Hate that feeling when you are on a run and look down to see your iPod is about to die? Or when
you are on a hike, and your cell phone battery is about to run out of power?
Aaron LeMieux, founder of Tremont Electric, created nPower--a device that harnesses kinetic energy to power gadgets. LEARN
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Y Combinator is a venture firm that specializes in moving companies from the idea stage into reality.
It invests mostly in software and Web services companies, and says it looks for groups with technical depth and quality ideas.
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WATCH: Y Combinator: Funding Tech Start-ups 
This start-up, which focuses on bringing solar and wind technology to urbanites, is focused on finding funding
to take its first product, Solar Ivy, to market. Still in its prototype phase, this decorative "ivy" may someday be able to
power your business or house unobtrusively.
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Solar Ivy
READ: Young Guns: A Plan to Generate Urban Power
Michael Koeris and Tim Lu of Novophage Therapeutics on how their start-up biotech is trying to
battle one of the biggest health-care problems facing America.
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With the technology being developed by Radical Computing Corporation, you can stop playing the transportation
guessing game and no need to waste your time trying to find an employee for help. RPNSignage creates intelligent devices that
companies can program to target customers needs, provide information, and even load trivia games for bored patrons waiting
in line.
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READ: Q&A With the President of Radical Computing Corporation
WATCH: Smart Signs: Changing How You Shop
Founded in 2006 with the brainpower of Harvard Medical School and the University of California
at Berkeley, in February of this year, this startup company secured $23 million in venture capital funding to do what it does
best: vaccines.
With a new technology that can mimic the human immune system in a lab, Genocea has opened the door for speedy vaccine development
and the ability to test combinations of vaccines simultaneously. READ
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READ: Genocea's Timeline: The Path to Startup
WATCH: Biotech Start-up Success
