Our mission is to drive the transfer of science and engineering knowledge created by our researchers to maximize societal impact by developing partnerships with industry through the creation of new ventures, collaborations with corporations, and transfer of intellectual property while nurturing an entrepreneurial environment.
Company co-founder Shane Shahrestani didn’t prepare for his first StrokeDx first pitch at all—in fact, he didn’t know it was going to happen. OTTCP Entrepreneur-in-Residence Julie Schoenfeld happened to be leading interested venture capitalists (VCs) on a tour of Caltech’s research laboratories mid-2019. As he fielded questions and explained his concept to these visiting VCs, Shahrestani, who was conducting his PhD research in Dr. Yu-Chong Tai’s lab, realized that there might be a real future for the technology.