rigorous, verifiable tracking of CO₂ across the supply chain — product by product, transaction by transaction.
Skyline Nav AI successfully flew a drone across downtown San Francisco, CA and achieved precise geolocation, all without GPS, cellular, or Wi-Fi, live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
Tiba Biotech announced it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The $400,000 program provides non-dilutive funding to further develop Tiba’s proprietary RNABL™ delivery platform in combination with its enhanced self-amplifying RNA (esaRNA) therapeutic payload.