VentureIkove Venture Partners
Through Ikove Venture Partners, where LAG holds a significant ownership, our Principal helped implement a very successful venture development approach to traditional venture capital.
The strategy involves working with leading research institutions and help identify and vet unique technologies that deserve to be shared with humanity and build a bridge between lab and market.
Our portfolio is quite diverse ranging from Predictive Maintenance, Wireless Power, Regenerative Medicine, Emotional AI, Mosquito Prevention and Financial technologies.
The Companies
The platform behind this portfolio: unique technologies identified and vetted with leading research institutions, then built into companies, bridging the gap between lab and market. Based in Columbus, Ohio.
Remote condition monitoring for industrial rotating equipment: sensors in the plant, AI-backed software in the cloud, and reliability engineers who resolve issues before they become downtime. AssetWatch began in the Ikove Startup Nursery in 2014, founded as Nikola Labs.
Orthopedic implant technology built around bioresorbable materials, including the Rotium Bioresorbable Wick, cleared by the FDA in 2019 to support rotator cuff healing. Based in Columbus, Ohio.
The holding company for the RenovoDerm wound matrix products. Its PHOENIX Wound Matrix, cleared by the FDA in 2018, treats acute and chronic wounds and burns. Based in Columbus, Ohio.
Food-grade, non-toxic larvicides for disease-carrying mosquitoes, made by encapsulating essential oils in yeast. The technology was developed at the University of New Mexico and commercialized through the Ikove Startup Nursery.
A Brazilian fintech working through debt collection, debtor notification and payment to lift recovery rates, attacking the root causes of the country's wide banking spreads and abusive interest rates.
Psychology-driven artificial intelligence that measures human emotion from text and transcribable data, to predict decisions before they are made. Founded in 2016 on technology from Wright State University's Kno.e.sis center.