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OmniVis Partners with Entreprenista for an Inspiring Instagram Live Session
March 27, 2024 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis was proud to partner with Entreprenista for an engaging Instagram Live. Sponsored by Alibaba, the event featured a captivating discussion with OmniVis founder and CEO, Dr. Katherine Clayton.
40 Under 40 Food Safety
August 24, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis’ CEO, Dr. Katherine Clayton, is chosen as one of the 40 under 40 young professionals in food safety.
OmniVis Selected as Finalist for Rally IN-Prize Competition
South San Francisco, CA — July 27, 2023 — OmniVis, an innovative biotech company developing handheld hardware devices for food safety and outbreak prevention, was selected as a finalist in the Hardtech Studio for the Rally IN-Prize competition, one of the largest pitch competitions, awarding up to $5 million dollars.
OmniVis at Imagine H2O Demo Day
July 26, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis presented at ImagineH2O’s demo day. OmniVis pitched - covering the importance of food safety, environmental monitoring, and pathogen testing with their iSpyDx platform.
OmniVis Completes the HudsonAlpha AgTech Accelerator!
June 23, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis pitched under the Saturn V rocket about the future of food safety through rapid pathogen detection. We were featured in 5 media outlets for our work in the HudsonAlpha AgTech Accelerator program.
Featured in the Great Lakes I-Corps Blog
June 15, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis was featured in the Great Lakes I-Corps Hub blog about their experience in a local node and national program for the National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program.
OmniVis Featured on Delivery Rank
May 1, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis is featured on the Delivery Rank blog to discuss the future of food safety and pathogen testing.
OmniVis Participates at the HudsonAlpha AgTech Accelerator
April 24, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis was recently accepted in the HudsonAlpha AgTech Accelerator in Huntsville, AL. We were chosen as 1 of 5 startup companies from nearly 400 applicants with a $100,000 investment in our company.
Featured on the Agrinovus Podcast
April 10, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis’ CEO discusses the future of food safety testing on the Agrinovus podcast.
Imagine H2O Accelerator
February 8, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — We are excited to announce that we have been selected to participate in Imagine H2O’s 2023 Accelerator Program.
Winning the Purdue Ag-Celerator
February 1, 2023 (West Lafayette, IN & South San Francisco, CA) - Purdue Ag-Celerator fund invests $100,000 in OmniVis.
Published in Experiments in Fluids
January 24, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — The article entitled, “Quantifying Brownian motion in the presence of simple shear flow with particle diffusometry” was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Experiments in Fluids.
On Inside Indiana Business
January 29, 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis was on Inside Indiana Business (IIB) on WTTV - CBS4 in Indianapolis.
OmniVis Featured with Purdue Research Foundation
January 17 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis was highlighted by the Purdue Research Foundation for winning the Most Fundable Companies designation from Pepperdine’s Graziadio Business School.
101 Most Promising AgTech Startups
January 2023 (South San Francisco, CA) — OmniVis was chosen as a top seed funded startup in the AgTech space in the USA by Just Funded.
Featured in Entrepreneur Magazine
This November (2022), we were featured in Entrepreneur Magazine for winning the Pepperdine Most Fundable Company award. We are honored to be amongst the many great entrepreneurs this year who are solving big problems.
OmniVis: A Most Fundable Company
OmniVis wins gold at the 2022 Most Fundable Company competition from Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Management. 16 winners were chosen from 4000 applicants in this prestigious competition.
OmniVis awarded with prestigious NSF TECP grant
South San Francisco (September 2022) --- OmniVis has been awarded a Technology Enhancement for Commercial Partnerships (TECP) grant, a supplemental funding mechanism to OmniVis’ current National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award.
Detecting SARS-CoV-2: Published!
OmniVis published with collaborators at Purdue University on the detection of the COVID-19 causing pathogen in saliva samples.
OmniVis Inc. Selected for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Diagnostic Development Initiative
OmniVis Inc. will receive computing credits and customized expertise from Amazon’s cloud computing arm for a rapid, handheld pathogen detection device.