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| * Mission * Portfolio * Team * News * Blog * Jobs * Investor Login * IPP Login Scientific founders are creating our future Through years of trial and error, we have developed a model and built an infrastructure to bring emerging technologies from lab to market, while creating exceptional outcomes for founders and investors. Learn More We are the innovator's partner We are specialist investors and co-creators of startups in the hard sciences. Learn More Sustainability through engineering We are passionate about the importance of our work. If you’re a founder on a mission to get your technology into the world, you will find us to be true partners. Learn More We’re the scientific founder’s partner Our due diligence process is a commercial collaboration. If your technology is ready to be demonstrated, we will take you to potential customers and partners to jointly substantiate the market opportunity. Learn More We Invest We invest exclusively in hard science startups addressing industrial problems. We are lead investors for seed rounds. Our first check is typically $500K to $2MM and we frequently lead large syndicates in follow on rounds. We Co-Create We are entrepreneurs and business development executives by background. When we invest, our whole team becomes an extension of your team. Taking on business development and marketing roles, we generate initial customers and partnerships. We Find Industry Partners We believe hard science startups are best served by striking significant and early partnerships with industry strategics that ensure market fit, create non-dilutive financing options and accelerate time to market. If you’re a Tech Transfer Officer with hard science startups, please join our Innovation Ecosystem Learn More We love participating in building the hard tech ecosystem. While we can only invest in a few companies each year, we make countless connections for startups even when we don’t invest. For professors and students at your university who are starting out on their entrepreneurial journey, we can help them meet industrial companies that are keen to explore innovations coming to their markets, and that have capacity and capital to collaborate. Get in touch If you’re an industrial company interested in early stage scientific innovation, work with us as an Innovation Partner Learn More The R&D efforts and budgets deployed in university labs are gigantic. Many innovations and patents developed will shape our future. Every year, we screen through about 2,000 startups in physics, chemistry and applied sciences, with applications from agriculture, manufacturing, electronics, etc. For hard science startups, a well-structured engagement with industry is often critical to meet true market requirements and find a path to market. For strategics such engagements can be low-risk, high-reward tools for growth. If your organization recognizes the opportunity for open innovation and is sincere about engaging and partnering with scientific startups, talk to us and become part of our ecosystem. Get in touch Portfolio Chinova uses the power of mushrooms to protect food and beverage products from spoilage. Chinova’s natural, clean-label, FDA approved formulation reduces the reliance on artificial ingredients and improves quality, freshness and shelf-life. Consumer food products using Chinova can be found in supermarkets across North America. Rhapsody co-led a pre-seed round in 2018 with DSM. Other investors include SOSV and AgFunder. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Professor Ryan Harne had been working at the frontier of vibration and shock damping for 15 years when he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall that led to permanent hearing loss and nerve damage. “Waking up in the hospital, one of my first thoughts was that if I had landed on a floor damped with HyperDamping materials, this could have been prevented,” Dr. Harne realized. HyperDamping was formed in short order. The company uses innovative methods in mechanical design paired with advanced materials science to create lightweight, durable damping materials and solutions with effective and long-lasting performance. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Originating from Professor Xin Li’s lab at Harvard, Adden is developing a stable, lithium-metal, solid-state battery that charges much faster and is safer than current lithium-metal batteries. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Founded at Caltech in 2017, Fluid Efficiency is revolutionizing efficiency, safety, and sustainability in the fluid transport and lubrication industries. Their MSM-based Single Injection Flow Improver dramatically transforms liquid pipeline operations, delivering exceptional operational simplicity and cost efficiency. Existing pipeline flow improvers are ultra high molecular weight polymers that break in pumps, and must be re-injected after each pump to continue working. MSMs™ are self-repairing high molecular weight supramolecules, and thus only need to be added once. Using MSMs™ as flow enhancers reduces costs by enabling pipelines to operate with far fewer re-injection points and significantly lower cumulative volumes of material without any compromise in flow rates. MSMs™ allow pipelines to drastically reduce operating cost without affecting operations. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Holiferm develops holistically improved fermentation processes to deliver massive economic improvements for renewable chemicals. Their first product line of biosurfactants is used in consumer cleaning products in the UK, and their first global scale plant is under construction now. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio As a US Marine, Reamonn Soto saw firsthand how measurement limitations affect aircraft engine performance and maintenance. He founded Sensatek to commercialize inventions from UCF that can measure temperature, pressure and strain in harsh environments. Today, Sensatek develops and manufactures wireless, high-temperature, gas turbine sensors for customers in several industries including Energy, Aviation, and Aerospace. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Novel liquid crystals that enable the highest speed, most energy efficient integrated photonic devices unblocking data transfer bottlenecks. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Tendo Technologies has developed a novel class of flow sensors based on elastic filament velocimetry. Tendo’s unique combination of low price, excellent performance and small form factor enables the use of flow meters in applications which aren’t feasible today. Tendo Technologies spun out of Professor Marcus Hultmark’s research group at Princeton University in 2017. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio NODAR is re-envisioning safety for autonomous transportation by leveraging untethered cameras to provide high-definition 3D depth maps at long range. This novel approach to perception is making safe autonomy available to the mass market. Dr. Leaf Jiang founded NODAR in 2018 based on his 20+ years of experience building optoelectronic systems at MIT and MIT Lincoln Lab. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute in 2020, Tender Food is making alternative meat taste and feel like farmed meat using novel plant-based fiber production technology. Rhapsody led the pre-seed round in 2020. Lower Carbon Capital led the Seed round with participation from actress and renown vegan and animal rights activist Natalie Portman, as well as Rhapsody. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Manus Bio was founded in 2011 with the mission of developing an economical and sustainable biomanufacturing platform, particularly for accessing rare and complex natural ingredients. Using a patented technology platform originally developed at MIT, Manus Bio produces high-value ingredients for the flavor, fragrance and sweetener industries, among others. Through its 2018 acquisition of Nutrasweet assets, Manus Bio produces its products at scale in Augusta, Georgia. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio GPR’s (formerly WaveSense) ultra-wide band Ground Positioning Radar™ uses reflections of the underground to generate high definition maps. When a vehicle is in motion, GPR tracks and matches a real-time radar scan with the subsurface map. This enables precise vehicle positioning regardless of poor weather or visibility, faint road markings, or other common challenges facing advanced driver-assistance systems. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Wavelogix is on a mission to transform safety and quality assurance for the construction industry. A spinout of Dr. Luna Lu’s research group at Purdue University, Wavelogix has developed a patented IoT sensor and data analytics platform for infrastructure quality testing. Their award-winning REBEL™ sensing technology is the only sensor that provides real-time measurements of in-place concrete strength, allowing construction engineers to make accurate, data-driven decisions about materials selection, scheduling, budgets, and resource allocation. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Cnergreen’s patent-pending ArmorFoam™ technology, developed at the University of Calgary, enables underground foams to remain stable for months at high pressures, temperatures, and salinities. The first application is improving CO2 enhanced oil recovery (CO2 EOR) in the oil and gas industry. For years, oilfield operators have seen an opportunity to use CO2 injection as a way to enhance oil recovery in active wells, while also permanently sequestering CO2 in geologic reservoirs. Because of the large volumes of CO2 required, CO2-EOR provides a near-term pathway for scaled carbon sequestration, while lowering the carbon footprint of produced oil. However, injected gas often channels through fractures and highly permeable zones and results in early gas production and inefficient sweep. With ArmorFoam™, these channels are blocked, forcing CO2 to permeate all available space in reservoirs. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Sourced from green waste, Treekind™ by Biophilica is plastic-free leather (free of PU, PVC and any other petrochemicals) making it recyclable as green waste and home compostable. It is also non-toxic and estimated carbon neutral. Leather is one of the most environmentally harmful textiles with its carbon footprint, water usage and waste. Treekind™ offers a sustainable, circular alternative to leather and its synthetic competitors to support the transition to manufacturing and consumption that is local, carbon zero, and sustainable. Rhapsody led the seed round in 2022. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio SpinDrive is selling advanced active magnetic bearing (AMBs) control systems. AMBs are frictionless bearings that create energy and opex savings. SpinDrive’s systems improve existing products and, being smaller and cheaper, enable completely new use cases for AMBs. All Portfolio Companies News Rhapsody and our portfolio companies in the news View All News March 13, 2025 Holiferm broadly available in the US March 04, 2025 How many sensors does it take to get reliable positioning? One GPR! December 06, 2024 Holiferm and Indorama announce South American partnership July 09, 2024 Holiferm and GChem launch eco-friendly car shampoo June 29, 2024 Chinova hits the antipodes May 28, 2024 Wavelogix Secures $3M Investment from Rhapsody April 29, 2024 Inteplast BOPP Films, VerdaFresh Collaborate on High Barrier Film Solutions February 05, 2024 GPR inks $40MM contract for ports automation January 23, 2024 Cnergreen Secures $2M Investment from Rhapsody December 05, 2023 Rhapsody leads seed round in Polaris - developing the next generation of integrated photonics products November 08, 2023 Finnish cleantech SpinDrive raises €3.8 million to cut industrial energy waste with magnetic levitation bearings October 25, 2023 Sasol Launches Biosurfactant Brands using Holiferm Technology View All News Blog Hard tech requires a special approach to be successful. In this section, we share our observations on what it takes to win. View All Blogs When You’re Effed at the Post Office The Artist and the Producer Off the line 50 Ways, Part 2: The Part Where We Offer You Advice Will The Outsiders Please Stand Up 50 Ways to Miss the Market: Part 1 Selling for Startups: Be Your Own Rainmaker The Party Train To Nowhere - First Stop: An Inflated TAM I Don’t Give a TAM Don’t get stuck in your own mouse trap I Know What You Did Last Summer Diversification Doesn’t Work (in VC) View All Blogs Team We are experts in business development for emerging technologies, helping our teams secure valuable industry partnerships. Bernard Lupien General Partner Carsten Boers Managing Partner Corrie Kavanaugh Principal Isabel Klein Associate Jason Whaley General Partner Jessica Freyer Partner Mike Fuerstman Partner Rebecca Wilson Associate Robert Newman Analyst Sarah Hammer Associate Get in touch If you are raising funds or simply exploring the commercial potential of your innovation, we are interested in speaking with you. Send us a note to start a conversation! Inquiry Type Startup Innovation Ecosystem Innovation Partner Other Don't fill this out if you're human: Send Message * Mission * Portfolio * Team * News * Blog * Jobs * Investor Login * IPP Login | * Mission * Portfolio * Team * News * Blog * Jobs * Investor Login * IPP Login Scientific founders are creating our future Through years of trial and error, we have developed a model and built an infrastructure to bring emerging technologies from lab to market, while creating exceptional outcomes for founders and investors. Learn More We are the innovator's partner We are specialist investors and co-creators of startups in the hard sciences. Learn More Sustainability through engineering We are passionate about the importance of our work. If you’re a founder on a mission to get your technology into the world, you will find us to be true partners. Learn More We’re the scientific founder’s partner Our due diligence process is a commercial collaboration. If your technology is ready to be demonstrated, we will take you to potential customers and partners to jointly substantiate the market opportunity. Learn More We Invest We invest exclusively in hard science startups addressing industrial problems. We are lead investors for seed rounds. Our first check is typically $500K to $2MM and we frequently lead large syndicates in follow on rounds. We Co-Create We are entrepreneurs and business development executives by background. When we invest, our whole team becomes an extension of your team. Taking on business development and marketing roles, we generate initial customers and partnerships. We Find Industry Partners We believe hard science startups are best served by striking significant and early partnerships with industry strategics that ensure market fit, create non-dilutive financing options and accelerate time to market. If you’re a Tech Transfer Officer with hard science startups, please join our Innovation Ecosystem Learn More We love participating in building the hard tech ecosystem. While we can only invest in a few companies each year, we make countless connections for startups even when we don’t invest. For professors and students at your university who are starting out on their entrepreneurial journey, we can help them meet industrial companies that are keen to explore innovations coming to their markets, and that have capacity and capital to collaborate. Get in touch If you’re an industrial company interested in early stage scientific innovation, work with us as an Innovation Partner Learn More The R&D efforts and budgets deployed in university labs are gigantic. Many innovations and patents developed will shape our future. Every year, we screen through about 2,000 startups in physics, chemistry and applied sciences, with applications from agriculture, manufacturing, electronics, etc. For hard science startups, a well-structured engagement with industry is often critical to meet true market requirements and find a path to market. For strategics such engagements can be low-risk, high-reward tools for growth. If your organization recognizes the opportunity for open innovation and is sincere about engaging and partnering with scientific startups, talk to us and become part of our ecosystem. Get in touch Portfolio Chinova uses the power of mushrooms to protect food and beverage products from spoilage. Chinova’s natural, clean-label, FDA approved formulation reduces the reliance on artificial ingredients and improves quality, freshness and shelf-life. Consumer food products using Chinova can be found in supermarkets across North America. Rhapsody co-led a pre-seed round in 2018 with DSM. Other investors include SOSV and AgFunder. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Professor Ryan Harne had been working at the frontier of vibration and shock damping for 15 years when he suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall that led to permanent hearing loss and nerve damage. “Waking up in the hospital, one of my first thoughts was that if I had landed on a floor damped with HyperDamping materials, this could have been prevented,” Dr. Harne realized. HyperDamping was formed in short order. The company uses innovative methods in mechanical design paired with advanced materials science to create lightweight, durable damping materials and solutions with effective and long-lasting performance. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Originating from Professor Xin Li’s lab at Harvard, Adden is developing a stable, lithium-metal, solid-state battery that charges much faster and is safer than current lithium-metal batteries. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Founded at Caltech in 2017, Fluid Efficiency is revolutionizing efficiency, safety, and sustainability in the fluid transport and lubrication industries. Their MSM-based Single Injection Flow Improver dramatically transforms liquid pipeline operations, delivering exceptional operational simplicity and cost efficiency. Existing pipeline flow improvers are ultra high molecular weight polymers that break in pumps, and must be re-injected after each pump to continue working. MSMs™ are self-repairing high molecular weight supramolecules, and thus only need to be added once. Using MSMs™ as flow enhancers reduces costs by enabling pipelines to operate with far fewer re-injection points and significantly lower cumulative volumes of material without any compromise in flow rates. MSMs™ allow pipelines to drastically reduce operating cost without affecting operations. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Holiferm develops holistically improved fermentation processes to deliver massive economic improvements for renewable chemicals. Their first product line of biosurfactants is used in consumer cleaning products in the UK, and their first global scale plant is under construction now. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio As a US Marine, Reamonn Soto saw firsthand how measurement limitations affect aircraft engine performance and maintenance. He founded Sensatek to commercialize inventions from UCF that can measure temperature, pressure and strain in harsh environments. Today, Sensatek develops and manufactures wireless, high-temperature, gas turbine sensors for customers in several industries including Energy, Aviation, and Aerospace. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Novel liquid crystals that enable the highest speed, most energy efficient integrated photonic devices unblocking data transfer bottlenecks. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio ChEmpower makes abrasive-free chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) pads, eliminating abrasives to reduce defects, increase manufacturing yields, and enable more sustainable semiconductor manufacturing. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Tendo Technologies has developed a novel class of flow sensors based on elastic filament velocimetry. Tendo’s unique combination of low price, excellent performance and small form factor enables the use of flow meters in applications which aren’t feasible today. Tendo Technologies spun out of Professor Marcus Hultmark’s research group at Princeton University in 2017. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio NODAR is re-envisioning safety for autonomous transportation by leveraging untethered cameras to provide high-definition 3D depth maps at long range. This novel approach to perception is making safe autonomy available to the mass market. Dr. Leaf Jiang founded NODAR in 2018 based on his 20+ years of experience building optoelectronic systems at MIT and MIT Lincoln Lab. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Spun out of Harvard’s Wyss Institute in 2020, Tender Food is making alternative meat taste and feel like farmed meat using novel plant-based fiber production technology. Rhapsody led the pre-seed round in 2020. Lower Carbon Capital led the Seed round with participation from actress and renown vegan and animal rights activist Natalie Portman, as well as Rhapsody. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Manus Bio was founded in 2011 with the mission of developing an economical and sustainable biomanufacturing platform, particularly for accessing rare and complex natural ingredients. Using a patented technology platform originally developed at MIT, Manus Bio produces high-value ingredients for the flavor, fragrance and sweetener industries, among others. Through its 2018 acquisition of Nutrasweet assets, Manus Bio produces its products at scale in Augusta, Georgia. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio GPR’s (formerly WaveSense) ultra-wide band Ground Positioning Radar™ uses reflections of the underground to generate high definition maps. When a vehicle is in motion, GPR tracks and matches a real-time radar scan with the subsurface map. This enables precise vehicle positioning regardless of poor weather or visibility, faint road markings, or other common challenges facing advanced driver-assistance systems. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Wavelogix is on a mission to transform safety and quality assurance for the construction industry. A spinout of Dr. Luna Lu’s research group at Purdue University, Wavelogix has developed a patented IoT sensor and data analytics platform for infrastructure quality testing. Their award-winning REBEL™ sensing technology is the only sensor that provides real-time measurements of in-place concrete strength, allowing construction engineers to make accurate, data-driven decisions about materials selection, scheduling, budgets, and resource allocation. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Cnergreen’s patent-pending ArmorFoam™ technology, developed at the University of Calgary, enables underground foams to remain stable for months at high pressures, temperatures, and salinities. The first application is improving CO2 enhanced oil recovery (CO2 EOR) in the oil and gas industry. For years, oilfield operators have seen an opportunity to use CO2 injection as a way to enhance oil recovery in active wells, while also permanently sequestering CO2 in geologic reservoirs. Because of the large volumes of CO2 required, CO2-EOR provides a near-term pathway for scaled carbon sequestration, while lowering the carbon footprint of produced oil. However, injected gas often channels through fractures and highly permeable zones and results in early gas production and inefficient sweep. With ArmorFoam™, these channels are blocked, forcing CO2 to permeate all available space in reservoirs. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio Sourced from green waste, Treekind™ by Biophilica is plastic-free leather (free of PU, PVC and any other petrochemicals) making it recyclable as green waste and home compostable. It is also non-toxic and estimated carbon neutral. Leather is one of the most environmentally harmful textiles with its carbon footprint, water usage and waste. Treekind™ offers a sustainable, circular alternative to leather and its synthetic competitors to support the transition to manufacturing and consumption that is local, carbon zero, and sustainable. Rhapsody led the seed round in 2022. All Portfolio Companies Portfolio SpinDrive is selling advanced active magnetic bearing (AMBs) control systems. AMBs are frictionless bearings that create energy and opex savings. SpinDrive’s systems improve existing products and, being smaller and cheaper, enable completely new use cases for AMBs. All Portfolio Companies News Rhapsody and our portfolio companies in the news View All News March 13, 2025 Holiferm broadly available in the US March 04, 2025 How many sensors does it take to get reliable positioning? One GPR! December 06, 2024 Holiferm and Indorama announce South American partnership July 09, 2024 Holiferm and GChem launch eco-friendly car shampoo June 29, 2024 Chinova hits the antipodes May 28, 2024 Wavelogix Secures $3M Investment from Rhapsody April 29, 2024 Inteplast BOPP Films, VerdaFresh Collaborate on High Barrier Film Solutions February 05, 2024 GPR inks $40MM contract for ports automation January 23, 2024 Cnergreen Secures $2M Investment from Rhapsody December 05, 2023 Rhapsody leads seed round in Polaris - developing the next generation of integrated photonics products November 08, 2023 Finnish cleantech SpinDrive raises €3.8 million to cut industrial energy waste with magnetic levitation bearings October 25, 2023 Sasol Launches Biosurfactant Brands using Holiferm Technology View All News Blog Hard tech requires a special approach to be successful. In this section, we share our observations on what it takes to win. View All Blogs When You’re Effed at the Post Office The Artist and the Producer Off the line 50 Ways, Part 2: The Part Where We Offer You Advice Will The Outsiders Please Stand Up 50 Ways to Miss the Market: Part 1 Selling for Startups: Be Your Own Rainmaker The Party Train To Nowhere - First Stop: An Inflated TAM I Don’t Give a TAM Don’t get stuck in your own mouse trap I Know What You Did Last Summer Diversification Doesn’t Work (in VC) View All Blogs Team We are experts in business development for emerging technologies, helping our teams secure valuable industry partnerships. Bernard Lupien General Partner Carsten Boers Managing Partner Corrie Kavanaugh Principal Isabel Klein Associate Jason Whaley General Partner Jessica Freyer Partner Mike Fuerstman Partner Rebecca Wilson Associate Robert Newman Analyst Sarah Hammer Associate Get in touch If you are raising funds or simply exploring the commercial potential of your innovation, we are interested in speaking with you. 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