Dysonics is first graduate from UC Davis incubator

Dysonics, an audio technology company based on research conducted at the University of California, Davis, is the first company to secure funding after being part of the UC Davis College of Engineering’s high-tech business incubator, the Engineering Translational Technology Center.  A UC Davis building is pictured.

Dysonics has secured $750,000 in under a year of  incubation.

Harris Lewin, vice chancellor of research at UC Davis, said: "We are very pleased to see Dysonics, our first ‘graduate,’ exit with a solid financing round under its belt. We are proud of the pioneering research conducted by Professor Ralph Algazi and his colleagues in the College of Engineering that made this successful spin-off possible. UC Davis has a long track record of translating cutting-edge research into technologies with strong commercial potential, and we expect to see many more such new ventures being formed from the quality research being pursued by our faculty."

Bruce White, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis, said: "Within the incubator, professors can stay close to their research and teaching while they develop their ideas, and students can get experience in translational technology research. The center identifies and nurtures promising research in the college, then supports faculty in the early stages of turning their academic research into commercial products."

Dysonics was founded in 2011 by Algaz, who is from UC Davis’ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Robert Dalton, who holds a master’s degree in engineering from UC Davis, and Richard Duda, a former research scientist at UC Davis.