IMA SpA makes machines for packaging coffee, tea, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals. The company sales are about USD 700M. They have operations around the world. Customers include Unilever, Novartis, Bigelow. They seek robotics startups for repetitive tasks.
Introduced by Marcus Dahllof, Associate Program Director, MIT Startup Exchange; Cliff Reid, PhD, CEO, Travera; Todd Gierahn, PhD, Cofounder, Honeycomb; Laura Indolfi, PhD, CEO & Cofounder, PanTher Therapeutics; Ulrik Nielsen, PhD, CEO & Cofounder, Torque; Jason Norris, Cofounder, Elektrofi; Patrick Stern, PhD, CEO & Founder, Sextant; Carlos Castro-Gonzalez, PhD, CEO & Cofounder, Leuko Labs; and Alec Nielsen, PhD, Cofounder, Asimov.
Royal Dutch Shell, a global energy company, seeks startups for automating management of their offshore assets. They are looking to develop digital tools to reduce the cost and improve the safety of inspection, maintenance, and repair of these offshore assets.
A leading pharmaceutical company in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is interested in speaking with startups whose technology could contribute to very early diagnosis of the disease.
Procter & Gamble is looking for new approaches and technologies that can help them to address key business challenges/opportunities for Pampers to explore solutions to re-invent Baby Care product discuvery and address social and experiential commerce.