We are ICeNd - a newborn startup with an ambition to be the next generation leader in artificial lives (AL). We created sub-25 nm nanofluidic channels, quantum materials, and physics-driven AI as building blocks of artificial lives. Nanofluidics runs water transport in tree, moves muscles in animals, and processes molecules through cellular nanopores. ICeNd aims to commericialise sustainable AL with nanofluidics, quantum materials, and quantum mechanical softwares. The application of AL are molecular processing, on-site molecular diagnostics and therapy, and energy material discovery. This is possible in conjunction with the Nobel prize winning achievements of superresolution optical microscopy and high resolution transmission electron microscopy. 

While our vision of AL is futuristic for the sustainability of humanity on earth and outside earth, the individual building blocks of the AL have highly demanding markets. Our current MVPs Universal Nanodevices or UNanoD ® enable real-time molecular studies for drug discovery, structural biology, material discovery, and pollution sensing at the precision of single molecule level. UNanoD ® Fluid is at TRL8 performing real-time single molecule detection with photons and electrons. UNanoD ® Solid is at TRL6 performing real-time nano-mechano-electrical signals. 

While we are backed up by top notch international knowledge partners, such as University of Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Oxford, and Max Planck Institutes, our local collaborations in The Netherlands with Thermo Fisher Scientific Eindhoven, Leiden University and Utrecht University strengthen our technological and business base in Eindhoven.