(Photo via SkySong Press Release)
By Your Valley
SkySong, The ASU Scottsdale Innovation Center is seeing two of its most significant current tenants expand their footprint even further in the coming months.
NeoLight, a technology company that developed a device to eradicate neonatal jaundice, began as a startup in 2014 as the brainchild of four Arizona State University master’s degree students. They discovered a novel light therapy for infant jaundice, a condition that occurs in 60% of infants worldwide, to reduce treatment time significantly and provide the ability to treat from home, according to a press release.
The company started inside SkySong and continues to lease space there today.
ASU’s Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative awarded them a $7,000 grant and a desk at SkySong to pursue their idea. The NeoLight team then built the product from the ground up while at SkySong, validated the product through clinical testing at Dignity Health and Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and began raising funds successfully.
