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Who Should Apply?

Early-stage or mature ventures seeking to integrate their technology and scale their products through advanced textile manufacturing operations. Companies should be developing new materials and/or advancing medical use cases tied to a regulatory strategy. Specifically, companies working within: advanced functional yarns that enhance a textile’s functionality and smart sensing fabrics that monitor and detect body changes such as activity/movement, compression, biometrics and vitals/ ECG. Specifically, the Studio is seeking companies working on technologies including but not limited to:

• Active bio-based functional fibers
  
• Durable antimicrobial coatings
  
• Thermo-reactive materials
  
• Active dermatological compounds
  
• Physiological sensing
  
• Soft, flexible and stretchable sensors and actuators
  
• Phase-changing, microfluidics and shape-memory materials
  
• Textile embedded sensors
  
• Coating formulations and processes
  
• Functional additives for textile fibers
  
  

Benefits

Investment & Exposure

• Total grant funding pool up to $150K divided among participating companies to support pilot development and offset associated costs; no equity taken.
  
• Access to Newlab's wide network of over 600 angel investors interested in early stage deep-tech companies.
  
• Close collaboration with Leonisa and exposure to their manufacturing capabilities to explore joint product verticals or opportunities to scale medical textile products.
  

• Structured strategy and support from Newlab to advance your pilot concept and solicit feedback and input from key stakeholders to support customer discovery, uncover technology requirements, meet compliance requirements and launch new products.
  
• Ongoing support from the Newlab team, Leonisa, Vertical Partners and a network of relevant stakeholders to navigate the complex pathways to scale medical textile applications.
  
• Access to Leonisa’s pilot site to design, scope, deploy and monitor pilot projects.
  

• Access to the Newlab flagship location and peer community of 250+ companies scaling transformative technology.
  
• Engagement with leading industry, venture, and academic experts through curated programming and office hours.
  
• Access to $5M in on-site prototyping resources and product realization team; 84,000 sq ft industrial work space, and compute testbed infrastructure in the 300-acre Brooklyn Navy Yard.