Midwest Moxie founders from academia
Faculty founders: Buddy Clark & CJ Handron (Diamond Kinetics, Pennsylvania); Aaron DiAntonio (Disarm Therapeutics, Missouri); Marlan Hansen & Mike Lobinsky (IotaMotion, Minnesota, Iowa); Shane Farritor (Virtual Incision; Nebraska); Tom Gajewski (Jounce, Pyxis; Illinois); Arnab Nandi (Mobikit, Ohio); Norman Sadeh (Wombat Security Technologies; Pennsylvania); Jennifer & Jon Silva (SentiAR, Missouri); Jian-Ping Wang (Niron Magnetics, Minnesota); Jay Whitacre (Stratus Materials, Pennsylvania); Lan Yang (DeepSight Technology, Missouri, California)
Grad students and other university-affiliated founders: Ramses Alcaide (Neurable, Michigan, Massachusetts); Sankalp Arora (Gather AI; Pennsylvania); Jacob Babcock (NuCurrent, Illinois); Michelle Bellanca (Claros Technologies, Minnesota); Maria Bennett (SPR Therapeutics, Ohio); Garry Cooper (Rheaply, Illinois); Mark DeSantis (Bloomfield Robotics, Pennsylvania); Danny Ellis (Skyspecs; Michigan); Mo Faisal (Movellus; Michigan); Ann Holder (Marani, Minnesota); Zach Halmstad (Jamf; Wisconsin/Minnesota); Craig Markovitz (Blue Belt Technologies; Pennsylvania); Greg Piefer (Shine Technologies; Wisconsin); Ben Schmidt (Roadbotics, Pennsylvania); Vishal Singh (Quantified Ag, Nebraska); Katie Thompson (Elemental Enzymes; Missouri); Francis Wang (NanoGraf Technologies; Illinois)