2017 Cohort

Team members

Principal Investigator: Alejandra Castro González
Entrepreneurial leader I: Claude Yunuen Prud'Homme Barrios
Entrepreneurial leader II: Emmanuel Roberto Sánchez Campos
Business Mentor: Roberto Rocha Miller


This project presents a new way for producing biodiesel from waste cooking oil. This biofuel meets the quality criteria specified at the ASTM-D6751-08 regulation, which has some benefits like assuring 20% more performance in relation to petroleum-based diesel. Therefore, this new process is more efficient, reducing energy consumption and operations time. This is achieved through the optimization of physical, chemical and hydraulic parameters involved in the biodiesel production, resulting on a conversion rate greater than the current 80% from present-day processes.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Sergio Barrientos Ramírez
Entrepreneurial leader I: Fernanda Romo Santiago
Entrepreneurial leader II: Yovana García Morais
Business Mentor: Sergio Francolugo Mercado


This team has developed a material of plastic (propylene) and natural fibers (rose stems) capable of reducing by 30% the petrochemical plastics consumption. The material, whose raw material comes from floral waste, is more resistant and less expensive than the current ones, and it also has a positive environmental impact.

Team members

Principal Investigator: María Teresa Orta Ledesma
Entrepreneurial leader I: Mariana Edith Miguel Suárez
Entrepreneurial leader II: Julio César Rodríguez Cano
Business Mentor: Omar Zepeda López


This team proposes a technology that can be used for wastewater treatment by using microalgae and bacteria. This development not only consumes less energy and reduces carbon emissions produced by wastewater treatment, but also produces microalgae as biomass that can easily be transformed into commercial value products such as biofuels, bioplastics or bio-nutrients.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Francisca Hernández Hernández
Entrepreneurial leader I: Edith Sánchez Paredes
Entrepreneurial leader II: Lizbeth Magnolia Martínez Aguilar
Business Mentor: Alejandro Esquivel Fabián


The current diagnosis of this illness is late, which generates high treatment costs for hospitals and turns out in a poor prognosis for the patient; this causes between 4,747 and 7,740 yearly deaths in Mexico approximately. This team developed a high-tech Multiples Amplification Method (MAP) which is able to diagnose invasive Candidosis in high-risk patients in less than 24 hours, with certainty, and a specificity higher than 80%.

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Principal Investigator:José Antonio Barrera Godínez
Entrepreneurial leader: Blanca Estela Ramírez Quintana
Business Mentor: Alberto Romo Flores


During the hydrometallurgical extraction of metals, iron is a pollutant residue (up to tens of millions of tons annually), which generates costs for its removal and disposal into the environment. This team developed a process that substitutes the production of iron-derived pollutants for another one that generates pure iron oxide, which is a highly desirable material for the iron and steel industry.

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Principal Investigator:Beatriz Elena Escobedo de la Peña
Entrepreneurial leader I: Jorge Alberto López Vázquez
Entrepreneurial leader II: Humberto Arturo Escobedo de la Peña
Business Mentor:: Augusto E. Valenzuela López


This team developed an App that fosters a direct and secure relationship between the agricultural producer and the final costumer. Some of the benefits offered by this mobile app are the chance to avoid intermediaries, which is reflected on a lower final price for the consumer and higher incomes for producers. Furthermore, this development pose an alternative to get fresh high-quality-standard products, while fomenting a fairer and more transparent trade.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Eduardo Garduño
Entrepreneurial leader: Gonzalo Pérez Ramírez
Business Mentor: Martín González Vásquez


This team developed modular structures produced in two phases with a digital-manufacturing and thermal-projection technique, applying different metal alloys depending on each structure’s requirements. Some examples where this technology can be applied are statues, busts, architectural structures, murals with 3D reliefs, among others. This technique, which can be easily applied in complex objects, develops structures of higher quality, lighter, easier maintenance, and a greater lifetime.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Vanesa Garrido Hernández
Entrepreneurial leader: Daniel Malpica González


Currently the craft beer industry does not have any accessible and affordable equipment to control temperature changes during the fermentation, which is a crucial stage in the brewing process because, a change in a few temperature degrees could affect the beer quality. This team developed a digital system that allows, through instrumentation systems, to control temperature (in homemade fermenters made of glass, plastic and metal) by standardizing the fermentation process in the brewing manufacture. The results is an improvement in the product quality.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Alejandro Torres Gavilán
Entrepreneurial leader: Cinthia Ibet Ávila Domínguez
Business Mentor: Elvira Salinas Montoya


Capsaicinoids (chemical compounds present in spicy-hot food) can be used as repellents or pesticides to protect the fields without damaging the environment, as medicine compounds, and as cables additives to prevent rodent bites. Currently these compounds are obtained by direct extraction from chilies, which is a weak standardized and more expensive process. This team’s technology allows for the enzymatic synthesis of capsaicinoids molecules, without generating pollutants nor planting chilies, achieving a purity greater than 95% and a standardized quality.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Leonardo Abraham González Morales
Entrepreneurial leader: Nuria Azucena Cabrera Cerón
Business Mentor: Gabriela María Ramírez Candia


The students are the most important stakeholders within the Mexican educational system. However, most of the time they are just information receptors in the scholar communication system. For this reason, the team develops information and communication technologies centered on the students, so their learning experience can improve. This is achieved by generating secure, trustworthy and immediate dialogue channels between students and all other education stakeholders.

Integrantes del Equipo

Principal Investigator: Livier Baez Rivas
Entrepreneurial leader I: Ernesto Valle Rodríguez
Entrepreneurial leader iI: Natividad Hilario de Jesús
Business Mentor: Natividad Robles Aguilar


This team has been working on the design of a device capable of monitoring and identifying the driver’s waking state. The purpose is to lower the death rate caused by automotive accidents involving asleep drivers. Furthermore, it can keep a trustable record of the different states the driver passes through while driving. During the team’s participation on the I-Corps Program, they validated the original customers and value proposition, leading them to improve and adapt their initial business model.

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Principal Investigator: Susana Karina Ramírez Luna
Entrepreneurial leader I: Francisco Emiliano Solís Aguirre
Entrepreneurial leader II: Guadalupe Marlen González Orellana
Business Mentor: Luis Delgado Guerrero


This invention is a vanguard and malleable bone substitute that can be used as a skull, face and jaw prosthesis. Their patented formulation offers unique characteristics in the market of cranial and maxillofacial prostheses, both at national and international level. This bone substitute is malleable and directly attachable to the bone, avoiding operating room recurrence, and eliminates the discomfort usually associated with traditional prostheses. Therefore, this is a reliable and affordable solution, obtaining aesthetic and functional results that allows patients to recover their self-esteem, confidence and life quality.

Integrantes del Equipo

Principal Investigator: Selene Pascual Bustamante
Jorge Luis Chávez Alfaro
Entrepreneurial leader II: Gabriela Hermosillo Moreno
Business Mentor: Jesús Gutiérrez De los Santos


This team developed a machine capable of printing (in 3D and with personalized options) a wide variety of ingredients to produce sensorial-pleasant, visually attractive and nutritious foodstuffs. Furthermore, this innovation seeks to reduce industrial and domestic food preparation time, while assuring food quality with defined and well measured portions.

Integrantes del Equipo

Principal Investigator: María Georgina Cárdenas López
Entrepreneurial leader I: Laura Rojo Ornelas
Entrepreneurial leader II: Beatriz Betzabé Sánchez García
Business Mentor: Joel Elías Aram Garduño Bahena


This team proposes the use of computerized platforms to provide exposition therapy. This engineering development works by means of licenses which give access to the virtual reality platform, wrapping the patient into a secure, controlled, effective, and efficient space. Thanks to the Customer Discovery conducted at the I-Corps Program of this Node, this team knows they still need to maximize the platform benefits, as well as keep validating their value proposition into the market and improving their business model.

Integrantes del Equipo

Principal Investigator: José Antonio Guzmán Nava
Entrepreneurial leader : Luis Fernando Reyes Casillas
Business Mentor: Eduardo Vargas Zúñiga


LINMEV (Vegetable Species Micropropagation National Research Laboratory) is a technological platform capable of meeting the demand of vegetable material through a specialized laboratory in massive proliferation of high agro-ecologic and agro-industrial importance. Currently, vegetable propagation services are very personalized, therefore LINMEV is a specialized service not only in micropropagation, but in new ways for the vegetable organisms’ proliferation. LINMEV’s main line of research is the vegetable material generation (free and/or resistant to pathogens and virus) that the agricultural producers need.

Integrantes del Equipo

Principal Investigator: Humberto Andrés Carrillo Calvet
Entrepreneurial leader I: Carlos Carrillo Torres
Entrepreneurial leader II: José Luis Jiménez Andrade
Business Mentor: Jorge Alvarado Juárez


The need for process automation and intelligent real-time processing of great flux data are a current international interest. The Intelligent Stream Processor (ISP) system developed by this team can identify complex patterns in a large flow of data and automatically execute specific tasks, which can include information requests, commands execution (simple or in sequence), and automatic notifications to other systems or people. Moreover, the system can receive alarms from various machines in different protocols and execute faults correction procedures automatically.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Alfredo Maciel Cerda
Entrepreneurial leader I: Rocío Guadalupe de la Torre Sánchez
Entrepreneurial leader II: Claudia Ivonne Gadsden Sheppard
Business Mentor: Mario Winfield Aguilar


This project consists in the manufacture of different products made from polyester resin and fiberglass, which are fire-retardant components. This material combination can be used in panels, grilles, racks, false ceilings, floors, etc. Potential clients would be those interested in protecting material assets in case of fire. Another advantage of this product is that it does not release halogens into the environment (which are toxic substances), in contrast with conventional fire-retardants. Furthermore, it can resist a greater load due to its 25% approximately more bending feature.

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Principal Investigator: Luis Miguel de la Cruz Salas
Entrepreneurial leader: Sergio Teodoro Vite
Business Mentor: Víctor Hugo Sánchez Vázquez


This team developed a computational system that can make hydrocarbons exploration and exploitation studies. In contrast with current software, this one shows the information in a user-friendly and simplified way, is easier to install, use and adapt to any operative system, allows the addition of other authors’ software without licenses requirements, and it has a more efficient running. Moreover, it includes visualization technologies based on virtual reality environments and graphic interfaces and it can even be used in mobile devices. As part as the value proposition, it offers the service of the developed systems’ use and adaptation training.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Gabriel Del Rio Guerra
Entrepreneurial leader: Ricardo Corral Corral
Business Mentor: Antonio de Jésus García Chávez


This team developed a high-performance computation technology to automate texts analysis processes in customer service centers, so these can offer a better service. The objective is to generate correct responses to their clients in less time, improving the operators’ effectiveness. Currently, this team has initiated the patent registration process of this machine learning method, which selects the appropriate model parameters and identifies the learnable attributes. Furthermore, they are already working with an enterprise in Mexico running experiments to improve this technology.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Amelia María de Guadalupe Farrés González Sarabia
Entrepreneurial leader I: Carolina Peña Montes
Entrepreneurial leader II: Andrea Celeste Llanos Reyes
Business Mentor: Eric Arturo Martínez García


This project consists in the application of enzymatic technology for polyesters degradation (especially PET) in more than 50%. This process is carried out at room temperature, which allows energy savings. Moreover, thanks to the participation in the I-Corps program, this team plans on using the plastic wastes generated during the recycling process by PET recycling plants. The objective is to diminish the overcosts or losts in 10% and therefore achieve a greater process efficiency.

Team members

Principal Investigator: Jorge Uribe Godínez
Entrepreneurial leader : Ángel César Tamariz Hernández
Business Mentor: Alfredo Beneitez Rangel


This project wants to substitute current lithium and lead commercial batteries used in electrical vehicles, for high-performance batteries based on fuel cell technology. This is possible thanks to the cells innovation, because in their inside there are new cathodic and anodic materials (based on transition metals) which carry out the needed electrochemical reactions to produce energy. Furthermore, the hydrogen required is less pure, which reduces the overall costs of this technology. The advantages of these developed batteries are that they are more efficient, lighter, modular, more durable (10 to 20 years lifetime), have more efficient recycling processes, and they offer a greater autonomy per load.

Integrantes del Equipo

Principal Investigator: Aurea Carolina Gallardo Patiño
Entrepreneurial leader I: Sofía Andrea Huerta Ramírez
Entrepreneurial leader II: Juan Carlos Mariscal Gómez
Business Mentor: Gerar Karl Alexander Ballhausen Domínguez


This team develops terrestrial exploration technology that can boost industrial, mining, agricultural, national security, and spatial sectors. Thanks to the customer discovery made during the I-Corps program, this team will focus on the development of software and autonomous hardware systems for exploration and recognition in military security. The benefits offered by this high accurate and reliable technology are to diminish personnel risk in critical missions, contribute to national security autonomy, cease foreign technology dependence, intellectual property transfer and components development, as well as offer personalized solutions.