J-WAFS Spinouts

The J-WAFS Solutions program awards grants to MIT researchers to commercialize breakthrough technologies and inventions by transforming promising ideas at MIT into innovative products and cutting-edge spinout companies. Other J-WAFS funding has also led to some of the companies below.

Spinouts

Agzen

Agzen is reducing pesticide use without compromising on pest control or yield, using technology for droplet retention on plant leaves from agrochemical spraying.

CoolVeg

CoolVeg provides off-grid evaporative cooling technologies for fruit and vegetable preservation in regions with hot and dry climates to improve food shelf-life and reduce food loss.

DetoXyFi

DetoXyFi uses sapwood-based, chemical-free, gravity-driven drinking water filters to remove chemicals, heavy metals, pathogens, pesticides, microplastics, & PFAS from drinking water.

Dottir Labs

Dottir Labs uses a sensing technology based on Raman spectroscopy that is uniquely designed for aqueous environments to sensitively and specifically detect nutrients, metabolic markers, organic and non-organic waste products, and more from fresh or salt water.

Fluorityx

Fluorityx brings highly sensitive, economical, rapid, point-of-use PFAS detection and measurement to the marketplace.

NONA Technologies

NONA Technologies is creating an off-grid Portable Ion Concentration Polarization Desalination Unit that removes salt & other contaminants from water using electrical attraction, that eliminates heat, pressure, and filter/membrane replacement.

Safi Organics

Safi Organics is making fertilizer from crop residue that is carbon-rich and sequesters carbon into the soil for hundreds of years, curbing the particulate emissions from traditional open-field crop residue burning by more than 95%.

SiTration

SiTration is building an ultra-durable filtration membrane technology to reduce cost and resource consumption in industrial wastewater treatment and other areas.

Takachar

Takachar is transforming biomass waste into economically marketable products around the world with a novel concept called oxygen-lean torrefaction, that enables small-scale, portable, and decentralized biomass conversion.

Via Separations

Via Separations is tackling energy use in industrial process separations by developing a novel, more resilient filtration membrane.

Xibus System

Xibus System is bringing a fast, easy, and affordable food safety sensing technology to food industry users and everyday consumers.

Products

ECC VIAL

Low-cost test kit for E. coli detection in drinking water. More than 2,000 kits have been distributed by the Environment & Public Health Organization of Nepal, helping approximately 12,000 people.

The four stages of creating the water filter, firstly a trunk of wood, second a square cut piece of wood, third a drop of water going in and our a piece of wood

Xylem Water Filter

A xylem-based low-cost water filtration device for household use to remove bacterial contaminants from water for drinking and cooking.

Learn more about Solutions Grants

“Early stage ideas can more readily get funding, whereas support for commercialization is harder to come by. This is doubly the case when one considers a product like ours which is intended for low income economies where it is meeting a great need. So the J-WAFS Solutions grant provided us with a huge opportunity.”

—Susan Murcott, Lecturer, MIT D-Lab and one of the inventors of the ECC Vial