Startup Programs
The Kaizenat Startup Program gives you full access to simulation software bundles that are built and priced to help entrepreneurs grow their business quickly and cost-effectively. We realize that in the early stages of starting a business there is often limited funding and little to no revenue. We created this program to help you grow your business to its full potential using the best tools possible — Kaizenat simulation solutions — with a minimal initial investment. Many of the world’s greatest companies began as startups and Kaizenat is committed to partnering with today’s startups to help them grow into tomorrow’s industry leaders.
As a partner in the Startup Program, you will gain instant access to Kaizenat solutions so you can start building virtual prototypes of your new products. These virtual prototypes can be modified and tested with simulation hundreds of times in the same time it would take to build and test one physical prototype –saving you time and money as you work to perfect your product design. The partnership gives you access to our full portfolio of multiphysics simulation bundles, including the Structural and Fluids bundle, the Electromagnetics bundle and the Embedded Software bundle. Additional benefits include marketing opportunities with Kaizenat and access to our Customer Portal for self-guided support, technical requests and more.
Regardless of whether you are an individual startup, an incubator working with a variety of startups, or another key participant in the ecosystem, find out below how Kaizenat can benefit you.
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Zunum Aero
Zunum Aero manufactures commercial hybrid-to-electric aircraft that are powered by quiet range-optimized powertrain and propulsion technologies.
It uses Ansys simulation software to analyze propulsion components for structural integrity, fluid flow analysis, cooling system design and overall design optimization.
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Vector
Vector, a business startup, is addressing the small spacecraft market for launch vehicles. Because everything must shrink down when you are creating a nanosatellite launcher,
engineers were challenged to scale everything while optimizing for a smaller class of payload.
They leveraged Ansys for all of the various fluid flows of the rocket engine including analysis of hot
combustion gases in the engine as well as the various cold cryogenic liquids flowing into the engine to
understand how they interact with the materials around them.
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ARC
Engineers at the Additive Rocket Corporation (ARC) are using Ansys Mechanical and Ansys CFD simulation solutions to reinvent rocket engines using 3D printing
based on bioinspired geometries. ARC engineers use Ansys simulation solutions to innovate complex designs quickly and cost-effectively to revolutionize and democratize spaceflight.
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Isotropic
Isotropic Systems has achieved a major technological breakthrough in the design of low-profile antennas. Using the Distributed Solve Option added to Ansys HFSS,
plus high-performance computing, the company can analyze larger and larger portions of its antenna system, run many more design simulations in parallel and reduce the individual
node requirements and simulation time by more than two orders of magnitude.
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Autorient
Autorient targets solutions for positioning and control of autonomous machines, robots and vehicles. Reducing the size and improving the performance
of the measurement system are necessary to compete in this market. Read this case study to learn how modeling and simulation can provide a full
understanding of the behavior and the mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of these systems.
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Nikola Labs
Wireless power applications are unique in terms of power budget, distance, form factor and environment. To create custom, high-performance antennas to serve these applications, Nikola Labs relies on Ansys HFSS for full-wave simulation and automatic geometry meshing. VIEW CASE STUDY
Edisun
Edisun, a business startup, leveraged software accessible through the Ansys Startup Program to design and test their first product,
PV Booster. PV Booster is the only dual-axis rooftop tracker for the commercial and industrial market providing 20% better economics on your installation by making more efficient use of solar panels. Ansys software allowed Edisun to speed through design cycles, shorten their time to marked, and work very efficiently.
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Tessolar Inc.
Tessolar designs and builds molded structural mounting systems for solar arrays that are subject to variable loads from wind to snow. Read this case study to learn how they are leveraging Ansys’ finite element analysis capabilities to rapidly and accurately assess more cost-effective design options.
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Winfoor
Rotor blades are causing big problems for wind power industry. They are expensive, heavy and made in one piece. Read this case study to learn how Winfoor used Ansys simulation solutions to analyze a precise, optimized design to drive the wind industry and make it more competitive as an energy source.
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Bioana
Bioana is dedicated to the design and development of medical technology. Before a medical device can be implanted in a patient, testing must be done to discover its life span of the device, the best choice of material for fabrication, the stresses it must withstand, etc. With simulation, several devices can be tested simultaneously and refined to create an optimized solution.
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HuMoTech
HuMoTech engineers used Ansys Mechanical to achieve a 25 percent weight reduction of the prosthesis end-effector, which allows their device to more accurately emulate a wider range of prosthetic devices. This reduces the design and testing time of prosthetic devices and results in a better fit, which improves the patient’s quality of life, while helping clinicians and researchers to be more effective.
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volabo GmbH
Learn how VOLABO used multiphysics simulation software to develop the first 48 V high power traction drive, which is 25 percent more efficient than conventional electrical drives and does not need rare earth magnets for production. What makes the ISCAD drive unique is the virtual gearbox that enables the motor to continuously adapt to the load profile and thus make better use of the battery capacity.
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Auto Drive Solutions
Auto Drive Solutions is a startup company in Madrid, Spain, focused on disruptive radar positioning systems that are accurate to within 1 cm for railroad and automobile applications. They are using Ansys SCADE to develop secure and accurate software that meets safety integrity level 4 (SIL 4) certification. SCADE is being used to handle software certification so they can focus on developing the best product with a high return on investment.
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Andar Technologies
Millimeter-wave (mm-wave) radar systems for automotive applications will be crucial to the success of autonomous vehicles by aiding in the detection and localization of pedestrians, vehicles changing lanes, and parking and braking events in complex traffic scenarios. Learn how Andar used Ansys HFSS and other Ansys solutions for electromagnetic full-wave simulation and circuit design analysis to design a mm-wave radar while saving money and getting to market faster.
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Safespill Systems
Safespill Systems produces a modular hollow aluminum floor system, with a perforated top surface, that contains spilled liquids and pumps them into designated containment. Using Ansys Mechanical simulations enabled Safespill engineers to test multiple iterations computationally and ultimately develop a product capable of generating compression forces 75 percent greater than the initial design.
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FDX
FDX produces OsciJet nozzles that emit a sweeping or pulsating jet stream of fluid without any moving parts to save resources by optimizing flow processes. Building and testing prototypes was a bottleneck in their design process, so they used Ansys CFX and Ansys Workbench to accelerate the process by a factor of 360, greatly improving their time-to-market.
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IRSI
IRSI designs, operates and manufactures pyrolysis equipment that produces biochar from residual biomass. To optimize the pyrolysis system, the company uses Ansys Fluent to simulate the thermal decomposition of the biomass under variable operating conditions.
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Climeworks
Climeworks used computational fluid dynamics and structural simulation to become the creator of the first commercially available carbon capture technology. Its CO2 collector system captures, filters and concentrates the gas, which can then be used by greenhouses, the food and beverage industry and manufacturers of renewable products.
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