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Founded in 2019 and based in Buffalo and New York City, materialsIN is a Public Benefits Corporation that harnesses a proprietary data-driven engine developed by leading materials scientist, Dr. Krishna Rajan, to provide materials-related usage, design and sustainability solutions.

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Things we care about:

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Proprietary data-driven methodology that works with a wide array of data modalities, including spectra, imaging, textual, and numerical

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Methodology that helps companies make the most informed decisions regarding the materials used in their products

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Expertise that covers a wide range of materials science and engineering applications including, but not limited to, materials processing technologies, functional and structural materials

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Speed to market: accelerated process for the design and discovery of solutions that prevent costly trial-and-error approaches

LEADERSHIP

E. Frits Abell, Chief Executive Officer

A serial entrepreneur and business consultant, Frits has founded, operated, provided strategy for, and raised funding for a wide array of startup ventures over the last twenty years.

Krishna Rajan, Chief Scientific Officer

A pioneer in developing the field of Materials Informatics, Krishna is a materials scientist with over thirty years of experience in advanced materials development for applications in medicine, aerospace, microelectronics and manufacturing industries.

Chitra Rajan, Chief Operating Officer

Chitra, trained as an economist, has twenty-four years of executive level experience in academic and research administration with extensive experience in developing and implementing large-scale programs, research consortia, and technology based partnerships.

Ilya Kuchuk, Director of Product Development

A senior operating executive with over twenty-five years of experience in industry and university research, Ilya has an extensive background in general management, strategic planning, business, and product development.

Ruhil Dongol, Director Materials Science Applications

Ruhil is highly experienced in data-driven projects to find innovative machine learning solutions for engineering problems, and a recent project includes implementing dimensionality reduction techniques to explore chemical space for automatic detection of classification patterns.

Board of Advisors

Greg Rublev

Greg Rublev is a serial tech entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, including ZoomInfo in B2B SaaS and Divorce.com in consumer legal tech. He is currently the CEO of Runzy, an online community for runners and race organizers, and serves on the board of Zenblen, a food robotics company making healthy nutrition more accessible. An angel investor and limited partner in several venture funds, Greg now coaches startup CEOs, helping them clarify priorities, navigate growth challenges, and achieve their most ambitious goals. Drawing on two decades of experience building and scaling startups, Greg brings an operator’s perspective to the companies and founders he supports.

Sunil Kapadia

Sunil has spent 20 years building businesses in the technology, media, and ecommerce industries. He is currently Managing Director of Strategy and Operations at Google, where he is responsible for developing global partnership programs that drive value for Google and its top partners. Prior to his current role, Sunil held strategy, marketing, and engineering roles at The Boston Consulting Group, MediaLink, Dentsu, Walmart, and Intel. Sunil holds an MBA from Northwestern and a BS in Computer Engineering from Cal Poly. In his free time, he enjoys being a dad to his two daughters, pursuing his passion for spiritual development, and staying active in his community. He currently serves on the alumni board of Lowell high school and advises multiple startups. He previously held board positions at two NYC non-profits, The Doe Fund and FoodFight. He and his wife Lisa currently reside in San Francisco, and are big fans of all things arts and culture.

Jim Fitzhenry

For more than 30 years, Jim spent his career moving up from domestic product management to global innovation, to serving as a c-suite level executive at Buckman - a multinational specialty chemical and biotech company. As a natural collaborator, he has been able to find success and growth in the green economy by working alongside innovators across the organization, no matter what role they occupied. His strategic ability to create and implement technologies continually created a positive social impact and better results for the organization and customers. Leveraging his experience leading the digital transformation for a legacy chemical company and years of commercializing global innovation has moved industries forward helped the organizations achieve better financial and stewardship outcomes. After retiring in 2021, Jim spends his time leading and coaching over 70 CEOs, business owners, and executives through his relationships with The Conference Board, Vistage, and Endeavor.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

BQP and materialsIN Partner to Demonstrate Benefits of Quantum Machine Learning-based Material Informatics

​​​BQP (BosonQ Psi) and materialsIN, two deep-tech ventures ​​based in​​ Upstate New York, have partnered on a novel Quantum Machine Learning (QML) solution that​​​​​​​​​​ address​​​es​​​ the challenges associated with Material Informatics using classical Machine Learning. ​​

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