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N.XT Portfolio

Startup Metrics

94 Employees | 30 Products | $94.7M Funds Raised

 As of FY2026, in aggregate across startups.

N.XT Portfolio Companies

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2026

Faculty: Samuel I. Stupp 

Regenerative peptide technology that stimulates collagen and elastin production for next-generation skincare products.

 

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2026

Faculty: Mohamed Abazeed

AI-powered tumor segmentation platform designed to make cancer treatment planning faster and more precise.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2026

Faculty: Sonbinh T. Nguyen

Graphene oxide barrier coating that provides a PFAS-free alternative for food packaging.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2025

Faculty: Riad Salem

Developing a novel device to improve percutaneous drain securement.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2025

Faculty: Yosi Kratish & Tobin Marks

Novel catalysts that drive true circularity for nylon and polyester chemical recycling.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2024

Faculty: Igor Efimov & John Rogers

Next-generation organ-conformal bioelectronics for diagnosing and treating heart diseases.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2024

Faculty: Thomas Meade

Novel class of bioresponsive contrast agents for monitoring physiological changes in live tissues via magnetic resonance imaging.

 


Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2023

Faculty: Vinayak Dravid

Nanostructure coating for economic, efficient, and eco-friendly removal of oil and other contaminants from water.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2022

Faculty: Nathan Gianneschi

 A cleaner, safer, PPD-free hair dye based on synthetic melanin.

 


Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2022

Faculty: Josh Leonard

Breakthrough gene delivery technologies combining synthetic biology, engineering, and extracellular vesicles.


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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2022

Faculty: Danielle Tullman-Ercek

Cost-effective, microbial protein production platform that secretes high-purity, soluble, correctly folded recombinant proteins out of the cell in a single step.

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Investment Stage: Technology

Funding Year: 2021

Faculty: Theresa Brancaccio & John Rogers

A mobile app for calculating vocal load and helping busy voice users monitor their vocal health.

 

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Investment Stage: Technology

Funding Year: 2021

Faculty: Spencer Striker

An interactive digital platform that brings engaging history lessons to middle and high school students. In 2024, the startup History Adventures was spun out of this technology.

 

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Investment Stage: Technology

Funding Year: 2021

Faculty: Nichole Pinkard

A unified data system that tracks youth participation, achievement, and activity outside the classroom and aims to democratize access to afterschool activities

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Investment Stage: Technology

Funding Year: 2021

Faculty: Michael Horn

Online platform for creating music through the Python programming language with the goal of broadening participation in computing. In 2022, the startup Eccentric Orbit was spun out of this technology.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2020

Faculty: Julius Lucks & Michael Jewett (former NU faculty)

Cell-free biosensors that enable rapid, low-cost solutions for the on-site detection of pathogens and chemical contaminants.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2019

Faculty: Chad Mirkin

High-throughput 3D printing technologies that enable printing of large objects at unparalleled speeds from a wide range of consumer and industrial grade plastics.  

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2019

Faculty: John Rogers

Noninvasive, wireless, wearable thermal sensor for assessing the flow of cerebrospinal fluid in hydrocephalus patients and monitoring ventricular shunt function.

 

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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2018

Faculty: Ruchi Gupta

All-natural scalp treatment for reducing inflammation and restoring the balance of the scalp and skin microbiome.


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Investment Stage: Company

Funding Year: 2017

Faculty: Vadim Backman

Innovative sample preparation technology for enhanced cancer diagnosis. 

 

Investment Stage: Technology

Funding Year: 2017

Faculty: Mark Hersam

Advanced graphene coating technology for lithium-ion cathode materials that boosts battery performance by 10x. 

 

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Investment Stage: Technology

Funding Year: 2016

Faculty: Richard Silverman & Hande Ozdinler

First-in-class small molecule therapeutics that inhibit protein aggregation and improve the health of upper motor neurons in ALS other neurodegenerative diseases.