| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.01.2026 | Diffraqtion Secures $4.2M for Quantum Space Camera Revolution | Diffraqtion, an MIT and UMD spinout, secured $4.2M in pre-seed funding. This capital fuels their groundbreaking quantum camera development. The technology promises ultra-high-resolution imaging and rapid data processing for satellites and t... |
| 13.01.2026 | Diffraqtion: $4.2 Million Pre-Seed Closed To Build Quantum Camera Imaging Constellations For Space and Earth Observation | Diffraqtion, an MIT and University of Maryland spinout developing satellite and telescope systems powered by a quantum camera, has closed a pre-seed financing round totaling $4.2 million, combining both dilutive and non-dilutive capital. Th... |
| 05.01.2026 | DOD picks 10 for $25B microelectronics contract | The Defense Department organization that oversees the delivery of microelectronics across the military has awarded 10 companies positions on a potential 10-year, $25.3 billion contract for broad engineering development support services.
Ite... |
| 29.10.2025 | Draper Laboratory Secures $25 Million For New IMPACT Center In Lowell | Draper Laboratory has secured up to $25 million in combined state and local funding to establish its Integrated Microelectronics Production & Advanced Chip Technology (IMPACT) Center in Lowell, Massachusetts. Announced by Governor Maura... |
| 25.04.2025 | A New Chapter in Defense: Michigan and Utah Forge Paths Forward | In the landscape of American defense, two states are stepping into the spotlight. Michigan and Utah are making headlines, each with a unique story that intertwines politics, innovation, and national security. In Michigan, former President D... |
| 24.04.2025 | Draper Supports FDA's Decision to Reduce Dependence on Animal Testing | Draper’s PREDICT96 uses an industry-standard multiwell cell culture plate with 96 individual co-culture devices and a perfusion system driven by 192 microfluidic pumps integrated into the plate lid.
Draper announced it is prepared to partne... |
| 22.04.2025 | Draper Breaks Ground on New Building at Hill Air Force Base | Architectural rendering of Draper's new Engineering, Innovation and Development facility to be built at Hill Air Force Base.
Draper held a groundbreaking ceremony today for a new building at Hill Air Force Base (AFB) in Utah.
CAMBRIDGE, Mas... |
| 16.04.2025 | Scout AI emerges from stealth with $15M in seed capital | Scout AI, a unmanned vehicle manufacturing and autonomy software startup, has fetched $15 million in seed capital from investors to mark its emergence from stealth mode.
Colby Adcock and Collin Otis launched Scout AI in August to bring toge... |
| 10.04.2025 | Draper Officially Opens Its Newest Campus at UMass Lowell | Speakers at the Draper Open House at UMass Lowell, April 8, 2025, included Massachusetts Lt. Governor Kim Drisoll, UMass President Marty Meehan, and UMass Lowell Chancellor Julie Chen.
Draper celebrated the official opening of its newest of... |
| 06.12.2024 | Rosy Soil: $3.6 Million (Seed) Raised For Creating Gardening Soil From Captured Carbon Dioxide | Rosy Soil, a sustainable soil company built to offset the negative environmental impact of producing traditional peat-based potting mixes, announces closing a $3.6 million seed round. This funding will advance the company’s mission to trans... |
| 21.11.2024 | Draper to Develop an Advanced, Multi-Organ, Microphysiological System Architecture | Draper's ETHOS program will create a scalable microphysiological system (MPS) architecture consisting of interacting advanced immune-competent micro-organ (liver, lung, kidney) models, which will be used to predict disease/injury response i... |
| 15.11.2024 | Airway-On-A-Chip Could Speed Up Future Drug and Therapy Development | New paper demonstrates the most advanced example of organ-on-chip technology, designed to accelerate the development of medical countermeasures, including drugs and therapies.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Developing... |
| 06.11.2024 | Draper Awarded $3 Million from ARPA-H's Sprint for Women's Health to Advance the Well-being of Pregnant Women by Leveraging its Innovative Organ-on-chip Capabilities | Tim Biliouris, a program manager at Draper, is flanked by Corin Williams, left, and Hesham Azizgolshani, co-principal investigators on ARPA-H’s Sprint for Women’s Health initiative.
Draper has been selected by the Advanced Research Projects... |
| 17.10.2024 | Draper Unveils Innovative Technological Approach to Transform Mental Health Care | Draper unveiled an objective diagnostic capability for PTSD and depression. Andrea Webb, Chief Scientist of Human Centered Solutions, observes a test subject. Source: Draper
Draper has announced a significant advancement in health care tech... |
| 30.07.2024 | Draper Team Completes Critical Design Review Phase of Strategic Enhanced Ground Test Facility | Draper will build its Strategic Enhanced Ground Test Facility in Titusville, Fla., its third campus in the state and among 12 Draper campuses nationwide. Credit: Burns & McDonnell
Draper's Strategic Enhanced Ground Test Facility will ho... |
| 28.07.2024 | Bitcoin's Evolution: A New Era of Financial Innovation | Bitcoin is evolving. It’s no longer just a digital currency; it’s becoming a platform for financial innovation. Recent developments signal a shift, bringing new technologies and services to the forefront. This evolution is not just about tr... |
| 25.07.2024 | Protocol Village: Dumating ang ZK Proofs sa Bitcoin, Ang Dating Dark Web Drug Kingpin ay Naglulunsad ng Crypto Startup | Dumating ang StakeWise V3 sa Gnosis Chain.
Hulyo 26: Inilunsad ng Crypto staking protocol Stakewise ang V3 protocol nito sa Gnosis Chain, ang Etheruem sidechain. Ayon sa Gnosis, "Ang paglulunsad ay makikita ang paglikha ng isang bagong... |
| 23.07.2024 | Draper to Design Microbe-based Sensors to Perform Environmental Monitoring | Draper will design microbe-based sensors to perform environmental monitoring for DARPA’s Tellus program. Credit: Draper
Draper is looking to test the boundaries of microbe-based sensing technologies.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 23, 2024 /PRNewsw... |
| 09.07.2024 | New Advanced Packaging Facility Accelerates Future of Microelectronics Integration | Draper’s new Advanced Packaging Facility is part of an effort to increase manufacturing capacity of microelectronics and accelerate the transition to an open foundry service model. Credit: Getty.
Draper's new center increases capacity to me... |
| 20.06.2024 | Winners of 2024 BostonCISO ORBIE Awards Announced By BostonCISO | Executives from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Teradyne, Agero, Draper, and Appfire Recognized for their Achievements.
BOSTON, June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- BostonCISO announced the winners of its 2024 ORBIE® Awards. BostonCISO recognized te... |
| 30.05.2024 | US-based Rocket Startup Ursa Major Finishes Draper Hypersonic Rocket Engine Testing | By Joseph Henry
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Ursa Major, an American aerospace firm, popular for its rocket engines and hypersonic... |
| 29.05.2024 | Draper Excels as GNC Flight Software Supplier in Stratolaunch's Historic Talon A-1 Flight | Draper’s guidance, navigation and control (GNC) flight software was instrumental in the successful first powered flight of Stratolaunch’s Talon-A hypersonic test vehicle. Credit: Stratolaunch.
Draper's guidance, navigation and control (GNC)... |
| 13.05.2024 | Tim Draper leads $3.5 million funding round for six-employee startup behind bitcoin lending | :Zest Protocol, a bitcoin lending startup with just six employees, has secured $3.5 million in a funding round led by billionaire investor Tim Draper.
Besides venture capital firm Draper Associates, nearly a dozen investors participated in ... |
| 23.04.2024 | Draper Opens New Engineering and Operations Campus in Utah to Accelerate Innovations in R&D and National Security | Draper selected Clearfield, Utah, for the location of its 12th campus. The Mass. company has provided engineering services and technology development to the U.S. Air Force since 1957. Credit: Draper
New campus in Clearfield, Utah, enhances ... |
| 08.04.2024 | Draper Drives Growth Strategy with Appointment of Carrie George as Chief Financial Officer | Draper appointed Carrie George its chief financial officer, treasurer and vice president. Credit: Draper
Draper appointed Carrie George its chief financial officer, treasurer and vice president.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire-P... |
| 10.07.2023 | Draper Equips Small UAVs for Tomorrow’s Battlefield - news | Draper developed new capabilities for small uncrewed aerial vehicles to improve situational awareness and threat detection for soldiers. Credit: Draper “Anytime you can deploy technology like an sUAV to detect suspected CBRN hazards remotel... |
| 30.05.2023 | By Mimicking Nature, Scientists Build a Better Artificial Lung | By mimicking blood flow patterns in the human body, engineers improve the safety and efficacy of artificial lungs, a potential benefit to critical care patients and combat casualties. “Here we report on development and demonstration of the ... |
| 16.05.2023 | Draper’s Microfluidic Gingival Model, a Breakthrough for Oral Health Research | With funding from Colgate-Palmolive, a team of engineers and clinicians used Draper’s PREDICT96 device to grow and maintain gingival tissue in the lab for 28 days. Credit: Draper “Draper’s MOUTH model gives customers a 28-day stable culture... |
| 09.05.2023 | Annual Draper Research Symposium Highlights Impact of Student Research | The Draper Research Symposium featured students research in space systems in such fields as biotechnology, hypersonics and satellites. “Draper has more than 50 years of history bridging government, industry and academia to foster transforma... |
| 13.04.2023 | Draper Completes Review Milestones for the NASA CLPS Program, Moving Closer to 2025 Launch | An illustration of Team Draper’s SERIES-2 lunar lander, which is scheduled to deliver science and technology payloads to the Moon for NASA in 2025. Credit: Draper “Our CP-12 effort is on track as we work diligently to establish payload deli... |
| 10.04.2023 | Draper Names Sarah Leeper Vice President and General Manager for Electronic Systems | Sarah Leeper was named vice president and general manager for Electronic Systems at Draper by Dr. Jerry M. Wohletz, president and CEO at Draper.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB) April 10, 2023
Draper has named Sarah Leeper as its vice president and... |
| 10.04.2023 | Draper Names Sarah Leeper Vice President and General Manager for Electronic Systems | Sarah Leeper was named vice president and general manager for Electronic Systems by Dr. Jerry M. Wohletz, president and CEO at Draper. Credit: Draper “Sarah is a proven leader in her field who brings deep experience across multiple industri... |
| 07.03.2023 | Draper Opens New Office in Indiana, the Company's Ninth Location | Draper selected Odon, Ind., for the location of its ninth office. The company has provided engineering services to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division for over a decade. Credit: Draper “Draper is proud of our growth in Indiana,... |
| 09.02.2023 | Draper’s Kidney-on-a-chip Study Offers Clues for Developing Drugs with Fewer Side Effects | Draper tested kidney-chips in its latest research study. Pictured are kidney cells from Draper’s lab. Credit: Draper Else Vedula at Draper said that PREDICT96’s versatility brings immense potential to enhance human health research. “With it... |
| 27.09.2022 | Draper Advances Growth-Adaptive Pediatric Heart Valve with Sutureless Adhesive | Draper engineers are developing the Low-force Expanding/Adaptable Pediatric (LEAP) Valve—the first heart valve that can grow with the patient. Credit: Draper “Draper is helping children, families and physicians through the development of th... |
| 17.08.2022 | How to Deal with Legacy Software Vulnerabilities -- Draper news | Draper’s new micropatching toolkit is designed to reduce the time to test, fix, re-certify and deploy patches to legacy software code from months to days. Credit: Shutterstock. “The technologies developed by Draper and Carnegie Mellon Unive... |
| 14.06.2022 | Draper Delivers First Lung-on-Chip Model to Predict Response to COVID Antiviral Treatments | Draper built and successfully demonstrated the first model of the human lung capable for assessing the efficacy of SARS-CoV-2 therapeutics in its PREDICT96 system. Credit: Draper. Draper’s PREDICT96-ALI allows researchers, who require human... |
| 27.05.2022 | Researchers use 3D printing for sustainable, smart construction | Sohini Bagchi 27 May, 2022
At a time when global experts are looking for a new solution to combat deforestation, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory have developed a new m... |
| 18.05.2022 | Skyline Nav AI, Draper Win Contract with Air Force Research Lab to Add Visual Localization to ATAK | Military units operating in GPS-challenged environments can establish their location with an app installed on an ATAK device that gets its bearings from local terrain features. Credit: Skyline Nav AI. “Draper is proud to serve with Skyline ... |
| 09.05.2022 | Jerry M. Wohletz, former BAE Systems Executive, to Lead Draper | “Jerry brings a breadth and depth of experience as Draper’s next president and CEO that make him ideal for this position," said Draper’s Chairman of the Board, David R. Shedd
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (PRWEB) May 09, 2022
The Board of Directors... |
| 26.04.2022 | Draper Delivers GNC Flight Software for Stratolaunch’s Hypersonic Vehicle | Draper designed, developed and delivered the guidance, navigation and control (GNC) flight software for the Stratolaunch reusable hypersonic vehicle, Talon-A. Credit: Stratolaunch. “Draper has been a critical member of the Talon-A developme... |
| 29.03.2022 | Draper Announces Organ-on-a-Chip Application and Technology Roadmap | Today, organ-on-chip platforms comprise a growing segment of the market for preclinical drug development and toxicity screening. Pictured is Draper’s PREDICT-96. Credit: Draper “Biopharma companies in the process of critically evaluating an... |
| 22.03.2022 | A Short Battery Life is A Drone’s Worst Enemy -- News From Draper | Draper is on a team headed by Rutgers University to extend the flying range of small unmanned aerial vehicles (sUAVs). Credit: Draper “A battery that doubles or triples the energy density while meeting all other necessary performance requir... |
| 08.03.2022 | Draper Teaches Robots to Build Trust with Humans - new research | A team of engineers from Draper and UC Boulder demonstrated that an uncrewed aerial vehicle can self-assess its competencies—and build trust with humans. Image is from another study. (Credit: DARPA) "The research suggests that humans h... |
| 07.01.2022 | Chips Don’t Float: Reviving Semiconductor Manufacturing Alone Won’t Assure America’s Security | Taiwanese firm ZD Tech is a leader in IC substrate and Substrate-Like Printed Circuit Boards (SLP), ... [+] the kind of position American microelectronics makers can only envy. Zhen Ding Tech Group |
| 18.11.2021 | $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE: кто и как выбирает лучший аватар | Технологический конкурс $10M ANA Avatar XPRIZE призван стать катализатором нового этапа в развитии робототехники и ряда других инновационных идей и технологий. Разрабатываемая система аватаров позволит человеку взаимодействовать и общаться ... |
| 17.11.2021 | Draper Tapped by U.S. Department of Defense to Provide Services and Support for Tactical Assault Kit | Members of the 6th Special Operations Squadron use a tablet running Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) to upload coordinates during an exercise. Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joshua J. Garcia. “Our goal with this contract is to ensure ... |
| 23.09.2021 | U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Taps Draper to Develop Lung-on-a-Chip Technology to Study SARS-CoV-2 | Draper’s PREDICT96 high-throughput, 3D tissue culture platform will collect data for SARS-CoV-2 infection studies under a contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. “When the HHS announced its new ImmuneChip+ program in... |
| 29.07.2021 | Draper Develops Artificial Lung Technology with $4.9M U.S. Army Grant, Earns ASAIO Award | Draper’s biomimetic microfluidic blood oxygenator promises to transform the way ECMO is done today. Credit: Draper. “There is a critical need for low prime-volume, lower flow respiratory support devices. Draper’s technology can transform th... |
| 23.06.2021 | Draper Delivers a First by Infecting Lung-on-Chip with Wildtype SARS-CoV-2 Virus | In a first for science, a team of researchers used wildtype SARS-CoV-2 to infect and replicate the disease on human tissue in an organ-on-a-chip device. Image: Shutterstock. "The door is now open for using naturally circulating viruses... |
| 07.05.2021 | Draper to Develop Biosurveillance Technology for DARPA to Counter the Rapid Spread of Pathogens | Scientists are developing a portable device for screening thousands of pathogens in minutes under DARPA’s Detect It with Gene Editing Technologies (DIGET) program. Credit: Shutterstock "The development of a rapid, low-cost diagnostic d... |
| 13.04.2021 | Harnessing Human Tissue Models for Drug Development - New Research from Draper | Draper and Pfizer used the PREDICT96 microenvironment to seed, grow and test human tissue models of the kidney, vasculature, liver and intestine. Credit: Draper. “Novel drug discovery efforts suffer from increasing costs and low probability... |
| 11.03.2021 | Draper Awarded Patent for Novel Electric Motor in Development | Draper is developing a new family of electric motors that promises to be more powerful and efficient, lighter weight and less expensive to make than standard electric motors. Credit: Shutterstock. “Our e-motors use thin electrodes and elect... |
| 27.01.2021 | IARPA’s Bioweapon Detection Tools Have Difficulty Finding What They’re Not Looking For | Draper engineers configure a device for detecting bioengineered organisms. Draper is under contract ... [+] with IARPA through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to develop bio-detection devices.Courtesy, Draper |
| 25.01.2021 | How Unmanned Underwater Vehicles Could Become Easier to Detect - new research from Draper, MIT | Researchers have developed a passive acoustic remote sensing method for unmanned underwater vehicles, which was demonstrated in Charles River field experiments, pictured here. "Identifying UUV signatures and using those signatures to e... |
| 15.12.2020 | Draper Signs Agreement with Kite to Accelerate Development of Cancer Immunotherapies | Draper signed an agreement with Kite, a Gilead Company, to accelerate development of cancer immunotherapies. Pictured is a device concept of Draper’s transduction system. Credit: Draper. “Over the next decade, cell and gene therapies are po... |
| 17.11.2019 | The man behind Bezos’ next lunar guidance system talks future tech | Draper, the MIT spin-off engineering lab, is famed for developing the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (not Draper Esprit, I hasten to add). Ken Gabriel, President and CEO, also recently made a major announcement. Blue Origin has now partnered w... |
| 11.10.2018 | Draper teams up with ispace, General Atomics, and Spaceflight Industries to build the next lunar landers for NASA | NASA is returning to the Moon with commercial and international partners as part of an overall agency Exploration Campaign in support of Space Policy Directive 1. It all starts with robotic missions on the lunar surface, as well as a Lunar ... |
| 21.02.2018 | Dover Microsystems Secures $6M in Seed Funding | Waltham-based cybersecurity company Dover Microsystems has secured $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Hyperplane Venture Capital, with participation of Qualcomm Ventures, the Hub Angels Investment Group and Draper in Cambridge... |
| 27.09.2017 | 12 Boston Cybersecurity Startups to Watch | When it comes to cybersecurity firms in Boston, some names are the ones we all know about, such as Rapid7 and Carbon Black. There’s also a number of Israeli-founded cybersecurity firms operating in Boston, including CyberArk, Cybereason and... |
| 16.02.2017 | Boston’s new hub, MassRobotics, is like a WeWork for robotics startups | If you’re building drones, personal delivery vehicles or robots that can perform surgery, a desk in a coworking community like WeWork or RocketSpace probably won’t be enough for you. Now, the city of Boston has opened a new facility just fo... |
| 25.01.2017 | These genetically modified cyborg dragonflies could perform ‘guided pollination’ | We are now in a day and age where cyborg insects no longer even raise an eyebrow. Hell, you can order kits! But this particular cyborg insect is especially interesting: a dragonfly that has been modified inside and out to follow the path pr... |
| 01.02.2016 | Lexumo Funded to Secure IoT and Embedded Devices, Critical Infrastructure, and Enterprise Applications from Widespread Open Source Vulnerabilities | Cambridge, Massachusetts – February 1, 2016 – Lexumo, developer of the world’s first automated cloud-based service for continuously monitoring software for vulnerable open source components, has closed $4.89M in seed funding from Accomplice... |
| 01.02.2016 | Lexumo Closes $4.89M in Seed Funding | Lexumo, a Cambridge, MA-based developer of a service for continuously monitoring software for vulnerable open source components, closed $4.89M in seed funding.
Backers included Accomplice, .406 Ventures, and Draper.
The company intends to u... |
| 21.11.2011 | Serendipity in science: Robotic clothing for brain-damaged children | This soft wearable robot may teach a
brain-damaged baby’s muscles to move.
By Sarah Mahoney
Countless scientific epiphanies never leave the bench – unless there’s the kind of serendipitous encounter that set Children’s Hospital Boston psych... |
| 21.01.2011 | Move Over, Rover: Next Giant Leap Gets $1 Million Grant To Build Hopping Moon Landers | Next Giant Leap in Boulder, Colorado— a startup that’s making robots that will land and hop around on the surfaces of other planets in order to gather data, detect resources valuable to humans, and more — attained a $1 million grant from th... |
| 13.02.2009 | Tattoo ink monitors blood glucose levels | Cambridge, Massachusetts’ Draper Laboratory has developed a special tattoo ink that changes colors based on a person’s blood sugar levels. As CrunchGear’s resident diabetic and as someone who lives right down the street from Draper, I’d say... |
| 04.09.2007 | MIT Plans to Win DARPA Robot Car Challenge | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Driving in urban traffic is a stupendously tricky task demanding a constant stream of split-second, almost subconscious decisions. In fact, if you give it too much thought—Am ... |
